MYTH: If your tests are within the laboratory's \u201creference values\u201d (those written next to each result), you are \u201cnormal\u201d. This is not correct!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) Being \u201cnormal\u201d, \u201cacceptable\u201d is different from being really well, great or at your best (physiologically speaking) - each person has their own ideal values!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Every test must be correlated with the patient's lifestyle habits and complaints; after all, how normal is a patient who has uncomfortable symptoms despite \u201cnothing on the tests\u201d (as many professionals put it)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. The levels considered \u201cnormal\u201d for some tests are simply absurd! For example, what is considered \u201cacceptable\u201d for the hormone SDHEA for women is a minimum of around 40 and a \u201cmaximum\u201d of 430 (for the laboratory in question), which is simply too wide a range! Or do you really think that someone with SDHEA of 50 will be just as well off as someone with SDHEA of 420?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. Are your results really normal, ideal, or are the parameters that your health professional has \u201cwrong\u201d? For example, in various parts of the world what is acceptable in terms of TSH changes: in Australia and several European countries, what is considered ideal is to be below 2. In the USA, below 3 but in Brazil it is absurdly considered \u201cnormal\u201d to be below 4.7!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, a person can have hypothyroidism and receive treatment for it if they have a TSH of 4 in most parts of the world, but in Brazil they can be considered \u201cnormal\u201d and not even receive the important and necessary treatment that helps to bring about well-being.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MITO: se seus exames est\u00e3o dentro dos “valores de refer\u00eancia” do laborat\u00f3rio (aqueles que v\u00eam escritos ao lado de cada resultado), voc\u00ea est\u00e1 “normal”. Isto n\u00e3o \u00e9 correto! 1. Estar “normal”, “aceit\u00e1vel” \u00e9 diferente de estar realmente bem, \u00f3timo ou no seu melhor (dentro do fisiol\u00f3gico) – cada pessoa tem seus valores ideais! 2. Todo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exames"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24805,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/24805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}