Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel terrible. The problem might not be your health but how labs define “normal.” Understanding the difference between normal and optimal could ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sometimes we forget what we learned in pre-Med. There is variability in most tests we order from the clinical ...

Nutritionist Rashi Chowdhary has urged Indians to question what their medical reports label as "normal," highlighting that surviving is not the same as thriving. In her latest health video, she ...

When the U.S. wrestler and actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in his prime, his Body Mass Index (BMI) was around 33 kg/m², technically ‘obese’ by World Health Organization (WHO) standards. Yet no one ...

Labs calculate normal by testing everyone who walks through the door, including patients with undiagnosed conditions and chronic diseases. The middle 95 percent becomes the reference range, whether ...