Biomechanics vs. Blood Tests

I think modern society is brainwashed by these blood tests, which I personally completely ignore.

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For years my mother fought me on these biomechanics.

My life was zigzagging up and down for a decade and she’d thought her son who she’d been so proud of when I was young, had just lost it.

When I finally concluded that i’d fully figured out the rules to this game in late 2021 she remained very skeptical.

I’d tell her in 2022 then 2023 then 2024 and then in 2025 how I was improving how i functioned across all parameters. And how it seemed impossible for me to get sick.

But she would just keep repeating to me… “take a blood test and prove it.”

She’d gotten so brainwashed that a blood test was the end all, be all.

And she was so convinced that she and her husband were very healthy because their blood tests were usually pretty good.

The fact that they were clearly functionally declining in various things and were visibly aging didn’t seem to matter. It was all about the blood test to them.

Meanwhile I refused to take any blood tests. Mainly because I just didn’t care what they said. I didn’t want to be a part of this brainwashing. I wanted logic to prevail.

People love to point to their blood tests

Walk into any conversation about health these days and within five minutes someone's referring to their latest lab results. "Look at my HDL!" "My inflammation markers are perfect!" "My doctor says my numbers look great!"

We've been trained by society to treat these tests like they're the holy grail of health assessment. From the time we're kids, we're taught that going to the doctor means getting blood drawn. It's become this ritual - you feel off, you get labs, the numbers tell you if you're healthy or not.

But think about this for a second: how did we survive as a species for thousands of years without knowing our C-reactive protein levels?

The blood test industry in America is absolutely massive. We're talking about a $75 billion market that's growing every year. The average American gets blood work done 2-3 times per year, and if you're dealing with any kind of chronic condition, that number shoots way up. I’ve heard of some folks that are getting monthly panels.

There are hundreds of different blood tests available now. Complete metabolic panels, lipid panels, thyroid function tests, vitamin levels, hormone panels, inflammatory markers, genetic testing, food sensitivity panels - the list goes on and on. Walk into any LabCorp and they've got a menu of tests longer than a Cheesecake Factory.

And here's what I also find crazy: about 70% of medical decisions are influenced by lab results. That's how much we've come to rely on these numbers to tell us about our health.

How accurate a predictor of health are blood tests?

Now here's where things get interesting. How good are these tests actually at predicting who's going to get sick and who isn't?

The answer might surprise you: not as good as you'd think.

Take cholesterol, for example. We've been obsessing over cholesterol numbers for decades, yet about 50% of people who have heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels. And plenty of people with high cholesterol live long, healthy lives without any cardiovascular issues.

Or look at diabetes. Your fasting glucose can be "normal" while you're already well down the path toward metabolic dysfunction. By the time your HbA1c shows you're diabetic, you've probably been insulin resistant for years.

The sensitivity and specificity of most blood tests for predicting disease is actually pretty mediocre. A PSA test for prostate cancer? About 70% accurate. Mammograms for breast cancer? Around 85%. These aren't terrible, but they're not the crystal balls we pretend they are.

Also blood tests are snapshots. They tell you what's happening in your bloodstream at one specific moment in time. But your blood chemistry is constantly fluctuating based on what you ate, how you slept, your stress levels, etc.

In my view your blood is a function of your biomechanics

Here's what I think after a decade of experimenting on myself: your blood work is downstream from your biomechanics.

When your body starts to collapse structurally - that collapse shows up in your blood eventually. But the blood changes are the symptom, not the cause.

Over the years when my structure improved many other things improved. My energy, my mood, my immune system, etc.

And when my structure got worse the same things got worse.

I repeated this pattern probably at least 4-5x between the years of 2014-2021 (note that everything has only been uphill since 2021).

And I am very sure that if I were consistently doing a blood test over those years, which I haven’t been, it would have zigzagged almost perfectly with the state of my structure.

Think about it logically: If your posture is collapsing and compressing your organs, that's going to affect how they function, which will be reflected in your lab values.

The blood is just the messenger.

I think how you function is the best gauge of health

I think how you feel and function day to day is a much better indicator of your health than any blood test.

I have more energy now than I did when i was 25 years old.

My mood is always good by default.

My hair is thicker now then when I was in my 30’s and my skin is probably just as good.

I haven’t been sick in five years and it almost feels physically impossible to get sick.

So do I need a blood test to validate what my body is already telling me?

Most likely the blood test will just refect these positive functional things I am feeling. But even if it somehow does not.. do i trust the blood test more than my functional signals?

Absolutely not. I trust my functional signals a LOT more.

I’m sure there are many thousands of people who had relatively decent blood tests and died of some random ‘natural cause’.

However I would doubt that there has been anyone that was improving on almost every functional metric the way I am and then just dropped dead.

You see for me….I threw out all the bs that they told me to believe. And now my own logic prevails.

I don’t give a damn that the ‘doctors’ don’t agree

A few years back I got in an online argument with a friend of mine from high school. I’d written something about how my health was improving because of these dental biomechanics on a Facebook post and then he chimed in and told me i was full of it.

Then he added in how he is a doctor and seeing patients for years and since I didn’t study medicine… I didn’t know what I was talking about.

His MD title had gone to his head.

In high school he’d often call me a ‘nerd’ because he knew I was far smarter than him. But now the paper on his wall obviously gave him some type of superiority complex.

I recently saw a photo of him. He was getting fat, bald, and i bet his health issues were racking up.

His “MD” title and all the stuff he learned in medical school obviously ain’t doing anything to save him ;)

Closing thoughts

I'm not saying blood tests have no value. They can be useful for monitoring certain conditions, etc.

But I am saying we've got our priorities completely backwards. We're obsessing over numbers that might not even be meaningful while ignoring the obvious signs that our bodies are giving us every single day.

Fix your biomechanics, and watch how everything else - including your blood work - falls into place. It's really that simple.

For a few months now my mother wears a mouthguard.

And when we had a video call a week or so back it was the first time in years that she looked a bit younger to me, not older.

I didn’t need her blood test to show me she was improving. I knew it just by looking at her.