Stress, thyroid, and blood glucose regulation are interconnected and provide a comprehensive picture of cardiovascular risk and metabolic dysfunction.

“your stress systems and with your thyroid systems which are intimately intertwined with what's going on with the vasculature and then blood glucose regulation insulin glucose hemoglobin A1c there's also home IR which is calculated off some of those values and then C peptid so when you're looking at that it's telling you how well are you using substrate how well are you using glucose are you having metabolic dysfunction and so these values will give you a much more complete picture over cardiovascular risk profile and what's going on”