Author: Rohan Smith | Functional Medicine Practitioner | Adelaide, SA Quick Answer Wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness rings use heart rate variability (HRV), sleep estimates, and recovery scores to detect physiological strain, but these metrics cannot identify the underlying cause. A persistently low HRV or poor readiness score may reflect autonomic nervous system…
Author: Rohan Smith | Functional Medicine Practitioner | Adelaide, SA Quick Answer Symptom-matching — the process of entering symptoms into search engines like Google to infer a diagnosis — may be unreliable because it relies on statistical pattern retrieval rather than physiological assessment. According to a BMJ audit study by Semigran et al. (2015), online…
Author: Rohan Smith | Functional Medicine Practitioner | Adelaide, SA Quick Answer Feeling terrible despite “normal” blood tests is a common clinical scenario that may reflect limitations in standard laboratory reference ranges rather than an absence of physiological dysfunction. Conventional panels such as TSH, cholesterol, and basic metabolic markers are designed to screen for overt…
