You are putting yourself at risk if you are not asking your doctor for these tests every year.
Monitoring the progression of your health with blood work each year is extremely easy and vitally important. However, the typical yearly physical is NOT a comprehensive look at your health, and it rarely prevents chronic illness.
Therefore, it is very important that you take preventive health measures into your own hands.
These five lab tests should be a crucial piece of your annual physical, and here’s what you need to know about them: