Howell 6-8

The breakthrough on bloodwork really was something incredible. Knowing how important the makeup of our blood is and what we can see from it might be the best things in medicine. It doesn't take huge, dangerous machines. You can look up multiple things that could lead to the problem at once. It is minutely invasive. I recently had blood drawn for heart palpitations and they could check my thyroid levels, electrolyte levels, and for infection all at once. I thought it was just incredible that they could detect things like hormone levels, which can direct doctors in so many directions. With the understanding of blood also came the understanding of so many more diseases, especially viruses. Because blood circulates through the whole body it can tell us so much about whats happening inside at the microscopic level. The smaller pathogens we didn't know about before we now do, and it is limitless what we can find from it.