“Normal” Labs + Recurrent Miscarriage
This question comes up sOoOo often, and it’s an important one.
If you’ve experienced miscarriage, especially more than once, and been told “your labs look normal,” it can feel both confusing and dismissive. As if the story should end there. As if your body didn’t just go through something profound.
Let’s talk about what “normal” actually means. Lock in.
Reference Ranges Are Based on Population Averages
Lab reference ranges are not designed around optimal health. They are based on population averages. And here’s the uncomfortable truth we don’t talk about enough:the population is getting sicker. Rates of chronic illness, metabolic dysfunction, inflammation, and infertility are rising—steadily and globally.
So when they say a lab value is “normal,” what they’re really saying is: you look similar to the average person being tested. How bleak. That’s a low bar when we’re talking about fertility, pregnancy, and sustaining new life. I don’t accept population-based “normal” as sufficient for reproductive outcomes. And you don’t have to either.
Normal Does Not Mean Optimal—Especially for Pregnancy
Standard lab ranges are intentionally wide. They are designed to identify overt dysfunction—disease states, clear pathology, glaring structural issues, obvious metabolic red flags.
They are not designed to:
Optimize egg quality
Support implantation
Maintain early pregnancy
Prevent miscarriage
Prepare the body for the physiologic demands of gestation
You can fall well within “normal” and still have:
Suboptimal hormone signaling
Early + gentle thyroid dysfunction
Gut issues inhibiting nutrient absorption
Inflammatory + circulatory patterns that interfere with implantation
Blood sugar instability impacting placental development
Nutrient insufficiencies that matter deeply in early pregnancy
Stress physiology that overrides reproductive safety signals
So, miscarriage is rarely random. Often, it’s the body communicating that something wasn’t adequately supported, long before conception ever occurred.
Why I Read Labs Differently
Part of my integrative training means I work with an entirely different lens when it comes to labs. I use narrower, more intentional reference ranges—ranges that are aligned with:
Optimal fertility
Hormonal resilience
Healthy implantation
Pregnancy sustainability
This doesn’t mean medical care is wrong. It means it is incomplete for the level of outcome we’re asking the body to achieve. When labs are interpreted solely through a disease-vs-no-disease framework, subtle but critical patterns are missed. Patterns that matter profoundly when the goal is not survival, but creation.
Miscarriage Is a Signal, Not a Personal Failure
I want to be very clear about this: recurrent or unexplained miscarriage is not a moral failure. It is not “bad luck.” And it is not something you need to push harder against. It is information. Your body is responding intelligently to its internal environment. Our job is to understand why—and to change that environment so pregnancy is supported, not strained.
Why Clarity in Conception Exists
I designed Clarity in Conception specifically to connect the dots that standard care often misses. Not because doctors don’t care, but because the system isn’t built to zoom out far enough, long enough, or deeply enough for fertility optimization.
My practice brings together:
Precision lab interpretation
Whole-body physiology
Nutrition for fertility (not general wellness)
Environmental and lifestyle inputs
Stress and nervous system support
Nutrient repletion targeted to reproduction
This is why my approach works so well, especially for women who have been told everything is “normal,” yet their lived experience says otherwise.
You’re not asking too much.