A pattern
Serious athletes are the most quantified people on earth — and some of the worst served by healthcare.
A 46-year-old woman running 50 miles a week sees her doctor once a year. Her resting heart rate is 42 and her cholesterol is great, so her doctor tells her she's healthy as a horse. Her ferritin is 38, which reads as normal on the lab report. Her HRV has been drifting down for two months. Her period has been irregular since January. She feels tired in a way she can't explain.
None of this shows up anywhere. Her training app tells her to hit Tuesday's intervals. Her wearable tells her she had 87 percent recovery. Her doctor told her she's fine. And somewhere in the space between all of them, she's quietly breaking down.
Marrow is for her.