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Sure. Well, here's the thing. The term test, right, is it's like saying automobile. Okay, well, I have a nice little Vespa, you know, 350. That's a, that's an automobile. You know, a Hummer is an automobile. All right. Tesla's an automobile. So tests. So just want to clear terms. You'll see I like to put in terms and kind of ask questions, you know, along the way. So all of them have a premise, a place. The problem is, is there's no one single test that gives you the data that you need. Okay, You've got saliva, blood, poop, urine biopsy. There's a lot of different tests. The problem is, and your audience can probably catch this right away, I get, I get picked on about all the time. I'm very wordy, you know, Irish Southerner, so only laughing, just agreed with on. That's good. But you know, the thing is, is it. I, I want to give the due diligence to it because I only have a limited time to really instill people with these concepts. And so what I want to do is to say what testing is there? Just like in cardiology, we have tests. In neurology, we have their tests. In gynecology, they all have different specialty tests and you could do a ton. And I have high end patients and people around the world that are flowing me to their hounds in different places and all that stuff. But I really like, you know, regular folk. But the thing is, is they want to do a whole bunch of things. They love all that. You don't need all that up front. So before I answer, the thing about the tests. Tests are great. I have an unlimited battery available to me in them. But then their order of operations matters. There's certain things we don't have to test up front because I know that universal precautions and things that we're going to do that when you start dealing with air, water, light, sound, EMF and food in people's lives, are going to adjust those values so much it doesn't even matter to get them at the first place. The inflammatory markers, you know, homocysteine and CRP and all that kind of stuff, and some of the inflammatory markers, we're going to move those so greatly upfront. I don't test those there. Right. But as far as those that are bs, well, there's, there's a big adage out there now of gene testing. Yeah, okay. And the reason why is because the market, everyone is vying for everyone's attention and people want answers and they want it now. And the number one complaint that I have from everybody that I see is I'm so confused. I'm just so damn confused. I don't know who to believe. Right. Everybody contradicts things. A study will say this. And I'm like. And that is true. I always say my patients have been my greatest teachers and I love them. And my clinical experience, over three decades, 50,000 patients, has taught me a lot through the lives of them. And sometimes it doesn't coalesce with what some of the scientific literature says. So my stories to everybody else are anecdotal. That's the lowest level of evidence on the evidence, period. And I recognize that. But who are you going to believe? Your mama or the science? So you have to balance it. And I'm not saying I have all the answers, right. I'm not what I call an ikea. I know everything, asshole. But. And there's a lot of that. I'm always growing. Every situation is different with every patient. So we're not just going to test all these things. And so we have a limited amount of time and people want to access, you know, people's as revenue. So they're going to do something like a gene test. And the narrative will go a little something like, listen, you do this one test one time in your life and you never have to guess what you need to supplement for Right. Okay. That is patently false and it's a lie because genes cannot tell you that at all. Not even. It's so amazingly not true. I was flabbergasted when I started seeing patients Come. I'm so out of the social media stuff. Not one of the talking heads, really, patients came to me with it and I was like, what in the heck is this? I was like, why is he saying that? And I knew right away what it was. You know, I've been doing genetic SNPs since 2008. I have my report. I even looked at it when you pulled it. You know, it's pretty funny. And all my things. Human Genome Project really didn't release its stuff until, oh, five starting O2. But the point is. So, like, gene tests are scam. I hate to use that word because people say these words out there, you know, snake oil salesmen. I'm funny with the terms because believe me, you know, I've had my fair share of people throwing me because I challenge conventional thought. But my point is, and to answer your question more directly, the. The gene tests are because a gene codes for an enzyme that makes a protein, and oftentimes they're of the same name. But that does not tell you if that gene is even in expression or not. And even if it is in expression, it doesn't tell you to what avail or in what consequence or in what consequence of the gene that comes before it or the one that comes after it that it relies upon. So you can't do a test for five genes, okay, out of over 20,000. And you're looking for what's called a single nucleotide polymorphism, a snp, not a gene break. We can use the word mutation if we want, but when the Genome 1000 project after that went on, you know how many SNPs we have found? 650 million.
