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Lessons - Every Health Myth Exposed in 90 Minutes | Dr. Eric Berg - 12M Subscribers & #1 Health Channel on YouTube · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  In this lessons episode, discover how metabolomics can reveal what is happening inside the body in real time.
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  Understand why personalized nutrition may outperform one-size-fits-all diets.
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  Explore how deeper metabolic testing can uncover deficiencies and early warning signs.
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  And uncover why targeting root causes could reshape preventive healthcare.
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  When you think about, okay, so there's education, but taking it a step further.
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  So talk to me about metabolomics.
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  What is metabolomics?
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  I want to understand sort of like from a deeper level.
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  So from what I understood, and listen, this is me researching before this podcast.
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  This is not me being a subject matter expert in this by any means.
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  But it's just helping you understand like...
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  how you react and is that on a biological level?
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  Is that, is certain genes or DNA, maybe they react to different foods in different ways or is there like one diet that really everybody could subscribe to that would be better?
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  Are some people easier to, do some people I guess operate better when they eat garbage food?
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  I'm just very curious about what this sort of, this science or this study or this practice sort of unlocks.
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  Metabolomics is going to be the wave of the future for medicine.
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  You probably heard of genomics, which they talk about the gene therapy.
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  People get their DNA tested, and that was supposed to be the thing that was going to just change medicine forever, right?
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  There's like 20,000 to 25,000 genes.
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  That's a lot of data.
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  There's a lot to look at, but it only tells you potentially what could happen.
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  So then as things evolved, and I'm going to skip a couple steps and go right to metabolomics, which you're basically taking a lot more information...
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  from your blood or your urine that goes way beyond just a simple blood test and looks deeper into your chemistry.
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  So if I were able to look deeper into the chemistry and see all the different steps, so if you do a blood test, maybe you have, I don't know, 15 to 20 things you're looking at.
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  But then when you metabolomics, you have 3,000.
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  So you can actually get a picture of the dynamics of what's happening from the assembly line, from food all the way down to waste and all the different factors.
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  So you can get a real good real-time picture of what's happening now.
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  to your body from your diet, your lifestyle, your stress, everything together, real time, what's happening?
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  Let's just take the mitochondria, which is the energy factory of the cell.
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  You have like 12 little steps there that basically go from food into energy.
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  Okay.
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  And each step has certain enzymes that help make this chemical change from one thing to the next.
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  If you can measure each one of those and see where the bottlenecks are, you can then see what's missing.
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  For example...
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  For an enzyme to work, this is where you need vitamins and minerals.
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  People don't realize that.
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  But vitamins and minerals actually help the enzymes to convert one thing to another.
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  So I consume a really healthy diet, but they found I was severely deficient in vitamin C. I'm like, wait a second, I have normal vitamin C in my blood.
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  Yeah, but the demand is so high because I run up hills, and so my body sucks it up.
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  So to be able to see if you have sufficient nutrients, if it's all working, that's way more important than what's going on in your blood.
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  You can have...
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  you could have like bone loss, osteoporosis, and have normal calcium in the blood.
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  It doesn't really...
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  The blood is kind of the... Is not the best place to identify problems because the body will compensate and things like that.
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  I mean, just today, we did a metabolomic testing on my dad, who's in his 80s.
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  And his doctor found his too much vitamin D in his blood.
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  Okay?
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  So he said, stop taking vitamin D. I'm sorry, B12.
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  And...
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  Then we looked at his metabolomic test.
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  He was like severely deficient in B12.
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  Well, first of all, when you take a B12 supplement and then you go to the doctor and get it tested, it's going to show high amounts in your blood because you just took it.
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  In fact, it'll stay in your blood for like seven days.
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  So to be able to see at the cell level what's really going on,
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  That's very valuable.
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  I wish I had this when I was in practice because it takes the mystery about what's really going on with your metabolism on a whole, not just like weight loss, but your overall health.
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  amazing information and then do this over time to keep improving it.
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  And so that way we don't have to put everyone on the same diet.
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  We can just use this testing to tell us what they need more of or less of.
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  Because everyone, you know, some people respond on this diet and this diet.
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  It's like you can't put everyone on the exact same thing.
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  One thing, my father, the big thing about him is like he's severely low on protein.
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  I mean, he has no amount of protein, but you can see it's muscle wasting.
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  But on his mitochondria, there's hardly any protein going into that little feedback loop.
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  So it's very valuable.
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  And I think going into the future, if a doctor could use that, I mean, this would change everything.
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  Because now you're not focusing on disease.
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  You're focusing on, okay, how can we create more health versus...
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  I understand.
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  oh, let's treat this symptom with a drug, but you haven't even looked at the root cause.
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  You haven't even addressed the diet.
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  I mean, like, why would you want to do that?
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  It doesn't make sense.
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  So there's a lot of value in having the data to tell us what's going on for real and going deeper.
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  When you look at...
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  So you answered all my questions.
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  So there's no one diet that solves every problem for every person that's better or worse.
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  It's really at the... Metabolomics really unlocks...
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  all the things that are broken within our bodies as to why whatever we're eating is not doing the job that it's supposed to be doing.
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  So there is a massive amount.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  If you have like initially, like most people have insulin resistance and they have weight problems and there might be a pre-diabetic.
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  And so of course we want to, they're not very metabolically flexible.
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  So they can't handle any sugar at all.
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  So you have to get them off carbs and stuff.
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  But,
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  You do that over a period of time, and now they're in much better shape.
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  They can handle healthier carbs.
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  And so we're not talking about putting them on a lot, but they have more flexibility over time once they start healing the system.
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  And depending on...
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  I mean, just think about how many...
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  It's so hard to do a test to determine what everyone needs as far as a diet because you also have... Like...
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  You have Asians.
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  You have people from different parts of the world that have, their whole generations have lived on different types of food.
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  So you can't, you know, what's good for some people is not actually ideal for another person.
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  So you really, you have to look at the whole picture.
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  And the bottom line is, if we could, since most diseases exist,
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  are at the mitochondrial level, if we could just get that thing to work, then whatever that person's doing, it's going to be successful.
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  Is that what I was going to say?
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  No, I was going to ask.
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  I was going to say, what diseases can you sort of look at?
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  There's like a biomarker or a signal of an increased risk of some sort of disease or health problem.
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  What can you look for with this type of test?
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  You just answered, like cancer, heart disease.
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  When you run these types of tests, you see all the leading indicators for all of these types of diseases, autoimmune, all of it.
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  before they happened.
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  Wow.
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  Decades before they happened.
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  So you can start looking at, oh, wow, high amounts of oxidative stress.
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  Okay, inflammation.
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  Okay, so we're going to have a lot of problems in that area or even insulin resistance or problems with the microbiome or inability to detoxify.
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  So you can predict things with this data, which is super valuable to be able to predict
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  long before you even get a symptom.
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  Wouldn't that be cool?
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  So this goes very well.
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  I mean, let's say for example, you're tired right now, right?
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  I mean, you can drink an energy drink, but there's about 100 different reasons why you're tired.
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  We can find out.
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  We can find out why you're really tired by looking at this test and going, this is why you're tired.
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  Or, no, this is not why you're tired.
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  I will tell you this, and this is really, really important.
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  The worst thing you could possibly do to a patient is to give them the wrong diagnosis.
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  It's kind of like telling your wife what their problem is.
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  It's like you're going to mess things up.
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  You never want to tell, you know what your problem is, honey?
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  Don't ever do that.
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  So with a patient, you got to be very careful not to give them the wrong thing because they will get worse just by that.
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  What would be like the gold standard if you look at the people that are offering this test right now or where people can actually explore this?
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  Because this is the first time I've ever heard of it.
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  And I would assume, I think just because of my background and I played a lot of sports and I focus on health and wellness, that I'm more clocked into this community.
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  than even the average person, than probably that family that you helped buy food at the grocery store.
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  So that being said, I've never heard of this.
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  So where would somebody go to get one of these tests if they want to actually explore?
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  Is it viable for the public?
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  Is it going to cost them 20,000 bucks?
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  Is it something they go to their local doctor?
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  Like, where do they go?
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  It's very, very new.
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  Even though it's been around for a long time, the problem with this testing is you have to understand biochemistry.
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  So it's a little bit like a lot of doctors, even school.
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  I went through pre-med myself.
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  We all just memorized biochemistry.
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  biochemistry and got through.
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  We don't understand it until after you graduate and you relearn it and you have time to play with it and learn it.
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  So there's a little learning curve to biochemistry because you have to be able to understand that.
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  You can't just read this.
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  So there's not a lot of clinics out there.
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  There's one that...
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  There's one really good one that's in Greece.
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  They do check people remotely.
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  That one is really good because they have, you know, they've done 60,000 people so far.
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  So their database, they have the right normals to compare things with.
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  And so that would be one.
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  But I reached out to this group, and I said, listen, let me translate the course in English for you so we can bring it to America and start having doctors learn and get this information, because I think there's a lot of doctors that would want to know the status.
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  So there's an old course.
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  I'm helping them do the course on it.
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  Yeah.
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  more doctors can get trained.
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  So that's happening soon.
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  But in the meantime, you know, there's like this team of nine doctors, they do it all over the world right now.
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  And from Greece and Rome, that's where they're located.
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  But there's not a lot of places, but it's, I mean, last year, there was, I think, 81,000 different research studies on this topic.
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  So it's,
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  It's definitely coming up, and there's a lot of people getting involved with it.
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  They're talking about it.
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  It's called personalized nutrition.
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  But as right now, I wouldn't recommend a lot of different clinics because you have to have the experience.
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  And it's like, okay, you see the test, but now...
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  How do you relate that to the person's diet?
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  And so that's why I like this Dr.
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  In Greece.
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  I feel, you know, I had my parents go there, myself, my family, so I like it.
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  And I personally just, you know, I do YouTube videos.
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  I want to learn everything about it, so I'm physically taking his course now.
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  Just not that I'm going to practice, but I want to know everything about it.
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  And this is a little bit of a learning curve, you know, because you have to understand biochemistry from a whole different level so you can apply it versus memorize it.
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