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And just a fair warning, there will probably be some oversharing.

Got all my little bags out here with me with all my supplements. I like, I really am

committed to the bit. Yeah. It's a lifestyle. It is. Can you ever sort of like get off of

taking supplements? For sure. Yeah. I mean, a lot of my patients do, they just don't like doing

it, you know? So like once you get your levels all set, then you can kind of... I don't think those

tests will ever show perfect findings that they're not really even meant to like achieve perfection.

It's like, where do you need support now? Because your physiology is ever shifting. Oh, okay. So it's like

where should we focus our attention right now? And then next time and the time after that. So I think it's more like how you feel. Do you feel like you want to feel? And if so, let's take a break. And if something happens in a year or two or three come back. Oh, interesting. And kind of like jump. In my head, I've been like, this is my life now.

We test my body every six months and this is what I'm doing. I think that's the best way to do.

That's what I do for myself. I run those labs every six months. But not everybody wants to live

their life that way. Right. Right. So if you're into it, keep doing it. And if you want to space it out,

more you can. Okay, maybe that's the move. Just like taking a little supplement break.

For sure. Supplement fatigue is very real. What supplements do you take every day? Too many to list.

I counted once recently. I take like 72 supplements. Whoa. Yeah, recently. But I'm always doing different protocols,

you know, like right now I'm on a few different protocols. So I'm not just taking that for maintenance. I'm actually trying to work on things. Got it. Okay. So what would be like a maintenance program? Let's say like you do all the tests and I'm going to, well, actually, okay, let's start with this. Let's talk about, so well, welcome back to the podcast, Dr. Monaghan. Thank you very much.

This is your second time coming on the pod. For anyone listen, I'm going to, well, actually, okay, let's start with this. Let's talk about, so well, welcome back to the podcast, Dr. Monaghan.

Thank you very much. This is your second time coming on the pod. For anyone listening, I would highly recommend going and listening to the first one because we talk about so many great things. And this will be like an extension of the first one. But on the first one, we talk about when people come to see you, you run a ton of different tests on them.

So explain to everybody if they haven't heard it before, what tests you run on all of your patients.

I run advanced functional labs, which are very different than kind of the conventional

blood work people get when they go to their primary care physician. That's more like a CBC and

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