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to help you and your family take control of your health.

Lab testing, what you need to know to make sure that the food and products you're using

are safe.

Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined

by John Fagan from HRI Labs who is an expert in this area and is going to enlighten you

about all the subtleties you may not have been previously aware.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today, John.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be here, real pleasure.

So maybe you can give us a little history of your journey and how you came to be proficient

in lab testing and the director of a lab and what HRI labs is all about.

Oh, thanks.

Well, just in one phrase, what HRI is about Health Research Institute labs is making the invisible

giving you the ability to see into what is in your food and into your environment, all

of these things.

And where I came from is that I have a, I studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Cornell

University.

I got my PhD from them and from there I went to the National Institutes of Health for a decade

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