Hello and welcome back to Not Just Paleo. I'm your host, Evan Brand. Today, we've got Dr. William Shaw on the podcast. This is a fun one. So William Shaw is the clinic director over at Great Plains Laboratory. I use Great Plains Laboratory for every single new client. I run organic acids testing on them, which is a urine test that shows us about 75 different markers,

including mitochondrial function, liver detox function, amino acid metabolites, neurotransmitter metabolites,

so we can take a look at dopamine, serotonin function,

we can look at quinolinic acid to look for inflammation,

we can look for arabinose and tartaric acid, which lets us know whether you have a

candida overgrowth or not.

We've got plenty of claustridia markers, so we can see if you've got bacterial overgrowth.

A lot of people talk about the term SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

We can measure that from the urine.

So we're going to be chatting

a bit about organic acids, but we're also going to be chatting a lot about the GPL talks, which is a

non-metal, meaning not heavy metals. We're not testing for that in the urine, but we're testing

for non-heavy metal chemicals. This is MTBE and ETBE, which are gasoline additives that you'll learn more about in just a second.

You can order these lab tests if you're interested.

The organic acids and the GPL talks, you can order those directly from my clinic website, not just paleo.com.

Even if you're not a client of mine or you do not intend to work with me you can still purchase those lab tests

we get in touch with the lab and they send the test kits to your door you complete him at home and then you mail them using the prepaid envelope to get them back to the lab

we email you the results and you do what you want with them now let's say a word about our sponsor kettle and fire

and then we'll get into the show.

So actually, one of the guys at Kettle and Fire sent me over an amino acid profile test from the bone broth,

and he said, Evan, take a look at this and tell me what you think.

And I was looking at the composition of the collagen and the proline and the lysine and the valine and all of the other amino acids.

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