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My background as a physical therapist, I've been doing it for about 20 years, you know, mostly in an outpatient setting.

But I started off in acute rehab with people at, you know, rehabing post-stroke,

post-brain trauma, post-removal brain tumors, right?

And had a pretty good perspective of, you know, human health and how things when they go wrong

can affect you.

I would say the last five to six years of practice,

I was exposed to a, it's kind of a newer.

At the time, it was a digitization of how to get a lactate curve, right?

Because there's a lot of different ways to do that.

Last I looked, there's over 20 different ways to try to describe what's happening there.

So we started kind of toying with it in a goal, at least with an outpatient orthopedic setting,

we were looking at, well, you know, this has been historically applied in a performance

in elite athlete setting, right?

Most time, most people that have access to this

kind of technology are going to be an endurance athlete, whether they're runners or cyclists or

whatnot. And then on the other extreme in health care, in critical care, in settings where

there's sepsis, they monitor lactate. Because if you can clear lactate, that's a good sign that there's going to be a good outcome. Sure. If you can't clear it and continues to accumulate, then as I'm playing with this and kind of exploring and, you know, tinkering, right, you get new toys, you start tinkering around with some of this stuff. But I started seeing in my patient population, right? I'm in the middle of

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