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So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've come to the right place. Now with the warmup done, let the gains begin. Hey, Power Athenation. Welcome back to the premier podcast and Strength Conditioning Power Athlete Radio. And I'm joined by Lauren Freach, Fritch. Fritch. Fritch. All right. Fuck. We've been prepped it ahead of time, but I still messed it up. Lauren Frch. Fritch. Fritch. Fritch. All right. Fuck.

We even prepped it ahead of time and I still messed it up.

Lauren Fritch from Amsterdam, New Amsterdam Genomics.

And just for a little bit of transparency, I became a client and really just a patient of you guys in 2017 through Dr. Tom at Cossenta.

The way he put it in, he's like, hey, we're going to do this genetic test that's a lot like an annuity. You're going to put in once and you're going to be able to get information for as long as they're in business. And I thought that was much more interesting more so than just giving your genetics and getting some printout sheet where they're like, oh, you should be an athlete.

Oh, you should eat chicken, which is really what I had seen up until that point. And so I didn't put a lot of stock in really the genetic stuff and just the fact that the way that people were spinning it is if this is the new frontier.

We're going to be able to tell you everything about you

from your genetics. But unfortunately, here we are almost 10 years later. And I feel like

that narrative has really changed. Yeah, absolutely. Dr. Tom's a great guy. So I'm really glad

that you get to work with him. Yeah. No, he's, uh've known him for, man, almost over 20 years. So I met Tom in the early 2000s when I was a young NFL player and went to his house. He didn't even have a lab or an office at that point. He took something like 40 vials of blood from me in his kitchen. Like I walked in.

The entire place was covered in like supplements.

Like there was no cabinet space.

It was like not even any counter space.

It was just hundreds of bottles of weird supplements that were all like half open,

some were open, somewhere empty.

I like walked in and like I almost had a little bit of a panic attack because I'd like things to be neat and organized and his was anything but. And so then he sits down to his kitchen table and just starts taking blood vials off me and I'm like, what is this? This guy's like a vampire. He's taking so much blood. So and then he, you know, a few weeks later sent me this encyclopedia of all of my blood work and it was this comprehensive

and i've worked with tom gone and seen him twice a year since the early two i mean like 2002

2003 i think so it's over been 20 years so i have a pretty amazing you know history and so whenever

anything comes up like you know like your' service and what you guys are doing.

To see him be an early adopter is really all I need.

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