we're in action. Straight to the first slide. So I was going to start with my story,

kind of a not too detailed version. So in 2013, I came in with standard blood tests.

It's important to stress they were standard. They were not special, unusual stuff.

And serum GGT, liver enzyme should be below 35 or prox. ferretin the iron loading in the blood should be

below 200 maybe or below 300 it's variable cholesterol should be below 5 millimoles so the doctor wasn't

too happy because i came in at 112 on the gamma gutimal transferase 530 in serum ferretin, which is the sixth marker

for metabolic syndrome I later learned, and 6.8 in cholesterol, which is not hyper-collestrolemia

per se, but very high for a doctor. So the first doc anyway was kind of not sure what to make of it particularly, but had

some thoughts. I went to a second doctor, more senior, because I had sensed as a complex

problem-solving person that the expert was not overly sure. And again, I'm not criticizing,

but I sensed that and got the same result.

And then went to a very senior person, a professor of medicine, to actually delve deeper.

And essentially, hemochromatosis was mentioned with the high ferretin.

Eating more healthy whole grains and less fats was suggested for the cholesterol.

The GGT, the question mark was around

alcohol, but I didn't at the time really drink excessively. I'm surprised at that, but it is true

that GGT is a great marker for alcohol excess. But all in all, I got a genetic test for hemacromatosis.

It was negative and things didn't add up.

So basically I kind of realized wow the experts in any field will nearly always know the two key questions on basic standard metrics.

A, the implications of them and that was vague, and B, what you do to address

them or resolve them, and that didn't really work out. So I thought, wow, that's amazing in

a technical sphere, in this case medicine, again, not criticizing, but I knew instinctively when

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