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Hey everyone, welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio. This is Dr. Rousho. Let's jump into another edition of health news updates.

But before we do, I wanted to make a couple notes regarding Paleo FX this year because at the time of

this recording, I just got back. And there was a couple things that I wanted to share, not much,

but a few. One thing that was really nice to see, I sat on the, what your microbiota is telling

you gut panel on Friday. It was Dr. David Perlmutter, myself,

Dr. Josh Axe, Dr. Grace Liu, and Dr. Will Cole. And it was nice to see that, generally speaking,

it seems that the aggregate opinion of the panel has shifted to recognize

that some of the microbiota tests that are interesting for research purposes and an important

part of the data gathering process like American gut and Ubiome and and other tests that give you essentially a detailed

mapping of your microbiota are not clinically relevant. I felt like I was the only one saying that

last year, maybe not the only one, but I felt like an outlier saying that last year and this year it seemed like people were

more so getting on board with that.

So that was very comforting to see.

Although it was disheartening that even though that point was made at least twice clearly

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