Welcome to the Root Cause Medicine Podcast, Greatest Hits, a Christmas special.

This year, we're unwrapping the most transformative health insights from five extraordinary physicians who are redefining wellness, one breakthrough at a time.

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Now, let's start the show.

First up, Dr. Kara Fitzgerald takes us on a personal journey of health and responsibility.

As a mother who started her family later in life, she's developed a groundbreaking approach,

understanding, and potentially reversing biological aging. Her pheno age quiz offers a simple yet

powerful way to assess your true biological age, empowering you to create a future filled with

strength and possibility. The pheno age quiz is just a CBC, just a chem screen plus a CRP,

and then you put it into this calculator that we've got on the website. We'll give you a link to that, and that'll pop out of bioage quiz.

That pheno-age spreadsheet is based on the origin that the Ceno-H-DNA methylation clock,

so a second-generation good epigenetic clock is based on these standard lab biomarkers.

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