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Hey, everyone. Today I spoke with Dr. David Brady and Tony Hoffman from Diagnostic Solutions

Laboratories, and we were doing a follow-up on a podcast that you may

have noticed aired only recently and then we actually took the podcast down because there

was a few things that I had wrong and I care about being truthful and honest of course

and so once some of the errors in our kind of analysis and fact checking of stool testing

validation or potentially lack thereof came to my attention, I wanted to reanalyze everything

and kind of set the record straight. So there's a few key things that we

cover in this podcast. Have PCR-based stool tests been validated? Do PCR-based stool tests

outperform traditional tests? The answer on both of these is yes.

Have functional medicine PCR-based tests been validated?

Essentially, yes, there's a little bit of nuance here,

and there's an important delineation between when we say validated,

most of the PCR technology has been validated in the setting of acute gastroenteritis

or overt disease states. The functional medicine labs are mostly using validated technology,

but different ranges that may be better for more of these chronic sub-acute, if you will,

populations. And we go into more detail about what's considered positive, let's say,

via a test that would be done at a hospital versus how some of the functional medicine

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