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Hello everyone, welcome to Sweaty and Pist, minipause and more.

I'm Karen Nickel, nurse practitioner,

and I'm here with Forrest Wensl, our producer,

and our theme music composer, and he's to join me today to answer some listener questions.

Hello, glad to be back.

Hi.

Yay!

So good to have you.

Our first question is from Stephanie who's asking if you can talk a little bit

about the COLA Guard and she's wondering who's a good candidate for the mail-in test?

Okay that's a great question.

Kola Guard is a home stool test, a test you collect at home from a stool sample and it is a cancer screening

colon cancer screening test and it is indicated for people ages 45 and up. And it's only for people who have no risk. So no family history of colon cancer, no personal history of colon cancer, no colon

diseases like inflammatory bowel disease, you're just a low-risk person with a normal colon who is screening for cancer.

So that's the person who can have this test.

And it's very easy to collect the sample at home. It is a prescription. So as a provider,

I order the prescription and then they ship you the kit directly to your home,

you collect the sample and you ship the kit

directly back to the lab.

And then they send me the result. And it looks for it's looking for blood in the

stool for one thing and it looks for 11 cancer biomarkers and if you have a negative test, it's over 99% positive that you will not have colon cancer, that you do not have colon cancer.

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