Well, hello, everyone and welcome to the Root Cause Medicine Podcast. I'm your host for today, Dr. Kate Kresge.

I'm joined by Dr. Chris Magrita, a pediatrician at Salisbury Pediatrics, and Dr. Eric Lindquist, an integrative internal medicine doc at Temecula Integrated Medicine. Now, these two doctors are also incredible teachers, and they taught our Basic Blood Labs boot camp earlier this year. It it was a 101 level course, although it did not

feel like it. It was actually quite advanced. They're now teaching a 201 course in response to

an outrageous demand for them to cover more biomarkers. They're going to dive deeper into things

like metabolic health through the lens of adipenactin, C-peptide. They're looking at immunometabolism.

They're diving deep into immune function, looking at things like T-cells,in C-peptide. They're looking at immunometabolism. They're diving deep into

immune function, looking at things like T-cells, cytokines, and really not just explaining how

you can use biomarkers to access these levels in patients, but teaching you how to see the forest

through the trees. So really giving you the foundational understanding of why would you look at

these levels?

What are you actually searching for when you're looking for patterns in someone with a condition that you're trying to either catch early or help them reverse?

And this is a critical problem.

This is something we all need to be talking about right now because modern chronic illnesses

are not adult problems.

They're increasingly affecting our kids and they increasingly begin in childhood. And we can catch them early if we know the right diagnostics

to use. So this is what this boot camp is all about. It's about looking at indicators of metabolic

health, oxidative stress, immune foundations, and intervening early so we can get our clients the ultimate

outcomes.

Now, this is not just for a few clients in your practice, this is going to be for most of them,

because 93% of adults now have at least one sign of metabolic dysfunction, according

to the N-HEN study published in 2022.

One in five adolescents already meets the criteria for pre-diabetes, and that number rises to one in four when we look at young adults.

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