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Hey, guys.

Today we had Jeff Moss on the podcast.

He's been on the podcast before.

He's a repeat guest.

And we talked about organic acid testing.

And there were a few really key takeaways.

Now, organic acid testing is something that in some circles is really popular.

And I've had almost the opposite view where I'm certainly open to it, but I've not found it to be supremely helpful.

And you may notice that there are quite a number of tests that I have not found to be supremely helpful. And you may notice that there are quite a number of tests

that I have not found to be supremely helpful, which you can only arrive at that conclusion

when you're able to question if a test is helpful or not. And unfortunately, and with all due

respect, I think some providers are so excited about having some data to treat that they lack objectivity.

And they're very hard pressed to be able to say, well, this test didn't really tell me anything I didn't kind of already know or didn't help me to perform a treatment that I couldn't have done without the test to

begin with, which is a really key distinction that I think if more of us made in functional

medicine, we would really see the movement become much more efficient, much more cost-effective.

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