 Now, this next section is kind of the central ethos and thesis of what you represent, and I think that it's also- What I represent now, you mean? Yeah, yeah. I mean, this is a huge pillar of what I'm passionate about and have interviewed hundreds of people about this exact topic. And so this topic is basically the idea that we are now able to take a constant stream of our biometrics, and we are able to tweak where there is an imbalance, in a sense Dr. Aubrey DeGray uses the analogy, and you're going to give us some as well, of the fact that, like, why does a jet engine on an airplane have hundreds of sensors, but why do we see the doctor one time a year? Right? Yeah. So these types of things. And so the future, and you're going to hit this back right now, is just that this is the future, is this constant stream, and then the ability to correct imbalances, and then for us to live healthier, moment to moment, healthier, stronger, more creative, and also longer. And so that's this general idea, and we're going to get into a bunch of the subtopics on this, but yes, go ahead and hit it off. No. You said, you know, you had all the adjectives, you can live healthier, moment to moment, etc. I just aim for one. I just want to live equanimously with equanimity, which is the highest form of love, and the highest form of love is peace, and the highest form of peace is equanimity. So you actually already hit on it when the jets have so many sensors, and we used to think that the body didn't have as much of molecules that can be sensed, and when you go to an illness medicine doctor, essentially you already have a flat tire, your heart has already given out, or you already have an overheated engine, you already have a fever from an infection. So as an illness medicine doctor myself, I'm a trained interventional neurologist, we know how to repair stuff. We bring your car to the garage, and we know how to do retrospectively, oh, this is actually, it's not your carburetor, it's this. And so our diagnostics are basically retrospective. So we know how to do repair, and we do repair, our antibiotics have to work on populations. We're dealing with populations all the time of individuals, because hey, the technique for open heart surgery has to work consistently throughout the world if you do it. But when you go and do that, you're just looking at repairing your system. And then the concept of an illness medicine of prevention is disease prevention. So the diabetic society will say, this is how you prevent diabetes, this is how, and then the neurology societies, this is how you prevent Alzheimer's, and this is how you prevent, you know, and so on and so forth. So if someone who has hypertension, and someone who has cognitive decline, and someone who has cancer, and someone who has diabetes, you know, they will follow three, four different kinds of prevention guidelines. And what the hell is that? You know, so notice I used hell, all right? I usually use another retrospective, but are you really expecting patients to do that? But it turns out that, you know, our cars are so much better now because every 3,000 miles comes a warning light that says, okay, it's time for you to bring your car to the garage. And then when the temperature is rising, it shows exactly, you know, what the temperature is and gives you a warning that you're about to hit critical level, right? Or when your tire pressure is going down, it gives you the level of your tire pressure and which tire, right? Initially, we didn't have those kinds of diagnostics in medicine, right? So all we were taught in illness medicine was pathology, you know, was a disease, you know, and how to repair it, pharmacology by drugs or surgery, cut him up, or do a combination of both, right? So now- But we also didn't have the access in terms of the instrumentation to see at that level, but now in the last really like 100 years we got this instrumentation. Because of the development of science and technology, right? We are now able to take a look inside the cell. In fact, there's a reason why my medical school classmates hate me, right? Because you're being dragged right back into biochemistry inside the cell. Whereas before, you couldn't measure those metabolites or small molecules, right? Now you could measure them. Before, you will just say, oh, just take vitamin C and just take vitamin E. Now I actually resent that question being asked of me. It's like, why don't you fucking measure it and then take it if you need it, right? Because all of those can be measured now. It turns out that metabolomics, which is the omix that's in there, clinical metabolomics, which is the use of it in the clinics, it's already 40 years old, right? But it's only hitting the clinics right now, right? But when you are dealing with health, not disease, you must have some objective measure of what it is that's going out of balance. It's a playbook from illness medicine. You diagnose and treat disease, right? So in health, you detect and correct imbalances because there's no disease, right? And if there's a disease underlying that, you set the disease aside for the specialist and you balance the imbalance of hormones and nutrients and other metabolites that are in there, right? And if you place those values between the values of when you were 21 and 30 years old, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting. Then you're at your peak homeostatic capacity. So your peak, yes, yes, yes. Except for values like vitamin D, for example. Vitamin D is actually a hormone. I call it the hormone named vitamin D, right? So then do we have a catalyst? Those are evolutionarily determined, right? So they're evolutionary determined values that came before us, right? So there is this catalog, in a sense, of optimized, but then Alan's 21-year-old catalog of biometrics for an optimized equanimity and equilibrium and homeostatic capacity onward is different. It's somewhat similar, but also different than TEDS. So and yes, yes, but it falls within a range, right? It's usually higher. Your needs for certain things is usually higher, right? And right now I've seen, for example, 21, 22-year-olds with growth hormone levels of like, of that of a 70-year-old, you know, you could see how we've changed a lot. People in the North versus South also geographically, right? Or by the equator, I mean, or versus towards the poles. Yeah, and also, you know, it's not only that, the use of plastics, for example, their endocrine disruptor systems, right? They disturb your hormone levels. Like, for example, they did a, I think it was like 60,000 men in Europe, you know, between ages 21 and 30, and they found out already drops in testosterone levels, you know, which use not to be there. So what we use as a range is not what you use for illness medicine, right? When clients or clients, because they're not sick, right? Or patients come back and say, oh, look, my thyroid hormone is normal. Well, that's just enough not to make you sick, right? So it's like when you say in nutrition, the RDA or the recommended dietary allowance is just enough not for you to incur the deficiency, but it's not the optimal value for you. Yes, yes. OK, so let's visualize this as well. You have a really good visual that I'll embed here, but you have this general idea of scale that we can envision here, where you have an idea of what's happening at this quantum biophysics level, and then you have what's happening at the atomic level, at the molecular level, the macromolecular level, organelle level, cell level, tissue, organ, organ systems, and organism. So you have that increase. And then what you have is you have, it's really at this intracellular level is the focus right now. At this intracellular level, there are three categories pretty much. There's optimal, suboptimal, and illness. And what we're talking about is basically keeping your biometrics at the optimal level. So even when they start going into what are called like these preliminary phases of suboptimal levels, that we can have those interventions to return them to optimal levels. And these can be measured via... Right, it's just like your windshield wiper fluid is low. Top it off, that may be what? You have low levels of alphalipoic acid, you have low levels of vitamin B1, B2, or something. And those are like the newer dashboards now that you have, now it's available to us. Unfortunately, it cannot... Those are the fundamental functions of cells. So we're made of organs and underneath the organs are the specialized cells, like your beta cells in your pancreas, for example, that produce insulin. But underneath all of these organs and all of these specialized cells, there's a fundamental cell that has to run. It has a nucleus, it has mitochondria, it has a cytoplasm, it has a plasma reticula. And it has cell membranes and it has a cytoplasm. And no one's taking care of that. And that's fundamental, right? Yes, yes. So health optimization is basically focused on health maintenance, right? It's maintaining, like when you're looking at your dashboard in your car and saying, oh, this is slow and that's slow, or this is overheating, oh, I need to change oil now. Now we actually have the technology to do that, which is through metabolomics, right? And I chose metabolomics for two reasons. One, the tests for them are already mature, meaning we could prove to illness medicine people, like, hey, look, remember those crab cycle intermediates that you just used to memorize? Here they are, here are the levels. And usually they call me back and they go, what do I do with this? I said, ah. So anyway, because it's used for health, right? It's fundamental. So when you are doing health optimization, you don't do one organ at a time, right? You do the fundamental cell in all of your body. Yes, you gave this really good example is basically if you go and you target the specific like pancreatic cell that is starting to have a little bit closer towards suboptimal. What you do is if you, and I wanna see, if you make the correction, it basically does all of the downstream much better. Now, will you teach us? I make no claims. Yeah, yeah. I make no claims because illness medicine will, you know, shoot me for that. And that's the reason why functional medicine, you know, has a lot of fights with other illness medicine doctors, right? But for me, it's enough to move the values of your vitamins, your micronutrients components, like your essential amino acids and so on, and your micronutrients, your vitamins, minerals, you know, and cofactors, your hormones. If you move them to the optimal levels, then you see the effects without any claims, right? Yes, yes. The system tends to correct itself. Yes, it's like in very simple terms, it's like, huh, I've been sitting for a long time, my back hurts, and then you go and you swim, and then you come, and then right when you're out of the pool, you're like, oh my gosh, I feel so much better. So that's the intervention towards optimal at the organism, higher level. Now, Ted, I wanna ask you this. At, let's talk about this. How do we take a sample from my body to gain the intracellular metabolomic knowledge of what sugars, what lipids, what nucleotides, et cetera, our amino acids are there, and then where they're out of range. So the idea is then some are out of range, and then how do you give an intervention? Like how do you analyze that? Is that through mass spectrometry? And then from there, then how do you provide the intervention? So walk us through that whole cycle. So what they do is they take urine, blood. For me, I take stool samples because I have to take, check your gut microbiota, right? They're a separate organ. They're not considered a postnatal organ in the body, which is a major influence on your immune system, right? Yes. And so it's a blood, urine, and stool. We send them out to a metabolomic slab. So essentially, they have all of this, the gold standard right now is what they call the LC-MSMS or the liquid chromatography mass spectrometry, but it's already fat, like they're quadruples, and blah, blah, blah. The newer, and right now it's a race to provide, to get to the protocols with the least invasive sampling. Like for example, you now know that... The sensor on the toilet, so that you don't even have to send it in. Or Google some contact lenses, right? Now you have the continuous monitoring over here, but that's individual, right? That's for individual use. If you're weird like us who like to... I puncture myself three times a week for my blood ketone levels and for my blood sugar, even if I'm not diabetic, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so after that, so the results come in and what's nice is that they've already done enough statistical analysis to give you what is the suggested amount that should be given to the client. It's already there. However, you need to adjust, right? You need to adjust things. For example, you see that, for example, the zinc level is very, very high for the patient. So you're for the client, right? And interseason and you ask, have you been taking lots of zinc lozenges? And yeah, it's artificially elevated and you'll see the copper dropping, right? So you could see that the system knows, there are counterbalances to things. If you take too much, say the copper will drop, that's just the way you will get balanced by through evolution, right? And so after that, then the way, so you come to me, the reason why it's nice is because it lends itself to telemedicine, right? Or telehealth practice, because you never have to see your client or you never have to see your patient because you cannot say, hello, how are you, molecule? How are you feeling today? You can't do that. You have to look at the values of the molecules themselves, what are the levels? Like you're gonna say, hello, B-12, what's your status today? You can't, but for most clients, so essentially you take a look and you essentially do a protocol for them, right? Which ones are to be taken before meals, as soon as they will wake up, before they take a meal, while they're eating, especially those who have taken too many proton pump inhibitors like nexium and so on, where you're giving them like a beta-in hydrochloride acid to acidify their cell marks, you know? And also, so there's a protocol that goes on and then things that you take after a meal, right? And then things that you take before bedtime. So because hormones follow diurnal level, there's a certain pattern to all of these things. Of course, if you take alphalipoic acid before meals, your blood sugar will go down, right? And you will feel busy because it's a hypoglycemic agent. So you should, you know, that's why I started this whole Health of Physician Medicine and Practice in order to be able to teach this. The clinical practice is very simple. You measure the metabolites, right? And you know that they are in a network. If you touch one metabolite or you touch one hormone, the other hormone will respond. That's why I don't like it. Oh, you should replace your testosterone without replacing all the other things that you need to replace, right? It's a bad practice because they're all in a network. And as you know, my life is about networks. So you move the, you give them, I usually give them supplements for the first 90 days because even if they say, well, Dr. Ted, I'm gonna eat properly, I promise, and blah, blah, blah. And you ask them, okay, what foods are high in co-enzyme Q10? And they don't know, okay. What foods are high in alphalipoic acid? They don't know, right? So for the first 90 days, just to catch up with the deficiencies, I tell them, look, you didn't get to these deficiencies overnight. This occurred over time with your habits, with your lifestyle and with everything else. This is what it's showing. Let's catch up as fast as possible. So, Ed, improvement can come anywhere within two weeks. Like if you're doing hormone therapy or three to nine months, if you're doing nutrient therapy, and you're a measure whether or not you're actually addressing all the things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, cause you gain, even after, because you're taking, again, cause there's so many sensors right on this jet now that we're getting the frequent readouts of improvements. Yeah.