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All right, let's discuss homocysteine. It's a test we do on all of our annual physical panels. I think it's a pretty important test. Everybody ought to have it done at least once a year. If you've got issues with it more often than that. To keep an eye on it, I'm going to go through and explain why we test it, what it is, why it matters, what the normal range is, and what we do about it when it's out of range. So you're going to kind of get an all encompassing little primer on homocysteine right here. Whether you've gotten it from one of your other doctors or whether you have a test from me and you don't remember our discussion about it when we went over it, this will be a good way for you to either revisit that or look at what you've gotten from your other doctor and interpret it on your own.

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Alright, so what is homocysteine? First of all, H-O-M-O-C-Y-S-T-E-I-N-E homocysteine. It is what we call an intermediate product in a pathway that pro...

I had a patient mention to me, she had spoken to her family doctor about doing the cleanse. And, her doctor told her, "That's ridiculous. We have a liver and some kidneys and their job is to detoxify us, and you don't need to take a bunch of pills for them to do their job. It's what they do."

I've heard that before. It's a common discussion that happens. Generally... I have a truck that's designed to drive around and get me to work and back, but if I don't put gas in it, it can't do that. If I don't have oil in it, if it doesn't have transmission fluid or coolant in it, if the battery's not charged. There are a lot of things that need to be in place for that vehicle to do its job the way it was intended.

So, our liver and our kidneys are not all that different. They need certain nutrients, they need certain processes to work the way they're supposed to and to be supplied with lots of things.

Now, if we don't have, like magnesium, for example. Magnesium binds to certai...