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The Future of Personalized Lab Testing, Diets & Supplements w/ Viome's Naveen Jain #436

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Do You Have a Parasitic Infection?

In a biome test, are you going to find any parasites or any of that stuff? We look at every single organism that is active and alive. If it is dead, we don't see it. And the reason is most of the other tests that you do, they're looking at DNA of the organism. That means all the dead stuff. So if you eat food, but it's a plant food or meat, there's a lot of DNA that comes from that food and it simply is passing through as dead. You know, that's funny because you remind me of doing viral testing years ago, blood, you know, to look for Epstein Barr and Lyme and all this kind of

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