Ike: "Almost every thread of our research is in helping me write this book that is crushing my souly" He says he's had to become an expert on all the different contaminates that can interfere with the eliza based assays on hormons. I Ike, we had a patient a month ago who had an estradial level of 300. We checked it with multiple labs, and everybody kept getting the same stupid high number. It turned out that there's a gold standard way to measure this,. using liquid chromotography and mass speck.