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RHR: Genomic Testing for Chronic Illness—with Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker
Category: Health
Duration: 00:44:05
Publish Date: 2016-05-05 14:00:15
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In this episode, we discuss: 6:30 What is genomic testing? 13:52 The problem with current testing methods 17:05 Why looking at one gene isn't enough 23:00 Should people be cautious of genomic testing? 29:39 The importance of microRNA 32:19 Will the Progene DX test be worth the cost? [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehealthyskeptic/RHR_Genomic_Testing_for_Chronic_Illness_with_Dr._Ritchie_Shoemaker.mp3" title="RHR: Genomic Testing for Chronic Illness with Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker" artist="Chris Kresser" social="true" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_gplus="true" ] Chris Kresser: I’m Chris Kresser and this is Revolution Health Radio. Hey, everybody, it’s Chris Kresser. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. I’m really excited to welcome Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker back on the show for the second time as my guest. Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker is a pioneer in understanding how low-dose biotoxin exposure, including toxic mold and algae, impacts our health and contributes to disease. He’s the author of eight books and multiple published academic papers. His latest book, Surviving Mold: Life in the Era of Dangerous Buildings, is a guide through diagnosis, treatment, remediation, and return to health. Dr. Shoemaker is currently retired, but continues to lecture throughout the US on chronic inflammatory illnesses that are caused by exposure to moldy buildings and other biotoxins. If you’ve been listening to my podcast for a while or following my email list, you’ll know that this is a topic of great interest to me both professionally as a clinician because we’re starting to treat a lot of patients with CIRS, or chronic inflammatory response syndrome, and also personally because I recently discovered a mold issue in our home, and my entire family, my wife and our daughter, were all affected by that. We’ve since, fortunately, gotten out of that house, and we’re in a new house now, and we’re well along the path of recovery from that. This is something that I’m really fascinated by, and it’s something we’re seeing a lot in our practice, so I wanted to ask Dr. Shoemaker to come back to particularly talk about some new genomic testing that is becoming available that quite dramatically improves our ability to diagnose this condition and get a lot more specific about how to treat it. So far, there have been some tantalizing developments in the world of genetic testing,
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