The Center for Disease Control reports
nearly 10 percent of Americans of all ages
are in fair or poor health.
And children aren't immune either.The CDC also
reports that one in five youths between six and nineteen
suffer from high cholesterol.
With us today is Doctor Charles Stout of Diagnostic Reference
Group and Laboratory to help us qualify, quantify and clarify
what ails us.
Good morning Doctor!
Good morning, thank you for having me.
Thanks for being here.
So let's, let's just start with this question.
What are we doing wrong?
Well, we're overmedicating ourselves.
There's over 20 million people who are on prescription antacids
and another 60 million self medicate every month.
That's 80 million people taking pills for
symptoms when the vast majority of them don't need it.
We're in for an instant gratification and
unfortunately that's not helping.
What about the internet?
I see a lot of people, and I'm guilty right here, You
know I'm feeling something, I've got a symptom, I look it up and
I know knowledge is power, but sometimes, you here people say
don't do that!
Don't even look at that because it's just steer
you in the wrong direction.
And what do I do?
I see my symptoms, I run to the doctor and hence..
Ah yes and that's the problem.
You're doing more harm than good, because you're only going
in with half the information.
People are trying to match their symptoms, up against a disease,
and not all diseases impact everybody the same way.
Even if you find one, you don't know
specifically what's going wrong in your body that's why you need
to be tested.
Because what one person has, may not effect you
the same way.
Absolutely not all diseases have classic symptoms
to them.
So how do you know what's causing it and what, what
are you doing to help us find out more about that underlying
cause.
Well we've developed a state of the art molecular based
test.
Okay.
This test is the GPP Okay.
Gastrointestinal Pathogens Plus and what it looks for is
the bacteria, parasites, and fungi that could be the
predominant cause of the patient's problem.
What we do that's different than anybody
else is we quantify the actual results, mean like we sit here
in the studio and you have these lights on, when they leave at
night they say, hey is the lights on in the studio?
And you say um well, yes and you come
back in it's a nightlight.
You didn't worry about that, you
were concerned with the big ones.
So when you provide doctor quantification, actual numbers,
now they get a better picture, we also include the digestive
health markers, they're important cause it tells the
doctor, whether the patient's immune system is working
properly, or whether it's thrown in the towel and said, I give up
and we have our Aha moment and that is Q-par that stands for
Quantitative Phenotypic Antibiotic Resistance.
That's a mouthful.
Mouthful!
And bring it now to break it down for me in
simple words.
What it does is, it's the numbers on specifically
what's going on in your body, plus it's your specific drug
resistance.
Ahhh.
That's really critical.
That's huge because then you know exactly,
Right.
Here's the problem if you have a bacterial infection
and the doctor wants to use drug A, if they don't know whether or
not your resistant to that drug, then when they give it to you,
it's going to cause a super bug because bacteria will share
information.
Just like all of us want to stay alive, the bacteria
do to and they figure out ways to fight off and survive
antibiotics.
So it's very, very important to know what your
specific antibiotic resistance is, before the doctor gives you
that drug.
Cause, let's be honest every DNA makeup is so
different, right?
Correct!
Now how is this test?
Is it a blood test?
No, it's actually a stool test.
Oh!
That you can do in the convenience and security of your
home and we need a specimen about the size of hershey's
kiss.
And you mentioned the digestive system and I know
there's a huge relation between, that and our overall health.
Give me some more information as to why they go hand in hand.
That's why we got into this business, my wife used to come
from work, curl up in a ball on the floor or on the bed with a
knot in her stomach and we went searching for a means of finding
out what was the cause.
The root cause, because you understand,
you're entire health is dependent on the health of your
digestive system.
If it's functioning properly -
Everything else!
You will function properly.
If it isn't, then it has to get rid of all these
toxins and it starts effecting other organs in your body, all
the way up to a lot of your skin conditions, eczema, psoriasis,
dermatitis, these are the bodies way of putting forth symptoms
and saying hey guys, there's a problem in the digestive system
something you ate or are continuing to eat is causing a
problem.
Ok so here's the million dollar question.
Why don't doctors know about this
test?
Or why aren't patients getting this test so they can
hone in on what the exact problem is and the cause!
The problem is the majority of the
physicians that are treating gastrointestinal issues or
gastros, average age is over 60 when they were going through med
school they didn't have the molecular testing available to
be taught on back then, even to the point where they were
taught, jeez ulcers are caused by spicy food and stress and we
know today that they are not.
That's the bacterium and that's what we first mention when I
said 20 million wrong prescription antacids, it's that
bacteria going active in your system that's the problem.
So we go back to the internet and
sometimes knowing too much may not help but in this scenario,
knowledge is power because if a patent knows of this test they
can go into the office see their doctor and say what?
Doc, I need you to go to DRG lab dot com and
order a gastrointestinal pathogens plus panel for me so
that we can find out specifically what I got going on
in my body and what will or will not work that you want to
prescribe so that I can get to where I wanna be and that's
healthy again.
And if patients do that more and more doctor We
will have a healthier society a happier society and will won't
be spending a half a trillion dollars a year on pills.
Thank you so much for you time, thank
for you for all the information.
You're welcome.
If you wanna find out more about this you can
go to DRG testing by visiting their Web site at DRG lab dot
com.
That's DRG lab dot com and of course you can also recap
this segment, go to our website The Balancing Act dot com.
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