Peter Attia· MD
we look at a lot of different biomarkers to assess what's going on in the gut is there adequate pancreatic enzyme function looking at pancreatic last days are their absorption issues looking at fecal fats are there inflammatory markers in there for example calprotectin aureus and of a protein X which are standard markers to look at inflammation in the gut what's your I G a levels or anybody levels and then we look at indicators of dysregulated gut microbiome such as short chain fatty acids which are essentially produced by good bacteria that are the fuel for the gut and have anti-cancer properties anti-inflammatory properties and those can be low like butyrate and we can see that then we look at sort of different microbiome characteristics using DNA or PCR analysis through the micro RNAs and that allows us to see for example if there's low lacquer Mencia which is a very important bacteria that regulates your biofilm the regulates immunity that's linked to autoimmune disease and cardiometabolic diseases cancer treatment therapy risk so we can modify those things and then we look at culture we look at other kinds of testing for parasites it's PCR testing