Peter Attia· MD
this is a complicated area in in the diagnostic space in the u.s where there's really two kinds of ways tests can be regulated by the government such that they can be used on patients one is the one that's well known as fda approval which is of course an agency that focuses on develop on approving drugs and and diagnostic tests um and evaluates them carefully and then allows companies to give some approval to market them if if they pass all their the bar of what you need to show the second way is actually a much easier way to get assays out to patients and that is uh by setting up the assay in a lab that is compliant with what's called the clia act which is a basically an act of congress that focuses on regulating laboratories that do diagnostic tests that's independent of the fda