In this episode of the PLUGS podcast, Drs. Mike Astion and Geoff Baird
discuss the massive testing panels associated with the belief that the environment
–through its many metals, biotoxins, microbes, and allergens—is a significant source of unresolved signs and symptoms. 

The time stamped highlights are listed below.

00: 00 Defining the quest for purity.

07:00 Are the providers true believers, or is this quackery?

14:00 Are the patients psychiatric or is this simply dissatisfaction with conventional care?

20:00 War on Aging: Are we in bondage to decay and death?

25:40 Heavy Metals: Germanium, Palladium, Thorium and beyond

33:00 PFAS: and the new war on Teflon

44:00 Consequences of the quest ---for patients, labs, and insurers--and how to mitigate them.

1:01:00 How can we help conventional providers cope with these orders and results?

1:06:00 Stories from the Quest: A person discovers double-blind testing, and a person turns blue.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the quest for purity and the types of testing associated with it.
• Describe the role of belief, experience and evidence in the large test panels
• associated with the quest for purity?
• Describe two negative consequences of the quest for purity and how a risk-
• based approach can mitigate these consequences?
• Explain one way clinical labs can help conventional providers with patients who
• are on the quest for purity?

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