Who Is Dr. Berg’s Doctor? Metabolomics Discussion

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welcome back everyone I have a very special guest today because I want to introduce you to something that I’m extremely interested in right now and this is a new topic I’ve never talked about it I’ve never done a video on it and so I want to slowly introduce you to this because this is going to be the wave of the future for medicine and this is called metabolomics okay metabolomics it’s not a madeup word it’s an actual thing it’s fairly new and I’m going to be interviewing my doctor who actually evaluated me and who in my family and U and he has he’s very credible he’s not just an MD but he has his PhD in metabolomics this is Dr chalas welcome do thank you very much for the introduction and the good words you’re from Greece and that’s we’re doing this remotely and so there’s not a a lot of doctors in America that are doing this right now but you’re you don’t personally do the evaluations anymore but you have a team of doctors that do this and so um I’m you actually train doctors on this but let’s first start out kind of telling people what is metabolomics okay metabolomics is the the suffix omix means the study of molecules with similar properties so when we apply that to genes we study it’s genomics when we study proteins is proteomics and when we study The small molecules that participate in the chemical reactions that Keep Us Alive it’s called metabolomics so metabolomics the the discipline the part the science that is part of medicine actually is the combination of biology and medicine that studies the small molecules that make all the human reaction like energy structures the cells the hormones um the metabolism of proteins of glucose of amino acids and so on so if someone someone were to go to the doctor and get a just a a regular blood test I guess CBC or some test and they would get certain information then we’ compare that to a metabolomic test um tell me some of the differences uh that between these two different tests actually the the usual test that are done by doctors um the the idea is to make a diagnosis of disease of malfunctioning of the body a pathology not something that goes away from normal function as a disease so whenever a value is out of range we say that we have a a condition that it’s a disease metabolomics studies various metabolic Pathways and we see dysfunctions even years before they become a disease so the basic difference is that not everything that is out of order metabolomics is a disease but could in the future could become a disease actually metabolomics give us the needs the the malfunction at the molecular level and um before even before they become a disease they manest as the disease so when I took biochemistry in college um of course no one understood it it was just like very complex but we have all these biochemical reactions involved with every single reaction you have various enzymes and it’s all this stuff deep inside your cells you’re able to visualize and maybe you can throw a picture up and you can kind of see what’s happening within the mitochondria the creb cycle and all these other um Pathways the biochemistry you’re actually see seeing that real time and in the different stages it’s like this biochemical Machinery we’re able to finally now see each step and which area has a blockage correct yes it’s completely correct I don’t know if you can see the humanum um the complete metabolic pathways in the human body so actually up until now there have been identified more than 880,000 small molecules that are produced within the human body and these uh molecules are called metabolites and they give us provide us information about how the body is functioning actually what is very interesting here is that uh the body needs more than 160 elements um uh like vitamins minerals amino acids fatty acids um even probiotics and um enzymes and so on which are necessary for the body to function normally in a healthy state so what actually we we need what is needed is to find out what is the correct uh the correct amount and proportion of this uh elements nutritional elements that are necessary for life um the difficult is that if we are going to measure those elements vitamins and so on in the in the blood which is the more accessible more easier way to do that is that the body is trying to maintain the levels of these nutrients stable so we cannot measure calcium in order to see if the person is deficient in calcium because as long as the body has calcium in the bones it’s going to take calcium from the bones and throw it in the blood and the same is for the other nutrients in the body so we cannot evaluate the lack of nutrients until it’s too late because uh there are conditions that we see that vitamins are low or that calcium is low or high and so on but all these are very late is when the body has reach a really um at the end of the of the road so it’s it’s very difficult then to to improve health and make a difference so so let me just pause I want to pause right there I want to let sink in because that just blew me away I mean let that sink in for a second by the time you you have a deficiency showing up in the blood many times like you have a severe deficiency not all the subclinical deficiencies and so people are walking around with oh yeah everything’s normal in your blood but the blood really is not the best place to evaluate the body because it’s constantly trying to keep things stable and uh so the bi metabolomics kind of now we’re able to because even like for example let’s just take zinc zinc is needed in hundreds of different or thousands a few thousands different Pathways right so if you’re going to do a metabolomic testing and you’re looking at several maybe not all of the pathways but maybe several of the pathways and they all show consistent low zinc because all these nutrients are co-actors to allow these steps to go from one to the another and so you could quickly see what’s really going on is that am I correct on that yes this correct zinc participates in more about 2,000 chemical reactions within the body and magnesium in about 300 reactions within the cells and another 35 out of the cells but actually if you want to see the real need or lack of magnesium or zinc in the body we don’t have to measure each of the 615 uh chemical reactions we just need to measure a few of them that function uh as markers for the lack or sufficiency of magnesium zinc or other uh nutrients so we measure exact those markers that give us the picture of the lack or of the sufficiency of nutrients actually what we want what we need is to find out what’s the ideal proportion and amount of this 160 plus nutritional elements that we have to provide to this person through diet and so through supplementation in order to get as close as possible to Optimal function this is just my blowing because um I mean here you have you the medic a medical doctor that’s using this incredible test to look at the big picture of what’s really going on and then to correlate the diet you put a lot of attention the diet and and you like there’s some several things I want to share with people of what you found on myself like I I I eat a pretty healthy diet but apparently there’s a couple things or several things I needed to focus on um one was my B3 was very low which is interesting because B3 nin is needed in um certain biochemical Pathways so you know because I do a tremendous amount of exercise and sometimes I border on overtraining you know yes I needed B3 more B3 I needed more vitamin C glutathione and um and also several other things but it was able to look at my you’re correlating my lifestyle my stress level with my foods and finding out what’s missing or you can even look at toxicity levels but I think this is like I wish just more doctors did this because I mean first of all you go to the docto