What is Genetic Testing and Supplementation?- Interview with Dr. J. Dunn

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Get ready to hear the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the United States healthcare system with your host of the medical truth podcast, James Egidio.

James Egidio: 0:17

Did you know that your genes or genetics has an influence not only on your overall health and wellness, but also on your overall mood and behavior? My guest has over 25 years experience as a chiropractor and kinesiologists, and is an expert on genetic supplementation with her company. MyHappyGenes.Com. It is an honor and a pleasure to have on the medical truth podcast. My guest, Dr. J. Dunn Dr. J welcome to the medical truth podcast. How are you doing today?

Dr. Dunn: 0:49

Good, good. Thank you so much for inviting me, James. I appreciate it.

James Egidio: 0:53

Yeah, thanks. So I just wanted to get into who you are. For the listeners and viewers of the medical truth podcast and what you do and what is the happy genes or my happy genes?

Dr. Dunn: 1:04

thank you. I appreciate the question. My happy genes is it’s a DNA testing or genetic testing platform and We have a software I developed a software algorithm that analyzes the genetics and looks at diet and lifestyle and supplementation around genetics. But the my happy part of it came from my own experience of looking for answers for my own depression for 50 some years and not finding it. I tried a lot of things. I’m a natural healthcare provider and. When I started to look into genetics, I’ve figured out why it’s because my brain can’t make certain neurotransmitters. And once I figure out how to crack the code, basically biohack my genes my brain turned on and I experienced happiness for the first time. In my life, and it was stunning to me. So I knew I had to bring it to the world. So that’s that’s briefly where I got my happy genes from.

James Egidio: 2:00

Yeah. Yeah. And before we get into going in a little bit deeper into that, just a little bit about your background with what you do as far as your occupation and your training and all that.

Dr. Dunn: 2:11

Yeah. So I’m a chiropractic physician, public health. I’ve been, I was practicing in New Mexico for about 32 years and was trained before that as a kinesiologist. I use muscle testing in my practice also studied functional medicine and kind of self taught when it comes to genetics and biochemistry, very passionate about that. And it’s funny because when I took chemistry early on before I became a chiropractor, I failed it twice. But now it’s something I’m very passionate about because I understand it now. Yeah.

James Egidio: 2:43

Was that general chemistry or organic?

Dr. Dunn: 2:46

General, early on when I was going to college and not really paying attention to my studies very much, but.

James Egidio: 2:52

Yeah I’ve been there, believe me. I had to repeat organic.

Dr. Dunn: 2:57

Oh, organic is tough.

James Egidio: 2:59

It is. But so you also do naturopathic type of modalities as well. So a little bit about that as well.

Dr. Dunn: 3:08

Yeah. So in my practice, it was well rounded at your holistic basically. So we would do nutrition, emotional work, chiropractic, whatever was needed for that patient. We looked at the whole body and whatever that patient needed or whatever was going to work best for that patient. Yeah, the whole spectrum.

James Egidio: 3:27

Sure. Sure. So getting back to my happy genes now, how exactly does that work? Cause you talked about, genes influencing certain things. And we’ll get into that a little bit later into the interview with addiction how the, the genetic genes relate to addiction. Okay, I’m a patient. I come in. I see you. How do you implement my happy genes? How does that work?

Dr. Dunn: 3:51

We do a DNA test. So we have our own little, swab. So we would do a cheek swab, right? Send them into a lab. And very passionate about privacy because there are a lot of genetic testing companies that aren’t protecting your privacy and they’re sharing your genetic data, which is not a cool thing. But It’s all very very encrypted and private when it goes to the lab, they don’t even know who you are. There’s no name on it, nothing. And so that information comes back, that raw data that is 675, 000 snips or pieces of genetic information. And then we process that through our software algorithm and spits out a report. And so when we look at your genes, we’re looking at variations from normal. And so your parents, you get one gene from mom and one gene from dad, and that’s your code. That’s your blueprint. Basically, it tells your body how to do certain things. And if you have a change from the normal code in the DNA, it’ll change how your body functions. And so that can lead to imbalances. So we look at, what did you inherit? What are its effects on your biochemistry? Let’s say for instance, let me give you a, for instance, so you can make sense of this. If your parents gave you the wrong code to make the lactase in your body, you’re going to be lactose intolerant, right? It’s just slow down your ability to make that enzyme and then therefore digest lactose, which is the milk sugar. So it could make you lactose intolerant. If one parent gave you the wrong code for that, making that enzyme, that’s what we call heterozygous. And if both parents gave you that a wrong code, that’s what we call homozygous, right? If both parents gave you the wrong code, it’s about 70% reduced in its ability to function correctly. And so we really look at the body in that context of how, what genes did you inherit? How well do you detox? How well do you make neurotransmitters? How well do you make methyl groups? How well do you break down histamine? Energy production, all the things that happen at the cellular level are affected by your genetics. And so that’s the kind of the way we look at that.

James Egidio: 5:59

So you get back basically a report from this testing lab and then you’re able to decipher based on that report. What, where these deficiencies are through your genes.

Dr. Dunn: 6:11

Yeah, exactly. So we can spot where, let’s say you inherited the genetic, what I call the warrior gene. It’s an interesting inheritance and it keeps your brain from breaking down serotonin correctly, which can make you like irritable and grouchy. And it’s, that’s the kind of,

James Egidio: 6:27

that’s me.

Dr. Dunn: 6:29

And usually your ancestors were, way back when were the ones who won the wars and passed on their genes. Yeah. If you look at Genghis Khan most of the people in Mongolia are related to Genghis Khan because he was spreading it around, but, and that’s the warrior gene. And sure.

James Egidio: 6:45

I could use that as an excuse when I have a disagreement with my wife.

Dr. Dunn: 6:51

I have one of my, I have the MAO too. Cause my great grandfather was William the Conqueror. And so he was not a nice person. So I have a patient who made me a shirt that says I have an MAO and I’m not afraid to use it. But it can influence your brain chemistry. Sure. Cause people don’t realize that it could be genetic. It’s not that you’re a grouchy person. On purpose, but your physiology is making you grouchy. And it’s a different way to think about things.

James Egidio: 7:20

You know what I’m thinking right now. I’m using this as it’s a perfect excuse.

Dr. Dunn: 7:25

And it’s funny you should say that because there, there was a case where there was a more lenient sentence. a man was convicted of a violent crime because he had the MAO gene. That was one of their defenses. So it’s interesting.

James Egidio: 7:38

Like the Twinkie defense.

Dr. Dunn: 7:40

Oh yeah, that’s a good one. So what are some other genetic

James Egidio: 7:44

deficiencies you’ve encountered through these genetic tests.

Dr. Dunn: 7:47

Let me give you my own story because that’s where I the light bulb went on. And I had suffered, like I said, I suffered from depression for most of my life and and I tried everything, to try to fix that. And then another piece of the puzzle where I went, this has to be genetics is my dad died of lung cancer when he was 55 and I was 20 years old. Not a big mystery. He was a big smoker drinker, never, nothing healthy in his life. He really. I tried to get cancer and it worked, but the mystery was his best friend married my mother after my dad died. He was doing the same things and he lived another 30 years, smoking, drinking, doing all the bad habits that my dad did. And so I went, we just go, ah, that’s genetics, right? You just go, yeah, that’s genetics. We didn’t know, we just parked that over on the side going, ah, we can’t explain that. It’s just genetics, but now we know. After the genome project was finished in 2006 a lot of research started to happen. So it’s not that old. It’s a fairly new science in, in many cases. And then, and so I started to look at this and I was like, jeez, I wonder if this is where I’m missing. Several of my patients were not responding to anything I did too. And so I’m like, I know we’re missing a piece of this puzzle. But I started to look, I got my genes tested and then ran it through a software algorithm at the time. It was pretty very anemic and it only showed me about 30 genes. In contrast, we do about 575 genes now, but it showed me about 30 genes. And one of them that stood out was the vitamin D receptor. And so I had a homozygous variant there in the VDR. And so I started to go, what is the VDR? How does it work? And so I, I Googled it like VDR. And one of the first studies I found said you have a high incidence of lung cancer when you smoke, if you have that genetic variant, and I went. Oh, there’s my dad. And then I started to look at how does it function? What does it do? And it upregulates the brain’s ability to make serotonin and dopamine. And I went, wow, I wonder if that’s why I’m depressed. I, my brain can’t make those neurotransmitters correctly. And so is it like, Oh, sucks to be you, or is there something we can do? Oh, I started to look at how do we biohack that? How do we work around that? Sure. And so I found what are called the cofactors. So every enzyme in our body requires certain cofactors or coenzymes, to regulate them. And in this case, there were a couple of vitamins that that are necessary for that receptor to work correctly. Despite the genetic variant. So I thought I’m going to try this. And so I started taking the cofactors and then boom, my brain turned on and I went, Whoa, this is crazy. This is, I think this is happy. And I’d heard about it, but I had never really felt it. And I was stunned. I was like, wow, 50 some years of looking for the answer. And here it was in my genes. And then I started to use it on my patients and like left and right. People were getting. better and they’d come in. One of the first things they’d say was, I just feel content for the first time in my life. I’m not anxious. I’m not depressed. I’m not, spazzing out. I just feel content. And it’s wow, that’s so interesting. And then their stories went away. Like my story went away. It was like. I used to think it was because my dad was mean or, I’d been through this trauma. That’s why I’m depressed. But then I realized it wasn’t it at all. We all have stories of like things that could be making us mad or sad or anxious or whatever. And and they’re often stories that we make up because we are. Depressed or right? You know what I’m saying? It’s sure.

James Egidio: 11:47

What are some of the supplements that you used, that made the difference for the depression. Let’s say,

Dr. Dunn: 11:53

Oh, for me, it was vitamin K two and Oh, yeah. And then my body could absorb D So it’s imagine this. So here’s a receptor, the vitamin D receptor D is trying to get in there and it can’t, right? And then when I take the K two and A boom, it opens up and D can get in, right? And then that affects a bunch of other genes that actually let your brain make neurotransmitters correctly. So it was like boom, turned it on. And that was that’s just one of’em. And the one that I mentioned, the MAO, that one’s a B six dependent enzyme. There’s the GAD, which can cause anxiety, and that’s a selenium dependent enzyme. So it’s very specific, very targeted nutrition for your genes. And it’s never like one gene, one supplement. We look at the pathway, we just fired up the pathway. I caution people not to go out and get K2 and A. And D, unless you know what you’re doing, because you’re going to turn on a certain neurotransmitters and if you can’t break them down, you’re going to send yourself into from depression into anxiety.

James Egidio: 12:55

sure, So my other question, because as you’re mentioning all this, I’m thinking, okay, a lot of times nutrition as well. Dietary intake of these things, because, the western diet is so horrible, with a lot of packaged foods and processed foods. And, I’ll go to a grocery store. I’ll see a lot of people just load up on a lot of these frozen foods, these things you could just throw in a microwave or whatever, very rarely see too many people that will. Eat fresh, soups salads and raw vegetables and things like that. Is this in combination with these supplements, a good dietary intake? And if so, are these deficiencies picked up through the My Happy Genes test? No,

Dr. Dunn: 13:36

they’re not. That would be through blood work, because your genes aren’t going to change. So it’s not that kind of thing. But here’s the interesting thing, James, it’s what your genes are going to determine what foods are best for you to, there are certain genes that’ll tell you, don’t do caffeine or don’t do alcohol or don’t do lactose or don’t do gluten. They’re nightshades. There are different genes that are going to. Kind of determine what is your best diet, even things like turmeric, which a lot of people take because it’s anti inflammatory. And, I hear a lot of practitioners saying everybody should take turmeric and it’s not true, especially for you with the MAO gene variant, you’re going to shut it down. It’s going to make you more irritable. It’s contraindicated for you. So that’s the way we look at it is, what’s your, what are your best foods? What’s your best combination of carbs, fats, and proteins according to your genetics? And it’s so individual. It’s just fascinating to see the variations across the board. Some people are do really good on like a high protein, low carb. Others are going to do better on a higher complex carb, lower fat. It’s just so different for each person. Sure.

James Egidio: 14:44

So you can actually tailor a diet. An actual diet based on this, these genetic studies, then is what you’re saying.

Dr. Dunn: 14:51

Yes, absolutely.

James Egidio: 14:53

Yeah. Oh, that’s awesome.

Dr. Dunn: 14:54

Yeah. So the combination of the right diet for your genes and the right supplements for your genes. But then here’s the really interesting thing that happens when you get your biochemistry balanced, people eat better because now they have energy to go out. Like you say, buy fresh food and prepare it. If they’re, if they’re off balance and their mitochondria they’re their energy making centers of the cells aren’t working well and they’re tired at the end of the day, they’re going to reach for something fast and it makes it worse. To your point. Yeah. That’s, the standard American diet where it’s fast food and et cetera, when it’s fast, when you’re exhausted, that’s what you’re going to reach for not, then you’re going to take the time to go shopping and prepare. And that takes energy,

James Egidio: 15:39

yeah. Yeah. And this could work. It sounds like it could work into weight loss. And what I want to talk about is addiction and how this works with addiction as well. Yeah,

Dr. Dunn: 15:52

that’s one of my favorite topics.

James Egidio: 15:53

I know. And that’s what I want to get into genetic testing and neurotransmitters. So go ahead.

Dr. Dunn: 16:02

Yes. It’s huge. And I didn’t really know it was going to be. It was a surprise when I had a patient who her aunt brought her in because she was a meth addict. And she had left her two little girls at home on multiple occasions because she went off, to meth house and left them and they call their aunt up and say, mom’s been gone again. Can you come and get us? And so the aunt was one of my patients. So she brought her niece in and said, can you help the niece? Didn’t want to do this. This isn’t like a, a willpower issue. She loved her kids. But this drug is so powerful. And So I said, I don’t know, it was in the beginning phases of doing this work with the genetics. And I was like, I don’t know let’s see what happens. And I put her on a program, with, the methylation and the genetics. And she came back a week later and said, I don’t have any cravings for meth. And if you know anything about addictions, you go, that’s nice, we’ll see, because, they’ll say, oh, thanks to whatever, and, or I’m off of it, or I’m quitting, and then they’ll often, relapse, but so a year went by. And she got her kids back. She got a job. She got a house. Everything was going great. No cravings for meth as she was completely off of it. And then she stopped her supplements and she went right back to doing that. Oh, wow. And the aunt called me up and said, don’t let her run out of supplements. We’ll pay, and to keep her on it. And so we sent, we Sent her supplements and got her back on the program. She got off the meth again. I just saw her. She just got married and that’s been 12, 13 years ago. Oh, wow. Beautiful. She’s doing amazing. Yeah. And so that was the first time I saw it. The second time was with a cocaine addict. And again, I was like, maybe that was a fluke. I don’t know. Let’s try it again. And same thing, complete. He was, this was a guy who was like in and out of jail because he started doing cocaine, start stealing, got arrested, go through rehab, come out of jail, do the same thing again, over 20 years of it. And it just stopped. And he’s doing great. And that’s been 8, 10 years ago.

James Egidio: 18:15

Yeah. What kind of supplements do you see the deficiency with a person on let’s say methamphetamine or cocaine?

Dr. Dunn: 18:22

It isn’t okay. You have addictions. Take this. We look at what genetic variants do they have? And one of the biggest areas we look at is dopamine production, because that’s what they’re trying to do is get a dopamine hit with drugs, with alcohol, with gambling, with pornography, with. All addictions, even workaholism, is a little dopamine state. We’re looking for that dopamine hit the whole phone addiction thing. That’s dopamine. Every time ding goes off on your phone, you get a hit

James Egidio: 18:50

the reward center.

Dr. Dunn: 18:51

Yes. Yeah. And so we get the brain making more dopamine flood the brain with dopamine and suddenly they go, doesn’t, it doesn’t even appeal to me anymore. It’s weird. I don’t, I just don’t want it. And That’s cool. That’s just so cool. And I want to get involved in helping people with addictions because it’s so damaging to them, to their families, to their, their parents, kids, the whole thing. It’s just, it’s sad. And it’s so prevalent. So yeah.

James Egidio: 19:25

Yeah. So when you talk about dopamine and serotonin Again, with the supplements from a nutritional standpoint what do you suggest?

Dr. Dunn: 19:38

I suggest getting your genes tested. Because we look at, the interplay of this gene and this gene and this gene. So it’s a very unique a pattern that we see on each person. So it isn’t Oh, with addictions, take this it could be they need methylation. So they need the B complex, the methylated B complex to upregulate the production of dopamine. Or it could be that they need the vitamin D receptor stuff that we talked about. Cause that’s, it’s the brain making dopamine. It could be that they need, some gallbladder support so they can absorb the fatty vitamins, A, D Kicker, or, fats soluble. So it’s real. It’s very individual. It could be that they need support for mitochondria to just upregulate the activity of that enzyme. So it just depends on their unique genetic profile.

James Egidio: 20:24

So when you look at this report and you see these deficiencies, then you could say, okay, this is what, this is the combination of supplements that we have to use.

Dr. Dunn: 20:33

Yeah, the software does it for you.

James Egidio: 20:35

It does.

Dr. Dunn: 20:36

Yeah. So I knew a lot of practitioners would have a hard time, getting a degree in biochemistry and genetics to run this. And so the software will do it for you. It’ll calculate your symptoms. So you put in all your symptoms, like I have fatigue and I have, addiction to, cigarettes or, I have trouble sleeping or, there’s a whole list of symptoms that we ask. And then we can get an idea of, okay, you have this gene and you have that symptom. Here’s the supplement recommendation for that pathway to fire it up. It gets very specific.

James Egidio: 21:06

Yeah, I had a doctor on Dr. James Greenblatt. He’s a pediatric psychiatrist.

Dr. Dunn: 21:12

Yeah, I’m familiar with him. He’s awesome.

James Egidio: 21:13

Yeah, he is. And he I had him on because he devoted his career to doing research on magnesium deficiency in children. Yeah. And it’s amazing because I, I said, prior to the interview on the podcast I was using some magnesium for better sleep because melatonin. doesn’t really work

Dr. Dunn: 21:35

Yeah, if you have the MAO gene the warrior gene It’s contraindicated because that’s melatonin is broken down by the MAO.

James Egidio: 21:43

Oh it Is that why it didn’t work? You think

Dr. Dunn: 21:45

likely? Yeah,

James Egidio: 21:46

really. So what does MAO gene for someone like me with the warrior gene that I’m wearing proudly now?

Dr. Dunn: 21:56

That’s usually a B6 dependent enzyme. So paradoxical five phosphate is

James Egidio: 22:01

B6 would work.

Dr. Dunn: 22:02

Yeah, phosphorylated, if you can get it, the yeah, the box of high phosphate and

James Egidio: 22:07

what does that do? Does it calm you down?

Dr. Dunn: 22:08

Huh. Yeah, it does. When if I don’t take my supplements correctly, I can get pretty grouchy. And it’s wow, with you and I catch myself and I go, Oh, yeah, I gotta get my B6 going again. I’m starting to say

James Egidio: 22:22

yeah, because I’m not on any medication. Personally, I’m I take a lot of supplements. I’ll take like a bromelain, a multivitamin, 2,000 milligrams of Vitamin C. Let’s see, I’ve been doing since I’m 16 years old. Of what vitamin C. Okay. Yeah. And I take most, if not all my supplements in a capsule form because the bioavailability of the supplement is much better than tablet

Dr. Dunn: 22:49

I just caution you on the multivitamin.

James Egidio: 22:52

Yeah, tell me,

Dr. Dunn: 22:53

it seems pretty innocuous, but it’s not going to be correct for your genes. And so it could upregulate certain pathways that are detrimental and then, and then not regulate enough of the ones that you need. So to get a multivitamin to really fit your genetics. It’s one in a million. So that’s why we, that’s why this, the supplements that are recommended by the genetic program are piecemeal. They’re like, Oh, you need B6, but you don’t need B12. You need selenium, but you don’t need zinc. You know what I mean? It’s it’s going to be dialed into exactly your biochemistry. And it’s when you do that, it’s stunning. What I What happens, how we correct these deficiencies that we’ve inherited or the tendency toward a deficiency and then, and balance the body through understanding. The exact right targeted nutrition for you. The multiple is gonna be, all over the place.

James Egidio: 23:49

What is methylation? Could you mention that?

Dr. Dunn: 23:53

Good question, yeah. That was what led me down this path of trying to understand the missing piece in, in, in natural health. I kept methylation. What is that? And did a deep dive into trying to understand that. A methyl group is a carbon and three hydrogen molecules. That’s, that’s the chemical formula, but what it does is amazing. It’s the way we, it’s that methyl group goes all around the body and it upregulates certain processes in the body. One of the very important processes that it upregulates is DNA repair. So if the methyl group is made from. Activated B12 and activated folic acid and those combined to make that carbon and three hydrogen molecules. And so if you can’t, if you can’t activate B12 or if it can’t activate folic acid, and many people know about the MTHFR gene, there’s a lot of information about that and a lot of publicity about the mother flipper. Gene.

James Egidio: 25:00

What’s that? The mother flipper gene.

Dr. Dunn: 25:02

It’s the methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase enzyme. And what it does is upregulate folic acid to a methylfolate, as a methyl group onto the folic acid to activate it. So methylfolate is the active form of folic acid. And then the B12 is activated into methylcobalamin. And again that, those two pathways, the B12 and the folic acid pathway is how we generate methyl groups in the body. And those methyl groups go and repair RNA, DNA. They make creatine, which is like the main fuel for muscle and brain function. They keep a gene from being expressed. And this is the really cool piece of it. So let’s say you have maybe a BRCA gene or a gene that could cause cancer or heart disease or something in your, what’s coming down the line right from your family history. Sure. It turns off, it like puts a protective coating over the gene and keeps it from being expressed. Maybe you’ve heard the term genes load the gun and environment pulls the trigger. It keeps the environment from pulling the trigger on the gene. You can have a gene, but if it doesn’t get turned on and express cancer or heart disease or whatever’s coming down the line, then it can’t harm you, methyl, if you’re not methylated correctly, then your genes are susceptible to environmental damage and they can be turned on. And the other thing that methyl groups do is upregulate certain pathways, biochemical pathways. They, Turn on certain genes that help you detox adrenaline, let’s say, or detox or break down histamine. So if you’re, if you don’t methylate correctly, one of the major symptoms would be allergies, high histamine levels are one of the classic indicators that you’re a low methylator. And so you might need supplementation with full methylfolate or methyl B12.

James Egidio: 26:55

Yeah. That must be expressed a lot with patients that you see that have been vaccinated.

Dr. Dunn: 27:01

Yeah. It’s very true. That is exactly right. And there’s a real high correlation with people that have methylation genetic variants and damage from vaccines because they can’t get rid of, they can’t turn on their detoxification pathways correctly. And some of the excipients and heavy metals that are in vaccines can build up and create damage to the neurons. And there’s, I know, controversial studies out there, but there are quite a few of them. I wouldn’t personally call them controversial because, I’ve seen that happen with people. And I’ve also been able to turn off, the autism that has happened after a vaccine just by methylating a patient.

James Egidio: 27:39

Yeah. And yeah, the MMR to be specific to, I interviewed Dr. Paul Thomas out of Oregon and he did a research study on that where he was crunching some numbers on patients that were coming in that were who received the vaccine, the MMR, and he separated the exam room into patients that were vaccinated versus unvaccinated and accumulated a lot of data with a numbers cruncher friend of his, who was a neonatologist. And what he found was that there were a lot of Illnesses, pediatric illnesses due to the vaccine, the MMR, but also autism that was linked to autism. So when he presented this data to the CDC and to the Oregon Board of Medicine, they took his license away.

Dr. Dunn: 28:25

That is just so wrong. Yeah. Yeah.

James Egidio: 28:29

Yeah. And he’s got over 1.5 million followers on YouTube, but there’s a lot of damage. So that stuff does get expressed through these gene this gene test.

Dr. Dunn: 28:41

Yes. Yeah. So that’s, those are areas we look at real closely is how well are you methylating? And if you’re not methylated correctly, then, we, I’m just not a fan of vaccines and I know you aren’t either.

James Egidio: 28:54

No.

Dr. Dunn: 28:55

So people are forced into it, and it’s unfortunate but I’ll say, you’re going to have to load up on methyl groups. You’re going to have to start a detox program. There’s, you’re gonna have to prepare for this cause it’s your potential for damage with you is pretty high. Yeah. Yeah, you

James Egidio: 29:09

must be seeing a lot of inflammation too, right? Being exposed to this.

Dr. Dunn: 29:12

Yeah, one of my patients was completely paralyzed from the COVID vaccine. I’ve seen a lot of damage from the COVID vaccine on patients, and it’s just heartbreaking to me.

James Egidio: 29:24

Yeah. Yeah, I personally know eight people that passed away suddenly from the vaccine. Yeah, just. And still counting. But what I did is I have. displayed the website where they can find myhappygenes.com, right? That’s the website. They can order the test directly from the website.

Dr. Dunn: 29:45

Yes, they can. One, one caveat, they, they can get the mood and personality and the diet report, but the supplementation has to be done through a healthcare practitioner who’s familiar with it. Because let’s say somebody was on an antidepressant and we start upregulating their production of serotonin. And dopamine, they’re going to go too high. So we wanted to make sure that they were under the care of a physician when they do supplementation, because it’s very powerful, it’s very powerful medicine when we start targeting exactly what we need to give them, even though it seems like they’re just vitamins, it’s no, this is like how we, regulate your body. And if you’re already, if let’s say you’re on an SSRI, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, and we start making more serotonin, we could send you into a bad place. And so we want to make sure that there’s cautions there, or you’re on a blood thinner and we start giving you K, which is a, a blood thickener that wouldn’t be good either. So we want to make sure that. There’s caution around what you’re doing and somebody watching you, so the other three, we have five reports. The first two you can get as a consumer. The other three only available through a licensed health care provider, but we have a list of them on our site. If you’re interested, or if you have. Your own practitioner and you want them to look at the report and just, make sure you’re okay on the supplements. That’s fine too.

James Egidio: 31:06

What’s the cost of the test?

Dr. Dunn: 31:08

The DNA test is$295. That includes the first report, the mood and personality, and it gives you all the genes, the$570,$576 last count. Genes and all the studies, every everything I say on there, I back up with a medical study. So it’s all scientifically very sound. So you get, so$295, you get the two tests$250 for the other three tests. Through the practitioner, that’ll give you the supplementation. It’ll give you, your medical information whether you’re susceptible to cardiovascular disease or Alzheimer’s or autoimmune disorders or COVID or all of the medical conditions that could be creeping up on you and your genes

James Egidio: 31:53

what’s the difference between this particular test and something that you would order from, let’s say, 23 and me

Dr. Dunn: 31:59

23 and me, they don’t look at the so much of the medical kind of genes that we’re looking at. They’re looking at ancestry. That was the whole point of 23andMe and Ancestry. They only test for about 15,000 genes and we’re testing for 675,000. So that’s why the price difference. And then of course we include the heavy duty report that you get with it. But yeah it’s not going to look, 23andMe, through our algorithm, and it only showed us about half the genes that we were interested in looking at, and half of the biochemical pathways that we’re interested in balancing.

James Egidio: 32:39

More or less, it was an impartial report, really.

Dr. Dunn: 32:42

Yeah, it was an incomplete incomplete picture of what was going on in the, in your biochemistry. That’s why, and they share your data, you, the privacy is foregone when you do 23andMe and Ancestry. They have sold. A lot of their information in medical and pharmaceutical companies.

James Egidio: 32:59

Yeah, for the quantum tattoo that they’re about to inject in everyone.

Dr. Dunn: 33:04

So that’s why, that’s why we wanted to do our own lab. And we, the only thing that goes to the lab is that barcode. I don’t know if you can see it. I do. They don’t have your name. They have no information about you whatsoever. And then they destroy your sample after 90 days. So we, I was very passionate about this piece of it. Cause we, that was the complaint from a lot of people was like, yeah, I don’t, I’m not going to do that. I don’t want to get in my data, whether you’re paranoid or not something, it’s just a good idea not to do that.

James Egidio: 33:32

Absolutely. Absolutely. And again, the website is myhappygenes.Com. That’s MyHappyGenes. com. Yeah. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of the Medical Truth Podcast, Dr. Dunn.

Dr. Dunn: 33:49

Appreciate it. My pleasure. Thanks for inviting me, James. I really appreciate what you’re doing.

James Egidio: 33:53

Absolutely. Thanks.

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