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🧬 Most people think antioxidants come from food—but your body is supposed to make its own.

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If you're exhausted, fatigued, or having things you just can't explain, don't start up here with prescriptions. You can do whatever you want, obviously, but um consider getting a vitamin panel first. We do this interesting intracellular testing that's incredibly accurate. It's called a CMA with a

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redux. It looks at 100 different vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and antioxidants. It does not miss. I get people all day long wanting to pay me to to get that test on them and review. It helps with mood, helps with pain, helps

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with a lot of different things. It's just natural. Taking vitamins. I'm right now I'm 45 vitamins a day. It's really yucky, but I'm n 8 and 1/2 weeks into this or eight plus weeks into this new iteration of my deficiencies. So, I'm

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really feeling really good. I feel really great now. I'm not having to take three naps a day and I'm not exhausted all the time. I'm working out. I'm back doing my push-ups and now I'm walking three or four miles every day or night. I need to do more. I'm going to go up as I've retrained, reconditioned. But try

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and I'm 65. Try getting that vitamin panel if nothing else. You can see me or for less you can see Justice who's my son-in-law who's a top paramedic for Arm City Fire Department. He's really good at what he does. He's really good at this stuff, too. So you got me or

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Justice and Justice has worked for me for about 10 years. So he knows the whole process. So we're here. We want to help you and we want to get you better. And we're not looking for long term. We're looking to get you better, show you the error in your body's ways

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because most of those deficiencies are genetic, meaning your genes cause them, not your diet or anything like that because you see the same ones in families over and over. And so I'm almost at well I'm pretty sure they're genetic. I'm 99% sure. So you need to

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need to get that vitamin p. It's super easy. The next thing you'll complain about is the cost of the vitamins for 100 days. You got to take a lot of vitamins and maybe some I'll put you on maintenance for the next year or two. So you don't have to ever come back and see me. That's my goal. So how do you think

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I could get all those fivestar Google reviews? We're really good at what we do and we're kind. We're helpful. We're ready. We're playing we will we will get you better. So this is Dr. Dan Perer.

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