Make Health: Personal Genomics Hero Story

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Making Health: We All Have Hero Stories to Tell

PF Anderson, August 16, 2014

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What is a “hero story”?

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But our story starts here

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A Motivation (The ordinary world)

❖ Where does it hurt????

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… a misery of

symptoms❖ Cognitive losses!

❖ Fatigue!

❖ Pain !

❖ Hives!

❖ Digestive

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… a laundry list of diagnoses & hypotheses

❖ acne | allergies | amnesia | atrial fibrillation | bad hips | bad knees | balance disorder | brain cancer | depression | ear infections | geographic tongue | GERD/acid reflux | hearing loss | heart murmur | hypotension | idiopathic anaphylaxis | longterm carbon monoxide poisoning | meniere's disease | migraines | mild obesity | morton's neuroma | mouth sores | severe osteoporosis | ovarian cancer | pneumonia | prediabetic | rosacea | sciatica | severe chronic idiopathic anemia | sinus infections | skin infections | slow clotting | strep carrier | stress | ventricular tachycardia | vitamin & mineral deficiencies [Ca/D/Fe/Zn/Mg/E] | weight gain | weight loss!

❖ PLUS SURGERIES

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… and grocery bags of medicines

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A Call to adventure

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An Acceptance

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A Discovery (or two)

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The Quest has questions❖ What in blazes in MTHFR?

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Questions, part 2

❖ … and what does MTHFR deficiency do?

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Guides appear

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The Guides give the hero tools needed to complete the journey

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The Hero finds more tools …

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… and more …

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A Transformation (Crossing the threshold)

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Then Now

A Choice (The road back)

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A Mission (Return with the elixir)

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Contact

❖ PF Anderson !

❖ @pfanderson !

❖ http://pgenpt.wordpress.com/

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