Alex Clark

And that's where some people start knowing like, all right, something's off.

And then they start going to a general practitioner.

Then they go to a specialist and they kind of get thrown into that rabbit hole.

Then you have stage three, which is the diagnosis of disease, which is tissue destruction.

And so that's when most people are like, I have an issue right now and I really need to get checked out.

And that's full-blown autoimmune.

And I used to not wanna call it a disease because I really think it's just a response.

But when I started saying that, here's what I found is that patients were like, well, if it's just a response, we turned it off, I can go back to my old lifestyle.

And I started saying, no, it's a disease so that you so they can train their brain of I need to start living a healthy lifestyle.

And that's my lifestyle forever.

It's not just like I get out of it.

Now I can go back to what I enjoy because my antibodies are down and things like that.

So I started playing the word game a little bit.

But that that's stage one, two and three autoimmune is is the stages of it.

And most people are a lot of people are walking around in stage one silent autoimmunity.

And I think it's really important to get tested for antibodies for sure.

Obviously, thyroid Hashimoto's being the most common.

You nominated me to be on a board for RFK.

I haven't heard back.

The girl who I talked to is always super kind.