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  4. We’ve run a diagnostics CAR hack on a patient with clinically diagnosed HPD and found a zero minute value of 15 and a blunted peak of only 29 and I’m at 30 minutes. When doing these hack tests, do you observe the value for the waking reading only relative to the reference range or use a functional range or solely observe the percent increase?

We’ve run a diagnostics CAR hack on a patient with clinically diagnosed HPD and found a zero minute value of 15 and a blunted peak of only 29 and I’m at 30 minutes. When doing these hack tests, do you observe the value for the waking reading only relative to the reference range or use a functional range or solely observe the percent increase?

Chris Kresser: We only observe the percent increase, that’s how the CAR is measured. Because all of these labs use different values and different ranges, I think it’s really hard to use the range. But with that low of an increase I would suspect that the morning level is low also. I’d be curious what the lab showed in terms of that first reading. I know the report is going to be all thrown off, but that first morning reading, I’m curious whether it was below the range that the lab used for that particular value.

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