Presented at the inaugural We Make Health Fest, University of Michigan, August 16, 2014. This is a retelling of the story of the personal genomics study which lead to my diagnosis and resolution of decades long serious health issues.

1. We #MakeHealth Fest
Making Health:
We All Have
Hero Stories to Tell
PF Anderson, August 16, 2014
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2. What is a “hero story”?
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3. But our story
starts here
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4. A Motivation (The ordinary world)
❖ Where does it hurt????
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5. … a misery
of
symptoms
❖ Cognitive losses!
❖ Fatigue!
❖ Pain !
❖ Hives!
❖ Digestive
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6. … 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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7. … and grocery bags of medicines
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8. A Call to adventure
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9. An Acceptance
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10. A Discovery (or two)
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11. The Quest has questions
❖ What in blazes in MTHFR?
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12. Questions, part 2
❖ … and what does MTHFR deficiency do?
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13. Guides appear
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14. The Guides give the hero tools
needed to complete the journey
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15. The Hero finds more tools …
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16. … and more …
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17. A Transformation
(Crossing the threshold)
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Then Now

18. A Choice (The road back)
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19. A Mission (Return with the elixir)
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20. Contact
❖ PF Anderson !
❖ @pfanderson !
❖ http://pgenpt.wordpress.com/
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