So how do you think there's a way we could look a little bit further into that? Is it measuring different things? Is it different nutritional supplementation? What are your thoughts on that?

I wanted to touch briefly on some key variables you mentioned, NIFAs, ketones, and calcium.

Because for a long time, our industry has assumed that high NIFAs and ketones and subclinical hypocalcemia are causing disease or they're causing problems in some type of productivity metric.

And we think that, of course, because... for at least 60 years, we've been correlating our finding the relationship between the changes in those with negative outcomes.

And that correlation has never really been very high to begin with and oftentimes inconsistent.

In other words, sometimes we don't identify relationships.

So that's what led us to essentially start questioning whether or not the changes in these are something that we should be trying to actively intervene with.

probably as old as life on earth, right? So...

Oh, oh, yeah.

And it turns out one of the immune cells that resides in different types of epithelia, including your skin, and your lungs, and your gut, is called a mast cell.

And, uh, w- one of the hormones of that HPA axis is called corticotropin releasing factor which binds to the mast cell, and it causes the mast cell to essentially vomit its contents.

And for reasons that I think are yet, yet still to be determined, that, those signals that are inside the mast cell do two things.

One, uh, they cause the GI tract to become hyperpermeable or to become leaky, and two, they cause goblet cells to make less mucus.

So these are two important mechanisms that, uh, are, are going on here.

And aft- so the, the, the, the organism doesn't like this.

Burn glucose.