Chris Kresser: Yes, I do, however, the same story with the mold toxins. I haven’t seen any research that suggests that it would be effective for that. The reason that cholestyramine works so well for binding mold toxins is they have opposite electrical charges, mold toxins and cholestyramine. Whereas that’s not the case with a lot of the natural binders. Again, though, there hasn’t been a tremendous amount of research on this either way. So I know that anecdotally some patients have benefited from these natural binders, and we’ve tried them. Before we started using cholestyramine, we experimented with all of the natural binders because I’m just inclined in that direction. And we found that some patients did improve definitely. But many other patients did not. So we do use cholestyramine in the protocol.
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