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How do you go about introducing the supplement protocol? Do you introduce one at a time and monitor side effects, or start them all at once?

Chris Kresser: Next question from Gavin, “How do you go about introducing the supplement protocol? Do you introduce one at a time and monitor side effects, or start them all at once?”

It depends on the patient. Generally, I don’t like to do too much at one time. If they’re doing an antimicrobial protocol, we might just add between one and three additional supplements beyond that and then we’ll wait on the other ones until the antimicrobial protocol is finished. But if we have hypersensitive patients, which again, we often do, then we’ll only do the antimicrobial protocol, but even more than that we start very slowly with maybe just one supplement and then we see how that goes, and we just gradually layer them in over time.

Toward the end of this section and the end of the course, you’re going to have full case assignments and studies where you see us take someone through the entire case review process and all the labs and everything that we prescribed and the reported findings and the supplement protocol, so you get a much better idea of how it works in practice when we get there.

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