Amy Nett: Ariel says, “In the event of a parasite such as blastocystis, do you treat to remove the parasite uniquely if the patient has an autoimmune disease? I suggest herbals, goldenseal, [and] artemisia.”
Okay, so if a patient has blastocystis—this is specifically if the patient has an autoimmune disease. I would say if I’m concerned about gut dysbiosis or some blastocystis, again, we’re going to get into this more as we keep going through the program. But [in] blastocystis, there are probably different subtypes, and you’re saying Blastocystis hominis, I don’t know if all the stool tests really do a great job [of] differentiating subtypes of blastocystis. If I have reason to suspect that blastocystis [is] contributing to symptoms, then yes, I would treat it, and we’re going to go through our botanical treatment protocol in detail. We use multiple different botanicals, and we have a few different options for treating blasto, and Dientamoeba fragilis can be pretty tricky to treat sometimes, so we’ll present you guys with a couple different options for treating those.