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Do you think SIBO with positive hydrogen and methane very high levels at almost 800. Does it require pharmaceuticals or is it possible that botanicals could work?

Chris Kresser:  Wow 800, that’s crazy. I’ve never seen, I don’t think we’ve seen one over 140, 120 or 140. That is wild. I’ll have to talk to Ken Brown about that in my podcast. I’m interviewing Doctor Brown, who developed atrantil, which is a supplement used for methane overproduction, on Monday. The podcast probably won’t come out for a few weeks after that, but that’s crazy. What we’ve found is that the level of methane doesn’t necessarily predict whether the botanicals will be successful or not. It’s more like when someone responds, they respond. And when they don’t, they don’t, to the botanicals I mean. And we’ve seen pretty high drops on the botanicals of methane in some cases. Not from 800, because I’ve never seen that, but from 60 to 80 down to normal. And then other cases, we’ve seen no change at all and maybe an increase. So yeah, hopefully that helps.

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