Chris Kresser: Yeah, I think that’s possible. I don’t know that I’ve necessarily seen a lot of—I haven’t seen a lot of this kind of situation, but I have seen immune disturbances where people will have skin breakouts or other kinds of immune disturbance symptoms. I haven’t seen as notable of a depletion of immune function here because the GI protocol also includes probiotics, as you know, especially those that are really supportive of immune function, such as Megasporebiotic, some of the soil-based bacteria, and actually some of the herbs that are in the antimicrobial protocol probably have some antiviral activity.
My guess is that this was just sort of a fluke, or there was at least, like the die off that was happening from the protocol just kind of stirred things up and made him more susceptible to the GI bug, and then the GI bug maybe depleted him further, and that’s what led to the pneumonia, but I definitely don’t see things like that happening very often. If I did, I would want to reevaluate the protocol because that’s not an acceptable outcome for more than a handful of cases.