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In general, could you please mention if there are any additional Cyrex tests that you find particularly useful other than the 3, 4, and 10?

Tracey O’Shea: “In general, could you please mention if there are any additional Cyrex tests that you find particularly useful other than the 3, 4, and 10?”

No, actually, I think that those are the ones that we primarily use. Cyrex 3X, for sure, as you guys can imagine; that is the primary one that we use. The 4 is [the] second runner-up as far as the amount of time that we use, and then the 10. I know Chris has some, last time we talked, at least, he has some concerns about the 10, the reliability of those results and how to interpret them, so in order of usage and reliability, it does go 3X, 4, and then 10. So, out of all the Cyrex panels, those are the three that we use most often other than maybe, like, we talked about the autoimmune panels in certain situations, like, I know Chris talked about that. I don’t want to go too far into depth because we’re running a little bit out of time, but, like, if you’ve treated the gut, you’ve really done your research, you’ve done a lot of treatments, and you feel like you’ve taken leaky gut into consideration, you’ve really done [the] restorative plan and as far as you can tell, like, you’re pretty solid on the gut, [but] the patient is still having a lot of reactions to food, then I think that’s the place where the 4 and 10 come in. And in that case, if it lights up like a Christmas tree and you’re having, like, a polyreactive response where it’’s just reacting to everything, it’s not as clear as, like, a handful of foods, in that case, I may then go to the autoimmune panels to see if there are some other things going on in the body that are explaining kind of this mass reaction to food. So that’s how we use the 4 and 10 more often than not, and listen, some patients are very adamant and they want to do the 4 and 10, and we let them. I’m not here to tell anyone not to, but I do just explain the applicability of these food tests and not always are they useful in the sense of being clear and giving us accurate information. If 60 of the 80 foods come back that it’s not a problem with the foods, that’s a problem with the immune system not reacting or responding appropriately to foods, and so, in that case, this is less of a food issue and more of an immune system regulation issue, and we need to keep diving and figure out what is going on with the immune system. Do we introduce, like, a low-dose naltrexone, [or] do we introduce some things that are more immune regulatory in an effort to kind of calm the immune system while we’re trying to find what deep down is maybe triggering the immune system? Lots of different moving pieces here, but I think the 3, 4, and 10 are primarily what we use of the Cyrex panels.

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