Just got back from a forum, had a great time and learned a lot. Quite a bit of emphasis on the conference on fasting mimicking diet and gut microbiome testing through Viome. Both Valter Longo and Naveen Jain were Keynote speakers. Do you ever recommend either to your patients?

Chris: I just addressed the Viome testing, so hopefully you heard that. Then with fasting mimicking diet, yes, and we’ll be sharing more on this later in the course, I believe. I’ve actually reverse engineered the macronutrient ratios from the published studies, and we have a handout that we give the patients who want to do the fasting mimicking diet but don’t want to buy the packaged foods that ​ProLon​ sells as the means of doing the fasting mimicking diet. I think that Valter Longo has done some great work. I do want to point out that a lot of the research has been done in animals, and I think we need more human studies to confirm the benefits. But certainly, fasting of any kind, intermittent fasting, this kind of reduced calorie intake I think is beneficial and has a hermetic effect, and it is a strategy that we include with many other strategies for advanced weight loss. We’ll be talking more about that.