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What are your thoughts on PEMF or vagus nerve stimulator as therapy for GI issues?

Chris: For those who are not familiar, PEMF is post electromagnetic frequency. I’m definitely interested in these therapies. I think we need to expand our repertoire. I’ve been diving into the research a bit on that lately, and I think it’s promising. The gut is the nervous system tissue, and the nervous system is definitely affected by electromagnetic frequency, and if it can be harnessed in a way that helps to regulate the nervous system, that’s certainly worth exploring. Unfortunately, the devices, most of the therapeutic devices are quite expensive. They range from $3,000 to $6,000 for home use, so getting a PEMF machine is out of the range of possibility for many patients. Some of the vagus nerve stimulators, I know there are some audio devices that claim to be able to do that, and some of the commercially available ones that I’ve seen on the market, I haven’t been impressed with the science behind them. There are certainly studies that validate vagus nerve stimulation for a variety of different conditions, but the way that they do it in the research context is not really available or easy to do in an outpatient context, so I’m just not sure how well the consumer devices match up to the results of devices that are used in research setting.

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