Next question from Heidi. “What can we use to replace GI Synergy, Lauricidin, and A-FNG since we don’t have those in Canada.”
Chris: The best thing to do is just to look at the ingredients on those and try to get something close, for people who are in other countries who don’t have access to the same products. The products I’ve chosen in these protocols are not magic. They work well. I’ve tested them extensively. I think their ingredients are good, but that doesn’t mean that another product won’t work well too. in the SIBO unit, we talked about alternatives to GI Synergy and the core botanical protocol being FC-Cidal and Dysbiocide. Those are our Biotics Research products. I don’t know if you have access to those, but in most countries, you can get some version of the botanical products that have at least most of the ingredients of GI Synergy. A-FNG is a little bit of a special case. That’s a specially formulated product by Byron White. If you don’t have access to that, you can try something SF722 from Thorne, which is caprylic acid. Undecylenic acid is another one. We talked about some different antifungal nutrients. That’s an option there. For biofilm disruptor, Biofilm Defense is another one. You can use N-acetylcysteine, which I think we talked about as a stand-alone. It is a biofilm disruptor. In place of Lauricidin, you can just look for monolaurin, which is the active ingredient there. There are other formulations of monolaurin aside from Lauricidin, so you can usually find others. Lumbrokinase, as you mentioned, is also a biofilm disruptor, although it’s quite expensive, so those are all good options. Length of time before improvement is expected depends on the severity of overgrowth, but generally, you should see some changes within a few weeks and if you’re not— and those changes by the way, as I said in the course, it’s not always improvement right away. Sometimes it’s actually getting a little bit worse like a Herxheimer, but you should see some changes within the first three weeks.