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information without first speaking with your doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I spoke

with Dr. Jenny Dufankean on the topic of viruses, not COVID, but this area of could there be a chronic viral infection or a chronic viral

reactivation that's causing your symptoms? And I'll share kind of my perspective on this.

You may have heard on the podcast in the past, which is fairly tepid about this, but I'm also

always trying to be open-minded and have conversations

in these areas that I may have X opinion and someone else has Y opinion. Okay, let's have

a discussion and see what we can come away with. She shared a few things that I'll kind of flag

here in the overview. The Epstein

Bar virus is maybe the most common one that she sees elevated. We discuss testing for this.

We discuss a cluster of symptoms that is indicative of viral reactivation. This is probably in my mind the most relevant and helpful

piece of information is just the short list of symptoms that could indicate a viral issue

is present. And we go into treatment. And in the treatment, we hit the topic of homeopathics. And she asked me how I feel

about homeopathics. I don't really have a strong opinion on this. Although after the episode,

I pulled up one, two, three, four, five abstracts of randomized control trials studying homeopathics.

And short story, short summary on this, it's really not very impressive what's been

documented in these trials.

It still doesn't mean that there's nothing there, but I would say my lean fairly strongly is toward questioning

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