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

with Dr. Joe Matthew from our clinic and we covered a number of topics. We started off with a

reminder on the appropriate way to interpret CBO breath tests.

This is really important, amongst other reasons, because what the lab machine will print out

is not the correct and most up-to-date interpretation criteria.

So we discuss if you've had a CBO breath test, here's how you interpret it to make sure

that you know if you do or if you don't have CBO.

We also went into some ruminations and reflections on how to treat hydrogen sulfide SIBO.

In addition to discussing how often we see what can be helpful for and how people should expand their diet and improve their food tolerance.

And then we rounded things out with a few

remarks on how important it is not to use a test that's been validated, let's say, in a population

of patients with diarrhea, as a screening test and how we have to be careful,

especially in our field of functional and integrated medicine, when we use lab markers that,

let's say, again, have been validated like calprotectin has in the setting of inflammatory

bowel disease where oftentimes there's chronic diarrhea as a screening tool and how

this runs the risk of thinking there's a problem when there may not be because we haven't really

established that when cow protecting is used as a screening tool what subset of the population

...