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Hey, everyone, this is Dr. Roushou with your fast facts.

Today was a listener question about gut, gut infections, gut co-infections, meaning more than one gut infection occurring at once, and if gut infections

can co-occur with other non-gut infections like Lyme and Lyme co-infections.

So here's your fastbacks.

Gut infections like Blasto and A.Pylori can co-occur with each other, with other infections,

with SIBO, and or with Lyme or Lyme co-infections.

The gut should always be treated first, and follow-up testing should be performed to ensure

gut infections and imbalances are cleared before moving on any other testing. Certain probiotics can be

as effective as antibiotics for treating gut infections. Probiotics can be as effective as antibiotics for treating gut infections.

Probiotics can enhance the effectiveness of antibiotic treatments, and this likely applies for

antimicrobial herbs too. Gut infections can cause the same symptoms as Lyme and Lyme co-infections.

Another reason why it's good to treat and test for

gut infections first. Inbalances in the ratio of vitamin D to 125 vitamin D, also known as calcitriol,

may indicate intracellular infection, inflammation, or autoimmunity. If you are still ill after you have treated the gut and retested, then testing

for intercellular infections like Lyme and Lyme co-infections might be a good idea, but should

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