Alan Levinovitz

Some of them were on IV supplementation.

I would send, I would take these, I would send them to experts.

I would say, look at this sort of protocol.

What do you make of this?

And they were like, we have, we have, we've cancer patients, end stage cancer patients who are not on anything close to this.

How did they possibly come up with this protocol?

You know?

And the answer is,

When you're treating these conditions, you end up with protocols that are as Byzantine as the dietary prohibitions that you see over in the diet space.

It's no different.

And except the only difference is that these protocols are being put together by Lyme literate doctors or by long COVID literate doctors.

who are in certain ways doing the same thing what nutrition people are doing.

They're looking at the science.

They're taking very preliminary studies and considering them to be something that's worth trial.

This looks like this case control trial or this case study seems to say that IVIG therapy works.

Let's put this person on it.

So you end up with the same kind of phenomenon, except in the diet world, it's a super restrictive or really bespoke diet.

And in the chronic illness world, it's an extremely complicated protocol meant to address all of the different horrible symptoms that people are experiencing.

Well, it's a 7,500-word piece.

Right.