Matt Kelly explains why parasite testing matters in clinical practice. He walks through his approach: assess baseline health, determine if the organism is causing symptoms, and weigh the risks of treatment versus leaving it alone. Context changes everything.
And that's a really important thing in regard to any creature that shouldn't be in your GI tract, or there shouldn't be a lot of it in there, whether it's a parasite or not. And that is that there's always context with the microflora in the GI tract and its effect on your health. So in our practice, we look at how healthy are you to start with? Is this causing symptoms or not? And what would happen if we left it alone versus trying to get rid of it?
