Layers of Low-Grade Infections

Your PCR test results won’t always demonstrate a straight shot to better markers. One such reason for this is that you may have pathogens hidden beneath biofilm. The biofilm kept them hidden from your baseline test result, but as you removed the first layer pathogens and biofilm, you revealed another layer.

Here is one such example.

This client had severe yeast overgrowth, which was promoting growth of the fungal metabolite consumer Prevotella copri. We know that yeast overgrowth goes hand in hand with biofilm. [Texeira et al; 2018, Nett et al; 2020] The Prevotella copri made up close to 70% of their bacterial biofilm when we first started working together.

Symptoms included:

• Hyperability and poor focus

• Mushy smelly stool

After working on reducing yeast and biofilm the client did note improvements to the mushy stool as the stool became formed and lost the foul smell. However, the follow-up to the baseline test revealed that there were other pathogens, which came to the forefront as yeast was reduced. Ultimately we would have to work on reducing the secondary level pathogens in order to fully restore the microbiome.

Photo: Bacterial Microbiome Test 1 to Test 2