A reader sent me this note which caused me to do some reflection and an experiment.
Maybe you can help me here. I have two samples from February 2023 (where my function was 90% for the first time in years – I did not use antibiotics to achieve this event it just seemed to gradually happen over several weeks since starting valtrex (MicrobiomePrescription : valacyclovir hydrochloride is an antiviral)).
But then I crashed in March after taking, neem, tulsi and Lauricidin which wiped out my microbiome (at least the one I had before!). Then on May 23rd sample my microbiome looked almost the same as February but I was only experiencing about 75% function. There were some outliers like firmicutes to bac ratio being different and prausnitzii being lower than before – but other than that it looked ok.
Thoughts?
First, this antiviral has been used successfully for a subset of people with ME/CFS, see this 2016 post: Valacyclovir, EBV and CFS | CFS Remission
Second, what I did was compute a number based on the bacteria alleged to be Anti inflammatory and added it to Health Indicators page based on his observations and some research.
![](https://blog.microbiomeprescription.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image-27.png)
Where is it on the site?
![](https://blog.microbiomeprescription.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image-26.png)
These are computed on a per-processing-lab basis so the percentile will be appropriate.
This has limited value on a single sample (apart from screaming problems).
For this person we see (Biomesight):
- 2022-8-17: Score: 11.9 2.5 %ile
- 2023-2-24: Score: 13.51 93.2 %ile
- 2023-5-23: Score: 13.15 68.4 %ile
And this follows his subjective experience. Plotting the scores over all of the Biomesight samples, we get our typical score pattern.
![](https://blog.microbiomeprescription.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image-25-1024x755.png)
User feedback after reviewing “I’ll look into these percentiles I’ve never thought they were useful before! Think I stand corrected.” There is no magic measure that does everything, there are many measures. Some useful for one person and just noise for someone else.
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