You can even get instructions for doing this procedure at home. Obviously it’s better to go to Australia and have these people do it but that must be quite expensive.   [End]
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I took Tetracycline for over 2 years(every day for a whole year twice). My CDSA test though pretty much confirms leaky gut in my small intestine but found zero pathogenic bacteria or yeast and found adequate good bacteria in me. I wonder if the test is correct. Seems hard to imagine that that amount of a broad spectrum antibiotic wouldn’t do any harm. I also took Doxyxline and Minocycline for a few months.   [End]
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What was the antibiotic you took? Tetracycline? I’ve read about Borody’s work a lot and it’s very interesting.   [End]
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I will have to look into that since i’ve got that same scalp problem. Just got CDSA test results which picked up no candida, pathogenic bacteria, parasites, just really bad absorbtion problems. Seems like Leaky Gut in my small intestine. I don’t know my blood type unfortunately.   [End]
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Hey Shroom what lab does your stool tests? Have you ever tried http://www.diagnostechs.com/main.htm? I’m thinking of maybe getting my next test done by them. Their Gastrointestinal panel tests both stool and saliva for antibodies to parasites and things.   [End]
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In my case two things regrow my hair a bit and thats Biotin and probiotics. Probiotics create large amounts of biotin normally in your gut.   [End]
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Last year I had excruciating head pain for two months and it turned out I had a tooth abscess which I had to get a root canal for. Lots of gross stuff came out of that too. Last year or two my breath is so bad. Isn’t as bad after I eat though.   [End]
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What is your opinion on people who say if you have a dysbiosis any probiotics you take will just be food for the bad bacteria? There doesn’t seem to be much concensus on probiotics which is annoying. I’ve read to take probiotics to help heal leaky gut. I’ve also read that taking them will be bad if you have leaky gut. Some people say probiotics will implant in your gut(usually they are selling probiotics) and some say probiotics created in a lab have lost their ability to colonize permanently and are transient and are a poor substitute for the normal flora which has hundreds of different t ...
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Yeah but then you’ll be happily guzzling down your prebiotics and suddenly you read that prebiotics feed pathogenic bacteria!   [End]
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The advertising might have been a little less obvious if he had chosen a different name.   [End]
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I would probably tryout VSL3 as it has 450 billion per packet. I’m currently waiting on test results from Genova to see if I need more flora. The only problem is I wonder if Genova is even accurate for this. Might have to spend money on a better lab. :/   [End]
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I stopped taking probiotics since they make my facial rash worse but if I start taking them again i’ll be taking about 400-500 billion cfu’s a day. Your GI tract has about 100 trillion bacteria so taking something like 30 billion cfu a day isn’t going to have much effect.   [End]
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I kind of live on a different continent but if your naturpaths are like the ones here then I would imagine it shouldn’t be too hard to find one to do the test. A naturpath is more likely to believe you and I don’t see why they wouldn’t order a test if you really wanted it. I actually emailed an ND asking if he or he knew a doctor that would do a stomach acid test on me and he reccomended someone and I figured from that, that doctor would be open to doing other tests as well.   [End]
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Why not go to a Naturopath who can just order the tests? I have a Naturopath for the sole reason of ordering me tests.   [End]
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Cool i’ll look into that test. I tried taking an antihistamine a couple weeks ago but only did it for a day and noticed a weird but very nice feeling throughout my body. Kinda tingly nice. Dunno if that’s normal.   [End]
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Is there any easy way to test if you have high histamine?   [End]
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Shroom do you have any eye problems other than floaters? Around the same time I got floaters I developed a bad sensitivity to wind. Even gentle wind irritates and makes my eyes water. I can’t stand it.   [End]
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That link about leaky gut i’ve seen posted here many times. Don’t know if it’s just one person posting it over and over or not but it comes off looking like advertising for the site. Saw it posted on another site today too.   [End]
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Can you stop spamming that site everywhere...   [End]
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Hmm it seems that Primal Defense ULTRA has this Saccharomyces Boulardii stuff that’s in Florastor in it. I’ve always liked Primal Defense...think i’m gonna try this ULTRA stuff.   [End]
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Have you taken lots of antibiotics in the past or anything that would cause Candida?   [End]
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I think I read that this product is good for fighting food allergies. I didn’t have allergies until I was about 20. Now i’ve figured out it’s dairy, wheat and deep fried stuff that give me a rash if I eat them. Oh how I miss cheese... :(   [End]
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I think i’m actually going to try this Florastor thing. It sounds good from what i’ve read and it appears to be sold within walking distance of my house(hate it when I have to order this stuff online). A little afraid of the lactose in it though since lactose gives me a rash.   [End]
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Great... now I wonder if I should spend all that money on the test...   [End]
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What stool test did you get? I’m getting one from great smokies soon.   [End]
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Pills don’t work as well? Hmmm maybe I should switch to the powder.   [End]
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Regardless of wether Threelac is dangerous it is just a probiotic and not a very powerful one...   [End]
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If you’re like me then brushing the tongue does absolutely nothing. A dysbiosis in your intestines will have your breathe smelling bad no matter how much you brush. It makes sense that a probiotic would help with the breath, and it had the same effect for me but a very short lasting one. I’m currently trying to figure out how exactly to get rid of my dysbiosis which appears to be a very hard thing to do. In the meantime I try not to stand too close to people. :)   [End]
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Make sure to stay away from dairy. I recently cut all dairy out of my diet and it really helped.   [End]
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Considering my urine is filled with tons of whitish yeast looking specs i’m going to guess UT probably isn’t the best idea for someone like me heh.   [End]
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I don’t think i’ll be sitting around waiting for my Candida friends to go away after getting rid of spiritual waste...whatever that is. Antibiotics got me in this mess and it’ll be probiotics(amongst other things) that get me out.   [End]
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I’ve googled around and can only find 5000mcg, not 5000mg....   [End]
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How does someone take 5000mg of Biotin a day? I haven’t seen Biotin for sale that’s over 5mg per tablet. That would be a thousand tablets per day...   [End]
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I want to order from - http://www.vsl3.ca/default.htm Anyone have experience with this particular probiotic? I’m interested in a high potency probiotic and this one seems like it’s made in Canada(I assume since it’s a .ca site) and that’s good because I read they irradiate stuff when crossing borders and I live in Canada.   [End]
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So I haven’t had any alcohol in about a year and I really want to drink at New Years this year. How bad is it if I just do it this one time?   [End]
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The stuff in my urine is kinda white looking little specs. Sometimes it does look like some of it is stringed together though.   [End]
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What does the dead candida look like?   [End]
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If I had a bacterial problem I wouldn’t mind taking antibiotics. I’ve already destroyed all the good bacteria in me with past antibiotics so I have nothing to lose.   [End]
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What Rx are you trying to get? Just wondering.   [End]
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I just recently upped my biotin intake from like 3mg a day to about 9mg a day to regrow hair. Hours after taking more biotin I noticed die-off symptoms and my urine which normally has quite a bit of yeast looking stuff had a lot more than usual. How would biotin cause die-off?   [End]
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I got eye floaters while taking an antibiotic...maybe that’s what that stuff is...   [End]
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Just type candida diet into google and you’ll probably find lots of sites.   [End]
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Probiotics can cause die-off. Once I changed to a better probiotic I started getting some headaches and stuff.   [End]
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Is that healthy to be taking that much Biotin every day? My biotin is like 300mcg per tablet and I have been taking like 8 of those a day which I thought was a lot, but now it doesn’t seem like much lol.   [End]
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How much was that expensive urine test? My urine is full of some sort of whitish tiny flakes, looks like one of those winter snowglobe things.   [End]
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I use Ultra Flora Pus DF.   [End]
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My hairline started receding and I was able to start regrowing hair after taking probiotics and lots of Biotin. I remember when I first found out about Candida I started takign Threelac until I figured out it was just an expensive probiotic. The probiotic I take now has like 15 billion live organisms which is way more than what’s in Threelac. I haven’t been taking the Biotin and Probiotics for all that long so what i’ve regrown is short almost see-through hair but it is a sign i’m going in the right direction. Now if I could just get rid of all the yeast in me my hair migth really come back.
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I know from observing myself that Candida isn’t fake but yeah some people selling Candida related products are probably shady.   [End]
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Well I find their probiotics interesting...45 billion Acidophilus per capsule sounds cool.   [End]
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I eat tons of brown rice because I eat brown rice pasta noodles and bread made out of brown rice. I was pretty constipated but then I started a probiotic which seems to help with that problem.   [End]
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Are we not supposed to eat rice?   [End]
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Wouldn’t a good probiotic cause more die-off than a bad one?   [End]
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What does OP stand for?   [End]
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Nice article fungifactor. It was interesting to read that taking Tetracycline can cause great increases of yeast in the colon in just a few days. I took Tetracycline for two years. :/   [End]
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Something you should also do is read many forums about candida and leaky gut. Some places have interesting different views. For example Dr Stoll’s site has a large searchable archive where you can find stuff like: http://www.askwaltstollmd.com/archives/lgs/41470.html He has a sort of different opinion on leaky gut and Candida than most.   [End]
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I think it’s good to do both at the same time, that’s what i’m doing. If you’re short on cash maybe just take L-Glutamine for now. I can get that stuff for like $10.00. Taking 2g a day of L-Glutamine alone helped me out quite a bit. I also drink a hell of a lot of water, stay away from wheat and do some sort of relaxation thing every day. Stress = bad for your gut.   [End]
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I find L-Glutamine is great for healing the intestines. Just taking that clears up most of my symptoms very well. And from that observation I can tell that for me at least Leaky Gut is much more troublesome than the Candida (although I assume it’s the Candida that causes the Leaky Gut but having Leaky Gut also causes Candida ahhhh)   [End]
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I think Candida is only systemic when you have something like AIDS right?   [End]
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Does anyone know how much L-Glutamine you should take per day if you’ve got Leaky Gut?   [End]
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Heh some of these places are kinda shady. Couple weeks ago I ordered Primal Defense from some site and when I get the credit card bill it shows it charged me twice, once when I ordered and once a week later for some reason. I emailed the place and they never responded.   [End]
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To quote you ”Hi, I don’t understand how this stuff can be sold legally. Also, why are there so many distributors? You’d think that the product would be banned by the FDA.” from another thread. So why do you want to take this stuff if you seem to be so against it?   [End]
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Is eating pasta made out of brown rice ok or does that feed Candida?   [End]
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Hilarious. Does Curezone normally stop spam like this? Becoming a bit too much.   [End]
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I recently went to see a Gastroenterologist who did basically the same thing. He felt my stomach and told me I was a young strong man and not to worry about things and then motioned for me to leave. In and out of there in 5 minutes. :)   [End]
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Cycles?   [End]
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I can understand why HCL between meals would make sense. For those with very low or no acid taking this prohibits yeast and bacteria from growing where it’s not supposed to. People can get small intestine bacterial overgrowth if there’s not enough acid around.   [End]
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Recently some of my symptoms had slowly gotten pretty bad and I didn’t know why because I thought I hadn’t changed any of my routine. One day though while in the bathroom I noticed how dark my urine was and realised that I had slowly stopped drinking lots of water. That night I drank 3 litres of water and the next day I felt a lot better. My skin got better and my eyes felt better. This tells me that those symptoms are likely toxins related since water helps get toxins out of you. My eyes and skin also got much worse once when I took Betaine HCL with meals so that tells me increasing HCL m ...
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No, my BM’s were pretty light which I was concerned about. I figured I migth have some problem with bile. One thing that happened after changing my diet and taking probiotics and vitmamins is someone mentioned to me that I ”don’t look all jaundiced anymore”. I know that has something to do with bile also.   [End]
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Hmm I took HCL for about 5 days before I stopped from the symptoms. Wonder if it helped my stomach produce more of it’s own at all. Something I have noticed, but it may be from the primal defense I recently bought, is that my BM’s have gotten darker than they used to be.   [End]
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Hehe I had started at 1500mg. I didn’t notice any warming or burning though.   [End]
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Thanks I will read through your posts. I was thinking of getting that peppermint stuff actually. What’s weird is my hunch is lowered HCL allowed bacteria to grow into my small intestine but when I started taking HCL my symptoms got worse. My hope is that i’ve spent maybe 5 years with lowered HCL and suddenly introducing 3 pills of it with each meal was a bit of a shock down there and my symptoms worsening is just some sort of die-off thing since I read these things give off toxins. 5 years I could probably develop leaky gut maybe and so it gets into my blood easy.   [End]
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I had a tooth abscess earlier this year. I had it for at least two months before I knew what it was. What happened was I started to get severe head pain near my temples and the pain extended toward my teeth but the most pain was at the temple so I didn’t really think it was originating from the tooth. The pain was so bad I was in the emergency area of my hospital many times over those two months. Finally my cheek ballooned from the infection and I knew the problem was a tooth. I hadn’t been to the dentist in about 7 years so now i’ve ended up with three root canals done. Luckily my dentist ...
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Maybe i’ll try that number thanks. I remember my dermatologist over the years trying to get rid of my rash and bumps with one antibiotic after another and he never let me stay more than 10 minutes. :)   [End]
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I checked and there doesn’t seem to be one where I am-Montreal Canada. I guess i’ll keep looking.   [End]
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What kind of doctor could I go to for all these candida/SIBO/heavy metal/stomach acid tests? I’m getting tired of guessing what’s wrong and buying all kinds of products off the net.   [End]
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For a while i’ve thought I had Candida but recently i’m starting to suspect SIBO(small intestine bacterial overgrowth). I seem to have symptoms of both SIBO and Candida although I think their lists of symptoms are sort of similar. I got a receding hairline a few years ago which I knew wasn’t male pattern baldness because it showed up shortly after taking prescription medication. SIBO seems to rob a person of vitamins especially B12 and I read B12 is important for hair. I actually noticed some of my hair grow back shortly after taking vitamins but my hair regrowth seems to have stopped in ...
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I just started taking some Betaine Hydrochloride yesterday and the Seborrheic Dermatitis or whatever is on my face seems to be slightly better...although that could be my imagination. Too early to tell but I have high hopes!   [End]
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Pepper specks? I don’t know if I have parasites(although I probably do) but everytime since I found out I probably have a candida etc problem i’ve been checking my BM’s and have noticed everytime there’s lots of little black specks embedded in it all over. Wonder what that is...   [End]
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Didn’t he say that betaine and pepsin should be combined?   [End]
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I’ve been curious of HCL lately. I am currently taking digestive enzymes but not HCL. Can I take both?   [End]
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I just recently bought oil of oregano. What I do is put some drops into not much water so I can drink it fast and I block my nose while doing it, then I put the glass down and run away from that area cause it wreaks of oregano and the smell is so strong it makes me ill. :)   [End]
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Vaginal fresh douche with just water wonderful hydrotherapt spa.... Vaginal itch and spa treatment Hi go get a feminine cleaner for Hygienically sick.It uses water only. Me too having heavy menses and itch discharge. I see doctor twice with drug given but it seen doesn’t cure. Some web revert certain drug causes sugar level rise resulting more sticky and itchiness to vaginal. Friend advise taking less curry and spicy help. At the moment, I am cure using douche bidet at the same time drug from doctor. You can see it at http://www.geocities.com/tianwangcom/feminine Another site found th ...
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http://thedoctorwithin.com/index_fr.php?page=articles/expel.php Has anybody tried this? I’ve been impressed with that guy’s site and wondering if anyone has experience with this cleanse?   [End]
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I’ve noticed the outside of my BM’s seem to have a lot of fluffy off-white stuff that looks like string. Wonder what that is..hehe.   [End]
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So I guess there’s nothing I can do to get the same effect during the day right?   [End]
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I have this sort of rash or something on my scalp for many years, lots of painful and itchy lumps. It seems that as the day goes on it gets worse and then when I wake up the next morning it’s much improved and then once again starts to get worse as the day goes on... I take a probiotic in the morning and nothing before I go to bed so it’s weird that overnight is when my scalp drastically improves. Any ideas why this happens? Magical anti candida gremlins come out at night and massage my scalp?   [End]
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Ok thanks.   [End]
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I’ve read that pb shakes are good for cleaning the colon and was wondering if it’s an acceptable way of cleansing the colon before and after liver flushing?   [End]
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Every morning I take a packet of Threelac and then about half an hour later I take a probiotic pill. I do the same thing at night. I assume the Threelac would help clear out some yeast and the probiotic will then have room to take up residence? I have really bad lumps and rash on my scalp and on the area where I shave on my face and I find in the morning when I wake up things aren’t so bad but as the day wears on it really starts building up again. Seems more like i’m just managing to sort of control symptoms instead of really getting at the problem or maybe I just need to do this for a fe ...
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