Thank you for joining us for our 2nd Cabral HouseCall of the weekend! I’m looking forward to sharing with you some of our community’s questions that have come in over the past few weeks… Let’s get started! Laura: Hello Dr. Cabral, I'm hoping you can help me. I get this lip rash every now and then, starting in 2016. Each time I was told it was contact dermatitis and given predisone, and I was fine. Since then, I've been very careful of what I put on my face. It would still flare up minimally in 2017, so I as prescribed Desonide cream, which I don't like putting on my lips. I have also been using hydrocoristone ointment as a lip balm since 2016, but not in the past few months. 2 weeks ago, this rash flared up badly again, and I refuse to take any sort of medication, or any topical steroids, as I want to get over it naturally. It's been going on for 2 weeks and I'm at a loss. I had a allergy patch testing done - no results. I am vegan (since 2017) and gluten free (since 2017). I don't eat refined sugar and I'm heavily plant based. My lips are incredibly itchy, almost unbearably, several times during the day. I think it starts overnight/in the morning, I always know it's going to be bad when I wake up with swollen lips. I haven't changed anything in months (skincare, detergent, etc., and everything I use is natural) so I'm pretty sure it's not a contact allergy. They're itchy and dry constantly, so much so that it's hard to eat, because they itch when anything, even food, touches them. The only thing that's been different in my life the last 2 weeks is that I've been taking it really easy in my daily Bikram yoga practice due to a shoulder overuse injury (nothing serious, but I've been unable to do the normal backbending, chest/neck stretching postures I normally do). But it definitely starts with the swollen lips in the morning, and sometimes I notice it in the middle of the night. It's not my pillowcase or laundry detergent. What could be causing my lips to swell overnight? Ashley: Hi Dr.Cabral, I have taken the OAT test twice and I've been working with a naturopath for the past year trying to get rid of all of my bacteria imbalances. I have overgrowths of Furan-2,5-dicarboxylic (27), Arabinose (79), Tricarballylic (.56), Hippuric (884), 4-Hydrobenzoic (2.7), DHPPA (1.1) and 4-Cresol (76). I feel like they're almost gone and I would like to do your 21 day detox to clean out my blood and reset my hormones and I'd also like to do the intestinal cleanse and the gut protocol. What order do I need to do these in for best results? Can I do them all at once? How long will it take to seal my gut back up? Do I need to stay on a diet without any coffee, alcohol, dairy, grains, beans and seeds for 6 months (am I allowed to stray from this at all?) I already follow a mostly plant based diet with smoothies in the morning, vegetarian lunches and at dinner i usually have high quality fish or meat with lots of veggies but I do love my pizza and wine once in a while. I am so excited to get started and can't wait to hear what you have to say! Thank you so much for everything you do, I love listening to all of your advice. Elizabeth: I’m wondering if you’ve ever worked with people that do not have a thyroid. Mine was removed because of uncontrollable hyperthyroidism, and after removal it was found I had thyroid cancer. If you have addressed this in a podcast, can you direct me to the one I should listen to? Pamela: Do you deal with anyone MTHFR positive both Gene copies of a1298c & c677t, who has Lyme disease and autistic? Any protocols to assist with detox, methalatukn, & focus, concentration. My son's diet is preserative free, corn free, gluten free, no HFCS, no dyes, & low sugar. Use of hemp & CBD oil & also colloidal silver. Some use of an infrad red sauna Tara: Hi Dr Cabral! My friend was diagnosed with Interstitial cystitis several years ago. She was told to eliminate acidic foods, which helped, and she regularly was seeing a naturopath who p