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I'm curious as to whether they're legit. I keep hearing their name pop up on message boards, wondering if anyone's looked into this.
On the one hand, they seem to have an impressive clinical, lab, and research team. https://www.vibrant-america.com/about-us/. And they're supposedly published in Nature for their Lyme serochip test. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75036-2
Based on perusing that research paper, they did develop a slightly better Lyme test than the standard 2-tier protocol.
On the other hand, their blog articles are very shallow and pseudosciency. And they have tests which are also bordering on pseudoscience (like urine mycotoxin tests). From another site: "according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), low levels of mycotoxins are found in many foods. For that reason, they are routinely present in the urine of healthy people. You should also be aware that mycotoxin levels that predict disease have not been established.".
Anyone looked into them before?
On the one hand, they seem to have an impressive clinical, lab, and research team. https://www.vibrant-america.com/about-us/. And they're supposedly published in Nature for their Lyme serochip test. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75036-2
Based on perusing that research paper, they did develop a slightly better Lyme test than the standard 2-tier protocol.
On the other hand, their blog articles are very shallow and pseudosciency. And they have tests which are also bordering on pseudoscience (like urine mycotoxin tests). From another site: "according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), low levels of mycotoxins are found in many foods. For that reason, they are routinely present in the urine of healthy people. You should also be aware that mycotoxin levels that predict disease have not been established.".
Anyone looked into them before?