When an infection keeps returning, treating each episode is only half the question. The other half is why the body is not holding the line, and that part rarely gets examined. Contributors are usually measurable: vitamin D, zinc and iron status, thyroid function, blood sugar, sleep quality, and a stress load that has been high for long enough to matter. Gut health belongs in that list too, since a large share of immune activity happens there. What this practice can offer is a wider look at those markers and support aimed at the terrain rather than the episode — nutrient support, including intravenously where absorption is part of the problem, alongside the unglamorous work on sleep and blood sugar. Acute infections need proper medical care and we will always say so. This is the conversation about what happens between them.