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The breakthrough comes when Chloe, the "healthy" one, finally collapses. House realizes the common denominator isn't what they are doing , but what they are taking . The Diagnosis:

The episode opens with three identical 19-year-old sisters—Maya, Lea, and Chloe—admitted to Princeton-Plainsboro. They were performing a synchronized gymnastics routine when Maya went into respiratory failure, Lea suffered a seizure, and Chloe remained perfectly fine—until she began experiencing "sympathetic" pain so intense it mimicked a heart attack. The Investigation Dr. House: 2Г—3

liver couldn't break down the heavy metals, leading to pulmonary edema. Lea's neurological system took the hit, causing seizures. The breakthrough comes when Chloe, the "healthy" one,

House discovers that the sisters were all taking a specific "natural" performance-enhancing supplement to stay thin for gymnastics. Because of a rare phenomenon in female development (skewed X-inactivation), each sister's body processed the supplement's toxins differently: They were performing a synchronized gymnastics routine when