838 - We Sent in One Stool Sample & Got Two Different Stool Test Results
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Depending on where you send your stool sample, you can end up with different stool test results.
What this means is that your treatment plan could look very different depending on the stool test you use. This also means that a stool test may not be the best way to actually start healing your gut.
Instead of spending time and money on (potentially inaccurate) stool tests, I’ll tell you 4 things you can do that will make a difference for your gut health.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:59 What is a Split Test?
01:40 The Split Tests Results
02:34 Why My Thoughts on Stool Testing Changed
05:53 Different Results Mean Different Treatment
10:17 Zonulin: A Key Finding
12:23 The Second Split Test
14:30 You’re Doing Yourself a Disservice
14:54 4 Tools for GI Healing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
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| 0:36.0 | treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information |
| 0:39.6 | without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, what is the best |
| 0:45.9 | functional medicine stool test? Well, to help answer this question, we have split test, |
| 0:52.3 | and just to clarify what a split test is what it means is that we took one |
| 0:57.7 | bowel movement from a person we put half of that stool into one test kit and the other half of |
| 1:05.7 | that stool in the other test kit so we're comparing literally the same stool sample across two different tests. |
| 1:13.8 | We should see the same exact thing. |
| 1:17.0 | This is what's so valuable about split testing is it's one method of assessing. |
| 1:21.9 | Is there a consistency across different tests? |
| 1:25.3 | And I think the results will shock you. |
| 1:28.3 | Let's unpack and then help you understand what is the best path including or not including |
| 1:33.9 | testing to improve your gut health. |
| 1:38.2 | Hey, this is Dr. Rucho. |
| 1:39.6 | Let's jump in. |
| 1:41.6 | Okay. |
| 1:42.1 | So we've done this two times. Let me share sort of patient one split test with you |
| 1:48.4 | first. What you're seeing here, and in case you're not watching, I'll narrate through this. |
| 1:53.0 | On the first test, you see high candida. Second test, normal candida. Then you see high acrimancia on one test and normal on the other. You also see high |
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