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Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

845 - Answers to Your Questions About SIBO & GI Issues

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5774 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

If you have any unanswered questions about SIBO or unresolved GI issues, today's episode is for you. 

I'll be answering questions from listeners like yourself, looking for gut guidance. 

Today's questions include: 

-How do I know if I have SIBO? 

-Can I do a hybrid carnivore/elemental diet for SIBO?

-How long can you take antimicrobials for SIBO?

-What's causing my abdominal distension? 

-And more. 

Please join me. And if you have any questions you'd like answered on the next round, you can submit them here: https://www.speakpipe.com/DrRuscioRadio 



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Timestamps

00:00 Intro 

06:12 I have IBS, how do I know if I also have SIBO?

12:13 I feel mostly great, should I keep treating SIBO?

18:37 Can I do a carnivore/elemental hybrid diet?

20:08 How long can you take antimicrobials for SIBO?

23:27 Does a bowel movement every other day need treatment?

26:29 After resolution with HCL, how can I resolve lingering constipation? 

28:55 I get distension after eating, what can I do? 

31:50 I have gas. It’s not SIBO, and low FODMAP didn’t work…

34:17 Should I avoid xylitol?

35:26 Does the elemental diet work for SIBO? 

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.

0:15.4

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0:22.9

For weekly updates, visit Dr. Russo.com. That's dr. r-R-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.

0:30.6

The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or

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, this is Dr. Roush

0:45.4

Welcome back, taking a number of listener questions today, which for me are always very helpful

0:50.9

in terms of how do we take the vast amount of science, physiology,

0:57.0

claims regarding testing, claims regarding supplements, whatever it may be, and really distill

1:03.1

that down to where the rubber meets the road, what do you do?

1:08.6

And thankfully, when you understand how the treatments work or what treatments are

1:15.1

most effective, it simplifies a lot of what can be very confusing in terms of pathways,

1:20.5

mechanisms, potential therapeutics, potential tests. And the paradigm I'd like to start with is we really only have so

1:31.2

many dietary changes lifestyle changes and therapeutics that I've been

1:38.0

trying to be effective that is that we can use and when we understand this

1:43.1

hopefully anyway we can appreciate this And when we understand this, hopefully anyway, we can appreciate this paradigm

1:46.1

wherein we don't make the mistake that we need a lab test to tell us about a diet that we

1:54.9

could use or should use or a natural therapeutic that we could use or should use.

2:01.6

Because most of these, really all of these, all of these, can be used without lab,

2:08.6

marker, verification, or guidance.

2:10.6

Now there's one very important distinction I want to draw.

2:13.6

This is in the realm of functional alternative integrative medicine testing for gut health.

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