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treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information

without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, this is Dr. Rucho.

Let's equip you with recent research updates on how to best use some of the common tools in the gut

health arsenal, prebiotics, fiber, and also either a Mediterranean or a low FODMAP diet.

One of the things I've observed is people have no shortage of available tools, but rather it's the

how to use those tools that can be problematic.

So we'll detail for you how to use these tools so as to reduce your gut

symptoms, whether it be SIBO, leaky gut, constipation, what have you. If we get the use of the tools

right, we should have the downstream effect of alleviation of these symptoms. So let's kick off.

And to start, there's a very interesting, and by the way, sorry, my setup here is different. I'm traveling, so I may not be as smooth with some of these slides or studies I want to quote for you. But the first study is seminal. I'll be at my presentation of it, maybe a little bit choppy. It was a meta-analysis on the use of prebiotics.

Now, prebiotics feed bacteria.

Probiotics are the bacteria.

There was a lot of hubbub around prebiotics.

If we went back five plus years ago, there was kind of this renaissance of the microbiota and how important it is for us to feed our gut bugs.

So we have a healthy microbiota,

and therefore all of the benefits one can reap

from having said healthy microbiota.

However, this is not what the clinical research is bearing out.

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