949 - Healing Candida Overgrowth: Dr. Mona Morstein’s 1-Month Protocol

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

I’m very excited to have naturopathic physician Dr. Mona Morstein on today’s podcast to speak on treating candida! As an avid follower of her work, I was very interested in getting her insight on everything from fungal overgrowth symptoms to diagnosis, diets and treatments. Hear her take on the best testing methods and learn about her recommended treatment plan!

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Timestamps (cut down)

00:00 Intro

03:02 Fungal overgrowth symptoms

09:52 Preventing nutrient deficiencies

15:27 Vector diseases & fungal overgrowth

21:53 Stool testing

23:33 The Organic Acids Test (OATS)

27:04 Antibody testing

30:50 Typical treatment timeline

37:41 The best diet approach

48:54 Probiotic recommendations

51:43 When to use prebiotics & fiber

59:05 Mona’s favorite supplements

01:03:09 A sample protocol

01:06:42 Tackling candida relapse

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
0:14.8	To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player.
0:22.2	For weekly updates, visit Dr. Ruscio.com.
0:25.6	Dr. Mona Morstein, welcome back to the show.
0:27.9	Thank you, Dr. Ruscio.
0:30.6	We have had conversations back and forth.
0:34.4	Well, firstly, let me say this again, because you were on the podcast a number of years ago,
0:37.4	and you were one of the first people that really opened my mind to naturopathic medicine,
0:42.8	natural medicine. It was sort of early in my career when I was in college. I was pre-med,
0:46.7	and I, like many, I think, healthcare or future healthcare providers, I was trying to figure out
0:53.5	what way do I want to go?
0:54.8	So I shouted a few conventional doctors, and it wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be.
0:59.2	With no offense, right? But it just, it felt, you know, it wasn't the Gray's Anatomy that I thought
1:04.5	where there would be like a lot of time, a lot of thought. It was much more so, you know, shorter visits, the whole model, which is fine, all in good.
1:11.3	That's what it is.
1:13.2	But I saw one of your lectures at a naturopathic medical school in Arizona, and I remember thinking, almost like getting struck by Cupid's bow academically.
1:22.7	I was like, oh, this is it.
1:24.6	Like this is totally what resonates with me. You know, the way you were thinking and making your argument and talking about the natural medicines. So I want to thank you firstly for that because that was a pretty cathartic, like, eye-opening observation for me. And I think you've been doing amazing work all your career. One of the areas in which I think you have brought some very
1:45.3	interesting information to the table is on fungal overgrowth. And that's what we're going to
1:50.0	dive into today. Fantastic. And really, I'm really honored. Thank you very much. It's a really
1:55.6	great anecdote. I didn't know that. And thank you for taking a moment to share it. Absolutely. Yeah,
2:02.7	no, I mean, I think it's important that people in the alternative space carry that torch so that
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