959 - How to Tell When ‘SIBO’ Is Actually Candida

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we are happy to hear from our clinic’s Dr. Scott and one of his patients, Keith about his successful experience tackling gut health issues. Keith’s case posed a very common conundrum that we’ve seen in many with gut health issues - are we dealing with bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), fungal overgrowth (candida) or potentially both? We’ll walk through some of the key indications that Keith’s initial SIBO diagnosis was actually a candida case, and we’ll cover the best testing and treatments that led to Keith’s recovery.

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro

01:49 Keith’s symptoms

05:13 SIBO diagnosis & Xifaxan response

06:33 Considering SIBO vs. candida

11:42 Low FODMAP & supplement reactions

19:33 Measuring candida risk indicators

23:23 Candida supplements & reactions

26:51 Creating a healing mindset

31:45 Candida diet efficacy

39:02 Why antimicrobials are effective

43:03 Keith’s improved test results

45:30 Key takeaways

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📉Effect of garlic on blood pressure:

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📉Garlic Supplementation Reduces Circulating C-reactive Protein, Tumor Necrosis Factor, and Interleukin-6 in Adults: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30949665/

📉Overall and Sex-Specific Effect of Berberine on Glycemic and Insulin-Related Traits: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37598753/

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0:00.0	my energy was destroyed. And not just my energy, I was weak, physically weak. And that's probably
0:08.5	because at 73, I need to get an exercise every day and I wasn't getting any exercise. And plus, this
0:15.8	ailment, this fungal growth, just sapped my energy and set my strength.
0:21.4	Now I've got full energy back.
0:24.6	I've got my strength back.
0:26.8	I go for walks every day.
0:28.7	I play golf and I walk when I play golf three times a week.
0:32.4	I mean, basically, I'm normal.
0:34.6	I'm normal.
0:49.4	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
0:55.6	To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior prior episodes make sure to subscribe in your podcast player for weekly updates visit dr ruschow.com hey everyone welcome back
1:02.2	today let's cover a living breathing case of someone who was struggling with a number of GI
1:07.5	symptoms fatigue diarrhea pain debil, and it was unclear to them
1:13.4	if the cause of the symptoms were from bacterial overgrowth, SIBO, or from Candida fungus.
1:19.7	And there's a few really important lessons contained in this sort of case study that I want
1:24.0	to share, because as this person's case exemplifies, it's not uncommon to even have a
1:31.6	CBO breath test positive, but in order to get full resolution of the gastrointestinal symptoms,
1:37.9	there might be something beyond CBO. So conceptually, this is kind of easy. Are you a bacterial type gut, as we call it, or a fungal overgrowth type?
1:48.4	But the application, you know, how do you specifically know in your own case which one of these you are?
1:55.1	That's what I want to help unpack and equip you with today.
1:58.8	So we'll cover a case study from the clinic, Keith, who was working
2:04.3	with Dr. Scott, and I'll roll their conversation and jump back in periodically to add some of my
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