026: Dr. Michael Ruscio - Fixing Your Gut Health And The Truth About Fiber and Bacteria
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What if eating less fiber and prebiotic foods was the key to optimal gut health?
You've probably heard how important fiber is to feed the bacteria in your gut and speed up digestion, but this popular belief may be doing you more harm than good.
Dr. Michael Ruscio, a leading functional medicine practitioner specializing in gut related disorders, joins me today to bust the most common (and damaging) myths about gut health -- including how fiber affects your gut bacteria.
Dr. Ruscio is also a clinical researcher, international lecturer, and best-selling author. His research has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals and he speaks at integrative medical conferences across the globe.
In his recent best-selling book, Healthy Gut, Healthy You, he explains how to fix your gut health step-by-step with evidence-based methods, and in this episode, he gives us a peek into the research.
Tune in to find out how your gut works, how the relationship between lifestyle and microbiota affects your health, why less fiber may be better for you, how to take probiotics the right way, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for tuning in to the Keto Answers Podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host, Dr. Anthony Guestan, and joining me this week is Dr. Michael Ruchio. |
| 0:11.6 | Dr. Ruchio is a good friend of mine, and he is an absolute expert at all things gut health. |
| 0:16.0 | He has spent his entire career diving in deep to how to treat the gut, and he is recently |
| 0:20.4 | to steal all that into a book that's phenomenal, which we'll get into. |
| 0:24.1 | However, he came in the show, and busted every single myth that I know of about gut health. |
| 0:28.8 | Including what we do and do not know, the fact that we do not need as much fiber as we think we do. |
| 0:33.8 | What probiotics to take, all the stuff. |
| 0:35.9 | He is an absolute animal, and I'm so happy to use on the show because I think that gut health is one of |
| 0:40.0 | these things that so much misinformation is being thrown around that really confuses people, |
| 0:44.6 | and they end up doing a lot of unnecessary things. |
| 0:46.7 | So if you're interested in what anything got or how it could be impacting your health, tune in. |
| 0:51.5 | Before we get to the episode, I wanted to chat about a sponsor, Perfect Keto. |
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| 1:07.7 | I know what you're thinking. Hey, aren't you the founder of Perfect Keto? |
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