#309 - Dr. Michael Ruscio: Healthy Gut, Healthy You, Treating Fungal Overgrowth, Diagnosing Chronic Infections, Low FODMAP Diets, AI & The Gut Microbiome, Bartonella And Babesia, Vagus Nerve Stimulation, SIBO, Symptom Patient Mismatch, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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0:00.0	I offer that for the person who says, well, I'm not under a lot of stress.
0:06.0	Well, if you've had some sort of chronic inflammatory issue, part of what you may need is to balance out your nervous system
0:12.0	because the inflammation has been a chronic sympathetic trigger or stimulus.
0:17.0	Clinicians' clinical listening and analysis skills have dwindled because there's such a reliance on just treating test markers.
0:25.1	And I think it's really kind of crippling and making less effective a whole generation of clinicians.
0:32.5	Welcome to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking podcast, where we meet the world's top experts to explore the
0:39.1	secrets of health, mindset, longevity, and so much more. Are you ready to take charge of your
0:45.0	existence and biohack your life? This show is for you. Please keep in mind. We're not dispensing
0:51.5	medical advice and are not responsible for any outcomes you may
0:55.3	experience from implementing the tactics lying herein. So friends, are you ready to join me?
1:01.3	Let's do this. Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon biohacking podcast. Friends, it was such an honor to have Dr. Rucho back on the show. I have been following his work for almost a decade and he radically has changed my life. I was looking forward to this conversation for so long. And it went in so many directions that I didn't anticipate. We touched on a lot of topics. I feel like a lot of people aren't talking about when it comes to digestive issues and gut health.
1:32.0	Specifically, for example, how people who may think they have bacterial overgrowth may actually have fungal overgrowth.
1:37.8	We talked all about that.
1:39.6	And we talked about how you can diagnose that with a questionnaire.
1:42.8	We talk about what happens with symptom
1:44.6	patient mismatch, basically where your experience may not match your lab work and what does that
1:49.4	mean, what should you do with that? We talk about one of my favorite things, low Fodd Map
1:53.3	diets. And we talk about something that Dr. Rucho said has been his biggest epiphany in a decade.
2:00.0	Yes, we are going to tackle that. You're also going
2:02.4	to learn the three types of probiotics you should be taking, and so much more. I also love,
2:08.6	love Dr. Ruchot's supplement line. It's called Functional Medicine Formulations, FMF, and he is the
2:14.8	person I trust when it comes to all supplements gut health.
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