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

Let's jump in with more research updates on gut health. Specifically, we put together a consortium

of studies on dysbiosis, your immune system, and how diet can be used to improve dysbiosis.

Now, if you haven't heard the term dysbiosis, it's the opposite of what you want to be, which is ubiotic or ubiosis, meaning balance.

Just like you may have heard the term u thyroid, meaning your thyroid output

is normal. Well, ubiosis means that the commensals, the bacteria, the flora in the intestinal

tract are balanced if it's ubiotic and imbalanced if it's disbiotic. Now, one or two sort of

prefacing remarks, the term dysbiosis can be helpful as sort of a

heuristic meaning that when there are symptoms, we can infer there's probably a degree

of dysbiosis present, yes.

Do we need to be uber specific with how we quantify, identify, and test?

Probably not.

And I make this caution because as you probably become accustomed to me sharing,

there's a very slippery slope with lab testing wherein we can very easily go over this event horizon,

where we spend or waste money and we chase numbers rather than improve the health and the symptoms of the individual.

So let's unpack this more thoroughly, this condition of dysbiosis and what it correlates to also what you can do to improve dysbiosis if you

suspect you have it now this first study looked at ibs and its association to dysbiosis so ibs

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