86. Dr. Michael Ruscio: How to Find the Right Diet for YOUR Gut

Ancient Health Podcast

Medicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Dr. Axe is joined by Dr. Michael Ruscio to dive into what you can do to optimize your gut health so you can digest better, absorb nutrients better, and get more out of your foods, vitamins and supplements. Michael Ruscio is a doctor, clinical researcher and best-selling author whose practical ideas on healing chronic illness have made him an influential voice in functional and alternative medicine. His work has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals and he speaks at integrative medical conferences across the globe. Dr. Ruscio also runs an influential website and podcast at DrRusio.com, in addition to his clinical practice located in Austin, Texas.

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0:00.0	Everyone, Dr. Axe here. Welcome to the show. Today, we've got an incredible doctor on Dr. Michael
0:13.3	Ruscio and he is a doctor of natural medicine and doctor of chiropractic and he is an expert in
0:20.1	gastroenterology and digestive health. So if you're saying to yourself, I want to absorb better,
0:24.8	digest better, get more out of my vitamins and supplements and so much more. We're going to talk
0:28.8	about all that today, lowering inflammation and a lot of other great things, but so excited to
0:33.6	have Dr. Michael here with us today. Dr. Michael, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me.
0:37.7	Well, cool. We're going to talk today a lot about gut health and everything associated with,
0:42.2	of course, gut health effects are mood, our energy, our sleep, our hormones, our skin, our metabolism.
0:50.3	But, you know, I'd love to start off here talking about, you know, just what got you excited
0:55.7	about gut health because there are a lot of things you could be excited about. You know, you could
0:59.6	be excited about hormones, you could be excited about metabolism. What is it that really attracted you
1:04.7	to and really caused you to write, you know, a couple books now on how to support a healthy gut?
1:10.7	Well, you know, going back to college, I had a kind of a painful experience of being a college
1:16.8	athlete. I put in the cross at UMass and feeling, you know, like a typical strong college guy kind
1:22.4	of invincible and I could do whatever be up late and never be phased by it until I started having
1:29.2	fairly debilitating insomnia, depression, and brain fog almost just with a drop of a hat.
1:35.6	And when I went to a few doctors to get kind of checked out, they all said, well, it's stressed,
1:40.4	it's exams. And, you know, the backstory is that even though I was feeling fairly impervious to
1:46.8	stress and such, I wasn't binge drinking, I wasn't staying up super late. I was eating all organic,
1:51.9	it really had kind of all the diet and lifestyle things fairly buttoned up. But then all of the sudden,
1:57.1	I just felt like my health was starting to unravel. And unbeknownst to me, I had acquired a
2:01.6	parasitic infection in a meba actually. And this of meba was leading me to even though I was eating
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