983 - This Top Treatment Heals SIBO, IBD & Autoimmune Disease

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This top treatment can help you heal SIBO, inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) – the elemental diet. It can also assist in treating other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, plus hormonal imbalances. In this episode, I've compiled the benefits and uses for the elemental diet, as well as real stories from patients who found healing. Learn how to use it to reset your gut. Listen now!

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📌Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:26 What is the Elemental Diet?

03:14 Not a weight loss tool

05:17 SIBO benefits & uses

08:48 Does it work for candida?

09:51 Crohn's disease benefits

11:41 IBD & rheumatoid arthritis benefits

12:27 Infertility & arthritis: Juan's story

21:23 PMS & IBS: Kacheena's story

23:40 C.diff benefits: George's story

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0:00.0	One of the problems that may occur in IBD, in IBS, in FGDs or functional gastrointestinal disorders,
0:07.0	you're eating something. You're not sure quite what it is, but sometimes your bloating is worse,
0:12.0	your constipation is worse. This can be due to one or two foods in your diet that don't sit well with you,
0:19.0	and by using the elemental diet you reduce the amount
0:23.5	of irritation from these foods.
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0:51.6	The elemental diet is, if you haven't heard of this, a meal replacement that is unique for a few reasons.
0:59.5	One, it is predigested.
1:02.7	Now, that may sound a little bit gross.
1:05.0	We're not talking about sort of the mama bird, baby bird sort of predestestion. But predigested so that it's low fiber,
1:13.2	essentially zero fiber, zero residue, and doesn't require your system to have to work to
1:20.4	process the food stuff. And for those with IBS, IBD, whether it be UC or Crohn's, this predigestion helps to make the nutrition
1:32.7	easier to absorb. If you're someone who has digestive symptoms, you may notice that really rough
1:40.0	and raw food is harder on your gut. So take that concept a step further or a few steps further
1:46.3	and having a meal replacement that is predigested makes it very easy on your gut, almost soothing.
1:54.7	So predigested and along with that or partially because of that, the nutrition, the protein, carbs, and fats
2:03.6	are absorbed very quickly in the GI tract.
2:08.2	Therefore, you will not require down the line to have to work.
2:12.9	So within the first few feet of the small intestine, you'll absorb the elemental diet.
2:16.1	And the remainder of the
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