994 - The Top 5 Gut Treatments For IBS, Bloating & Acid Reflux in 2025
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and acid reflux are gut-brain connection conditions that heal best when both areas are addressed. In this episode, I'll walk you through the most effective supplements, dietary strategies, and nervous system regulation tools you need to know in 2025 to actually heal IBS.
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📌Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:10 What is IBS?
00:25 The gut-brain connection
02:12 Low FODMAP diet
10:15 Elemental diet
11:43 Probiotics
19:22 Curcumin
22:01 Vagus nerve stimulation tools
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| 0:00.0 | If there's a problem with the nerve supply to the gut, then that can lead to bowel dysfunction |
| 0:05.6 | arising from this brain gut axis dysfunction. |
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| 0:34.9 | IBS irritable bowel syndrome includes digestive symptoms. Pain, altered bowel functions, |
| 0:41.9 | can be conservation, diarrhea, or an oscillation between the two, bloating or distension, and perhaps |
| 0:47.0 | also flatulence. One of the things that we can start with is kind of how we define IBS, because |
| 0:53.4 | this has shifted a little bit and i think this is an |
| 0:56.0 | important point to make which now the definition is more favoring the gut brain access or gut |
| 1:03.7 | brain interactions so do you maybe want to tell us a little bit about how the thinking and the diagnosis |
| 1:08.8 | of ibs has been updated yeah that's a great place to start. |
| 1:13.2 | So I guess we've moved away from the concept of IBS as being a functional gastrointestinal |
| 1:18.4 | disorder over the last seven or eight years, partly because the term functional sort of questions |
| 1:25.8 | the legitimacy of IBS as a diagnosis, and therefore |
| 1:30.3 | that sort of leads to stigma for people who suffer from IBS. There's been increasing evidence |
| 1:35.9 | over the last 20 years or so that IBS can arise as a result of dysfunction in the gut-brain |
| 1:42.6 | axis. So the brain controls the function of the gut, |
| 1:46.2 | and it controls sensation and motility and things like that. |
| 1:50.3 | So if there's a problem with the nerve supply to the gut, |
| 1:53.8 | then that can lead to bowel dysfunction arising from this brain-gut axis dysfunction. |
| 2:01.6 | 2023 review paper from the journal Gastrenterology, |
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