Hey everyone, welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio. This is Dr. Roushaw and welcome to episode zero, which is a brief explanation of what this podcast is and what we're hoping to achieve with it.

This podcast will be released weekly and we're going to aim for about 30 minutes in duration for each episode.

And it's my goal to take important information in health,

nutrition, and functional medicine, and distill this down into practical advice you can use to

maintain or to recover your health. And it will be delivered in three general kind of methods, I guess you could say, either listener

questions, which you can submit on our podcast page.

So if you go to Dr. Ruscha.com and you go to the podcast page, you'll see a little audio

submission button where you can ask a question for us to answer in an upcoming podcast.

Second type of information would be interviews, interviews with doctors, researchers, or other

interesting and knowledgeable people. And then thirdly, updates from me. It might be important

health tips or important updates that I'm pulling out of reading the medical literature

or just interesting information that's coming out of my work in the clinic.

And just in brief here, a little bit about me, I spend half my time in functional medicine practice

in my clinic, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area,

specifically a town called Walnut Creek, and the other half of my time reading and conducting

research. And I'm very pleased to announce that we are hopefully just a number of months away

from enrolling patients in a pilot study, a randomized control

trial in the treatment of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. I have a heavy emphasis on gut and

thyroid, but I also practice in the more general functional medicine model. And the really short version of how I got here

while I was in college I had immense amounts of energy and it always felt great and

eventually I started having really bad insomnia, bouts of depression, feeling cold, dry skin thinning hair, lower libido,

just all the sudden, with no real explanation as to why. And so I went to three conventional

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