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Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of Dr. Rousha Radio.

This is Dr. Rucho. I am here again with Aaron Ryan, and we will be going to some listener questions.

Hey, Aaron.

Hey there. Okay, our first question is from Mike. Now, I included this question because I'm not sure Mike has heard Dr. Rucho on this properly, so I want to address this question. He says,

I've heard Dr. Pimentel and Dr. Rucho mentioned several times that a low Fodmap diet causes

nutritional deficiencies.

Is that true?

And if so, which nutrients would be lacking?

When I've run them through a decent nutrient count calculator, I didn't notice any.

Are there studies showing this?

Good question. The short answer to this is, well, first, sorry, so let me first say, I have not said numerous times that a low phobinthi can cause

nutrient deficiencies. Right. There may be a similar but different remark I've made,

which is one should be careful not to put themselves on a unnecessarily an overly restricted diet because that increases the theoretical likelihood of nutritional micronutrient, macronutrient, or carbohydrate insufficiencies.

I'm not sure what Humintel's remarks are on this, but I think, yeah, so I think the spirit

of that is kind of correct.

There has been one study at least that did find deficiencies in certain micronutrients on a

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