Best & Worst Gut Function Tests, with Dr. Ilana Gurevich

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A GI functional marker test, or test of gut function, can be very useful to detect some gut conditions. It can help diagnose inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), predict pancreatic insufficiency (or need for digestive enzymes), and potentially detect leaky gut. However, patients should beware of paying attention to markers like secretory IgA, fecal lysozyme, chymotrypsin and beta-glucuronidase that are problematic or unvalidated. Also—because lab testing processes vary and markers can be difficult to filter even for clinicians—it’s important that patients work with an experienced clinician in order to properly interpret their results. https://drruscio.com/?p=31764

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:27.0	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.2	any disease.
0:33.3	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.2	Now let's head to the show.
0:40.6	Hey, everyone.
0:41.5	Welcome back to Dr. Roosia Radio.
0:43.4	I am here with second-time appearance guest, Dr. Ilana Gurevich.
0:47.1	We had a fantastic conversation a few months ago about parasite testing, some of the new methods
0:53.2	of parasite testing. And clearly from that conversation,
0:56.6	I could tell that she's one of a small handful of people that I really value their opinion.
1:02.3	And I can tell that she is an experienced clinician who really has her head on straight. And I think
1:07.1	that was clearly evidenced by our conversation. So I'm very happy to have you back on the show today,
1:12.0	Alana, to talk about functional markers for assessing gut health.
1:16.2	You were giving me offline a moment ago kind of a quick snapshot in terms of why you decided
1:23.2	to do this review of functional markers.
1:25.1	Do you just want to start with that and then we'll go from there?
1:26.9	Yeah.
1:31.9	So, you know, I've been really specializing for over a decade in the GI track.
1:36.7	And in the history of my career, I would use a lot of functional GI tests. In the beginning, I was using the GI Health Panel a lot by diagnostics, mainly because my mentors were using
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