Biofilms Can Cause Infections That Won’t Clear - What to Do About It with Dr. Paul Anderson

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Biofilms are protective coatings that bacteria and fungus form to protect themselves from antibiotics and herbal treatment. Biofilms may be at the root of infections that won’t go away like Candida, fungus, H. pylori and SIBO. Today I speak with Dr. Paul Anderson on how to identify if biofilms are affecting you and what you can do about it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
0:15.2	To make sure you're up to date on this and other important topics, visit Dr. Roushho.com and sign up to receive weekly updates.
0:22.9	That's DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.
0:27.1	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	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.
0:39.3	Hey, everyone. Welcome to Dr. Rouss Radio. This is Dr. Roushio. Today, I am here with Dr. Paul
0:43.2	Anderson, who is one of my cohorts with a lot of information on Sibo. And despite his great
0:48.9	knowledge on Sibo, we're not talking about Sibo specifically today. We're actually talking about biofilm. It's another area where he's got quite a bit of expertise. And so I'm excited to have this conversation and pick
0:58.9	his brain a little bit more. So Paul, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me on.
1:03.7	Absolutely. Absolute pleasure. And despite some technical difficulties that were thwarting our start,
1:09.0	we got through them. Yeah, it's always the way it is,
1:13.4	but we're here now, so that's good. Absolutely. So, Paul, before we jump into the topic,
1:18.1	can you give us a brief synopsis of your background and how you got into the field of biofilms
1:23.8	specifically? Okay, I'll try and give the short version. So my entry into medicine actually
1:31.5	goes back to 1976 when I started working in the laboratory end of medicine in both
1:39.3	hospitals and clinics and things like that. And so I kind of come from that research nerdy background.
1:47.3	And then a number of years ago, when my children are young and they're all in their late
1:53.3	20s or 30s now, so they were having some trouble and I was getting bored with the lab world.
2:00.3	So I went into naturopathic medicine so
2:03.5	I went back to medical school finish that for those of you listening at home don't do that
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