Does Blastocystis Hominis Need to be Treated?

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

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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

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🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The protozoa Blastocystic hominis, long thought to be a cause of IBS, is receiving renewed attention in the functional and integrative medicine field. A growing body of evidence shows that Blasto may be benign in its impact and, in fact, may not even be a parasite as was previously assumed.

In this podcast episode, I review a sampling of studies that examine the prevalence of Blasto in patients with IBS, and consider the effects of treatment on both Blasto and symptomology.

The takeaway for practitioners is we should always treat the patient rather than the lab result, and even consider a more conservative approach to recommending labs for gut symptoms.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
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0:30.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease.
0:39.6	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome back to
0:45.7	Dr. Rucho. This is Dr. Rucho, and let's go into blastocystis hominins, which is an intestinal organism of protozoa, that has debatable impact on a human,
0:59.3	their individual, the microbiome, and a debatable impact on symptoms.
1:05.6	Now, the backstory here is in naturopathic, integrative, and alternative medicine, a lot was assigned to the importance of parasites.
1:19.6	And that's partially true. In fact, I am a shining case study of someone who showed up to a few doctor's offices with non-digestive
1:30.3	symptoms, brain fog, fatigue, insomnia, depression, and actually ended up having an intestinal
1:39.5	parasite, amoeba histolytica, a very pathogenic organism, as the underlying cause, as defined and
1:48.3	identified by the gold standard, or at least what was the gold standard of antigen recognition
1:57.1	or seeing it under a microscope.
2:00.5	So this is something that I would say is partially near and dear to my heart.
2:06.5	However, as I went through my training in my early years when I did every educational
2:14.6	course and seminar on anything in integrative and functional medicine,
2:19.2	but especially gut health care, you started to see a very, in my opinion, non-nuanced
2:27.3	perspective being presented regarding these organisms. And it was kind of every organism was pathogenic and even the ones that
2:37.5	weren't traditionally recognized as being pathogenic, but were kind of cousins to pathogenic organisms
2:43.9	were also pathogenic. And pretty much any time there was any finding on a stool test,
2:50.3	the perspective was, well, go in guns
2:54.0	of blazing with antimicrobial therapy, whether that be herbal or antibiotic. And the point I
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