Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Merkola and today we are joined by Dr Michael Rucho who is a clinical

investigator's focuses on gut health. Now a lot of people are doing that but he's he's actually

written a book about it called Healthy Gut and Healthy You and it's a pretty good

read especially you know with all the focus nowadays on

the highlighting the connections between gut health and your in your total health.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. Welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Pleasure to be here.

Thanks for having me.

And you can expand on your background a little bit

so people have a better idea of what your clinical experiences and what you're focusing on. And then we can dive into some of the details of the book.

Sure. Well my experience started like many in health care with my own personal experience

and when I was in college, I was pre-med

on route to go into conventional medicine.

I actually wanted to be a surgeon, or at least I thought I did.

And unbeked to me, I ended up coming down with an intestinal parasite.

Now I didn't know I had a parasite.

I found out later, but the symptoms that really knock me down were fairly debilitating

insomnia, and if anyone suffered from insomnia they just know how that can bring your life to a screeching halt.

It's terrible.

Very bad insomnia waking up every 45 minutes, very difficult time going back to sleep.

So therefore I was tired the next day.

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