Dr. Michael Ruscio: IBS, Autoimmunity, and Low Vitamin D
Underground Wellness Radio
Sean Croxton
4.6 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2015
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Michael Ruscio makes his debut appearance on the podcast to discuss how small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) causes irritable bowel, what autoimmunity has to do with it, and breaking news in the field of Vitamin D research.
Here's what we talked about:
2:55 – From pre-law to pre-med: Dr. Ruscio shares his story of overcoming his own health challenges.
7:41 – The SIBO Cliffs Notes: a quick review of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
8:50 – The meaning of “motility” and why it might be the most important factor in a healthy gut.
16:42 – The breath test is the best test. How to check for small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Ask your doc!
21:20 – Hope for healing autoimmunity and what our ancestors can teach us about the body’s innate wisdom.
24:28 – The 3 things you need to be aware of if you want to turn off damage, heal your body, and avoid SIBO relapse.
27:17 – Is science “missing the boat” on the brain’s role in SIBO?
30:45 – SIBObesity: a real-life example of how SIBO could be majorly affecting your weight.
35:42 – How hungry bacteria in your gut may be overgrowing, “energy harvesting” and packing on extra pounds.
39:07 – Low Vitamin D levels? You gotta hear this.
47:25 – Dr. Ruscio prescribes some sun and supplementation to help keep you healthy.
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| 0:00.0 | It is episode 314 of Underground Wellness Radio. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:04.8 | Your MED is, it's personalized to your skin tone. So if you're going to expose your arms |
| 0:09.7 | and your legs and you're sufficiently with vitamin D and you want to have a maintenance |
| 0:13.4 | exposure of sun, one MED 2.5 days a week. If you're deficient in vitamin D, you'd need one MED |
| 0:20.2 | seven days per week. But the hydrogen |
| 0:22.4 | gas feeds the methane colony. So the methane colony grows even more. So it's like they're both |
| 0:28.1 | helping each other to overgrow. And that overgrowth seems to be able to throw off energy |
| 0:34.8 | harvesting in the gut. Here we go. |
| 0:47.3 | Yo, what's up, y'all? |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome back to another episode of Underground Wellness Radio, |
| 0:53.1 | brought to you by Underground Wellness.com. |
| 0:56.0 | I am your host, Sean Croxton. Thanks so much for joining us and for tuning in, for subscribing and all of that fun stuff. I got an incredible show |
| 1:00.4 | for you today with our buddy, Dr. Michael Roushio. He's a functional medicine practitioner, |
| 1:05.6 | and he really, really knows his stuff. You might remember him from the digestion sessions. |
| 1:09.8 | He did a stellar talk, and you guys are definitely going to love sessions. He did a stellar talk and you guys |
| 1:12.1 | are definitely going to love that. I got a little surprise for you at the end of this episode so you can |
| 1:16.4 | watch his entire digestion session for free for the next couple weeks. And so stay tuned for that. |
| 1:22.6 | But we covered really cool stuff. We covered CBO of course and what that has to do with IBS because |
| 1:27.1 | the two pretty much go hand in hand. We talked about autoimmunity and how that's involved with CBO as well, |
| 1:32.7 | how to test for CBO. Also has how CBO can cause weight gain and can cause insulin resistance |
| 1:39.0 | and stuff like that. And so if you kind of get the right test and overcome your CBO, you can |
| 1:43.4 | lose weight and better |
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