Welcome to the Phoenix Helix podcast dedicated to maximizing autoimmune health through the paleo diet and lifestyle.

While there is no cure for autoimmune disease, the choices we make every day can have a powerful impact on how we feel.

I'm Eileen Laird, your host from PhoenixHelix.com, and I reduced my rheumatoid arthritis pain by 95%, which took me from a life of excruciating

pain and disability back to a full and beautiful life.

A short disclaimer, I'm neither a doctor nor a nutritionist and the opinions expressed here are

personal.

Always consult with your health care team before making medical decisions. Now let's get

on to the show. Welcome to episode 98.

The topic today is gut health, and our guest is Dr. Michael Rucho.

Over the past three years, I've recorded many podcast episodes on specific gut problems

like SIBO, histamine intolerance, parasites, and gut infections, and even advanced treatments

like fecal microbiota transplants.

And those are all very popular episodes.

They're helpful for advanced troubleshooting.

But I realized I had never dedicated an episode to general gut health overall.

And Dr. Rucho recently published a book called Healthy Gut, Healthy You,

and it outlines an eight-step action plan for gut healing. So it's perfect timing for this

conversation. And it's a really important one to have because gut health dramatically impacts

autoimmune health. So if you're not familiar with Dr. Rucho, he's a clinician, educator, and researcher,

specializing in autoimmune disease and digestive health. He was originally trained as a

chiropractor and now specializes in functional medicine. He has a clinical practice in California,

but consults with people worldwide via Skype. And he was actually on this podcast once before in episode 42, which I'll

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