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without first speaking with your doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome back to

Dr. Russo Radio. This is Dr. Micah Ruscio. And today, let's go through another podcast, which

outlines some new, exciting, hopefully interesting,

and useful research in the realm of gut health care.

We won't be talking about probiotics in this podcast.

We dedicate a separate podcast to research updates in probiotics specifically.

So this is kind of everything else besides probiotics. And the study I'd like to start with looked at this question of do we need to

test for SIBO before using refaxman. And some of the context here is refaxmin, the antibiotic,

which is the antibiotic of choice for CBO, is FDA approved to treat IBS symptoms. And it can be

very helpful for that.

And nowhere in there does it say, well, you must have a test result in order to use the

antibiotic.

So it's important for us to disclose and to understand that there's enough evidence for

the FDA to get behind approving refaxamine for the symptoms

of gas, altered bowel function, conservation diarrhea, potentially abdominal pain.

So that's some of the background. Now, there are those, namely Mark Pimentel,

who really is trying to champion this hypothesis that we need to be testing and maybe even

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