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let's head to the show. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Dr. Russo Radio. This is Dr. Ruscio. And let's jump

into another edition of Health News updates, where we provide you with a short summary of a number of

recently published studies that are noteworthy.

Today we'll be talking about, amongst other things, H. Pylori treatment updates,

tanning beds, intermittent fasting, vitamin D supplementation, iodine, and thyroid, coffee

and autoimmunity, intestinal yeast, and more.

So let's jump into the first study, which is entitled,

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation is a rescue treatment modality for refractory ulcerative colitis.

So rescue treatment modality means it can be used if someone is having these active flares of the disease of ulcerative

colitis that is refractory in nature, meaning it's not responding to anything else.

Now, what the title tells you that may be important to understand is some of the more traditional

recommendations, if I can even use the term traditional, because

FMT is so new, or it's clinical application, you know, becoming more widely accepted

and so new. But traditionally, the recommendation is it may be best to wait to undergo an

FMT until one is asymptomatic, meaning if you have ulcer of

chlytis or Crohn's in this case, it may be better to wait

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