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Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of Dr. Rucho Radio.

And today, we are going to be diving in into the elemental diet, what it is, how it can

be helpful, and expound upon the fact that this is one of the more effective

therapies that we have available in the gut healing toolkit. And remember that things that can

heal your gut, because the gut connects to so many other systems of the body can help with other symptoms and

conditions.

Namely, we'll discuss a study later that found equivalent results using the anti-inflammatory

drug prednisone or the use of an elemental diet in quelling the joint pain and inflammation that's seen in rheumatoid arthritis,

just as one example.

So we'll launch in here, and I'm going to try to strike the balance between some of our audience

who are pretty advanced in the realm of gut health and have done a multitude

of various interventions for their gut and those who are a bit newer. So I'm going to try to toggle

back and forth here between detailed and more, I guess, simplified concepts and hopefully I'll strike a balance here that will

keep everyone engaged. But let's begin. What is an elemental diet? Well, essentially,

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