How to Interpret the GI-Map Stool Test

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The GI MAP stool test is widely used in functional medicine and integrative medicine practices, but how should it be best interpreted? In today’s podcast, Dr. Tom Fabian from Diagnostic Solutions Lab — the home of the GI MAP — explains how to use the GI MAP in practice, and shares several important clinical correlations of key GI MAP markers and how to use those results for appropriate action. https://drruscio.com/how-to-interpret-the-gi-map-stool-test

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:23.3	That's DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com.
0:27.4	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease.
0:33.6	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.6	Now let's head to the show.
0:39.4	Hi everyone.
0:40.3	Today I spoke with Dr. Tom Fabian about the GIMap stool test and how to best to use this.
0:47.4	One of the things that you've likely heard me mention many a time is we have to be careful
0:52.2	with not over interpreting these tests.
0:56.7	But there is also, of course, valuable data contained in these tests.
1:01.5	It's just finding that optimum balance and knowing what markers are valid or at least
1:09.2	have some initial data to support a safe inference and then where you may be
1:15.7	over-reading the test and therefore over-treating the patient. And Tom actually did a pretty good
1:22.9	job of supplying a few specific examples of organisms that may track with inflammation.
1:30.3	Most curious and interesting to me are organisms that have been shown to track with H. Pylori
1:37.3	and potentially with insufficient hydrochloric acid secretion and may actually be a stool test finding that can help support or
1:50.2	at least inferentially support the use of hydrochloric acid. We also discussed some fungal
1:58.9	markers, a few markers that we want to be bridled in not treating them directly because they may actually be downstream effects of dysbiosis further up the GI tract.
2:12.4	What do the viral markers mean as another example?
2:16.6	So a number of very impactful practical takeaways from this podcast with Dr. Tom,
2:25.7	and I think you guys will really benefit from it.
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