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Hi, this is Dr. Rucho, and let's discuss how vitamin D can help you heal your gut,

and more importantly, how that healing of your gut can lead to healthier bacteria in your gut,

and most importantly, how all these changes can lead to an improvement in your digestive

symptoms and your symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, IBS.

So I'd like to start with this first study here.

I'm going to go through a few studies and tie together a few thoughts for you.

So the first study, bolus weekly vitamin D3 supplementation impacts gut and airway

microbiota in adults with cystic fibrosis, a double, blind, randomized placebo control trial.

Their conclusion, this exploratory study suggests that vitamin D insufficiency is associated with

alterations in microbiota composition

that may promote inflammation and that supplementation with vitamin D has a potential to impact

microbiota composition.

Now remember, if you have inflammation in the gut, that inflammation will create an environment

that allows unhealthy bacteria to grow and is poisonous to healthy bacteria.

So let's continue along this theme and look at another similar study.

The role of vitamin D on gut microbiota in cystic fibrosis.

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