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Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Dr. Rousha Radio. This is Dr. Michael Roushau, and let's go into a round of updates from the research on gut health. I've been trying to partition these into four general categories.

One, research on probiotics specifically.

Another, more of a broader non-probiotic,

but anything else related to gut health category.

Three, female hormones, sleep, lifestyle, and four, anything related to thyroid.

Those seem to be the best ways of grouping these probiotics because there's so much research

I think can really only be kept pace with if we give it a specific podcast dedicated to the

research updates.

But anyway, today we'll talk about a number of updates in gut health.

And the first is actually the American Gastroenterology Association, their clinic or clinical

practice guidelines for the role of diet in IBS.

Now, one thing I should mention here, this is expert opinion, and it's kind of a consensus

among experts, but experts are not infallible, and they do have biases.

So it is important to look to the consensus

from the AGA, yes, on the one hand, but not necessarily look at that as sacrosanct or something

that is beyond any level of error. Now, in this case, I happen to agree with one of the main remarks from this study, which

is the low phob-map diet is currently the most evidence-based diet intervention for IBS.

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