Overuse of Herbal Antimicrobials for SIBO And Probiotics are Similar-to-Better-Than Rifaximin for IBS

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

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Overuse of herbal antimicrobials in a quest to get SIBO breath test results to normalize can cause bad effects for patients. I share a case study illustrating how this practice led the patient to develop C. difficile infection. I also share the results of two studies comparing probiotics to the antibiotic Rifaximin for IBS and SIBO that suggest probiotics are similarly effective. https://drruscio.com/overuse-of-herbal-antimicrobials-probiotics

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and
0:15.4	functional medicine.
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0:28.6	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease.
0:34.9	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your
0:38.1	doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hi everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Dr. Rucho
0:43.4	Radio. This is Dr. Rucho and today we are going to be jumping in with another kind of potpary of topics.
0:49.3	One, a case study regarding how the overuse of herbal anthonycrobials can be a problem.
0:58.0	And I'll clarify my position here because in Healthy Good Health You, I advocate for
1:03.6	considering low-dose cyclical antimicrobial therapy or just using in a somewhat ongoing fashion a low and minimally
1:15.3	effective dose of herbland antimicrobials which should be distinguished from somewhat i'm assuming
1:22.9	blindingly using antimicrobials to treat lab tests alone, as I've harped on numerous times in the
1:32.5	past, treating lab tests and isolation can be a problem. So we'll discuss a case study in which
1:39.3	other functional medicine providers were heavy-handed with antimicrobials, and this ostensibly
1:46.4	led to a patient contracting or developing the imbalance of C-Deft. We'll also discuss a recent
1:54.9	paper from the American College of Gastroenterology as most recent convention or a recent convention,
2:03.5	looking at refaxamine versus probiotics for IBS, and also, perhaps most excitingly,
2:11.6	a head-to-head trial looking at a soil-based probiotic versus refaxamine for small intestinal bacterial
2:20.5	overgrowth. And I think you may be surprised by the findings. We'll go into more detail on all
2:27.6	these in a moment. First, I want to again showcase to you that these are all excerpts from the future of functional medicine review, our monthly paid access newsletter that is predominantly written for clinicians, although you don't have to be a clinician to subscribe, where in we cover one case study per month and three to five research study summaries.
2:52.6	The case studies are so important because this is how you see a culmination of all the
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