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Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of Dr. Rucho Radio.

This is Dr. Rucho.

And today, we will again be going into a grab bag of a few different concepts, which

thankfully seem to all fit together, borrowed from various additions of our future of functional medicine review.

We will showcase an American College of Gastritorology monograph on the management of irritable bowel

syndrome and constipation. This actually provides the most up-to-date number needed to treat

comparison looking at rafaxamine and probiotics. We'll also touch on this paper we've discussed

in the past from Satish Rao gastroenterologist whose work I appreciate and has been on the podcast and whom I think is all-around very astute researcher.

But this one paper that claims that probiotics cause brain fog really needs to be kind of reprace.

So we'll talk about that again.

We've discussed it on a previous listener question episode.

And we'll also go into a case study wherein a incorrect thyroid diagnosis was found, and we

essentially proved this via a laboratory examination, the patient felt better coming off thyroid

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