Testing To Predict Response To A Low FODMAP Diet

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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

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🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The GA-map test looks for signs of gut dysbiosis (or imbalance of your gut microbiome). This test is closest, clinically, to mapping the gut microbiota. European researchers sequenced the gut bacteria from healthy individuals and bacterial profiles from individuals with IBS and IBD. Then they compared the two, identifying bacterial “targets” that varied between healthy and IBS/IBD populations. If you were to take the test, you could get a dysbiosis index (or rating) from one to five, indicating how healthy or out of balance your gut was. One study used the GA-map to analyze the effects of diet on the microbiota. They noted that the low FODMAP diet markedly impacts the microbiome. In the future, your functional medicine doctor might use your dysbiosis index score to assess what treatments or diets to recommend. In the present, following a gut health algorithm and looking for symptomatic improvement is still a great option. https://drruscio.com/?p=29065

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0:26.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.2	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now, let's head to the show.
0:40.2	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Dr. Rousha Radio. This is Dr. Roushio. Today, I'm here with Dr. Sean Bennett.
0:44.2	And we're going to be talking about the GI Map stool test, or I'm sorry, the GAMap stool test.
0:50.4	Shouldn't be confused with the GIMap, two different tests. But this is what I think is perhaps
0:55.2	one of the tests that is closest to real clinical utility regarding mapping the microbiota.
1:02.9	And there's been a couple papers published, and Dr. Bennett is one of the authors on those papers,
1:08.0	and he was nice enough to come on the show and talk about some of his
1:10.9	research so sean welcome to the show and thanks for being here thank you very much you having me
1:15.5	i'm excited to talk about this and hopefully give as much information as i can yeah well it's
1:21.1	definitely an area where i think people are looking for a bit of light to be shed so i'm also very
1:26.4	much so looking forward to the conversation.
1:28.6	Tell people just in brief your background and how you got involved in some of the research
1:32.0	with the microbiota analyses.
1:35.6	Right. Well, I'm originally born and born in England. That's where I did my bachelor's.
1:39.7	Then moving over to Sweden, I did a master's actually, but that was in ecological toxicology.
1:45.9	So I've been quite around in different fields here.
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