Gut Health and Performance with Dr Ruscio

This week on the ETP podcast it is all about gut health and how it affects performance. Dr Mike T (hey that is me) interviews Dr Michael Ruscio whose knowledge of gut health is amazing. Dr Ruscio is a great friend and my personal doc who I enrolled to get me back on track when I crashed my body post PhD. Listen in as we discuss: • Where the friendship began . . . (0:40) • Professor’s different responses to new information (2:37) • Seeking support and challenge for hypothesis (4:46) • Dr. Mike T saw Dr. Mike about gut health after he was burnt out (6:06) • Dr. Ruscio’s background (6:25) • Insomnia, depression and brain fog part of digestive issues (8:08) • Functional and natural medicine updated and researched (11:26) • Is Dr. Mike T’s journey with gut health the norm of how patients find Dr. Ruscio? (12:53) • What are common digestive symptoms? (16:02) • With those symptoms, what kind of follow up? (17:55) • Is there such thing as over testing in natural medicine? (19:47) • Is food allergy testing over done? • Microbiotic testing; what is it? (27:40) • Pan allergic or parasite (30:15) • Odds of gluten sensitivity (32:40) • Sea urchin story; analogy for irritant • Long term objective is expansion (37:30) • Stress is a factor in EVERYTHING. (38:40) • Scaling back training? What? 41:31 • Hormone supports and stress (44:16) • Bacterial balance similar to GI testing (45:35) • Probiotics to try (48:27) • Adrenal support (50:18) • Top 3 things to do (53:13) • Diet discussion (55:17)