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Are you experiencing depression, fatigue, thyroid imbalances, joint pain, insomnia, brain fog, inflammation or autoimmunity? Did you know your symptoms could be caused by a problem in your gut? Even if you don't have gas, bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and/or constipation you could greatly benefit from improving your health at the core, your gut.
In Healthy Gut, Healthy You, clinician and researcher Dr. Michael Ruscio shows how modern lifestyle changes and the widespread use of antibiotics have made our guts more vulnerable than ever before.
The good news is that almost any ailment can be healed. The key is not just managing the symptoms but treating the root cause; the gut. Restoring this crucial part of your overall health improves the performance of your whole body from the inside out - and it's easier than you think to get started.
You don't have to follow crazy diets or spend a fortune to get healthy. Instead, read Healthy Gut, Healthy You to discover:

THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR GUT
DIET FOR OPTIMUM GUT HEALTH
LIFESTYLE AND ENVIRONMENT FOR OPTIMUM GUT HEALTH
TOOLS FOR HEALING YOUR GUT
THE GREAT-IN-8 ACTION PLAN

A vibrant, healthy you begins with your gut! Start healing your body today with Healthy Gut, Healthy You!

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A must-read for anyone looking to improve their gut health.
I have studied gut health for nearly 20 years and have encountered few people with the level of knowledge on this topic that Dr. Ruscio possesses. Interestingly, his knowledge is not confined merely to research concepts, nor a purely clinical understanding. Dr. Ruscio is unique in that his knowledge and experience are at the highest level of both theory and practical application of improving gut health. His book is a must-read for anyone looking to improve their gut health.
Robb Wolf, New York Times Best Selling Author

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Improving the health of your gut can have a tremendous impact on the rest of your body. By improving gut health, you can experience weight loss, improved mood, better blood sugar and cholesterol levels, better energy and sleep, improved thyroid health, balanced hormones, better skin, and less joint pain. Let's get you healthy and get you back to your life.

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Dr. Ruscio's book is THE authority to learn about and heal your gut.
As a dietitian with celiac, I have a high interest in helping people heal their guts. Dr. Ruscio's book is the authority to learn about the microbiome and how it relates to diet, sleep, movement, sunlight, and stress. If you're confused between diets like Elemental and low-FODMAP, and wondering whether taking probiotics or adding fiber or digestive enzymes might help you, this is the book you need. It's a fantastic resource, complete with evidence and sound interpretation for both clinicians and those who have not seen results through traditional routes.
Diana Rodgers, licensed registered dietician nutritionist and creator of SustainableDish.com
Diana Rodgers, SustainableDish.com

I highly recommend Dr. Ruscio's book for both the suffering patient and clinicians looking to sharpen their skills.
Dr. Ruscio is a leader in our field of functional medicine. He has always impressed me with his science-based approach that also includes a practical application emphasis. I believe highly skilled clinicians who have strong evidence-based backgrounds are what our profession needs to advance and take its rightful place as a leading option for sick patients; Dr. Ruscio delivers in this regard. I would highly recommend his book for both the suffering patient and the clinician looking to sharpen their skills.
Dr. Dan Kalish, Internationally recognized expert in functional medicine

Those helped by his book are living proof of Dr. Ruscio's exemplary approach.
I have enjoyed the support, guidance, and inspiration of a short list of thought leaders in the holistic health space. Dr. Michael Ruscio is on this list and is an exemplary model of a rare clinician who can effectively translate cutting-edge science into clinical efficacy. His book and those it has helped are living proof of his deep understanding of systems biology and specifically an advanced approach to the ancient practice of starting with the gut.
Kelly Brogan MD ABIHM, Author of the NY Times Bestseller A Mind of Your Own

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Over two thousand years ago, Hippocrates said that all disease begins in the gut. Now backed by extensive scientific research, this idea still holds true today. In Healthy Gut, Healthy You, clinician and researcher Dr. Michael Ruscio shows how modern lifestyle changes and the widespread use of antibiotics have made our guts--and the essential bacteria they contain--more vulnerable than ever before.

The good news is that almost any ailment--including depression, fatigue, weight gain, autoimmunity, insomnia, and hypothyroidism--can be healed. The key is not just managing the symptoms but treating the root cause: the gut. Restoring this crucial part of your overall health improves the performance of your whole body from the inside out--and it's easier than you think to get started.

You don't have to follow crazy diets or spend a fortune to get healthy. Instead, read this book to discover

how the gut works and its role in your body,
practical diet and lifestyle advice to support your gut health,
simple and actionable tools to repair your gut, and
an innovative, user-friendly plan to heal, support, and revitalize your gut.

A vibrant, healthy you begins with your gut--start healing your body today!

About the Author

Dr. Michael Ruscio is a functional medicinepractitioner, clinical researcher, and international lecturer. He is aleader in the movement to make integrative medicine and natural healthsolutions more accepted and accessible. His clinical practice is located in Northern California.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B078ZLMRCL
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Ruscio Institute, LLC (February 15, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 15, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 12536 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 627 pages

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Michael Ruscio is a doctor, clinical researcher, and author working fervently to reform and improve the fields of functional and integrative medicine. With his clinical and research teams, he scours existing studies to inform his ongoing clinical research, patient care, and guidance for health seekers and fellow clinicians around the world. His primary focus is digestive health and its impact on other facets of health, including energy, sleep, mood, and thyroid function and optimization.

Dr. Ruscio’s research has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, and he speaks at integrative medical conferences across the globe. While actively seeing patients in his clinic, he also runs an influential blog and podcast, as well as a newsletter for functional medicine practitioners.

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J. Benson

Fantastic, accessible resource

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024

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I am quite pleased with my purchase of this book and do intend to update this review after working through at least some of the protocol. For some background, I have a (western-trained) medical background, but I have been floundering with chronic IBS-D for years. I have been pregnant/nursing for several years, but now am finally able to complete a rigorous protocol without fear of harming incubating babies/nurslings. I haven’t yet started the protocol yet, but it is sound and methodical.

This book is highly accessible in terms of pricing and verbiage. I do agree that it gets a little repetitive here and there, but I think he was going for thorough, especially for the lay-person gut-newbie.I disagree with the ‘money-grab’ supplement complaint that many have voiced. (He references his own line of products in his books). Seeing a functional medicine practitioner can cost thousands, between visits, testing, and supplements. It can be absolutely cost prohibitive. This plan is absolutely and intentionally DIY-able. For healing, depending on how sick you are, you’re going to likely need supplements anyway, so buy his or shop around, it’s pretty simple. If I wrote a book, I’d probably direct you toward my figurative robustly researched supplement line as well, lol. I don’t expect him to spend time, effort, and print space on advertising for someone else.

To further negate the supplement money grab complaint, I found that he was SUPER conservative in his supplement recommendations— I.e. if diet changes clear your problems, great! You’re done! You don’t need probiotics or antimicrobials or HCl. He was also very conservative in his recommendations on testing. Gut issues (and subsequently, gut healing) are far-reaching, and you fix a lot of them the same way. Neat!

[Also, his DC (Doctor of chiro) credentials are front and center on the cover. Nothing sneaky about it. He is also a functional medicine practitioner, which requires significant further training and is essentially like another degree. If the MD label is important to you, go read a book by an MD. However, we have all likely been under the care of an MD our whole lives, and we are now somehow chronically ill…. Hm.]

So yes, $30 for the book. Potentially several hundred dollars in supplementation, either with him or through other companies on whom you better do your due diligence. (Not all supplement companies are created equal.) Overall, it’s a steal. Thanks, Dr. Ruscio, for putting such a well-researched, succinct, personalizable plan into our hands for such an incredible price. I genuinely hope he makes piles of money from it over the years, because it is not a money grab, it’s the life’s work of a compassionate practitioner who has recognized that sometimes people get sick in seasons of life where they don’t have an extra couple grand floating around. I’m just a mom of three wild young boys who wants to be alive and well and chasing my grandbabies around in a few decades. Here’s to our health! Will update in 6m-1y!

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This book transformed my life. - Take. My. Money.

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2022

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(I am going to update this review intermittently as I progress further through the 8 Step Program that this book provides.)

3/4/2022:

So you have stepped yourself into the realm of learning about the gut microbiome. Congratz to you my fellow person. Though this is just one review from one person, I am going to already tell you humbly, yet rightfully, arrogantly; you are making the right decision in purchasing this book.

My reason for buying this book: Crippling Depression. “What’s that look like?” you may ask:
“I’m not good enough for anything. I can’t make friends. Social phobia, is what I came to, very loosely, define it as, as I finally learned about it one day in my empty, seemingly meaningless life. Wow, I can’t even make eye contact. I’m awkward af. People see me as a weirdo and I can see it in their eyes, their facial reactions, their emotional behavior and affect towards me. Why am I the way I am. God, why did you make me smart enough to know what I do is wrong in front of the presence of others but not smart enough to know what to do right around them? I wish I got hit by a car. Or somehow something can just kill me instantly. To put me out of my misery. And for the sake of those around me so I wouldn’t be such a burden to them. Dang, I slept until 4pm again. And late to work as always. I can’t do anything right at work. I can’t even count the number of items that I’m supposed to be giving to the customer, without losing count. Right the customer, the very thing I’m so afraid of. The very reason why I gave up trying to work in the first place. Well it’s not like I can keep a job if I wanted to, I’m always sleeping on the job. Well, since I don’t work, I can at least enjoy my free time at home right? LOL. You’re funny! Fun? What’s that? Watching Netflix; reading a book; listening to music; hanging out with people who I was lucky enough to care for me; draw; browsing Youtube and anything else on the internet; it’s all a bunch of EFFORT! YEAH; those who know what anhedonia is, you feel me. Not only am I a piece of sh*t but so are the circumstances of my life: sh*t. Like all the cringy things I ever did in the past, why can’t those haunting thoughts ever leave me alone. What if I don’t die early and I have to live the rest of my life the way I am now? I can’t do this… And I’m too cowardly to take my own life too.

………

Okay, so my life is sh*t. So what? I can try to at least watch the short versions of inspiration TED talks… Hmm that seems like some useful advice I can try, what could it hurt? This breathing technique seems to help… sometimes. So from what I’ve seen, there ARE people out there that have it way worse than me and can still be happy. I’m going to give therapy another try. Sigh, after months of therapy life still seems to suck. CBT works for me kinda but not really…? No matter how many highs I get where I feel like things are actually getting better, things still always fall back to baseline where things are: sh*t.”

………….

So that was a very dramatic painting of my life (thank you, thank you) before I bought this book. It was nice and colorful to reach the attention of those that understand what real sh*t feels like. Especially after trying so much but to no avail. It was in November 2021 that I purchased this book. And of the SEVERAL books that I bought during that time, to feed my voracious appetite for the knowledge that (at the time I thought) COULD potentially change my life, it was this book that I now hold as my “bible” of transformative health.

Honestly, this was just another try, another attempt, of a multitude of attempts, to improve my life for the better. But several months down the road of applying the things that I’ve read from this book, it didn’t become just aNoThEr try. It became THE SOLUTION that made (I’m not going to say ALL the difference because I don’t want anyone to get the impression that this is the “solve all” book) SO much positive difference to the quality of my life now. In short, my depression and my propensity to think so negatively and lowly of everything and myself is at least 70-80% gone. It doesn’t feel like I have to use effortful coping mechanisms to improve my experience of life; life is just better now. I can actually LIVE life like it is meant for. And also important to mention: my mind is actually sharper now (which was a possibility that I never imagined could even happen to me). Things are nowhere near perfect but that’s the thing, better is better. Truthfully, my energy and day time fatigue is still something that needs to be improved but I’m only on Step 3 of the 8 step program given by this book. I will say as a disclaimer to be as genuine as possible: my positive thinking was not given to me like someone who miraculously got new superpowers and began using them after attaining them. I’ve made lots of mental efforts to shift my frame of thinking (depressed readers, please do not be discouraged by that). BUT it was the transformation of my physical health from this book that has redefined and restructured my mental health to be at a new mental foundational ground and it has created a new psychological baseline where the ability to be positive is more consistently in my favor. In other words, I have a new frame of being and a mental structure that will prevent me from falling down to the depths of my old ways of thinking.

Reasons why this book is my GO-TO book:

1. It covers all the informational knowledge one needs to know regarding the gut bacteria and how it can influence our health, more or less, compared to the other books I’ve read.

2. MAIN REASON: It has a step by step program that will allow you to understand the reasons for the changes you will be making in your diet/life and will hold your hand in guiding you to make the right changes to your gut health and body.

To the critics and those who are easily influenced by negative reviews:

The doctor who wrote this book has done such a worldly virtue to compact all the information you need to know about the gut bacteria, how it can influence your health, AND a step by step guide to get you to the optimal state you can be at with your body and mind. Please overlook the narrow-minded cynicism of thinking and believing that this book is just a marketing funnel to buy his heath products. YES, I will explicitly say this: you WILL be spending money in addition to this book as you progress through the program that he has provided. But, come on, think bigger man. This man can save your life! For someone who has given all else a try with little to no change for what I’ve always yearned for; a decent quality of life; discovering THAT person who can actually give that to me, bruh, Take. My. Money. You not only earned it but, you rightfully deserve it.

If you’ve made it this far into my review: so you may not be having the same exact issues that I was/am having with my life. I would still say; give this book a try. I only absorb information that is relevant to me but from what I can pull from my own knowledge (from what I've read about it of course), gut bacteria has such a HUGE role in our overall health. Just do it. Once again, I am now on Step 3 of the 8 step program. Only Step 3! And this is the review that I am posting for it.

Will keep yall posted on how things progress.

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Ana

Não vale a pena

Reviewed in Brazil on November 13, 2022

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Muito geral e o autor não orienta diretamente nesse livro. Para as dietas ele pede para clicar no link que vai direcionar para outro livro, outra compra. Marketing, mais um vez... Tá difícil para nós vivermos nessa savana capital.

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Joni-Kong

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Reviewed in Germany on June 24, 2021

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Inhaltlich ist das Buch übersichtlich und extrem an wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen orientiert. Keine schrägen Theorien warum was wie funktioniert, sondern ergebnisorientierte Bewertungen von jemandem, der hunderte von Patienten gesehen hat.

Meine eigenen Verdauungsprobleme versuche ich jetzt seit über drei Jahren in den Griff zu bekommen und habe dutzende Ärzte gesehen und vieles ausprobiert. Das meiste hatte keinen großen Effekt.

Das Protokoll am Ende des Buches hat jetzt schon mehr Fortschritte gebracht als fast alles andere, was ich bisher versucht habe. Ich bin sehr gespannt, wie weit ich damit komme und bin jetzt schon begeistert von den Ergebnissen.

Da die Versandkosten von Dr Ruscios Webseite nach Deutschland zu hoch waren, hab ich andere Produkte gewählt:
P3OM von Bioptimizers
Perenterol forte
Bacillus Coagulans von Thorne

In meinem Fall alles single strain, weil ich viele Probiotika nicht gut vertrage. So konnte ich ganz langsam eins nach dem anderen einführen und die Effekte beobachten.

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TOuteLaf

AMAZING PRAGMATIC INFORMATION

Reviewed in France on November 12, 2020

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That was a hell of a great book! No one really talks about how digestive problems may be the root cause for symptoms all over the body such as fatigue, depression...
I was a little bit familiar with the concept of the microbiome but Dr Ruscio takes it to another level! He mixes an approach based on High Clinical Evidence & Experience and A lot of human psychology. His plan to make everyone guts feel better can only not make sense to a foolish person.

A must have!

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Jennifer

I am certainly doing better, but my gut just won't heal

Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2018

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This book is written with clarity and is only evidenced-based. He wants the reader to understand clearly what he is trying to convey. I have already worked through Amy Myers protocol, and have Hashimotos, along with an extreme gluten allergy and lots of food sensitivities. Dr. Ruscio brings and unusual sense of empowerment to the reader, and discourages readers from beating themselves up. He clearly wants to create healing and freedom from the constant money gouging from the supplement industry and the huge fees for medical appointments and testing for patients desperate to get to the bottom of their issues. After the base I have built with Amy Myers protocol, I am certainly doing better, but my gut just won't heal, so I will now start working through his protocol. He uses higher dose multiple probiotics, and a more comprehensive multi-step program to remove pathogenic overgrowth in the small intestine. While I am not a medical professional, I am well-read, and because this book is concise and comprehensive, fully documented and easy to reference quickly, I think medical doctors and other health professionals would find this an invaluable addition to their library.

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Iva

A therapist in your pocket...a must have!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2020

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Amazing book, very detailed and clear process. Saves you time researching your health and saves you money spent on doctors that have they own agenda. It is really hard to find good functional doctors, but this book is amazing and clear. I was seeing a nutritional therapist for half a year, I spent a lot on testing, appointments and supplements just to see my gut health get worse. When I said enough that I wasn’t going to spend on useless appointments The therapist never reached back or anything. I wish I had found this book last year. I’m starting step 1 the day after tomorrow. But above all I agree that we should focus on our lives and less on online searches about our health. Thank you for the great book.

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