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Michael Ruscio is a DC, clinical researcher, and author working fervently to reform and improve the fields of functional and integrative health. 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, DC, 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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Michael Ruscio is a DC, clinical researcher, and author working fervently to reform and improve the fields of functional and integrative health. 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, DC, book, Healthy Gut, Healthy You, has paved the way for a ‘start with the gut’ philosophy that has enabled doctors and patients to see improved outcomes with minimal expense and effort.
Since 2011, Dr. Ruscio, DC has pioneered the way to providing practical, cost-effective functional medicine care by pragmatically applying evidence-based therapies to thousands of people with real symptoms. Dr. Ruscio’s, DC, ability to objectively analyze medical literature has made him a trusted voice of reason, which he shares in his top-rated podcast and blog, and in a newsletter for functional medicine practitioners.
From Dr. Ruscio, DC
Functional and alternative health can be extremely helpful for a wide array of symptoms and ailments, including depression, fatigue, brain fog, bloating, constipation, abdominal pain, weight gain, joint pain, autoimmunity, and thyroid health. That said, please bear in mind these important contextual points:
- The scientific documentation supporting the effectiveness of natural therapies is incontrovertible in many areas of healthcare, especially (but not only) for digestive maladies.
- Alternative medicine is not a panacea, and it’s important for even the most ardent supporters of natural medicine to realize that conventional medicine has its time and place.
- Overzealousness in alternative medicine has led to unnecessarily complicated recommendations, including overly restrictive diets, excessive supplement programs, and expensive testing, all of which can be debilitating.
Functional health can lead to substantial improvements in one’s health. I advocate for a progressive but cautious model that will provide you with helpful recommendations for improving your health while remaining sensitive to cost and practicality.
If you are searching for a reasonable voice that is not ‘anti-medicine’ and will not make you afraid of food, feel dependent upon supplements, or subject you to expensive and unnecessary testing, I invite you to explore the information on this site.
Personal Experience
Dr. Ruscio, DC, fell ill during his twenties. He eventually found the cause of his problem: a gut infection. In retrospect, he had wasted a lot of time and money trying to treat his symptoms with complicated natural therapies. As a result of that experience, Dr. Ruscio, DC strives to teach other patients and clinicians how to avoid making the same mistakes.
Training and Credentials
Dr. Ruscio, DC has a diverse training background. His undergraduate studies were in exercise science and pre-med, but after conventional medicine failed to treat his illness, he departed from his plans to become a medical doctor. Instead, his positive personal experience with alternative medicine led him to pursue a career as a chiropractic doctor and functional health practitioner.
Although he knew he was on the right path, during his training in alternative medicine, he became concerned by the dogma and lack of scientific rigor in parts of the field. Today, Dr. Ruscio, DC works to provide what he considers an optimal balance of progressive, natural medicine-focused solutions, applied within a conservative, practical, and evidence-based model.
- Doctor of Chiropractic
- Naturopathic Practitioner
- Adjust Faculty, University of Bridgeport
- Clinical Researcher
- Post-doctoral Continuing Education Provider
- B.S. Exercise Kinesiology – University of Massachusetts
Awards
American Naturopathic Medical Association
Higher Achievement Award Winner
August 2021
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