 Hey everyone, this is Dr. Ruzio, I'm here with Juan who's had some really good results with elemental heal and he was kind enough to share his story with us and so we're here today to kind of expand on that. Juan, thank you so much for being here. Sure, thank you Dr. Ruzio. Can you tell people a little bit about this that you were kind of suffering with? Yeah, well, I was diagnosed after six years of trying to have babies with my wife. I was diagnosed with infertility, but at the same week I was also diagnosed with an autoimmune condition. Some kind of arthritis that the doctor couldn't really put her thumb on because of some blood work. So I started taking plaque in all or plaque and I don't know how you call it in English because I'm from Guatemala. And it didn't do much, it just made me feel worse, you know, it made my gut symptoms because I also had a lot of gut issues, it made me feel worse. So I tried something similar to the protocol you put on your book because at that moment I read another bunch of books on natural medicine and natural approaches to these kind of conditions. So I did something similar and it helped a lot. It helped a lot and three months later my wife got pregnant with those just following protocols, changing to a paleo diet and doing a bunch of herbs very similar to what you suggest in your book. But the gut issues and the joint issues were, even though they were better, they kind of were coming on and off. I didn't do the last part of your innate protocol, I don't know, I remember how you call them. Microbials or the feeding approach? No, it's the last, the last, the point where you, so you can keep on everything moving, the prokinetics, the prokinetics, right, that's what I was missing. I think one of the things I was missing. But anyways, I repeated blood exams and they all came back negative after seven or eight months or the blood work on the autoimmune condition. So I reversed supposedly all the blood work as well. It's incredible, you wouldn't believe it and I have a bunch of theories, but yeah, but some joint issues kept on coming back and some gut issues as well, it wouldn't heal completely. So I finally read your book and I'm going all the way with my testimony, but if you want to interrupt me at any point. This is good because what you're describing I think is a really important concept for people to understand, which is you can go through some of the book protocol, which is starting with dietary and lifestyle interventions and then things like probiotics and antimicrobials and for some people that will get them close to full remission, but not all the way there. Like you're describing, they'll still have some of these gut symptoms or joint symptoms or whatever symptoms kind of coming and going and that's exactly why one of the things you can next escalate to in the healthy, good, healthy protocol is the elemental diet. So I guess that's what you're kind of coming to next. Exactly. Yeah. I also read a bunch of theories about how fasting helps your body in general, you know, fasting is an amazing ancestral way of healing. And so I did a bunch of a couple of three day fasts and they kind of got me there, but they didn't really got me there. And at the third day, I was always fishing for food out. It was really hard. Yeah. Then I bought the elemental heal and I was like, all right, I'll try this. But I'll try the fast first and later I'll do the elemental heal. I'll try to do like Rambo, just go all the way, you know, dive in. And then so I did the fast. And on the third day, I thought to myself, I'll keep on going. I'll just use the elemental heal to keep me going, you know, on the really hard, because the third and the fourth day are the hardest days. So I use from going from a strict water fast and then you started getting hungry and you put in place of the water, the elemental heal, essentially. Exactly. That's what I also a great point. And one of the concepts I discussed in the book, which is theoretically, if we could have you water fast for two weeks, that would probably be great for your gut. That's going to be hard to do from a compliance perspective. And most people I just don't think are robust enough to be able to handle a one or two week fast, which is what's so nice about having nutrients available in the elemental heal. It's about as close as you can get to a fast, because the ingredients absorb so quickly in the intestinal tract, but you don't have to go hypochloric and labor under that feeling tired and hungry and irritable and not sleeping well if you're trying to do a prolonged water fast. Exactly. And that's exactly what I did. I used the elemental heal to keep me going. And then the hardest days were the third and the fourth, as I was saying. And so I kind of cheated if you might call it that. And I put I used a little bit only at night. You know, I did two scoops of elemental heal and just drank it. It was delicious, especially when you're fasting. It's like heaven on earth. And so also I didn't I used it and I did the seven day water fast. I kept on going just with water after that. And all the issues went away. Of course, I didn't have any gut issues because I didn't go to the bathroom after a couple of days. Sure. And on the seventh day, I started with the heal again. So I prolonged it a little bit and started with the healing protocol to start, you know, bringing food into my into my system again. I started with the elemental heal and it worked perfectly. All the symptoms stayed away and the gut issues. That was the only thing that I'd had a little bit of a hard time getting back to when with with the elemental heal because it's liquid. So I didn't go to the bathroom every day. And I wasn't sure, but I just I just let it let it be whatever it was. But I felt wonderful. And then I kept after the three days of elemental heal of the protocol you suggest in the bottles. I started incorporating some easy to digest like organic chicken broth and and and, you know, easy to digest veggies and stuff. And, man, it's I can tell you my life before that and after that. It is it was a huge change after that. I used the the because I bought three elemental heal bottles. And so I had still had a lot of it. So I used it for intermittent fasting. Sure. You know, and so how are we using that? Were you sipping on an elemental he'll shake throughout the morning and then having lunch and dinner? Or no, I just skip dinner. Got you skipped dinner. OK. Yeah, I prefer to eat in morning. OK, yeah, everyone has a different application. And I mean, right, there's so many great things here. One I just want to kind of bookmark is the fact that you don't have to use the elemental heal according to a really rigid guideline. Sometimes people have a hard time with, well, I'm either going to use it for two full weeks to treat SIBO or if I'm not doing that, then how am I supposed to use it? And there's not necessarily a right way or a wrong way or a black and white box that you have to use it in. And so in your case, you know, the water fasting was something that intuitively felt like it was going to be a good therapy for you. You weren't able to fully do that on its own. So you added in the elemental heal as a way to help get you there, which is perfect. It's really listening to your body. It's personalizing the use to what seems to work for the individual. And then from there, you went into what I would call kind of the hybrid approach where you have some food and some elemental diet or, you know, right, using it in an intermittent fasting approach. And you're you use it at dinner. Some people use it in the morning, but just a great reminder that you can listen to your own body and let your intuition guide you a little bit. And as your perfect testimony to on the other side of that, you can experience significant healing, even if you didn't do it quite exactly as it's typically recommended to do. Right. Right. And one thing I want to add about it is that it gives you the opportunity because I think fasting or using heal in a prolonged way is a great opportunity to also go inside of yourself and deal with the cravings and deal with your emotional issues. And I think that's something I don't remember if you put it on your book or if I've seen it because I'm a big fan of your website and the interviews you give. But I think it's something that that it might help people out to to put their minds on the fact that the emotional issues are also treated when you do when you do that, all all the connections you have with your gut and your emotion and with your life and your health in general. You deal with that when when you do this kind of protocols. And it's for me, that was very intense and very powerful tool as well. So so it was great. Great. Well, awesome. So very, very happy to hear that. And glad that you found the book, found Elemental Heal. You've used this successfully. And so is it fair to say that your symptoms are pretty much all gone now? I mean, I don't expect you to feel perfect because I think perfect is sometimes this ideal that we strive for, but it can never fully reach. No one feels perfect, but not machines or humans. We have ups and downs, but I'm assuming, like you said, you alluded to there's kind of this night and day difference between then and now. So now joints are good, gut is good, sounds like emotionally you're feeling well. Right. My joints are good. The only thing that I still have an issue with is my knee, my right knee, but I had surgery because I had a trauma, a trauma there. So that has nothing to do with what we were talking about. And but then the rest, I'm feeling awesome. I'm feeling really, really good. Yeah. And are you still using it in kind of this intermittent fasting hybrid application, the Elemental Heal? No, I finished all the bottles I had and now I'm just doing the intermittent fasting with with just water at night, three times a week. And I I look better than ever naked. No, it's a plus. Yeah, but that's health, you know, so healthy is beautiful. So anyways, just doing the element and then the water intermittent fasting because I don't have the heel anymore. Great. Yeah. So one thing I'll just add in in terms of thoughts for the road forward. If at some point things feel like they might regress, which they may, they may not, but especially if you end up traveling or one of the things that people are traveling that they may go do a location wedding and they don't have control over their food or their lifestyle. They're not sleeping well. They're maybe celebrating drinking alcohol and they feel like their gut gets a little bit banged up from that sort of process. That's always when you can revisit a short course of a couple of days on the elemental heel, just as a touch up. So you probably have already gathered that from your prior experience and just learning from what's worked for you in the past, but just a little note to make there. All right. All right. Thank you very much. And do you recommend also using and I'm not using this as a personal appointment, but it's for everyone. Repeating the herbs to heal the gut after after a while. Like, is this a recurring thing as well or just or not really? Great question. It really depends on the individual. Some people will go through the gut healing protocol and they'll never look back and then some people will have to periodically revisit some of what worked well for them in the past. And there's no real right or wrong answer there. But what I encourage people to do is reflect on what they felt worked best for them in the protocol and then revisit that. So for some, for example, some people do very well in the probiotic protocol and they can revisit that for other people, the probiotic protocol may not have gotten them all the way there. They may have noticed the most cathartic changes when they did the antimicrobials or the elemental heel. And so I revisit what seemed to give you the most results, but you can also decrease the dose and the duration. So if just using arbitrary example here, if someone had to do two weeks exclusively on the elemental diet to finally get better and then they're feeling way better, but six months later, a year later, they feel like they've made regressed by 20 percent. You don't have to go to the full two weeks again if you've only regressed slightly. You might be able to get away with four days. So just listen to your body there. And at four days, you're feeling fantastic. Then you can transition back to food or kind of that mix and match hybrid approach where you have, let's say, four days exclusive and then you could do another four days where you're doing half food, half elemental heel and then slowly taper off as your body indicates. All right. All right. That's that's very intuitive and logical. But yeah, yeah, good, good. So this is recap your symptoms one more time. There was there was joint pain. Was there also fatigue or any? I don't want to say depression, but it sounds like your moods are better now. So I'm assuming maybe your moods weren't quite as bright. Well, I got to say the depression came when I got the the the results of the exams and I went to the actual doctor and they told me what I supposedly had. That's when the depression really kicked in. But before that, analyzing, I had joint pain. I had a fatigue. I had a lot of phlegm. I had got issues. My eyes were itchy and I was I was I felt like I was I was swollen, you know, like an uneasy feeling all over like my mouth felt strange, you know, like dry. And that's that's the broad impact that irritation in the gut can have, because that that really, in my opinion, is one of the main seats of information for the whole body. And so what that sounds to me like you were experiencing this systemic inflammatory response, which can manifest dermatologically or in the eyes in the nasal cavity can also manifest rheumatologically in the joints. And it can even manifest with things neurologically. So, you know, this is this is a great example of how inflammation in the guts can really lead you a broad spectrum of global symptoms. And it can be it can be tempting to want to try to treat each one of those, you know, eye drops, your joints. So what we want is really getting to the root cause of the issues in the gut. And then we can see all these symptoms ameliorate. So fantastic, fantastic work. Really, really, thank you. And thank you so much for sharing your story with us. Sure. Thank you for doing everything that you're doing because you're helping. I'm using your book to help a bunch of people because I I'm a nutritionist now and I'm helping people go through stuff. And so I use your book a lot to to guide them and to help them out. So thank you as well. Awesome. Absolute pleasure. It makes me feel good about what I'm doing to hear that. So thank you. And for everyone at home, if you haven't tried the Elemental Heal, one option for you on your gut healing journey. All right. Thank you. Bye bye.