Simple question about Radon-Nikodym derivative/integrating wrt an integral

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This relates to the top answer here: Question on integral, notation and Nikodym derivative

Suppose that $\nu << \mu$. Then we can find a non-negative $f$ s.t.

$$\nu(E) = \int_{E} d\nu = \int_{E} fd\mu$$.

So far, things seem clear to me. My question is the following: Though it makes intuitive sense, how can we be sure that

$$\int_{E} d\nu = \int_{E} fd\mu \Rightarrow \int_{E} gd\nu = \int_{E} gfd\mu$$ for all integrable functions $g$? In the top answer to the question I linked to above, the following claim is made:

For every integrable $g$, the following formula holds:

$$\int_{E} gd(\int_{E} fd\mu) = \int_{E} gfd\mu$$.

It therefore seems that a justification/proof of this claim would answer my question.

I have been exposed to some measure theory and integration theory a few years back, and as I was revising some material recently, this claim was not clear to me. Perhaps this claim is obvious, and my confusion simply arises from a poor understanding of important definitions. Either way, any help in understanding this claim is much appreciated.

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For reference to future readers and to mark this question as answered. The comment from Prahlad Vaidyanathan under the original post answers my question. The result is given as a theorem in the book Real Analysis: Measures, Integrals and Applications, by Makarov and Podkorytov (p. 146). The proof in that book is essentially the same as the argument given by Prahlad Vaidyanathan.