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How to customize your diet to YOUR body

Confused about what to eat? The options for gut-healing diets are overwhelming. And there’s so much conflicting info about the benefits or danger of fiber, fat, carbs, meat and fat. For example, for IBS, the options are many. There’s Paleo, […]

How to improve fat digestion with IBS

One of the more common symptoms of IBS is the decreased ability to digest fats. People with IBS seem to fall into two camps. The first group have trouble processing fats but don’t know it and eat it anyway. The […]

The best GI test for IBS

What increases your chances of conquering IBS is taking responsibility for your health and educating yourself about natural solutions. But there are some pitfalls to this approach also. The biggest one is self diagnosing yourself during your Internet research based […]

Travel tips for IBS

Travel has a bigger effect on the gut that we can even imagine. Even fun trips can be disruptive to the autonomic nervous system that runs digestion. The gut functions best when it is among familiarity and routine. It is […]

Easy 3 ingredient dairy-free yogurt recipe

There is a false belief that you can recolonize your gut with probitoics. Not true. In reality, probiotic foods and supplements don’t move in as residents. They act more like tourists by adding diversity and boosting the local economy. Or […]

Why biofilms can be a missing piece for IBS

When I had IBS, doctors told me the problem was in my head. It wasn’t. After the blood tests, endoscopy and colonoscopy came back normal, doctors were out of ideas. They couldn’t identify the cause of my boating, constipation, heart […]

The how chi gong can fix your gut

I recently met with a friend from grad school who I hadn’t seen in 20 years. We exchanged stories of getting sick a few years after leaving school. I told her about beating IBS and she shared how she got […]