Utilising bio-individual nutrition and functional medicine: 6 month program.
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IBS is not a disease in and of itself. It is a collection of symptoms that are caused by other health factors. Other factors that are often overlooked, or not looked into at all. Often leaving you with symptom relief, but without any solutions to address the cause of the digestive distress! But there is no need to live with the throws of IBS long-term, you can address Irritable Bowel Syndrome by testing your gut health to discover what's causing the IBS symptoms, and then you can make a clear plan to fix the cause and heal your gut. Irritable Bowel Syndrome... Don't you just love the diagnoses of exclusion and the term 'syndrome'?! For millions of people who experience digestive distress on a daily basis -
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If you suffer from gut issues like constipation, slow bowels, diarrhoea, bloating, gas, pain, food intolerances... You are no doubt feeling frustrated by the lack of answers to these problems in mainstream medicine. Chances are you have done some basic tests or even an endoscopy and/or colonoscopy to only be told you have IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and just to avoid your 'trigger foods'. Maybe you've been told you have 'leaky gut'. Maybe it's SIBO. Maybe it's stress or 'all in your head'. In clinic I adopt the strategy of 'Test, don't guess'. This is a far more reliable approach and I honestly believe it's essential. Gut microbiome testing is the missing piece to resolving these and many other issues. Understanding your gut function as well as your
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This question is so pervasive today and seems to be almost un-answerable. There are many diverse philosophies when it comes to a dietary strategy and each one claims to be the best. From paleo to vegan, low carb high fat, vegetarian, fodmaps, weight watchers, blood type, ketogenic, gluten free, the list goes on and on.
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In our world we do things fast. No time to stop to eat, so we eat in the car. Pressure to multi-task: so we eat whilst working. Nobody to eat with: so we eat whilst watching TV. Fast lives don't work well with our human digestive system: it needs things to be done slooooowly. Our digestive system works on the 'rest and digest' mode of the nervous system, whilst many of us are spending way too long in the 'fight and flight' mode during pretty much the entire day. What's wrong with rushed eating? Not enough time for the brain to start thinking about food. Our digestion starts in the brain: thinking about food, smelling food, salivating about food. This is actually how it's supposed to work! Cooking your own meal helps enormously
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