Are you ready to get rid of your bloating, diarrhea and constipation for good?

Do you have digestive symptoms, such as gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, and indigestion? Have you been diagnosed with IBS? These symptoms and/or a diagnosis of IBS can be frustrating, especially if you haven’t been offered much for treatment options. There are ways to treat your gut and digestive system and this course will allow you to dive into your personal health history and symptoms to figure out an individualized treatment plan just for you. We have to figure out the root cause of your digestive symptoms, and this course will do just that.

Treating the gut comes down to figuring out what the root underlying issues are.

Suffering through these symptoms is not your only option. There are many different treatment options that range from lifestyle and diet changes to supplements and pharmaceuticals and everything in between. There are things that you can be doing at home on your own to drastically change your symptoms. You are capable of change, so let’s get started and eliminate your symptoms so you can get your life back!

If you’ve been diagnosed with IBS:

In order to treat IBS, you have to know what is causing the IBS. There are multiple factors that contribute to IBS and addressing all of them is a key factor in healing IBS.

IBS

What is IBS? IBS is a digestive tract disorder that is diagnosed based on a change in your bowel patterns which can be diarrhea, constipation, or alternating diarrhea and constipation.

Unfortunately, a diagnosis of IBS is not helpful in treating your symptoms. Conventionally speaking, doctors will diagnose IBS when they can’t figure out what is causing your symptoms. It is called a “diagnosis of exclusion” which means that you didn’t fall into any of their known categories and so they diagnose you with IBS for lack of a better diagnosis available to them. If you have been diagnosed with IBS, you have probably been left feeling lost and somewhat hopeless at the lack of treatment options that were provided to you.

That’s where we come in. IBS is definitely treatable. We treat the underlying causes which caused your digestive symptoms in the first place, not just the symptoms. If you are only treating the symptoms, such as fiber for constipation or an anti-diarrheal medication for diarrhea, your success in treatment will be extremely limited. We need to treat what caused your symptoms in order to eliminate them.

Symptoms: IBS symptoms are digestive symptoms including diarrhea, constipation, gas, bloating, and abdominal pain. This doesn’t mean that the origin of all of these symptoms comes from the gut though.

So what really causes IBS? IBS is due to imbalances in your gut, your stress response, and even your hormones. These imbalances come from your diet and nutrition, digestive tract dysfunction, gut microbiome (the bacteria that live in your gut) dysbiosis and infections, hormone and neurotransmitter imbalances, and stress, all of which impact one another.

Is IBS treatable? IBS is definitely treatable. You need to treat the underlying cause to resolve IBS. Diet, gut health, and restoring your gut microbiome play defining roles in managing IBS, and so does your body’s stress response. We need to support the adrenal glands (the glands that control your body’s stress response) to help your body cope with stress better, manage inflammation, and lessen the physical effects it has on your body, especially the effects on your digestive tract.

What can I do for my IBS?

IBS is multi-factorial and what works to help resolves one person’s IBS may not work for another. You have to figure out what your individual root causes are and deal with those to see your IBS resolve. For some, that may be simply restoring balance in the microbiome after multiple courses (often over years) of antibiotics. For others, it may be a complete diet overhaul. And for others, it may all come down to stress, what they do about, and how they handle it moving forward. There are key factors that we address when working with IBS, let’s figure out yours.

References:

https://www.med.unc.edu/ibs/files/2017/10/IBS-and-Hormones.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5864293/