So why do we feel ill?
The post I wrote last week, ‘Stuck, when your bowels rule your life’, raised a bit of a storm. Several people wrote into Facebook to assert how much worse Crohn’s … Continue reading
IBS: How can diarrhoea and constipation coexist in the same illness
This is one of the biggest mysteries of IBS. Alternating diarrhoea and constipation is a well known subset of IBS, but it is not always balanced. Many people with diarrhoea … Continue reading
Probiotics and Brain Fog
A few weeks ago, on a warm midsummer evening, Dr Derek Holdsworth and I listened with a mixture of awe and interest as our one time research fellow, Professor Satish … Continue reading
You’re only as sick as your secrets.
Jenny had had IBS ever since her early twenties. It was the pain deep in the pit of her stomach that affected her most. It made her feel unbearably sad … Continue reading
IBS and Dementia
And just when you thought things could not get any worse, a study was published last week showing that having IBS could cause you to be more at risk from … Continue reading
Growing away from the trauma and IBS
Everything that happens affects us. Most we process and forget about. It’s life! Things happen! But nothing significant, no encounter, surprise or change is ever completely deleted. It is filed … Continue reading
Feeling ill again? Is it your diet or might it be your chimp?
I’ve followed the diet so carefully, but I still get attacks of IBS, when everything I eat seem to upset me? Why does the pain always seem to get me … Continue reading
The Sensitive Gut 