Is it really possible to discuss Irritable Bowel Syndrome (or any other digestion related ailment) as if the ailment exists in a totally unrelated and separate category apart from the whole body and person or apart from other topics?

The blunt and true answer, I believe, is to reply “no.”

Diet, state of mind, and many other health issues such as a case of bad nerves have to impact in some way on a hyper-sensitive bowel. If you’re in the habit of leaving soluble fiber out of your diet, for example, you will likely experience the worst symptoms of IBS. That is because soluble fiber causes your digestion to move waste in a more even flow through your digestive tract.

And it’s not hard to imagine how a hyper, nervous, and reactive state of mind will impact on your gut to cause it to move waste more spasmodically and painfully.

It’s most likely true that the discovery of IBS treatments is impossible until we understand how various aspects of the whole person fit together.

That is why the newly created IBS Times news letter has adapted this philosophy of treating health topics as an inter-related whole. This means that the IBS Times explores a whole range of health-related topics.

By the way, that newsletter can be accessed just by subscribing to this site.

Glenn, subscriber to this site (email: glennf52@gmail.com)