IBS

A new research study demonstrates a significant link between healthy lifestyle choices and a reduced risk of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), highlighting the importance of behaviors such as not smoking, engaging in vigorous exercise, and getting sufficient sleep.Especially not smoking, plenty of vigorous exercise, and getting enough sleep.Adopting a healthy lifestyle is strongly linked to a lower risk of irritable bowel syndrome or IBS for short, finds research published online in the journal Gut.Of the big 5 healthy…

There's an invisible and unrelenting force acting on your bowels right now, and it may be causing some people serious irritation.No one really knows how or why irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) develops, but gastroenterologist Brennan Spiegel from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles outlined a weighty new hypothesis in 2022.In his paper, published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, Spiegel argues IBS is triggered by the body's inability to manage gravity.Our bowels, Spiegel explains, are like a big sack of…

There's an invisible and relentless force acting on your bowels right now, and it might be causing some people serious irritation.No one really knows how or why irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) develops, but gastroenterologist Brennan Spiegel from Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles has outlined a weighty new hypothesis.In a paper published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, Spiegel argues IBS is triggered by the body's inability to manage gravity.Our bowels, Spiegel explains, are like a big sack of potatoes…