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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome back. Today,

let's discuss testing for IBS and also diets for IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, which affects up to 15 to 20% of the population, gas, bloating, abdominal

pain, discomfort, constipation, diarrhea, or an oscillation of the two are the hallmark symptoms.

So let's first jump into what one can do regarding testing to assess the cause of IBS.

And this comes inspired from a question Jill posed.

I was recently diagnosed with IBS.

My questions are, what testing would you recommend and what diet would you recommend?

So thank you, Jill, for the question.

And let's unpack this.

Now, when it comes to testing, it's really important to clarify,

especially in the realm of

functional GI care, that not all the tests, unfortunately, have been validated.

There are so many labs and so many markers popping up.

And sadly, for the healthcare consumer, many of these labs have not been shown to be helpful

or even accurate. In fact, just

this morning, I was reading a user review who took one stool sample, sent it to two different

lab testing companies, and had vastly different results. So it's not to say stool testing

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