Conquer IBS: 3 steps to healthier digestion

ZOE Science & Nutrition

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Nutrition, Science, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a lot more common than you might think. In fact, it affects 1 in 10 people globally. Yet there are still a lot of questions about why it occurs and how best to treat it. Could new research connecting gut health to mental health help us unravel its mysteries? In today’s short episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition, Jonathan and Dr. Will ask: What exactly is IBS, and how does it connect to our brains? Follow ZOE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zoe/ Download our FREE guide — Top 10 Tips to Live Healthier: https://zoe.com/freeguide Referenced in today’s episode: FODMAP Diet: What you need to know from Johns Hopkins Medicine Large-scale genetic study reveals new clues for the shared origins of irritable bowel syndrome and mental health disorder from the University of Cambridge Irritable bowel syndrome: A chronic sequelae of acute gastroenteritis from Gastroenterology William Olser: Biographical overview from the National Library Of Medicine IBS: What you need to know from the National Center For Complementary and Integrative Health Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) overview from Johns Hopkins Medicine Episode transcripts are available here. Is there a nutrition topic you’d like us to explore? Email us at podcast@joinzoe.com and we’ll do our best to cover it.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Zoe Shorts, the bite-sized podcast where we discuss one topic around
0:05.7	science and nutrition.
0:07.7	I'm Jonathan Wolfe and today I'm joined by Dr. Will Bulswitch and today's subject
0:13.2	is Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
0:15.4	IBS Jonathan, it's more common than you might think, but still very misunderstood.
0:22.7	Why is it so common, Will?
0:24.5	And yet no one seems to really understand what it is.
0:27.4	In fact, what is it exactly?
0:29.8	And how is it different from bowel diseases?
0:32.7	Those questions are complicated to answer as it turns out.
0:36.6	There's a mysterious mind-body connection when it comes to your role-boules syndrome.
0:40.3	Intriguing.
0:41.3	Let's get into it.
0:45.3	Okay, Jonathan, let's jump in our de-lorean for a moment and we're going to travel back
0:52.0	to, of all places, a medical school in the late 1800s.
0:56.1	Why?
0:57.1	That's when IBS was first discovered.
1:00.0	It was a Canadian physician, a very famous physician, someone who I learned about in medical
1:04.6	school, his name is Sir William Oswyr.
1:06.4	If you could just picture a big white mustache and a pocket watch, that's kind of the imagery
1:11.3	that we have.
1:12.3	So, he was one of the best known physicians at the time and in 1892, he coined the term
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