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Today in Focus

The mysteries of IBS

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Irritable bowel syndrome affects one in five adults in the UK but is little understood and has no known cure. Hannah Moore discusses living with the condition with a friend and asks a dietitian whether new research into the mind-gut connection may bring answers. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

Today, around one in five adults in the UK has irritable bowel syndrome.

0:14.3

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Verify at Sky.com slash mobile claims. I end up being at functions or at parties and I think oh gosh I'm going to have to go to the toilet so I spend a significant

1:46.1

time on the toilet and sometimes wonder they always say how averages of how long that you might

1:51.6

build the toilet for in your lifetime I often think gosh I must have spent a lot longer than other people.

1:57.0

Holly Bragg is one of my best friends and one of the things we end up talking about more than anything is our guts.

2:04.0

Both of us have got irritable bowel syndrome and without going into too much detail,

2:08.8

it affects us both quite a lot. It gives you stabbing stomach cramps, acid reflux, bloating, it can stop you going to the

2:16.9

toilet for days, or it can make you need it almost constantly.

2:21.6

I mean I love going to the theatre I love gigs and things like that and

2:25.2

I mean my parents have said like it's really not fun and others have said to me

2:30.8

that it's not fun to be with you when you go into the

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