What's Causing Your IBS And How To Heal Your Gut

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker and Athletic Greens.

Believe it or not, the surface area of your small intestine, which is where your food is absorbed, is the size of a tennis court. Your small intestine is also the home of your gut-immune system, which accounts for about 60 percent of your total immune system. The lining of this sophisticated system is just one cell layer away from a toxic sewer where all of the bacteria and undigested food particles live in your gut. If that lining breaks down—from stress; too many antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin or ibuprofen; steroids; intestinal infections; a low-fiber, high-sugar diet; alcohol; and more—your immune system will be exposed to foreign particles from food, bacteria, and other microbes. This, in turn, creates havoc that can lead to an irritable bowel and other system-wide problems including allergies, arthritis, and autoimmune and mood disorders.

In today’s episode of a new series called Health Bites, I discuss how to heal irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and upregulate your gut health, which is at the forefront of Americans’ most common health complaints.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

What is irritable bowel syndrome? (4:05 / 1:12)
Symptoms of IBS (4:30 / 1:35)
Causes of IBS (4:54 / 2:00)
Identifying food allergies as the potential cause of IBS (8:00 / 5:11)
How gut imbalance leads to IBS (9:36 / 6:44)
Diagnostic testing to access gut health (12:14 / 9:25)
What is SIBO, how does it cause IBS, and how is it diagnosed? (15:20 / 12:29)
Assessing if yeast overgrowth is causing your gut issues (15:58 / 13:05)
Treating yeast overgrowth and SIBO (16:40 / 13:50)
Strategies for rebooting the gut and restoring optimal gut health (17:44 / 14:55)

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.6	So your ecosystem in your gut lays a enormous role in your health.
0:07.8	And when your gut bacteria out of balance, you're out of balance.
0:11.6	And you don't have enough healthy bacteria.
0:14.0	It makes you systemically sick.
0:17.8	Hey, everybody. It's Dr. Mark.
0:19.2	Something I get more and more excited about every year is personalized medicine.
0:23.8	When I began practicing functional medicine,
0:25.6	over 20 years ago, it was clear to me that we may have to look at how unique each body is.
0:32.2	Now with technology advancing in so many amazing ways,
0:34.4	we can truly take that concept to the next level.
0:37.4	Now, one of the tools I recently discovered that can help us all do that is inside tracker.
0:41.2	And we can do it from home.
0:42.2	It was found in 2009, my top scientist at MIT and Tuftsett Harbour.
0:46.6	Inside tracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other.
0:50.8	It's purpose-built to give you a longer, more productive life.
0:54.4	Their cutting edge technology analyzes your blood, DNA, and lifestyle
0:57.6	that give you highly personalized recommendations.
1:00.0	Then using the app, you can track your progress every day.
1:03.0	Inside tracker tells you what to do and why.
1:05.8	So your health goals are clear and actionable and most importantly,
1:08.8	based on exactly what your body needs.
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