Crummy Diet Syndrome: A Delicate Diagnosis

05/01/25 • 14 min

This week's episode is another example of why you should reject a blanket diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome, and ask your doctor to roll their sleeves up and help you uncover the root cause of your symptoms. The solution for everyone who's diagnosed with IBS is not always a diet change. But it should never just be "your bowel is irritable and here’s a drug".

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The Gutbliss Podcast - Crummy Diet Syndrome: A Delicate Diagnosis

Transcript

On today's show, I want to tell you about a patient I saw years ago named Leslie who was in her early twenties and came to see me because of frequent abdominal pain, constant bloating, and occasional vomiting or more accurately – regurgitation of food where it would come up into her mouth. In my intake form before somebody comes to see me there is a pretty ext