Diverticulosis is the direct result of a diet that’s too low in fiber. When your colon has to contract more vigorously to expel small, hard stool that’s characteristic of a low-fiber diet, it causes a lot of pressure in the wall of your colon. This leads to small bulges, which eventually become diverticulosis. I’m seeing more and more patients in their twenties and thirties with diverticulosis, a disease that’s supposed to strike in your 60s and 70s, and the explanation is on our plate. In this episode: how to reverse symptoms and halt progression of diverticulosis.
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Dr. Robynne Chutkan
10/17/24 • 19 min
The Gutbliss Podcast - Potholes in Your Colon: Could it be Diverticulosis?
Transcript
On today’s episode of the Gutbliss podcast, Barbara is a fifty-seven-year-old judge who came to see me about her bowel habits. Having a bowel movement had become a full-time job. She would have a smallish log after her morning coffee, but things would deteriorate after that with multiple, pellet-sized bowel movements. Every time she moved her bowels, she could feel that she still had more stool inside, but she just couldn’t get it to come out. And after each BM, within an hour she was back
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