What You Should Not Be Eating When You Have IBS?
What You Should Not Be Eating When You Have IBS
If you've been diagnosed with IBS, you've probably been told to "watch what you eat" or "keep a food diary." Maybe someone handed you a list of trigger foods. Maybe you're already avoiding half the grocery store and still having symptoms.
Here's what nobody explains: the foods that trigger your IBS aren't the problem. They're revealing the problem.
When your gut is functioning properly, you can eat garlic without bloating for three days. You can have an apple without gas and cramping. You can drink milk without spending the afternoon in the bathroom.
The issue isn't that these foods are inherently toxic. The issue is that your gut is dysfunctional, and these foods expose that dysfunction through fermentation, inflammation, or immune reactions.
Understanding which foods to avoid is important for managing symptoms while you heal. Understanding WHY you're reacting is essential for actually fixing the problem.
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What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)?
What Is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)?
IBS is one of those diagnoses that patients mention almost apologetically. Most people don't walk into my office saying "I have IBS." They tell me about gas, bloating, unpredictable bowel movements, stomach pain that comes and goes.
They've learned to plan their lives around bathroom access. They know which foods will wreck them for days. They've been told it's stress, or anxiety, or just something they'll have to live with.
Here's the reality: about 20% of the population suffers from some form of IBS. That's one in five people walking around with a gut that's actively rebelling against them.
But IBS isn't a disease. It's a symptom cluster pointing to underlying dysfunction that conventional medicine rarely addresses. When your doctor diagnoses you with IBS, what they're really saying is "your digestive system isn't working right, and we don't know why."
The good news? We do know why. And more importantly, we know how to fix it.
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What Causes a Food Allergy
What Causes Food Allergies? It All Starts in Your Gut
Food allergies (or more accurately, food sensitivities) are everywhere these days. One person can't handle dairy, another gets brain fog from wheat, someone else's skin breaks out from eggs. Reactions range from mildly annoying to life-threatening anaphylaxis.
Here's what most people don't understand: food allergies aren't caused by the food itself.
Your body isn't supposed to react to salmon or almonds or tomatoes. These are perfectly good foods that humans have eaten for millennia. The real problem is what's happening in your digestive system when these foods arrive.
About 80% of your immune system lives in your gut. When that system starts treating food like an invader, something has gone wrong with the barrier between your intestinal contents and your bloodstream.
That "something" is called leaky gut. And understanding how it works is the key to understanding why you suddenly can't eat foods you've been eating your whole li...
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