IBS Tales

I’ve recently doubled the amount of fibre I’m taking each day, and it does seem to have helped. I’ve basically had a pretty good few months on the IBS front, with a couple of quite strange attacks, but these were of the quick-and-painful kind rather than the everyday grind-you-down kind, and so in a way [...]

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I’ve just watched a very interesting feature on food intolerance tests on the UK consumer program Watchdog. Basically the perfectly healthy reporter just picked three kinds of tests to see if he’d get the same results from all of them. Needless to say – he didn’t. Here’s what happened.
Vega test
The patient holds an electrode, which [...]

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I wrote a blog entry about a product called Digestrol a while back and received a quite humungous number of comments about it, so I thought it was worthy of a follow-up. Lots of people said that they were equally horrified by the Digestrol brand of marketing (which told people that they might need surgery [...]

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