Irritable Bowel Syndrome

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and UCLA doctors say it’s a great time to take a look at the health of your colon. Continue reading »

Stomach Bug May Help Control Diabetes

A stomach bacterium believed to cause health problems such as gastritis, ulcers, and gastric cancer may play a dual role by balancing the stomach’s ecosystem and controlling body weight and glucose tolerance, according to research from Virginia Tech.

Sick from Your Stomach

According to researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Illinois the billions of bacteria in our guts have a newfound role: regulating the immune system and related autoimmune diseases.

A New Approach to Chronic Illness

by Dr. Frank Lipman

After 30 years of practicing Medicine, I have learned that for any chronic illness or ailment, treating underlying imbalances and dysfunctions is more important than making a diagnosis and naming the disease.

Peppermint

By Dr. Bradly Jacobs

Peppermint has been used since ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece to help stomach and gallbladder ailments, and headaches among other ills.

The word “mint” is translated from the word ‘mentha’ which was the name of a Greek mythological nymph who later transformed herself into the plant.

Emotional Trauma and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

The psychological and emotional traumas experienced over a lifetime — such as the death of a loved one, divorce, natural disaster, house fire or car accident, physical or mental abuse — may contribute to adult irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, found Continue reading »