Fixing The Root Causes Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome 

I am an IBS sufferer. It has gotten so bad that I have contemplated disability. I am starting to document my chronic pain journey on my channel because of the lack of care from several GI doctors. Also to show people that this is a real disease that causes extreme pain. My GI doctor will send me to the ER for morphine in a heartbeat. It never occurs to him to figure out what's wrong with me. Thats not the ER's job. I've encountered so many unprofessional GI doctors that I'm doubting they had the same core medical trainings as my GP. I find it hard to believe they even went to med school. Its like they are on another planet. I will seek out functional medicine. Thanks for this video.

What doctors tell you is not worth the price of the office call. You leave feeling more hopeless and helpless than when you went in. It takes great effort and suffering on the part of the patient to even get there in the first place and sit and wait to see a doctor. Then they want you to have to show up for a bunch of tests. They truly don't understand the stress and anxiety involved in this.

15:30. Causes , SIBO. 17:45 tests 19:00. ❗️toxicity of acid blockers 22:00. Non-SIBO causes 23:45 24:50 25:15. Tests

I asked my gastrologist about food and nutrition. He said nutrition has nothing to do with health. I think he noticed the confused shock in my face lol

loads of respect for dr Hyman (a doctor that asks 'what is that' is a WISE man who wants to learn !). same experience here (in belgium) as so many people write here, it's in all 'civilised' countries... , this gp behavioux & other doctors as well :'(

Superb to hear this. It is so much true. Am 53 now. When I was in my early twenties, regular doctors didn’t know how to handle this. So big thanks for this excellent information 🙏🌟

Great show. 67 years old suffering from IBS C since j&j shot. Would love to go a functional doctor. Problem for me and many is that it's not affordable and our insurance doesn't cover anyone but western medicine. Thank you for the show.

Thank you for sharing. I love your content. Always learn something new to help those who I coach. I am an integrative nutrition coach. Gut health is my No.1 focus. Thanks again!

Dr.Hyman I am loving your podcast. Listening while driving back and fourt from work in N.Y. traffic. Amazing podcast & topic. Thank You.

Thank you for sharing important information, keep up the good work

I’ve been dealing with chronic IBS-D for about 6 years now after my IBS diagnosis 10 years ago. I’ve been to so many functional med docs and spent thousands of dollars on supplements that don’t fix anything! I am very interested in what your clinic could do to help my situation. It is also gotten to the point of being disabled because I cannot leave my house many days. Thank you! 🙏🏻

Its not as if ive fone anything with this info yet, but this video is absolutely amazing. I truly appreciate the time, wisdom, and knowledge you both introduced to others and I through this podcast.

Thank you doctors. I was just diagnosed with IBS found in a colonoscopy. I acquired Blastocystis Hominess 2 years ago. Recently I felt I was inflamed & have had diarrhea, cramping, pain, etc. I had a feeling the Blasto caused the IBS and you just confirmed it. So thank you. G.I. doctor prescribed Hyoscyamine, but I'm planning to try to heal with diet. He said the parasite is gone. Thank you both for this.

Wonder I have so much trouble,there’s so much going on. From this video I’ve decided “Mobility” sluggishness is routine for me but right after a movement I get really bloated and that’s the Second symptom. Good stuff.

This episode really hits home for me. I’ve 45 years old and have struggled with gut problems for many many years. I’ve lost all my teeth and had to have full dental implants. Also have had psoriasis and IBS for as long as I can remember. Now I have psoriatic arthritis and degenerative disc disease and I struggle on a daily basis. I’m really at my wits end but hope to find a solution soon. I just went to the doctor yesterday to review the MRI results for my neck and back pain I’ve been having and the results were just awful. I don’t even know what to do but this video has given me some starting points at least. Thank you

When my father passed I was in a state of grief for months. That's when I noticed a change in my digestive system. The doctor told me that I may have ibs. I stressed the heck out of myself. Long term Grief/depression/Anxiety makes you sick. I really desire to heal not just fix the symptoms.

Thank you GOD for showing me this channel. Ibs 7yrs. So 2yrs ago i told my gi doc to do a sibo test..i was 19yrs and in 2yr of my bds college, he said it’s in my head & sibo anol won’t help...colono and endoscopy was done. Gave me some tabs for a month or so...now i not only have IBS BUT COLITIS also....I’ll be going back to him on 15th...and force him to do sibo test n see what happens bcz i have severe bloating after eating

Educative & Informative ,God bless both of U .

So everyone I talked said drink more water, it's your diet..... even my own family. My family are not doctors and the doctors I saw just brushed it off. So this video is a breath of fresh air.

My gastro Dr said no cure or fix. Endoscopy, colonoscopy, 6 horse pills a day. See you in 12 months. I've been battling this for 15 years. Just started 1 day after talking a huge dose of antibiotics. This has been very helpful. I'm learning more from yt than my Dr ever told me

I'm so in love with Dr Lepine. He's my favourite of all the doctors seen in these series.

Are you Clinical Ecologists? I used to be a patient of Dr. Theron Randolph, a famous Dr in Chicago, Illinois.You two remind me somewhat of how he looked at illness. Enjoy listening to the both of you.

Am happy to know about the virtual visits.

Since I've suffered from IBS for 50 years I find that this podcast is very informative. This encourages me to continue to see my Functional Medicine doctor and to take the Sebo and stool test kits that I have been given when I last saw my doctor.

Omg great video that popped up after I posted my personal IBS video. My doctor isn't really helping me so I'm going to suggest he or the other person under him see this video because somebody is missing something with my diagnosis.

Had ongoing SIBO, IBS-D, lactose intolerance and multiple episodes of diverticulitis for many years. Totally cured with good quality multi strain probiotics, Saccharomyces boulardii and peppermint gel caps. It took 3 months but situation is totally reversed.

Hi, this podcast was vey enlightening. I have had irritable bowel since I was 33 I'm 72 now and still struggling, Docters here in the UK don't seem to care much and one sent me to a psychologist because I was imagining it! Well all these years later it's fair to say I'm not. Have been gluten free since 1985. I have tried so many diets and am now reduced to eating the same stuff everyday for fear of changing my diet and making my life worse. I have taken notice of the things to try and it's never too late to improve my gut. Thank you.

The best guest, by far

My grandmother had radiation colitis starting in 1977 after her uterine cancer radiation until she died in 1995. I have had IBS-D since 1991. I have been to 17 different doctors & have been tested for everything.

Pure gold info. Thank you

You guys are awesome 🙏🏽

I appreciate you both so much. It's so difficult trying to be an advocate of listening to your body when your doctor tells you not to, take this pill instead. I believe in diet for medicine; I am a researcher. I research my doctors and have been fortunate to find a few that listen to me and I therefore, trust them.

Excellent information, thank you! Gut health is so important for overall health! A survey from 2018 of 71,000 Americans found that 61% had at least 1 bothersome gut issue! The most common gut symptom was acid reflux or GERD, then abdominal pain, then bloating.

Thankyou, helped me a great deal!

I wish I could have you two help everyone in this feed 😮

I have been suffering my entire life with gut issues. Right ow i have had diarrhea for over 2 weeks i cant find any answers. I am going to be 70 in sept. And my hopes of ever feeling good are diminishing i just want to becable to enjoy my grandkids and enjoy life for a few years. Im so exhausted with simply being told that they really dont know much about ibs or better yet its all in my head. Ive been to the er a few times when i felt really bad only for them to run a buntch of tests, tell me nothing is wrong and look at me like im nuts. Im bevginning to think maybe i am. But that still doesn't explain my constant misery. Ive lived for 70 years and i would love to have a few years of feeling good. I dont think there is anyone around here that even cares to really find the real problem. How i wish i was closer to your office you are the only one that sounds like you honestly care

I was taking notes on some supplements, and wishing there was a list available, which I am sure there is :) Great presentation as usual !!

Great information.

Very good information! Thanks guys!❤️

This is the best, in depth explanation of IBS & related issues. Never diagnosed but suffered from symptoms like IBS, for decades. I need your help! Please let me know how to contact you. Live in DFW, North Texas area. Thank you for sharing & caring !

I have had so many stomach problems that started in 9th grade and progressively got worse and worse through high school to the point that I would use the bathroom upwards of 10 times every morning. My stomach would cramp so bad I would get tunnel vision. After many years of going to the doctor and getting zero results, I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT! I was able to narrow it down to it being a direct result of metal from my retainers. In 9th grade, I had my braces put on. Seems that my body had a sensitivity to metal and it just got progressively worse with time. I only figured it out because I had forgot my retainers on a camping trip and seemed to be completely fine during my time camping! In the past 10 years, I have also narrowed down other stomach sensitivities and I can work and live a life like a normal person now. I pray this helps someone because I wish I could relive my high school years. I did have strep about 6 times a year between age 6 and 10 when I moved to AK. I do use probiotics often and they are heaven sent.

Psyllium husk (not powder which does not work as well) can help relieve both constipation and diarrhea, and is used to treat irritable bowel syndrome, hemorrhoids, and other intestinal problems. Psyllium has also been used to help regulate blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. Psyllium can also be used to help relieve mild-to-moderate diarrhea. It soaks up a significant amount of water in the digestive tract, making stool firmer and slower to pass. Recommended dosage is 1 or 2 tablespoonfuls taken first thing in the morning and again around 2pm or 3pm. Take it every day to get relief. This helps many people.

I finally found out in my 20’s that I had severe endometriosis. My first doctor, as a teenager, told my mom it was all in my head and I didn’t seek additional medical treatment for several years in which I lived in misery. Keep searching if you don’t get an answer the first time.

Please tell us more about what titanium dioxide does to our bodies, and how to find it in our diet. I was tested last year and the test showed that I had a lot of it in my system. I was confused because I am gluten-free and I couldn’t find where the titanium dioxide was in my diet. It took me almost a year to figure it out. I was so glad to hear that you told us that it was in supplements. And that’s where I found it. It was a supplement that my doctor told me to take it for a hair skin and nails. The actual supplement was a gel pill that was actually rose colored. Titanium dioxide is typically for something white. That’s where I kept looking for anything that I ate it was white. Hopefully on my next test it can show that the levels have gone down. I don’t know what the side effects are. But I do struggle with gut issues. Thanks for all that you both do.

I wonder if those people who make alcohol are the same ones who spontaneously combust? This is all so fascinating.

These doctors are best and experts for IBS . Thank you for the information of the GUTS disease or syndrome. I have IBS It’s started six months ago but I was not correctly diagnosed yet. I will have a colonoscopy by my GI specialist. Hopefully, he will give me the right diagnostic. You doctors are the best I ❤️ love it. Merry Christmas . 🎁☝️🥇

Tried everything from vegan-ish to carnivore diets- cutting out dairy, sugar, gluten, processed food- hasn't stopped chronic diarrhea after 13+yrs. Only thing that the carnivore diet does better is that it reduces how often I have to take a dump, so I don't have to endure it so often. (With plants I'd go 2-5 times a day.) Doctors seem to have no clue, always aim for the easy answer and miss. Wish I could get a doc like these guys. Great vid...

I was one of the first patients on Accutane in my midteens, in the mid 80s I did clear up my horrible acne, but I ended up with a gift prize called IBS for the rest of my life.

Yes, my ibs has returned with me screwingvup my keto. I have it under control with psyllium husk powder but sometimes . . . I might have to give up my raw kale shakes but I'm absolutely addicted to them. Every night for 4 years. Thank you again for a great interview.

Mark we need a cookbook for IBS!

Testing like this is not available in New Zealand. I have been to a professor of gasteroenterology and dietitians, and they literally cannot offer any solutions except for trial and error changes to diet. I had to research my condition and tell the doctors what I wanted them to prescribe in terms of medications. I take a bile acid binder and that has made a huge difference. If I had sibo I would never know. I did take probiotics for a while and they helped. But with no one suitably skilled in NZ its expensive and time consuming to do trial and error. IBS does cause other physiological problems if it continues unchecked for many years, such as cramping and bowel urgency. Again I researched solutions myself and was able to have a physiotherapist provide a TENS device, and this has helped also. IBS is actually a lot of issues - (one of which is sibo) that need to be dealt with separately.

I first began symptoms when prescribed Paxil. I took myself off Paxil but my digestive problems have persisted. Now have GERD. *watching podcast now*

Can you do a podcast on mthfr and how it can affect people even when not active?

Is there anyway you could list some of the supplements you recommended in this video? It was super interesting and informative 😊

Thank you for this Doc!

I have suffered from IBS for 60 years and now fully understood it and manages it

IBS needs more research… i am thinking in this direction

I have been diagnosed with IBS and my gastrointestinal doctor said nothing about the effect of gluten on the gut. I had to do my own research and go to an allergist and immunological specialist.

Thank you for the pod cast, can I get help for my gut, I live in Ontario Canada, where can I go for help??? Please can you advice me❤️🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️

In the UK a gastroenterologist told me that he would help me when I had an ulcer or cancer. I have an abysmal digestive system, which I try hard to deal with by using supplements. Sometimes I feel better but it never lasts.

While I'm sort of happy to not be alone with this, I'm shocked medicine hasn't figured out a better approach, so many people are in agony for decades. I'm in my twenties and it pretty much ruined every single aspect of my life as of now, if this doesn't get fixed soon I might end up job- and homeless..

Get checked for Mast Cell Activation Disorder. It’s all related. Mast cell has benzodiazepine receptors. They will greatly help as a mediator. IBS C is one of the functional disorders. There’s more than one disfunction.

Wish I knew a doctor like you. Can you recommend anyone in Germany? I have had diorrhea or close to it every day for about thirty years and that does seem a very long time. I can live with it but would be amazing to find a cure. Been to about five doctors two dieticians two hollistic teachers a health pratctitioner two gatroenterologists. Bit fed up with trying out yet another doctor who always has a bill but never can help much. Difficult not to be fed up-thought this talk very interesting but are you sure it is all as simple as you say? That sounds so optimistic and after my long story of failures I am sceptical

I don’t know what I have at 74 but at 40 it was vary similar. Vary dry near impacted. So I’m listening but supplementing with fiber seems so anti helpful, 🧠 think I just decided to stop using fiber by the bottle. I feel better. Great video.

Can one little room contain so much knowledge? 😊

I didn't get IBS Mixed until I was prescribed Dextroamphetamine Sulfate for my ADHD

“A food baby” wow I do that often and there’s times when I don’t. I think that time is when I’m really solid in my low carb life.

Thanks so much - so helpful for my clients..what is the name of what Dr. Pine calls the crp of the gut? As a non-native speaker I unfortunately couldn't get it. Thanks!

I wasn't diagnosed until adulthood, as a child, ate what I wanted, not anymore. I had a perforated colon in 2018, had a colostomy bag 4 months, reversal 4 months later, no idea I had diverticulitis until then. Still have gluten & other issues, lately sudden diarrhea, not fun at all. 😟

People who have IBS issue fast for 30 days starting the fast at sunrise and breaking it at sundown!! This will cure it

I've had 3 child births. The pain from my ibs is nearly as bad. It's truly awful and exhausting. I've been on an antispasmodic and metamucil for 2 years. They've worked better than anything I've tried. Pretty much 99% better as long as I i stay on a strict schedule. I would love to see a cure though.

I don’t have IBS very often now. When I do, I eat oatmeal and take two apple cider vinegar caps. Or Lomotil if it’s very severe. But I do have diverticulitis, probably caused from 50 years of IBS. Not fun but controllable.

I have suffered from IBS all my life. I discovered the two things that worked for me: A) I accidentally stopped consumption of wheat in my diet and at least 70 percent of symptoms disappeared within two days. I now have a wheat free diet since over ten years. B) Pre and Probiotics. I take probiotics for two weeks every now and then which brings immediate relief to my condition. I should add that I never take antibiotics and generally allopathic medicine which aggravate IBS for sure, and I am also Vegan.

Are there any studies or cases that prove an appendectomy cures IBS. I have been struggling with IBS for the past 8 months. Two weeks ago I had an emergency appendectomy. I have not had an IBS attack since my surgery 2 weeks ago, but I'm also managing my diet by staying away from my food triggers like dairy, fried and spicy foods, pizza and store bought pastries. I'm in my 60's and in excellent health except for IBS. I am not on any medications and the appendectomy was my first surgery in 67 years.

Some doctors graduated at the bottom of their class,they don't know alot,we get bad doctors out here in the country, they can't make it somewhere else,as people get older they move where they have better doctors, cause insurance makes you stay in your network and then you have to go to the bad local doctors

This Dr know exactly what he saying my Dr tell me the same things. Thanks you Dr...

I feel like I need a miracle from God for this. My whole life revolves around my dis functional gut. Have zero energy’s.😰😰🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🙇🏼‍♂️🙇🏼‍♂️

Weel... it's like this... I have had IBS-D since after the first decade of my life. I am one if the one half or one third that is a male. There was at that time even when I was in high school going from one GI specialist to another. Like being tennis ball in a tournament. I had been 'diagnosed' with everything but the kitchen sink (well, maybe that as well). they first thought coeliac disease. then it was IBD (Crohns). Then this and that. I still continued on with this relentless diarrhoea. I was in high school, and I had one incident that turned out not to have been from any of these diagnoses. (It was late onset of gastroenteritis from rotavirus. IN HIGH SCHOOL in my junior year! Rotavirus usually happens at a very young age, like a tootler or so. I can only think that somehow I wound up dodging rotavirus for many years until I was one day when I was 17. Well, that ran its course, but wound up with an early public (at school) with a public diarrhoea accident wearing shorts and of a light colour. VERY embarrassing, I showed my school nurse, and no verbal communication was exchanged, she just had looked at my backside, and immediately wrote and signed a school off-campus pass and told to go home -- NOW! Well, eventually I saw this one GI who was a bit more advanced than the others, and he thought 'spastic colon' was the answer 8one of the former names for IBS). I was told to take Kaopectate to stop the diarrhoea, and to perhaps take a psychotic drug to calm the gut down. It worked for a while, but, just for a short while. So I went on graduated from my senior year at my school and left with my folks to BC Canada. I had seen one physician in Vancouver and had been looked at. She (yes a female doctor which was something sorta new at the time) thought it was diet. So like you almost, she recommended to modify my diet, as at that time I would have cinnamon rolls for my 'nutrition' break after third period as well as quite a bit of the junk stuff. Plus to try to do some things to unstressed me as now I was out of high school and in that stage, ‘now what'. Well this did wind up immensely helping, and I was free for a while from the flares. But as time went on in college especially during the midterm tests and the finals, my gut revolted! I had a close (actually an actual accident there in the class) and I darted out of class to the loo. I thought that I was back to square one. This went on for about a fortnight of so, when my gut started to calm down and 'cooperate'. I am not over with this as you know there is no cure for IBS, but just control. I have been doing relatively well, but now I am living in San Francisco but in two months’ time I shall be moving to Cherbourg in the Normandy area of France as to live with a friend for a while. This has been stressful as I had to postpone my flight as I am not quite ready for all this travel both financially and health wise. So my symptoms have returned, complete with the urgent diarrhoea 8and accidents). I do hope that when I do get over to my friend in France, that things shall calm down (after jetlag and getting settled et al). This is rather lengthy so I shall end this here, as this has been my personal account.

I work in an infusions center and I’ve had several people tell me their doctor said diet has nothing to do with their GI diseases….

Please talk more about the GI issues instead of differences between functional medicine doctors and other gastroenterologists doctors. Or have a video on the differences only. Wanted more information on IBS and how to heal.

My IBS is only managed by one drug that I have tried over the years and that is the drug Donnatal tablets but many times the pharmacies run out of it or it’s so expensive but it’s the only med I tried that helps. Thanks for the video. I hope in the future there will b more meds or cure for this

Been suffering from IBS since 1996. I remember getting stomach cramps everytime someone done pissed me off. I just got a fistula surgery because of it. It's a real condition and some Gastrologist are so quick to dismiss it and blow it off and say stick to a strict diet. Boo! I took the food sensitivity test hopefully it helps. I am just thankful it's not IBD and has been ruled out. I feel so sorry for people with UC and CD.

You guys are awesome! I have chronic IBS... ugh. I take probiotics but after your podcast maybe I’m making things worse.??

I was diagnoised with Spastic Colen 50+ years ago. I only get dealthly sick when eating fried meats. Nothing else. In listining to you and other Doctors, this cause is never discussed in IBS talks. Over the years I have been so sick I pass out. I am 86 now ,is there any help for me?

Went keto and it gave me GERD. Struggling to fix it. Total nightmare

I have suffered with IBS for decades. I also have a redundant/tortuous colon making the transit time longer coupled with gastropareses. I go from constipated to runny every other day. I typically ending up passed out on the floor from the pain covered in poo about once a month. Can't find anything to give me relief. Help Please !!!!! Was told I'm just stressed.

I am closely following all your podcasts Dr. Mark. Very informativeand beneficial. I am a sufferer of IBS - D. Recently I have trouble sleeping after 3 am. I feel bloated and warm on my lower right abdomen and right arm. After drinking water and relieving gas everything is normal. What should I do?

Don't underestimate the psychological effects. It is the root cause of many health issues.

SIBO is the underlying condition in most IBS.

IBS is not cause of stress alone.. but anxiety can cause nervous problems associated with the gut. I started suffering IBS after a bacterial infection, Shegella Soni Dysentery.. Left me with a very fragile gut..I have to watch what I eat, sticky rice helps me as I am mainly loose and can be upset by too much tomatoe, raw especially and too much Fibre can cause much bloating and wind from consumption of cabbage, bran, or hybridized modern wheats etc.

Getting off Metformin has helped tremendously

Walk, walk and walk... If 30 minutes don't bring results walk 60 or more... But the thing is the more you walk the better ur symptoms get,, if u dont have cardiac or other debilitating diseases

"Happy bowels happy brains". I got IBS after gastroenteritis, I wasn't given probiotics so it lasted 2 decades. Cutting out gluten/dairy improved it by 70%. Seeing a chiropractor helps me now with my bowel issues. People underestimate posture & how it effects the body. Peter Levine, Steven Porges - polyvegal theory, their work is great on understanding stress.

IBS for 30 years. Switched to Keto diet and IBS is gone.

Thank you both”

I've been an IBS sufferer over 28 years now and wish there are other doctors around me like you. All GI doctors I've seen only want to push meds for acid reflux and spastic colon and I'm way worse now than ever. My last endoscopy, my GI doctor said that inside my stomach looked like hamburger meat but puts me on even more Prilosec. I sure need someone's help. Any doctors you can think of in the TN area?

I need a great functional dr in MA

That's what gastroenterologist said. "Go take metamucil and you will be fine" . A year later, my problem got worse.

I have ibs since I was in my 20s and I'm not a doctor but it's my diet habits

Thanks!!!