Friends with Benefits

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What Causes Bloating?

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Diving Into IBS!

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Don't Overuse Antibiotics

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Let's Talk About Stress & IBS

Abdominal pain, bloating, discomfort, constipation, and diarrhea. Sounds like a Pepto-Bismol ad but it’s not - welcome to the world of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a disorder that deeply affects millions of people, specifically 13-20% of Canadians. Many factors appear to lurk behind IBS, such as genetic predisposition, environment, allergy, infection and inflammation, bacterial overgrowth, hormones, neurotransmitter disorders and stress. Let’s dive deeper into stress.

Go with Your Gut! The Gut-Brain Connection

We have all “gone with our gut,” or had a “gut-wrenching” experience sometime in our life. Whether that was jumping off the high diving board at the local pool as a kid or quitting our job to go back to school, but whatever the case may be, we chose to use these expressions for a reason because we literally felt the emotion in our gut!