Understanding & Treating Functional Gut Disorders

Описание: Discover the common causes and learn how a holistic and naturopathic approach can improve your gut health and overall wellbeing. If you're struggling with constant gut issues, reach out for a tailored plan to support your digestion. 🌿 #guthealth #holisticcare #womenshealth

What are functional gut disorders?
Examples include bloating, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, constipation, IBS, indigestion. In clinical practice these are super common and often the reason patients seek help.

Functional gut disorders are caused by altered gut sensitivity, motility, microbiota, immune functioning and central nervous system processing. They cause chronic symptoms throughout the gut (eg pain, dyspepsia and altered bowel habit), “all of which are made worse by maladaptive patient behaviours, stress and psychological comorbidity.”

As naturopath and nutritionist, we are so well placed to treat functional gut disorder. After you have seen a GP and ruled out anything sinister, perhaps a stool test or colonoscopy, or ultrasound – often patients are told that they should do a FODMAP diet and that that.

While a FODMAP diet can be helpful it is not a long term solution as it can negatively impact your gut microbiome.

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