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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
What is IBS? The big picture is that the enteric nervous system, which is like the brain for the gut,
has become irritable, just like our central nervous system (that brain in our head) can become
irritable. The main chemicals that cause irritability are stress hormones…cortisol, adrenaline, and
noradrenaline.
We have all experienced a time when we “had to go, really bad” and something shocked us or
scared us and we forgot about the having to go…even though it was “really bad.” This is the
impact of adrenaline on the enteric nervous system.
What causes stress hormones to affect the enteric nervous system? The main cause of
stress hormone surges is inflammation and blood sugar imbalances, and each time the stress
hormones respond, they get better at responding. It’s like trying to touch the rim in basketball…if
you jump enough, you get better at jumping. If you release stress hormones, over and over, the
hormones jump higher and higher. And, since it isn’t occurring in your brain, you may not have a
clue you are “stressed out,” and you may not be in the way we normally think of stress (jobs,
relationships, money, etc.).
When your GI doctor checks your stomach or intestines, he or she is only checking for pathology…
changes in the lining of these organs that are consistent with a named disease. Diverticulitis,
Crohn’s Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, etc. They want to name you something else,
because they have a treatment for these named diseases. For IBS there is nothing but an offering
of antidepressants, and a couple other symptom based medications.
Fortunately, research continues behind the scenes, and research doctors have identified a
correlation between stress hormones and IBS. Here’s the bad news. The only “tools” traditional
doctors have for stress hormones is antidepressants, and they do not correct cortisol levels. So
typically they will not test for them…and they cannot see them with scopes or scans. So, you are
left to wonder…what is GOING ON WITH ME?!
Fortunately, we can correct these hormones with natural medicines. Below is an example of
normalizing stress hormones…same person…using anti-inflammatory herbs, supplements that
improve insulin sensitivity and blood sugar control, and a group of plants called adaptogens, that
actually reset the output levels of adrenal hormones over time.
Listen to a real story of a woman left to wonder…and actually began to believe it was all in her
head!!
She came to me as a referral from an acupuncturist who knew I offered the diagnostics. She was
trying anything and everything to feel well again. She struggled with IBS for 20 years, and it had
torn down her health over those years. She was told that there is nothing wrong with her, put on
antidepressants, and was ready to call a psychiatrist. I love talk therapy, but I still think you should
rule out hormonal and immune causes to the illness. If you are infected, I’m just not sure how
talking out your problems will make that right (although I’m open to the possibility).
As I interviewed her, she described the IBS symptoms, plus she had headaches, body pain,
extreme fatigue, and a whole laundry list of symptoms. She had seen multiple doctors and
specialists for her increasing disability. Yes, it was disabling…causing her to miss work a couple
days a week on average. Her bowels had been called lazy, sluggish, and irritable…and remember,
nothing was really “wrong” with her according to her many doctors and specialists.
With our diagnostic testing, I found several things “wrong” with her, including a parasite. For 20
years, she had struggled, suffered, and become more disabled…and nobody ever checked for
parasites?!
Her “nothing” problem took its toll on her entire health. She had become anemic, had low cortisol
levels, low progesterone that contributed to the headaches, and a handful of other problems that
we are now rehabilitating (it takes awhile to get these glands functioning again).
And, can I say it again, with all these problems, diagnosed via lab testing…she would leave her
doctor’s office having been told there is nothing wrong with her. No wonder she began to believe
she was crazy!
I wish this weren’t so typical…but I see it all the time. And not just with IBS. Doctor’s are trained to
look for a handful of things…cancer, Crohns, Inflammation, blockage…you get the idea…these are
all things we can see with our eyes. They looked at the poor woman’s colon, but these parasites
live in the small intestine. They scanned and scoped, and they didn’t SEE anything, so they said
nothing was wrong with her.
This woman finally has her happy ending…she is nearly symptom free, her energy is coming back,
and she has worked several full weeks now. She has her life back…and, she is not crazy.
What is IBS? Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a condition with a cause. It is not one thing…for
some it is infections, for others food allergies or sensitivities, and for others it is a hormone
problem. Unfortunately, few sufferers ever find out what it is. If YOU were a doctor, and your
patient kept coming in with the same problems…getting worse over time…wouldn’t you run the
tests? That seems like common sense to me!?
I hope her story gives YOU hope. I hope you acknowledge your symptoms as messages that
something is wrong…and don’t allow this many years of struggle before finding out you there is
something wrong, and that it can be resolved. (or worse yet, carrying this struggle with you your
entire life!)
You found this website with your diligence and desire, and to me, that means you are ready for a
change. Start by signing up for the free videos so you can see for yourself all the work that we do
for you. We are a small doctors office in a small town…we don’t share your private information with
anyone, and you can stop our emails anytime you wish. If you are anything like this woman, you
deserve to take a look.
What is IBS? The big picture is that the enteric nervous system, which is like the brain for the gut,
has become irritable, just like our central nervous system (that brain in our head) can become
irritable. The main chemicals that cause irritability are stress hormones…cortisol, adrenaline, and
noradrenaline.
We have all experienced a time when we “had to go, really bad” and something shocked us or
scared us and we forgot about the having to go…even though it was “really bad.” This is the
impact of adrenaline on the enteric nervous system.
What causes stress hormones to affect the enteric nervous system? The main cause of
stress hormone surges is inflammation and blood sugar imbalances, and each time the stress
hormones respond, they get better at responding. It’s like trying to touch the rim in basketball…if
you jump enough, you get better at jumping. If you release stress hormones, over and over, the
hormones jump higher and higher. And, since it isn’t occurring in your brain, you may not have a
clue you are “stressed out,” and you may not be in the way we normally think of stress (jobs,
relationships, money, etc.).
When your GI doctor checks your stomach or intestines, he or she is only checking for pathology…
changes in the lining of these organs that are consistent with a named disease. Diverticulitis,
Crohn’s Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, etc. They want to name you something else,
because they have a treatment for these named diseases. For IBS there is nothing but an offering
of antidepressants, and a couple other symptom based medications.
Fortunately, research continues behind the scenes, and research doctors have identified a
correlation between stress hormones and IBS. Here’s the bad news. The only “tools” traditional
doctors have for stress hormones is antidepressants, and they do not correct cortisol levels. So
typically they will not test for them…and they cannot see them with scopes or scans. So, you are
left to wonder…what is GOING ON WITH ME?!
Fortunately, we can correct these hormones with natural medicines. Below is an example of
normalizing stress hormones…same person…using anti-inflammatory herbs, supplements that
improve insulin sensitivity and blood sugar control, and a group of plants called adaptogens, that
actually reset the output levels of adrenal hormones over time.
Listen to a real story of a woman left to wonder…and actually began to believe it was all in her
head!!
She came to me as a referral from an acupuncturist who knew I offered the diagnostics. She was
trying anything and everything to feel well again. She struggled with IBS for 20 years, and it had
torn down her health over those years. She was told that there is nothing wrong with her, put on
antidepressants, and was ready to call a psychiatrist. I love talk therapy, but I still think you should
rule out hormonal and immune causes to the illness. If you are infected, I’m just not sure how
talking out your problems will make that right (although I’m open to the possibility).
As I interviewed her, she described the IBS symptoms, plus she had headaches, body pain,
extreme fatigue, and a whole laundry list of symptoms. She had seen multiple doctors and
specialists for her increasing disability. Yes, it was disabling…causing her to miss work a couple
days a week on average. Her bowels had been called lazy, sluggish, and irritable…and remember,
nothing was really “wrong” with her according to her many doctors and specialists.
With our diagnostic testing, I found several things “wrong” with her, including a parasite. For 20
years, she had struggled, suffered, and become more disabled…and nobody ever checked for
parasites?!
Her “nothing” problem took its toll on her entire health. She had become anemic, had low cortisol
levels, low progesterone that contributed to the headaches, and a handful of other problems that
we are now rehabilitating (it takes awhile to get these glands functioning again).
And, can I say it again, with all these problems, diagnosed via lab testing…she would leave her
doctor’s office having been told there is nothing wrong with her. No wonder she began to believe
she was crazy!
I wish this weren’t so typical…but I see it all the time. And not just with IBS. Doctor’s are trained to
look for a handful of things…cancer, Crohns, Inflammation, blockage…you get the idea…these are
all things we can see with our eyes. They looked at the poor woman’s colon, but these parasites
live in the small intestine. They scanned and scoped, and they didn’t SEE anything, so they said
nothing was wrong with her.
This woman finally has her happy ending…she is nearly symptom free, her energy is coming back,
and she has worked several full weeks now. She has her life back…and, she is not crazy.
What is IBS? Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a condition with a cause. It is not one thing…for
some it is infections, for others food allergies or sensitivities, and for others it is a hormone
problem. Unfortunately, few sufferers ever find out what it is. If YOU were a doctor, and your
patient kept coming in with the same problems…getting worse over time…wouldn’t you run the
tests? That seems like common sense to me!?
I hope her story gives YOU hope. I hope you acknowledge your symptoms as messages that
something is wrong…and don’t allow this many years of struggle before finding out you there is
something wrong, and that it can be resolved. (or worse yet, carrying this struggle with you your
entire life!)
You found this website with your diligence and desire, and to me, that means you are ready for a
change. Start by signing up for the free videos so you can see for yourself all the work that we do
for you. We are a small doctors office in a small town…we don’t share your private information with
anyone, and you can stop our emails anytime you wish. If you are anything like this woman, you
deserve to take a look.
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Stress Hormones are significantly linked to IBS. Normal cortisol
levels are the green shaded areas. You might ask why the levels
should be high in the morning after snoozing all night?? This is
the perfect function of cortisol as the hormone that prevents
hypoglycemia. During the night, we are fasting, and cortisol
slowly rises to protect from dangerous blood sugar drops. In this
patient, you can see that the cortisol is lower in the morning than
all day while she was eating, and importantly, at night when she is
trying to go to sleep. This disrupts sleep and really the healing
that occurs at night. This simple test shows significant disruption
to her health and hormones.
Fast forward several months...we treated inflammation, blood
sugar, and these hormones...all naturally.
At this point, she is still slightly low in the morning, but it is clear
her body and her regulation are improving. She can sleep,
including repair, cleanse and heal. Her enteric nervous system is
not irritated by adrenaline and other stress hormones.
Yes, it takes time to repair broken down systems, but compare 8
months of healing to 20 years of going backward. Feeling worse
each passing year. Eight months is nothing if you are continually
feeling better, each week...each month.
This is the potential of natural medicine. Diagnosing things that
are overlooked in medicine...able to treat a stress process and
move you toward health...and, most importantly...able to resolve
the discomfort of your condition!
levels are the green shaded areas. You might ask why the levels
should be high in the morning after snoozing all night?? This is
the perfect function of cortisol as the hormone that prevents
hypoglycemia. During the night, we are fasting, and cortisol
slowly rises to protect from dangerous blood sugar drops. In this
patient, you can see that the cortisol is lower in the morning than
all day while she was eating, and importantly, at night when she is
trying to go to sleep. This disrupts sleep and really the healing
that occurs at night. This simple test shows significant disruption
to her health and hormones.
Fast forward several months...we treated inflammation, blood
sugar, and these hormones...all naturally.
At this point, she is still slightly low in the morning, but it is clear
her body and her regulation are improving. She can sleep,
including repair, cleanse and heal. Her enteric nervous system is
not irritated by adrenaline and other stress hormones.
Yes, it takes time to repair broken down systems, but compare 8
months of healing to 20 years of going backward. Feeling worse
each passing year. Eight months is nothing if you are continually
feeling better, each week...each month.
This is the potential of natural medicine. Diagnosing things that
are overlooked in medicine...able to treat a stress process and
move you toward health...and, most importantly...able to resolve
the discomfort of your condition!