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Ridiculous. IBS is nothing more than the consequence of constriction of certain muscles in your abdomen.

Try clenching your fist. Now hold it there for a minute. Hurts right? Now what if I told you that your fist pain would be with you the rest of your life? You'd say bullocks. You'd just unclench your fist and you're all better.

That's all that IBS related pain/constipation/diahrrea is, it's the result of an unconscious clenching. Now, you can't unclench your abdomen as easily as you can your fist, because you don't have as much conscious control, but this unconscious clenching is the result of existing in a chronic state of fight or flight. The way to unclench is to work to bringing yourself out of this chronic state of fight or flight. Essentially teach your primitive brain that the world is safe, so that you can unconsciously put your guard down.

I feel like I've been talking about this a lot lately.

Alan

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