dietvsdisease

If even your “safe foods” are starting to feel like a trigger, food probably isn’t the real problem. For a lot of people with IBS, the gut is reacting to something that has nothing to do with what’s actually on the plate. Diet can matter a lot for some people. But for others, months or years of cutting, tracking, and restricting never gets them anywhere close to relief, simpl...

As a gut health dietitian service, we see a lot of diverticulitis cases — and honestly, the pattern we see most often is this: someone has a flare, they recover, they change nothing, and a few months later they’re back in the ER. Not because they did anything wrong, but because nobody told them what to actually fix. I was on a call with a client last month who’d just come out...

I want to preface this by saying a majority of people with IBS aren’t ignoring warning signs because they’re careless. They’re ignoring them because they’ve been told everything is fine. Normal colonoscopy. Normal bloods. Here’s a food list. Off you go. And then years pass, and they’re still planning their days around the nearest bathroom. Below, I walk through five red flags...