In irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms without any visible damage to the digestive tract.
Many patients with IBS believe that specific foods, like gluten or wheat, trigger their symptoms, prompting them to exclude these foods from their diets without consulting a dietitian or their doctor.
Unsurprisingly, about a third of IBS patients develop disordered eating habits and perceptions about food that may cause symptoms in and of themselves, such as orthorexia, or an unhealthy preoccupation with healthy eating.
This may cause a "nocebo effect," where patients experience symptoms due to their beliefs and expectations about a substance they assume is causing their issues but is actually inert – a "nocebo."
After the placebo, here the nocebo. It's really quite amazing the power the mental has over the physical...
It's the seed oils.
God help me if I hit restaurants too many days in a row while traveling. The canola virus.
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There are a lot of celiacs.
I always hate how gluten-free people are made fun of, while vegans/vegeterians are taken seriously.
If you are a celiac who can't eat gluten, you actually have a medical conditions that prevents you from eating it.
Being vegan/vegetarian is just a choice. Those are the people we should be making a fun of.
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I think that when it comes to food and people it is a complex issue because each organism is different and autonomous!! Above all, the digestive system seems very delicate and important to our well-being. And of course I share your idea!! 🤔 I like that about "The power that the mind has over the physical" and I have even applied it to myself... my daily work rhythm requires me to walk a lot and now that I am over 30 my knees are not the same anymore, however I try not to focus my thoughts on the pain or discomfort I may feel when walking... but rather I put all my concentration on meeting my daily sales goal!! At the end of the day I need a good leg massage to recover!!🏃🏃🏃🏃
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