IBS, GI Problems

What is one of the most important systems in our body?

E-L-I-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.

Without good and regular bowel movement, no matter how well we eat or how much exercise we do, our health is compromised.

So I highly recommend GoodBelly.

It contains Lactobacillus Plantarum 299v (LP299v). Free of dairy, tree nuts or peanuts, wheat, fish or seafood. The is a very tasty probiotic.

This unique strain of bacteria is very hardy against stomach acids and great for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBS is a condition in which a person experience chronic abdominal pain, discomfort, bloating, and alteration of bowel habits in the absence of any detectable organic cause.

In Swedish study introduced in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “In people, LP 299v increases the concentration of carboxylic acids in feces and decreases abdominal bloating in patients with IBS. It can also decrease fibrinogen concentrations in the blood.”

In animal research, “it also improves the immunological status of mucosa and reduces mucosal inflammation.”
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I suggest 2-3 GoodBelly drinks each day for at least 90 days to establish a colony of “friendly bacteria.” I hear good success story from many people who take GoodBelly daily. It works on people with all types of digestive problems.

CAUTION: Each drink contains 9g of sugar. So it is not recommended for people with diabetes.

Another consideration for “Good Belly”: Various GI problems such as constipation, diarrhea, IBS, Ulcerative Colitis, and Crohn’s disease can be treated by acupuncture and herbs.

In case of chronic Ulcerative Colitis, use of herbs may reduce use of adrenocortical steroids. (“Significance of Treatment with Kampo Medicines for Ulcerative Colitis” by Matsuike et al., See http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/199919/000019991999A0536208.php)

When treating these conditions with Traditional Asian Medicine (TAM), acupuncturist takes a close look at a patient’s nature of pain, Excess or Deficient type, Cold or Heat type, emotional stress, tongue and pulse signs, dietary factors and so forth. It requires somewhat a detective work to determine 証 “Zheng” (diagnosis) in TAM. It is possible that two individuals with the same western diagnosis to get two different Zheng in TAM.