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by alexnaoumidis 2161 days ago
Ahhh I understand - that’s a good point. Many people follow the low FODMAP diet without the direction of a dietitian (against the recommendation on how to do it) and likely aren’t getting the full result so GDH will still provide benefit, as well as helping the psychological side of IBS.

Interestingly, it’s possible they both help with visceral hypersensitivity - FODMAPs ferment in your gut causing gas and your gut to expand and hypersensitive nerves could then be alerting the brain to potential (but false) danger, so by avoid FODMAPs you avoid this process. Hypnotherapy could potentially be coming at the same process but from the top down instead.
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graeme 2161 days ago
Yeah. Your final point could be true if both interventions fully resolved the issue, or at least as much as could be done. If not, it’s puzzling the combo didn’t lead to more improvement.

But certainly I don’t see it as a cause to exclude low fodmap people from trying the app.

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graeme 2161 days ago
Do you have a link to the studies on ibs being caused by hypersensitive nerves? Just going through onboarding in the app and was curious about that.
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alexnaoumidis 2161 days ago
Yeah, no worries you can read a study about the role of visceral hypersensitivity in IBS here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056566/
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