Syl,
"It is nice to see it the newer investigative areas such as inflammation, motility and altered bacteria flora given as much importance as the brain-gut dysfunction area."
Actually IBS is already a brain gut axis issue. The " inflammation, motility and altered bacteria flora" are all part of that research.
There is a really interesting new study in the IFFGD digest on the effects of fats and carbohydrates effects on the small intestines in IBS. But I can't post that yet.
You might find this interesting from the AGA
Diagnosis and Management of IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Epidemiology
"Emeran Mayer, MD:
There's essentially two camps. Some — we're still trying to find the one cell that ultimately does explain
— or the one molecule that does explain all the symptoms. I think that camp has not given up on that
attempt. There's not too many people I would say that are on the other extreme, that say it's all in the
brain and it's all, you know, a CNS disorder. I think — But the majority — and this is, again, due to this
education campaign over the last several years and the research that's coming out — really confirms that
concept of a brain-gut interaction that is altered in these disorders, and that could explain all the
symptoms, from the psychiatric comorbidities all the way down to immune cell alterations at the gut level."
http://www.agacmecafe.com/modules/kci/ibs-2/TextOnlyFormat.pdf
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