The serotonin is why people have the symptoms of d and c and d/c, and is connected to other problems in IBS. It is a major neurotransmitter that sends signal to the brain as well as a major role in Peristaltic Reflex.
The pet scans and fmri of IBS patients should distinct areas of brain activations that only occur in IBS patients.
Also while I do understand people see studies from drug companies, its more the drug companies advertising and comercial end of things that is a problem and not the research. When someone finds a problem in IBS it has to be confirmed from many labratories. The UNC is one if not the top center in the US and there is Mayo and UCLA and the Cleveland clinic,and the Vanderbuilt, as well as others in the UK, Japan, Germany, and Doctors from many diciplines working on the problem of IBS and functional conditions for us.
"What would be an example of new understanding?
Well one example is that we're starting to understand how the brain is responding to the pain in IBS. There have been some studies done where they've artificially created a kind of an irritable bowel by placing a balloon to stretch the bowel, and that produces pain. Then they've compared people with IBS to non-IBS, or "normal" individuals. And what they've found is that when you stretch the bowel-and use PET scans to monitor the response-in normal individuals, certain areas of the brain that register pain respond and release chemicals called neurotransmitters that suppress and lower the pain. But it seems that doesn't happen as well in people with IBS. In fact, in people with IBS another area of the brain responds that is associated with anxiety. So what we find is that people with IBS, aside from having a bowel problem, may have some difficulty in terms of the way their brain is regulating the pain."
also I am sure some of you have seen this from heather's first year IBS book.
Fifteen minutes aftewr eating when the food is still in your throat, the lower bowel is going off.
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