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January 23, 2025

How to Live Well with IBS: Diet and Lifestyle Tips with Jessie Wong, RD

Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) presents unique challenges, but it doesn’t have to define your life. In this episode, we’re joined by Jessie Wong, MAcc, RDN, LD—an IBS expert and Monash FODMAP Certified Dietitian—who has guided countless individuals toward effective symptom management and improved quality of life. Through evidence-based diet and lifestyle strategies, Jessie shares practical tips to help you navigate the complexities of IBS, make informed food choices, and find relief tailored to your unique needs. Whether you’re exploring the FODMAP diet or seeking actionable ways to feel better, this episode delivers the expert guidance you need to move forward with confidence. Tune in to gain the tools and insights to live well with IBS.

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September 6, 2024

Tips For Cooking On A Low FODMAP Diet

If you’re following a low FODMAP Diet and wondering how you can still enjoy your favorite recipes, this episode is for you. Medical Nutrition Therapist and FODMAP Expert Patsy Catsos returns with cooking tips and recipe swaps that will help you adapt your recipes and make them FODMAP friendly. Patsy’s common-sense approach may help you find what recipes you still can enjoy with some simple ingredient or seasoning swaps, as well as how to re-create some of your favorite foodie flavors. For more introductory information on the low FODMAP diet check out our previous episode with Patsy, The Low FODMAP Diet: Strategies For Success, or visit her website for more tips: https://www.ibsfree.net

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August 14, 2024

The Low FODMAP Diet: Strategies For Success

The Low FODMAP Diet is an evidence-based dietary intervention for patients living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). But with three-phases that are not one-size fits all, implementation can be challenging without professional guidance from a GI registered dietitian. Patsy Catsos, MS, RDN, is a medical nutrition therapist, FODMAP expert, and author who joins us to discuss the strategies for success that she shares with her patients who try the Low FODMAP diet to determine which foods may trigger their IBS symptoms. and make food substitutions without sacrificing a balanced and nutritional diet. Patsy, who runs the site, ibsfree.net, explains FODMAPs, takes us through each phase of the low FODMAP diet and offers some insider tips for managing IBS symptoms through this approach.

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August 7, 2024

Tips for Managing IBS with Constipation

In this episode we focus on Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation (IBS-C) with Gastroenterologist, Dr. Kumkum Patel from California (@dr.gut_motility). Dr. Patel offers her expertise on various IBS-C treatments from the different medications available, to simple diet and lifestyle changes that patients can make to help keep their bowel movements more regular. We also discuss what other, more severe digestive conditions can be causing constipation, which is why it’s important to be open with your healthcare provider regarding your bowel movements.

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June 12, 2024

How I Treated My IBS-C: A Patient Tells All

Many listeners have had tons of follow-up questions about IBS-C from our previous episodes, so we invited back one of our favorite patient advocates to answer them for you. Karen is here to get into more details about her personal healthcare journey including her search for the right doctor.. We also discuss more of the different subcategories of IBS-C, including DGBI (Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction) as well as the IBS-C treatment options that finally worked for her.. This episode is brought to you by Ardelyx.

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March 7, 2024

How Do I Live Well With IBS?

If you or a loved one are living with IBS, you don’t want to miss this episode! GI Psychologist Dr. Megan Riehl and Registered Dietitian Kate Scarlata introduce their new book, Mind Your Gut: The Science-based, Whole-body Guide to Living Well with IBS. Teaming together for the ultimate multidisciplinary approach to understanding GI conditions like IBS, Megan and Kate explain what readers can expect from the book, offer tips for navigating the misleading health claims on social media and share some tools for living your best life with IBS.

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November 14, 2023

What Does “Feeling Better” Mean To You? The IBS-C Provider Perspective

What does a doctor really mean when they ask a patient “are you feeling better”? We asked! In this special compilation episode brought to you by Ardelyx, we gathered a group of healthcare providers across the multidisciplinary spectrum to break down what signs they look for when assessing if a patient is improving with their IBS-C diagnosis. From symptom relief and management, to quality of life, these providers share a range of ideas on how to help their patients thrive with this chronic condition.

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October 23, 2023

What Does “Feeling Better” Mean To You? The IBS-C Patient Perspective

When a doctor asks you “are you feeling better”, what goes through your mind? How do you answer that question as a patient dealing with a chronic health condition? Is there a difference between what a doctor is looking for in an answer, and how a patient answers? We asked some of our previous patient advocate guests in this special compilation episode brought to you by Ardelyx, and the answers may surprise you. You may even relate to their struggle to not only define what better means for them, but how to communicate that to their healthcare provider.

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