Probiotics – do they help IBS?
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is what “hypoglycemia” was in the 80s. The latest catch-all term for people who really don’t know what they have and their physicians can’t spend more than the allotted 10 minutes figuring it out. Bloating? Check. Abdominal discomfort? Check. You have IBS, here’s a prescription, come back in one month. IBS affects the colon, the part of your digestive tract that stores your poop (as Dr. Oz so aptly calls it). And the symptoms are not …