IBS Chat

Dr. Supriya Rao is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, gastroenterology, obesity medicine and lifestyle medicine who focuses on digestive disorders, gut health, obesity medicine, and women's health and wellness. Dr. Rao runs the motility program, which focuses on disorders of the esophagus, irritable bowel syndrome and anorectal disorders. She is passionate about empo

Mahana IBS is a new FDA-cleared clinically proven digital treatment app that uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to reduce IBS symptom severity. Manaha reports that nearly 2 in 3 patients using Mahana IBS find relief for their IBS symptoms. My guest was Dr. Luisa Scott who is the Director of Medical Affairs at Mahana. We learn what Medical Affairs do for an organization and how

Jeffrey Roberts, Founder IBSpatient.org, had the opportunity to share his IBS story and advocacy journey with first year medical students at Tuft’s University School of Medicine. He was interviewed by Dr. Libby Bradshaw, Patient Experience Threads Director and Assistant professor, Public Health and Community Medicine. Dr. Bradshaw’s session with the students was to focus on the

Ernie Molina is someone who developed IBS after a being placed on antibiotic therapy by his dentist for 6 months after dental implants. His dentist felt that Ernie’s gut discomfort could be managed by eating yogurt. This did not work for Ernie. Before the dental work, Ernie described his health as good and enjoyed a wide variety of foods. This all changed following the antibiotic

Dr. Mark Pimentel is a professor of medicine and gastroenterology at Geffen School of Medicine UCLA and associate professor of medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. He is also the executive director of the Medically Associated Science and Technology (MAST) Program at Cedars-Sinai, https://csmast.com. A pioneering expert in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Dr. Pimente

Johannah Ruddy MEd, is the Executive Director of the ROME Foundation and a patient advocate. Johannah works to provide the patient perspective to everything that she does. She recently co-wrote and published the book Gut Feelings: Disorders of Gut Brain Interaction which is a guide for patients and doctors. Johannah and I got together to discuss our own experiences related to “Wh

Natalie (Sparacio) Hayden is an Inflammatory Bowel Disease patient advocate who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2005, She is a Mom of 2 beautiful children, with one more on the way. She is a former TV news anchor and reporter so she has had a very active life. Her blog is LightsCameraCrohns.com where she publishes weekly articles. She enjoys sharing stories about pregnancy

Grace Whittle first started having digestive symptoms that felt like daily food poisoning when she was 23 years old. Fortunately her fiancée, Aonghus Shortt, was a mechanical engineer and invented a device, the AIRE (available from FoodMarble.com), to help measure the amount of hydrogen in your breath, which is how you analyze foods that contain FODMAP. A low FODMAP diet is recomm

Shifting from “having IBS” to “have had IBS” is the goal of Dr. Jennifer Franklin (Ph.D., MACP). In this podcast, Dr. Jennifer Franklin (Ph.D., MACP) and I spoke about her unique perspective on how therapy can help people with functional GI disorders. Relationship healing plays a large role in dealing with IBS and this is often something that is addressed by therapy. The re

We need to use our heads to be able to learn different strategies to manage problems where medications and dietary changes fall short with IBS. In this podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Lackner (PsyD) and I spoke at Digestive Disease Week in San Diego about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT and its role as a validated treatment option for IBS patients. CBT is no longer just for anxious or str