This chapter explores how stress and anxiety can affect digestion and contribute to IBS symptoms. It introduces the concept of hypnotherapy as a way to deactivate the sympathetic nervous system and activate the parasympathetic state, improving digestive function and alleviating IBS symptoms. It discusses the positive results of a groundbreaking study on gut-directed hypnotherapy and its potential as a treatment for IBS.
When you get nervous, can you feel it in your stomach?
The gut-brain connection is something many of us have experienced but probably not given much thought to.
Research into this connection has led to the rise of a seemingly unexpected treatment for IBS: hypnotherapy.
Producer Danni Stewart investigates how Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be treated.