IBS Healing Study

WELCOME TO THE IBS HEALING STUDY Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be painful and frustrating. IBS symptoms can last for months or even years. Most research shows that IBS begins in your gut where 100 million nerve cells line your gastrointestinal tract from your esophagus to your rectum. Your gut, influenced by the microbiome living in your intestinal tract, continuously sends and receives signals to and from your brain. And your brain, drawing on memories of past experiences with food and nutrients, can either calm those signals or amplify them. Clinical studies have shown your brain’s natural healing response can effectively calm IBS symptoms, by utilizing non-medicinal treatments like hypnosis, meditation, mindful breathing, and blank pills known as placebos. Over time, newly acquired calming signals can form permanent neural pathways that replace the dysfunctional pathways that helped trigger your IBS symptoms. HOW THE IBS HEALING STUDY WORKS Although IBS feels different for every sufferer, the common goal is to be able to consume the foods you enjoy, without experiencing IBS symptoms. The IBS Healing Study is a behavioral tool that helps you learn to calm the motor neurons and secretion cells that trigger IBS symptoms. This app uses successful clinical research that helped nearly 7 out of 10 IBS sufferers enrolled in placebo pill treatments calm their IBS symptoms. Placebos have proven to be effective healing triggers, even when you know you are using a blank pill to trigger your brain’s healing response and calm your IBS symptoms. Think of placebo pills as brain training tools to calm your gut-brain connection. Over several weeks of using the app every day, you will be guided to study your sleep quality, stress levels, water intake, food intake, IBS flare-ups, urgent bowel movements, diarrhea, and constipation. The app will use your journal recordings to help you gain insight into your food and stress triggers. The IBS Healing Study is a self-care app. It does not replace your physician. Instead, you will be able to investigate every aspect of your IBS and review your healing progress over time. If you are ready to try something new to feel better and take control of your symptoms, we encourage you to download the IBS Clinical Study app and begin your 4-week investigation of your IBS influencers, triggers, and your potential permanent recovery from IBS.