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Mind-body education helps irritable bowel syndrome

Patients who go through a mind-body educational course are better able to manage irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), according to a new study.The benefits of the course were modest, about as large as what are typically seen from taking medications, said Dr. Emeran Mayer, the senior author of the study and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine.The program doesn't work for everybody, said Mayer, but for others "it changed their lives."The researchers couldn't describe exactly how patients' lives were changed, but those in the study reported having somewhat less severe symptoms and a higher quality of life after they went through the program.Irritable bowel syndrome is a collection of symptoms, including stomach pain and diarrhea, that don't have a known inflammatory component like inflammatory bowel disease.According to Mayer's study, published in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics , up to 15 percent of people experience IBS.Although fiber supplem...

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