The patient: “Carolyn”

Why she came to see me: It was immediately clear that Carolyn was troubled when she arrived at my office. Hunched over, with a slight grimace on her face, she told me about the bout of intestinal distress she’d recently experienced, a spell that had been going on for the last two months and that was marked primarily by persistent bloating, gas and constipation—in short, nearly the entire gamut of digestive problems. While her primary care physician had given her a “probable diagnosis” of irritable bowel syndrome, she intuited that something else was amiss, and wanted to address the issue naturally before turning to more medication.

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