Live from the 2022 Integrative Healthcare Symposium
February 19, 2022
Irritable bowel syndrome through the lens of systems biology
Practitioners should rethink about how they view irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and how they treat patients with the disease, said Robert Rountree, MD, at the 2022 Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City.
Rountree who is the founder of the private healthcare consulting practice, Boulder Wellcare, in Boulder, Colo., defined irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) not as a disease, but constellation of clinical symptoms. He said these symptoms include abdominal pain and discomfort, bloating, and distension and are accompanied by altered bowel habits. These bowel problems can take the form of diarrhea, known as IBS-D, constipation, known as IBS-C or a combination of both, IBS-M.
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