Wendy Leung: Do you suffer from pains other than your IBS pains and symptoms and you're
sure they're somehow related but your doctors say no?
Watch this video and find out why you're right and why you should definitely trust your gut
on this.
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If you're frustrated because you're sure those extra health issues of yours are somehow related
to your IBS, but nobody's been able to explain why, by the end of this video you'll be certain
that you can trust that gut instinct of yours, (pun totally intended).
I'm Wendy Leung, Holistic Health and Happiness Coach, Licensed Acupuncturist, and Powerhouse
IBS Conqueror, and I know that the most important expert you can trust about your IBS is yourself.
I teach my clients to trust their guts all the time and now it's your turn.
Okay, so we all know the typical IBS pains, the ones related to your digestion.
There's lower symptoms like cramping pain, diarrhea, urgent running to the bathroom diarrhea,
loose stool, constipation, alternating constipation diarrheas, so bloated I look like I'm pregnant,
I can't be around people smelling gas, and sometimes those upper symptoms like indigestion,
nausea, burping, regurgitation, acid reflux, and sometimes even vomiting.
All of these things, upper and lower, are things that you would expect from a digestive
disease.
What are the worst IBS pains and symptoms you guys get?
Let me know in the comments below.
But when you have IBS, you sometimes experience a whole bunch of other issues and pains that
aren't directly related to your gut.
But because you're smart and you're observant, you know that they're somehow related to your
IBS.
Do you get brain fog especially in the morning?
Are you completely exhausted and lethargic, especially when your IBS attacks?
Do you get headaches and migraines along with your IBS flare ups?
Do you have painful periods or does your IBS get worse with your period if you have IBS-D
and somehow better if you have IBS-C?
Drop a yes in the comments if you suffer from any of these issues.
Are these things happening in other parts of your body related to IBS?
YES!
ABSOLUTELY they are.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM for short, we know that anything that's happening
inside the body, whether it's physical, mental, or emotional, is connected to anything else
that's happening in the body at around the same time.
Sometimes it's a cause and effect from one organ system to the next, and sometimes it's
all within the same organ system.
Not sure what I'm talking about when I say TCM organ system? Watch my other video called
"What is IBS And What Causes It?" in the links below for a more detailed explanation.
The digestive symptoms we know and don't love come from a weak digestive organ system.
That would be the spleen and the stomach in TCM.
The stomach is responsible for the upper issues, and the spleen is responsible for the lower
issues.
But what about the non-digestive symptoms?
Where do they come from?
If you watched my first video, then you'll know that in TCM, we call IBS Liver invading
Spleen/Stomach.
Some of those symptoms are an angry Liver and other of those symptoms are a weak Spleen/Stomach.
What about those ones that I mentioned earlier?
Brain fog, exhaustion, lethargy, and some headaches happen when the Spleen and Stomach
are weak.
There's not enough energy for them to convert food into nutrients to send up to the brain
and around the rest of the body.
There's also not enough energy to hold your body up, so sometimes your limbs and your
muscles feel heavy and weak.
Ditto for your poop, especially when you're body is busy performing another
important function, like around period time.
So, bad news for those of you with diarrhea, but better news for those of you with constipation,
where you might actually feel a little bit of relief at the beginning of your period.
Speaking of periods, painful periods and migraines are also two symptoms indicating that the
Liver organ system is upset.
In addition to bullying the digestive system, the liver's also causing problems above and
below.
Thanks, Liver.
To recap, you're not crazy to think that your IBS gets worse or maybe a little bit better
during your period or that those headaches and migraines that you're having are somehow
related to your IBS.
It's because your body is an ecosystem and so when one aspect is out of balance, the
other ones get affected, too.
Makes sense, right?
What can you do to rebalance your body so you can stop getting those IBS pains, whether
inside or outside of your gut?
Well, I've got a free online class where I share real solutions that you can use to get
your IBS under control and reclaim your life.
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