Solving the enigmatic condition of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) | HMRI

Gut health researcher Dr Grace Burns, from HMRI's Immune Health Research Program, says that the term IBS has been around for decades, but it’s only in the past 15 years or so that the medical community has started to take it seriously. “Previously it was seen as a psychosomatic condition because you can’t see any bleeding or obvious inflammation on an endoscopy or colonoscopy,” says Grace. “While there’s no visible inflammation, we now know that there’s micro-inflammation and there are …