"IBS affects 45 million Americans; it's also a tricky disease-hard to diagnose, miserable to live with. With the advent of the low FODMAP diet, nutrition is one of the primary treatments--but most folks don't know how to connect the dots between our brain and our gut health. Enter world renowned digestive health specialist and registered dietitian Kate Scarlata, and prominent GI psychologist Dr. Megan Riehl; their Mind Your Gut: The Whole Body Guide to Managing IBS provides a comprehensive, holistic approach to IBS. Offering everything from rom science based nutritional interventions, targeted mind gut behavioral strategies (body relaxation methods to stress management skills), as well as key yoga poses to mitigate symptoms, and natural supplements, Mind Your Gut combines diet and behavioral interventions for a full toolbox of therapeutic options for your IBS"-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword / by Dr. William D. Chey -- Introduction -- IBS : the gut, brain, and food connection -- When your gut and brain talk too much -- Change your thoughts, change your gut -- The role of relaxation and caring for you -- Nutrition remedies to calm and soothe your IBS gut -- IBS-friendly menu planning, grocery shopping, and label reading -- Making sane food choices in a food-fear and weight-obsessed culture -- Feeding your gut microbiome -- Putting it all together : symptom-specific interventions -- IBS-mimickers or when IBS overlaps with other conditions -- The last words -- Appendix I: Gut-loving recipes -- Appendix II: Colonoscopy-coping prep kit.