Ep. 404 | An Integrative Guide to Transforming Your Gut & Taming IBS: Retrain Your Brain, Optimize Nutrition, Calm Your Gut with Dr. Megan Riehl
Managing irritable bowel syndrome often feels like an uphill battle. But what if you could unlock simple, drug-free techniques to tame your symptoms from a leading GI psychologist?
In this revelatory conversation, Dr. Megan Riehl, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan, pulls back the curtain on integrative therapies that can transform your relationship with IBS.
With 13 years of clinical experience and specialized training in psychogastroenterology, Dr. Riehl meets patients where they are. Her compassionate, evidence-based approach equips you to understand the brain-gut connection, retrain habitual thought patterns, optimize nutrition, and intuitively care for your unique microbiome.
Tune in to discover:
A 4-minute breathing exercise to instill calm when GI symptoms flare
The proper pooping posture that ensures complete bowel movements
How gut-directed hypnotherapy sessions can override distress signals between your brain and digestive tract
Strategies to curb constipation and urgency episodes
If a probiotic is right for you
If you feel discouraged by hit-or-miss IBS treatment plans, this conversation offers reason for hope. Dr. Riehl leaves no stone unturned in equipping you to live fuller and freer. Her integrative methodology helps you become CEO over your own care - and write a new story of resilience.
ABOUT Dr. Megan Riehl
Dr. Megan Riehl is a key opinion leader in the field of psychogastroenterology. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan where she is the Director of the GI Behavioral Health Program. In her clinical practice she offers state of the art care to those with digestive conditions.
Dr. Riehl is passionate about developing innovative educational programming to improve access to integrative care for patients with GI conditions. She is an actively involved member of various professional GI organizations including the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, the Rome Foundation and the American College of Gastroenterology. Through teaching, speaking, writing and research, Dr. Riehl highlights the importance of holistic, integrative care in gastroenterology.
Together with world renowned, GI dietitian Kate Scarlata, she looks forward to sharing a comprehensive tool kit for those living with IBS in their upcoming book, Mind Your Gut: The Science-based, Whole-body Guide to Living Well with IBS available now for pre-sale.
Pre-order Mind Your Gut: The Science-based, Whole-body Guide to Living Well with IBS
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