Irritable bowel syndrome clearly linked to gut bacteria
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
An overgrowth of bacteria in the gut has been definitively linked to Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the results of a new study which used cultures from the small intestine. This is the first study to use this “gold standard” method of connecting bacteria to the cause of the disease that affects an estimated 30 million people in the United States.