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Hi folks, just a quick note to share a hard lesson I've been learning recently about experimentation. If I look back about a week or so ago after a "good run", I was starting to feel a bit more confident in trying out some things I felt I really should test. These included pureed apple and soy yoghurts. I did experiments of both within a 2 day period. Combine that with some stress around birthday, an important midweek meeting to do with work, and some anxiety about a deeply personal issue of faith and I was all set for a deeper level of gut instability and suffering that can no longer be traced to food item A B or C. Don't do it! Also comma consider limiting experimentation to maybe two new items per week and integrate good conditions that are necessary for successful experimentation on a very sensitive gut, such as sleep and peacefulness. Be patient, we have all our lives to work out these details. Thanks for reading.

Although  I have yet to experience any major breakthrough in weightgain, my broken collarbone is finally, after five months of difficulty, allowing me some physical activity again. This importantly includes household chores, driving and.... drumroll... RUNNING! Toward the end of today's 5K gentle run, having eaten or drunken nothing at all, from around end of morning and a successful breakfast, I felt a not-unfamiliar stomach tightness arrive. Obviously it is familiar, but what I mean is that I remember this from my running days - I have not been running regularly for 5 years, but I have had stomach issues for nearly double that. The point is: hydrating myself sufficiently to avoid this. When I specialised more in distance running at speed, I managed to teach myself to prepare in such a way that I did not dehydrate too much by ensuring during the hour prior to the activity I was drinking quite a lot. The point is with running, is that a lot of inexperienced runners, regardless...

Hi and welcome to my brand new blog I am launching on freedom from digestive disorders. My name is John, I'm 38. As I write this, I still suffer from chronic IBS, which I first recognised as an issue back in 2010. It's been seven long years of increasing famine, and since then I have lost almost 10kg. That's swinging between 60-61 kg. I am 187cm tall (over 6ft 1in). This condition, as anyone suffering from similar issues will know, can feel terrible, especially around times of social gatherings like Christmas which has such a focus on eating, drinking and shared pleasure. Because life likes to throw just as many challenges, digestive-disorder sufferers can also have other unrelated problems which exacerbate the psychological challenge of staying positive and a pleasure to be around. Because life also puts fellow sufferers on our route, we often hear a thousand-and-one titbits of advice and haphazardly (and expensively) try many of them, confused and lost between con...