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Is IBS curable? This might be the wrong question. Let me explain.
The “S” in “IBS” stands for “syndrome”. A lot of people think that “syndrome” is just another word for “disease”, but actually a syndrome is defined as a group of related symptoms with no specific (or single) cause.
IBS and other syndromes are often dismissed as “incurable” because, as there is no single cause, there is also no single treatment that resolves the problem for everyone.
But the notion of a single cure is overly simplistic for most of our…