Do you suffer with IBS?

L-Glutamine

L-Glutamine is a neat little amino acid. It helps to give your muscles energy, is a precursor to gluathione,  it helps to repair the lining of your colon, help with brain function, and helps with the immune system.

Function:
is an preferred source of energy for enterocytes of the GI tract. It provides over 75% of the fuel for enterocytes during acute stress.

it is involved with acid base balance in the body. Other cells which rapidly divide rely on glutamine as a source of energy for them like macrophages.

Glutamine is essential for the synthesis of vitamin B-3. It helps to metabolize uric acid and arginine.

Therapeutics:

It is good for IBD/IBS conditions
Peptic Ulcers
It helps with mental function in Alzheimer's patients

Foods sources

Cheese
Granola
Portk
Yogurt
Sausage
Oatmeal flakes
Turkey
Chicken
Duck
Eggs

 Source: Medical Nutrition from Marz

Does your IBS make you feel like this?

by domestic engineering

Others Perception and my reality with my IBS.

As most of you know I have active IBS. Which means that some days can be better or worse than others.
As other people see me they think I am completely normal person with no problems what so ever. That could be so. Usually people only see me on my good days. A lot of the time they haven't seen me on my bad days when I have to stay close to the bathroom or how I don't eat because I have the nausea to go along with the bad colon day.

Then I started to think that are we all that way in life. Do you all have a certain perspective in life because we don't see the real person or don't want to see the real person and want to know only the good news and not really hear or see the bad?

It's like if we show our real self the one that is struggling with a physical, mental or emotional thing that we fear others will turn away because we are all suppose to hang on to the outward perception that everything in my world is fine.

Denying our feelings is like denying who we are. There are good and better ways of expressing our feelings. To completely deny them is to deny ourselves and who we are as a person.

Yes I would rather have all good days with my IBS. I also am starting to appreciate the bad days so that I know how much sweeter the good days are.

Stress vs. IBS Which one came first?

Yesterday I was surfing the web and there was an article that I came across which stated that IBS came first and that anxiety/depression comes later because people have to learn how to manage their disease.

I think it comes from both fronts. Over 15 years ago I was put in a highly stressful situation when I had a change of roommates. My new roommate didn't like me too much and so I was getting blamed for everything. Back then I didn't know how to stand up for myself against my roommate and after almost two months of being with her I developed IBS. I never had it before, but I had never been under that much stress at one time. I got so sick I had to go home. For a while my IBS would go in waves of getting better or worse.

I trained myself to look for the nearest bathroom at every store so that "just in case" I had a flare up I could run to the bathroom.

Then a few years later I was in another stressful situation with an employer. One day I woke up took 12 capsules of activated charcoal and downed some Imodium and I was still running to the bathroom every 2 minutes or so. I should have been constipated by that time, but I wasn't. Here again I didn't know how to speak up for myself.

I go further with the supposed article. I believe that stress can activate IBS, then yes a person can have flare ups trying to manage their IBS, which can add more stress causing anxiety/depression. Unless you get yourself out of cycle. Which is something I had to learn. How to get myself out of a emotional cycle to where I wouldn't get the flare ups even with stressful conditions.

I have been practicing getting myself out of my emotional cycles for 3 years now. I am taking better care of my health and I have learned to speak up for myself in stressful situations. I eat a more balanced diet and try to be consistent with exercise. I have learned to manage my IBS, but I know that management is a life long pursuit.

Wish I had a biscuit

I have been trying an experiment to see what still makes me have flare ups from my IBS. I fount that if I have to much gluten it will set off my IBS. I have found a lot of good pasta's, cereals, and snack bars that are gluten free, wheat free. There is a big difference as far as all the gas and bloating that comes with IBS if I give in and have a regular biscuit. I love my carbs. LOL

I know that when I stay away from as much table sugar as possible that I don't get any flare ups either, but sometimes I can't resist a handful of , dare I say, m and m's.  Then I get a flare up.

I have noticed also that if I take indole-3-carbinol, this product helps to make my estrogen work better, that I don't get the flare ups as much either. Especially during my premenstral cycle.
There is a hormone connection with my body not utilizing my estrogens and IBS flare ups. Is it really the progesterone is too high or is it that the estrogen is too high because my body seems to be one that likes to store? ( I ask myself) I know that estrogen likes to be stored.

On with the experiment..........

Do you feel this way with your IBS?