Series 4, Episode 5 — Gut-friendly eating (without restriction)

About this episode

This episode focuses on gut-friendly eating habits and understanding digestive symptoms.

Understanding Your Gut is a patient-education podcast series for people experiencing common digestive symptoms, including: bloating abdominal discomfort constipation diarrhoea food-related gut symptoms IBS and functional bowel symptoms The series is designed to explain gut symptoms in a simple, reassuring and evidence-based way. Each episode is approximately 10 minutes long and focuses on helping patients understand: How the gut works why symptoms happen How food, stress, routine and gut sensitivity interact When symptoms are common and manageable and when medical review is important Topics Covered in this episode: - 👉• Regular meals 👉 Not arriving at evening starving 😉 👉 Portion size + spacing 👉 Fluids 👉 Fibre (gentle, not extreme)

People in this episode

Host: John King

Topics covered

• gut health
• digestive symptoms
• patient education
• nutrition
• IBS
• functional bowel symptoms

Keywords

• gut-friendly eating
• bloating
• abdominal discomfort
• constipation
• diarrhoea
• IBS
• food-related gut symptoms
• portion size
• fibre
• fluids

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