Fodmap

Any evidence to support this diet? I did a quick lit search and found a meta-analysis and a few other articles suggestion potential benefit for individuals with IBS. I don’t have anything clinically diagnosed but would say I have a “sensitive” stomach (I’ll spare the details) and was thinking of self experimenting for a few weeks and seeing how I feel.

Also considering nutrition coaching with BBM and was curious if this could be tied in if relevant to the rest of what nutrition programming offers.

Thanks!

Yea the low FODMAP diet has some evidence for improving symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, but outside of that I wouldn’t routinely recommend it. There’s some issue with nutritionally nocebo’ing folks, you know?

Opinion from someone who has been eating low-FODMAPs for almost 4 years, FWIW…

It’s not at all a “casual” diet to try out. I have IBS and eating low FODMAPs has helped me greatly, but it is pretty difficult and excludes a lot of “good” foods (especially fruits and vegetables). The other thing to keep in mind is that I believe it is more about total load than individual offending foods (correct me if I’m wrong). So I don’t stress about a bit of wheat in something, as long as I’m being mostly adherent elsewhere in my diet, for example.

I also strongly recommend trying to add foods back in after your initial trial (if it’s successful). It’s not all or nothing, and you might find that you’re actually fine including legumes in your diet, or dairy, or apples, or… you get the point.

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Thanks for the reply Jordan. After reading a bit more literature on it, it is very restrictive (although I guess over time more foods are re-introduced), and doesn’t seem to significantly outperform other dietary recommendations for those with IBS (NICE seems to be the big compare group). So my concern was the same thing, nocebo’ing into eliminating all these food options, especially in an individual not clinically diagnosed with IBS. Thanks again!