Bloating, bowels, IBS
Gut health
For people with a GP's diagnosis of IBS or a gut that has been misbehaving for a while. We work out the patterns, and go carefully with anything restrictive.
Please see your GP first. Changes in your bowels, blood, weight loss or a family history of bowel cancer or coeliac disease need ruling out before anyone talks to you about fibre.
Once that is done, we go through your symptoms alongside your food diary. Often the first steps are dull and they help: regular meals, more or less fibre of the right sort, enough water, and less of what you already suspected.
If your GP has diagnosed IBS, and the first-line steps have not helped, we can guide you through a low-FODMAP programme properly: restriction for a short time only, then bringing foods back. It is not a forever diet, and it is not for anyone with a history of disordered eating. We do not offer stool tests or food intolerance kits, because the evidence for them is poor.
What is included
- A symptom and food diary, reviewed together
- First-line dietary changes
- A low-FODMAP programme if it is appropriate
- Reintroduction, so you do not stay restricted
What it costs
A first gut session is £85. A guided low-FODMAP programme, with three follow-ups, is £210. We do not sell blocks of sessions or memberships, and there is nothing to buy from us. The how it works page explains the rest.
Questions about gut health
Will an intolerance test help?
We do not recommend the ones sold online or in shops. IgG tests do not diagnose intolerance, and they often lead people to cut out foods they need.
Do I need probiotics?
Sometimes they help some people with some symptoms. We can suggest a four-week trial of a specific one and tell you to stop if nothing changes.
Bring a week of real food.
Seventy-five minutes at the old school table for £85, with three things to change at the end of it. The biscuits stay in the diary. Nobody will be shocked.