You have a diagnosis and a label — but probably not a reason, or a real solution. IBS isn't a diagnosis so much as a description: your gut is irritable, and no one's told you why. Here's what's usually underneath it.

You eat something you've eaten a hundred times, and within an hour your stomach has doubled in size. If bloating after meals is your reality, the food itself is rarely the real problem. Here are the six root causes most often missed.

“I've never been well since…" — a holiday illness, a course of antibiotics, a stressful year. If you can name the moment your health changed, that memory isn't trivia. It's often the most important clue you have.

Two people live in the same damp flat. One is fine; the other is exhausted, foggy and reacting to everything. Mould affects people very differently — and why some can't seem to recover comes down to what's happening inside.

Bloating, gas, irregular digestion — and an "IBS" label that never quite explained it? A large share of IBS cases may actually be linked to SIBO. Here's how to tell them apart, and why the difference changes everything about getting lasting relief.