Managing IBS & gut-brain disorders in practice: A GI’s perspective | Dr. Omar Khokhar
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Gut-Brain Therapy, the Nerva podcast, gastroenterologist Dr. Omar Khokhar (OSF HealthCare) tackles one of the hardest problems in clinic: gut-brain disorders like IBS, where symptoms are real and debilitating but rarely explained by a scope or scan, leaving clinicians and patients asking the same thing: where to next? With the gut-brain axis now well established as a two-way street, Dr. Khokhar walks through the science of visceral hypersensitivity, how the...
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