That means that her intestines may move food through so quickly that she has diarrhea or so slowly that she becomes constipated. There is no cure for irritable bowel syndrome. But relying solely on medication is not enough. He advises women with irritable bowel to learn to prevent the onset of symptoms. Learn to relax.
Stress is a killer for anyone with irritable bowel.
It stimulates various neurochemicals in the brain and sends them skittering down the nervous system pipeline to the gut. There they can aggravate the gut's already overreactive tendencies and trigger a bout of misery. He encourages people to learn a relaxation technique to help control it. It involves focusing on each group of muscles from head to toe, then consciously tensing and relaxing each group. He says it's more acceptable to Americans than meditation, a relaxation technique in which you focus your mind on a single thought or word and simply sit.