2013 "Beating the Bloat: the FODMAP diet & IBS" Central Clinical School public lecture

[@olereidar]

The FODMAP diet has been of great help to me personally and many of my patients. The gastro department at the local hospital here in Norway recommend it to patients also. Excellent work. Spread the word!

[@dosereeya]

Low FODMAP diet gave me back normality to my everyday life. I am both fructose and lactose intolerant. quite a combo i know and i have been on a low fodmap diet for almost a year now. it is very difficult at the beginning but once you know what you can and what you can't you'd be surprised on the vast variety of food that you can intake. The Low FODMAP diet APP is very helpful.

[@sadhak81]

Watching this video CHANGED MY LIFE! Thank you so much to the researchers at Monash University!!!!!

[@trickmast]

This diet is amazing for IBS sufferers, I've been on it for 8 months and it's works wonders.

[@JLchevz]

can you ever quit it? I mean after you get better, can you increase high FODMAP foods intake?

[@dropthebassline]

This is an incredible presentation. Fantastic research Professor Peter Gibson!

[@dropthebassline]

+Drop the Bassline I'd love to see him do an updated lecture..

[@Coolbeanstogo]

Thank you very much for posting this video. excluding sugar and gluten has transformed my life. No more nausea in the morning, no more unpredictable episodes of diarrhea and no more constant abdominal pain.

[@MsMalcolm1001]

Excellent dietary information and bodily functional process lecture whilst it will take time to see it all and you may find it full on I feel its worth watching

[@denisespears5147]

Hello FODMAP family:) It's a new experience for me, but I've notice that my symptoms are decreasing. This is a challenging journey but it's worth the travel. It only going to get better. Stay positive and stay on course:)

[@MonashSTM]

Denise, really pleased your symptoms are decreasing. If you do have any questions, email our team of low FODMAP research dieticians directly, at [e-mail]

[@amylorenzen3388]

A great video to help explain to my family what is going on with me!!!

[@harmhoeks5996]

Amazing! Are the researchers involved also the inventors FODMAP diet? Seems Nobel Prize worthy :)!

[@MonashSTM]

Thankyou Harm Hoeks , appreciated! Yes, the Monash University research team did develop the low FODMAP diet. See more about it at www.med.monash.edu/cecs/gastro/fodmap/

[@josiehh3096]

Well done. Much food for thought.

[@sanaturnock1490]

Love this. Very clear. Thank you.

[@ruxpi]

The term you're looking for is "flatulence".

[@redhot663]

Shawn Rose Or atleast just excessive wind

[@topazzz79]

+Shawn Rose Yes and no. You don't ask someone if they just dropped a flatulence. Or have you let a flatulence out today :-) I think pass gas is more common.

[@Nikoleye00]

A double blind study of low carb vs gluten free would be fantastic to test for depression.

[@MonashSTM]

Dear Nikoleye, if you'd like to find out more about the current research program of the Monash University low FODMAP team, you can follow their blog, www.monashfodmap.com/blog/ or email them directly, on [e-mail]

[@NotAnAnimator]

This is amazing and also frustrating: I've been sticking to a strict elimination diet, but still getting sick. Knowing about FODMAPs I can cross-reference the foods I eat and get an idea of why I'm still suffering. Seeing that Legumes and Pulses are high, but also factoring in that meat (presumably the amines in beef, chicken, fish) makes me sick, it leaves buckwheat as a sole dependable source of protein. If you need people for tests, where do I sign up.

[@NotAnAnimator]

Trip to the gastroenterologist a few days back just resulted in him handing a form over for a stomach and gut biopsy, plus he'd not heard of the RPAH elimination diet and didn't bring up anything about FODMAPs. Doctors don't want to know about food actually being a problem, treating it more like superstition. The importance of a food diary would have saved me some sanity and maybe my job when it got so bad I couldn't handle anything. Gastroenterologist also off-handedly recommended a pro-biotic which - despite me checking for everything else I knew I had to avoid - I didn't think Oligofructose would be that big a deal. Not only have I had a hellish couple of days with panic-attacks (this specific fructose had fake vanilla flavour, which is high in salicylates, amines and glutamates, which give me panic-attack symptoms) but I've been overly dehydrated and wondered why I was so big in the stomach all of a sudden. If the gut absorb water, does it stop it from being put to good use in the rest of the body? If the internet didn't exist I'd have had nothing and no-one to help me out with these things at all.

[@MonashSTM]

Hi Nanto, if you do have questions about the diet, please email the Monash University Low FODMAP research team, at [e-mail].

[@Sewlistic_Soul]

Nanto not entirely true. I'm looking into this diet under the recommendation of my GI docs

[@JLchevz]

you can eat some cheeses that are low in lactose I think, check the app

[@HeatherJacobsen]

Did Dr. Shephard compare the vitamin deficiencies before and after patients went on a gluten-free diet? I ask, because celiac disease and damage to the gut is known to cause issues of malabsorption - so this is not necessarily the fault of the actual gluten-free diet itself.

[@TVCanda]

I wish more people addressed their problems (IBS-D in my case) by searching for serious scientific studies like this one, instead of going for instagram, or 60 second videos on fb with ukelele and whistles for background music that show a few "facts" on white uppercase letters.

[@misscarol3029]

Very interesting presentation!

[@oren.kirschenbaum]

if FODMAPS are problematic for IBS folks, why do they have to go on a "low" FODMAP diet? they are still eating some FODMAPs, just in smaller quantities. The symptoms get better but they are still present to some extent (as shown in this lecture). Has anyone ever tried a "Zero" FODMAP diet? I know eliminating fruits and veggies sounds horrible to many of us, but if IBS folks would try it out for a week or two and go into complete remission - wouldn't that be great? or at least use it as a strategy for periods of flares. works great for me.

[@MonashSTM]

+Oren Kirschenbaum, thanks for your interest. If you'd like to know more, email the team directly, at [e-mail]. See also a recent blog article about how FODMAPs affect patients' microbiota - diversity of diet is very important. fodmapmonash.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/research-update-fodmaps-alter-symptoms.html

[@kimberlyweed]

You're hard-pressed to find zero FODMAP foods. I think you'd be limited to eating meat.

[@BondeyeView]

And too much red meat is meant to be linked to bowel cancer....

[@gulbuzramadan]

Thank you I am going to try it

[@ozlisa]

It is very help

[@doriesse824]

Did I understand correctly that we should limit our intake of liquids? To how much per day? And gases, what are those? Things like beans and cruciferous vegetables? He talks about studies that were beginning or were already underway when this video was made. Are there any results yet, since this was recorded 4 years ago?

[@MonashSTM]

Lavender Dorie thanks for your interest. Please email the Monash Low FODMAP research team at [e-mail]

[@muka0301]

Only halfway through the video and so much great info! I started having issues right after having my daughter. Does pregnancy and/or labor mix up the tuning of the gut or be the cause of anything?

[@MonashSTM]

+muka0301 thanks for your positive feedback! re the pregnancy question, email the team directly with your question, at [e-mail].

[@PittyDomino]

Unfortunately, the slide froze just as he was giving the results of the BIG study... so the video doesn't show that graph. Very informative, thank you.

[@MonashSTM]

Deb McCafferty Can you let me know the time point in the video at which this happens? Thanks.

[@PittyDomino]

Central Clinical School, Monash University Minute 48 -- around that time.

[@MonashSTM]

Deb McCafferty Hi Deb, I checked the powerpoint and yes, two slides are missing. I'll check to see how, or if, I can integrate them to the video. If not, then I'll create a separate small video of one minute or so with Peter Gibson's voice overlaying them. Thanks for your help here. Regards, Julia Veitch, CCS Monash Comms Manager.

[@nickvalovic5702]

its sad that he is relating IBS as a cost issue metioning how much work is missed instead of genuinely trying to help improve peoples health they are trying to address a cost issue for companies?

[@MonashSTM]

+nick Valovic The economic cost is mentioned to give an idea of the wider impact of the problem beyond individual suffering. Everyone is affected in the end if we can't help IBS sufferers.

[@AlastairBanks]

Hey guys - I made a video about my personal journey on the diet and the incredible results I've had if you're interested its here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipDGo6ywd72GgMk

[@MonashSTM]

Hi Alistair, great that the low FODMAP diet is helping you so much. A note about gluten in the diet: When following the low FODMAP diet, fructans and other FODMAPs, but not gluten, are restricted. A strict life-long ‘gluten-free’ diet is only required if you have been diagnosed with coeliac disease. See more at: www.med.monash.edu/cecs/gastro/fodmap/faq.html, or send questions directly to the Monash University Low FODMAP research team at [e-mail].

[@RGR_Gaming10X]

But wheat is a high FODMAP so it's pretty much strict gluten free am I right? I know you can get oats that say "Made on factory equipment that also processes wheat". And not have to worry - but for the most part, breads, pastas, that are wheat are out.