Dr. Trisha Pasricha
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5 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And they said, OK, how often are you going?
And it turns out anywhere from three times a day to once every third day would be within the range of normal, although people still sort of believed that once a day was normal.
When they looked at other countries, for example, in East India, where people eat a significantly higher fiber diet,
those people were going like on a median of 14 times per week, which is almost twice as much as we sort of think is normal here in the U.S.
But it's often just a function of fiber.
And there are also other factors too, right?
Like exercise plays a role.
Your stress certainly can play a role, though what you're describing to me sounds interesting because it could be a form of post-infectious IBS, as you're describing.
But there have actually been a lot of studies about bacterial infections and how those can kind of sensitize the lining of the gut
in a way that can last for several years.
The good news is that, as it seems to have happened in your case, sometimes we see that it does get better eventually when you change your diet, when you change your lifetime.
It just takes time.
yeah, it's funny you bring this up because I am one of those people who have always looked.
Even before I became, I mean, although this probably foreshadowed what I would become, but it's like, it blows my mind.
It's like, how can you not look?
Why would you not look, you know?
But I actually think there's an important reason to look, which is that you have to know what your normal pattern looks like.
You have to know what things look like on a typical week.
And it may not be the same every day.
Like I said, there's so
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