Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Hidden Links Between Gut Health and Mental Wellbeing

17 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt of a talk by Aaron Hartman, MD exploring links between gut disorders (notably IBS) and mental health symptoms such as anxiety, depression, sleep problems, inflammation, and systemic symptoms. The speaker frames IBS as a functional bowel disorder and questions underlying causes rather than treating IBS as a standalone diagnosis.

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How many times do you see a person with any of these that has no anxiety, has no depression, has no sleep problems, has no inflammation, no joint aches and pains? And the answer is they always got, you know, and if you do a blood test, you all of a sudden now you're seeing antibodies. But one thing I want to talk about briefly, ibs, which a couple of years ago, I saw this third of all business to the GI doctors for ibs. Yeah. Which is a functional bowel disorder. Yeah. Well, what's a functional. Talk about a functional. Yeah. I don't know. I think IBS is a symptom for me. Someone comes in with an IBS tag. My question is, what is behind this?