"The majority of patients with anxiety and depression will also have alterations of their GI function," said Dr. Emeran Mayer, professor of medicine, physiology and psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles."
I strongly agree with this statement above.
However this statement below as I continue to read on, makes me wonder if they're actually trying to refer to IBD no IBS since there isn't bleeding with IBS unless a hemmie is involved....
"Dr. Gershon, too, theorizes that physiology is the original culprit in brain-gut dysfunctions. "We have identified molecular defects in the gut of everyone who has irritable bowel syndrome," he said. "If you were chained by bloody diarrhea to a toilet seat, you, too, might be depressed."
Ah, then I saw the correction at the bottom of the article (it was UC he was referring to)