Talk it out to help improve your inflammatory bowel disease

Researchers now believe that mental health therapy could also help to reduce the inflammation in IBD. — dpa

Talking therapies could be “a valuable tool” for people with bowel disorders such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, researchers have suggested.

Academics from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London in the United Kingdom found that treatments that improve the mood reduced inflammation in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by 18%.