External Collab - post research thoughts and illustration brief

DIET 
- consume a lot of pro biotics and pre biotics
- fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kimchi
- plant based fibre
- know your triggers
- FODMAP 
- food diary

STRESS (how to handle eg. mindfulness, yoga)
- stress affects the sympathetic nervous system (takes blood from gut to muscles)
- yoga (as effective as good diet in some studies)
- mindfulness relaxes body
- stay away from phones when eating

From the podcasts I listened to I discovered that yoga and mindfulness/reduction of stress were just as important as diet in the day to day handling of IBS, which surprised me a lot. I thought that diet was probably the most important factor due to the inherent link between the gut and food, so finding out that stress relief was just as important was surprising. From this I can include more about this in the magazine as it is so helpful for managing IBS.

for Pippa

microbiota (would be cool as individual representative illustrations to be dispersed throughout the magazine) other names: gut flora (flora maybe interesting to play off?)

gut talking to brain (communication)

destressing
- mindulness/meditation
- yoga (Svadhisthana Chakra is the seat of emotions. associations: pluto, orange, crocodile, water)

Brief given to Pippa: