Check this out: Guardian.co UK reports that a recent study found that yoga was a better treatment for irritable bowel syndrome than drugs.
“A small study looked at 22 men with irritable bowel syndrome.[1] It compared drug treatment for diarrhoea (loperamide) with yoga. Both treatments reduced symptoms, but the people practising yoga showed slightly more improvement.”
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