This page is dedicated to the Gutsy Glossary.

When you’re first diagnosed with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and/or IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease), doctors, nutritionists, and the Internet start spewing off term-after-term. 

It’s hard to know what they all mean, especially when acronyms like IBS and IBD are used.

You’re trying to navigate the health condition at hand, not learn a whole new vocabulary. 

I’m here to help! 

Introducing the Gutsy Glossary, filled with acronyms and definitions. Below each term I will also include posts I have written in detail about the term. If you want to learn more, you always can.

Gutsy Glossary

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1. A Gutsy Girl: it’s you, my darling
   1. Significance of A Gutsy Girl Logo
2. AIP: Autoimmune Paleo
   1. AIP search
3. Bristol Stool Chart: A chart that breaks stools down into seven types that is used to help identify gastrointestinal distress or food sensitivities even.
   1. Bristol Stool Chart
4. CBC: complete blood count
5. Colonoscopy: a procedure where a long, thin and flexible tool is inserted via the rectum in order to view the bowels and colon
   1. The Colonoscopy and Endoscopy
6. Endoscopy: a procedure where a long, thin and flexible tool (endoscope) is inserted via the mouth
   1. Top 30 Colonoscopy and Endoscopy Tips, Tricks, and Information
7. FODMAP: Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides and Polyols
   1. FODMAPs
   2. Reasonable SIBO
8. GAPS Diet: Gut and Psychology Syndrome
9. IBD: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
10. IBS: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
11. igE: Immunoglobulin E, antibodies produced in the immune system
    1. igE vs igG
12. igG: Immunoglobulin G, the most common type of antibody found in blood circulation
    1. Testing
13. LDN: Low Dose Naltrexone
    1. What is Low Dose Naltrexone
14. Prebiotics: foods that feed gut bacteria
15. Probiotics: help improve the overall microbiome of the gut by restoring beneficial bacteria that have been depleted
    1. Probiotic Foods vs Prebiotic Foods
16. PRP’s: Proline-rich polypeptides
17. SCD: Specific Carbohydrate Diet
    1. GAPS vs AIP vs SCD 
18. SIBO: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
    1. Reasonable SIBO
    2. What is SIBO
19. Spoon Theory: The idea that we are given a finite amount of spoons, and each action we complete depletes one of those spoons. Sooner or later they run out.
    1. Mommy Spoonie
20. UC: Ulcerative Colitis

What other terms must be added to the master Gutsy Glossary? Let me know in the comments below so I can add them for you.

Xox,
SKH