IBS Cure

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I get nighttime IBS a few times per year. It's seriously uncomfortable, but I've found presence of mind to find yoga moves that alleviate pain. I've painstakingly built up sequences, and refined them over the decades. And while the condition has been well-controlled for years now, none of that was necessary, it turns out.

After all that cleverness, I've found that the better solution is the stupidest, simplest move you could imagine:

Take a yoga block. Set it flat on the ground. Lie on your back, with the block under your sacrum. And just chill.

The pain will quickly ease, and if you stay there for 3-5 minutes, you should be fine. Sufferers know that IBS loves to perform encores, so if it comes back, just flop back down on the block again. That's it.


62 years of dogged scheming, all for this. By the time I figure out everything, that will be the moment I croak. In some horribly embarrasing way. Piano drop. Radioactive corn. Plastic drinking straw puncturing brain through sinuses. Like that.