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24 May 2026

Why Medieval Peasants Never Had IBS — but 1 in 5 Modern Adults Suffer Daily

From Medieval Way


Your gut bacteria are dying. Forty-five million Americans live with irritable bowel syndrome. The diagnosis did not exist before 1944. Your great-great-grandparents ate two pounds of bread every day and never thought about their stomachs. 

So what changed? 

Seven things in three generations. Antibiotics, emulsifiers, C-section births, sterile homes, the death of fermented food on the daily table, and two others. Each one was introduced as progress. Each one wiped out part of the bacterial ecosystem your great-great-grandparents carried since birth.
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