Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
TREAT DIGESTION NATURALLY! To find out more see our bookings page here: https://www.byronherbalist.com.au/appointments/
My name is Todd Mansfield and I’m a clinical herbalist dedicated to digestive health. Every week I treat Australian and New Zealand patients with IBS, IBD, SIBO, reflux, indigestion, bloating, loose bowel movements and constipation.
Follow my work here: instagram.com/byron.herbalist
For everyone else, I’m passionate about supporting you so follow along with this free content to support your digestion naturally!
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Elimination and restrictive diets can calm gut symptoms by taking pressure off the gut, but they don’t fix why the gut is reacting in the first place. Feeling better on a restricted diet helps to confirm the problem BUT it DOES NOT FIX IT!
When someone reacts to healthy whole foods, it points to digestive issues, bacterial overgrowths, or sulphur processing isn’t working properly. If those issues aren’t fixed people often keep cutting out more foods over time. Diets become narrower and food tolerance drops. Then the problem becomes bringing foods back in.
Dietary restriction works best as a temporary tool to calm symptoms while the real drivers of gut dysfunction are addressed. Long-term improvement comes from restoring digestive function and gradually rebuilding tolerance, not from permanently avoiding more and more foods.
TREAT DIGESTION NATURALLY! To find out more see our bookings page here: https://www.byronherbalist.com.au/appointments/
My name is Todd Mansfield and I’m a clinical herbalist dedicated to digestive health. Every week I treat Australian and New Zealand patients with IBS, IBD, SIBO, reflux, indigestion, bloating, loose bowel movements and constipation.
Follow my work here: instagram.com/byron.herbalist
For everyone else, I’m passionate about supporting you so follow along with this free content to support your digestion naturally!
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Elimination and restrictive diets can calm gut symptoms by taking pressure off the gut, but they don’t fix why the gut is reacting in the first place. Feeling better on a restricted diet helps to confirm the problem BUT it DOES NOT FIX IT!
When someone reacts to healthy whole foods, it points to digestive issues, bacterial overgrowths, or sulphur processing isn’t working properly. If those issues aren’t fixed people often keep cutting out more foods over time. Diets become narrower and food tolerance drops. Then the problem becomes bringing foods back in.
Dietary restriction works best as a temporary tool to calm symptoms while the real drivers of gut dysfunction are addressed. Long-term improvement comes from restoring digestive function and gradually rebuilding tolerance, not from permanently avoiding more and more foods.
