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This fascinating online course reveals how your digestive system works and explains in clear, concise, everyday language the most common reasons for abdominal pain and the best ways to get relief. Helpful charts, photographs and illustrations detail the way each organ and region of your digestive system works and shows you what happens when things go wrong.

Let Harvard’s experts help you get relief from the pain and discomfort of dozens of digestive problems.

Now you can get valuable advice from top Harvard experts on the best ways to prevent and relieve GERD and acid reflux, dyspepsia and ulcers, IBS, constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating, and more. You’ll learn about the brain-gut connection and how stress can cause abdominal problems. Each section reviews the various diagnostic tests and treatment options from prescriptions and over-the-counter medications to surgical procedures to things you can do on your own to get relief.

Harvard Health Publishing's all-new online course makes it easy to understand your digestive system and how to get relief for any problems you may have.

  • Learn from top Harvard experts at your convenience
  • Watch, pause, and watch again as often as you want — whenever you want
  • Easily skip to slides and sections that interest you most
  • Take notes or highlight and save sections to review later
  • The course is always available, never expires
  • Includes quizzes, charts, and illustrations that make learning fun
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You’ll uncover the remarkable link between your brain and gut and why your gut is often referred to as your “second brain.” You’ll be amazed to learn that behavioral issues like procrastination can be a sign that your gastrointestinal issues are caused by stress.

Don’t suffer with the pain, discomfort, and embarrassment of heartburn, gas, diarrhea, IBS, constipation or other digestive problems. Enroll in Harvard Health Publishing’s Sensitive Gut course today and get relief.

Now is the perfect time to enroll because you’ll save 25% off the regular price, plus you’ll get two bonus sections: Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening and Beyond IBS that provides an overview of conditions such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis that can have symptoms that mimic IBS.

What’s Included

  • Access your courses anytime, anywhere, with a computer, tablet or smartphone
  • Videos, charts, quizzes and interactive content designed for a proven learning experience
  • New “NOTES” feature that lets you highlight, save and print information for further review
  • Downloadable charts
  • Unlimited access. Take your courses at your time and pace
  • And more!
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Two Prominent Harvard Physicians Share Their Insights

The Sensitive Gut course is hosted by Mallika Marshall, MD — an Emmy-award winning journalist and practicing physician who is on staff at Harvard Medical School and practices at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Plus get a BONUS podcast at no extra cost with Dr. Lawrence S. Friedman, who is the Assistant Chief of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine. He answers important questions about the digestive system and explains in easy-to-understand language the intricacies of the gut-brain connection and the latest facts on the gut microbiome.

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