#dyspepsia — Public Fediverse posts

"Es zol dir dunern in boykh un blitsn in di hoyzn. It’s an old #Yiddish curse that many #Jews know all too well: You should thunder in your belly and lightning in your pants.

The #Jewish community has long joked among ourselves that we are plagued by tummy troubles, whether that be #IBS, #lactoseintolerance, #acidreflux disease or just general #dyspepsia. But with 2026 quickly becoming hot diarrhea summer (thanks, cyclospora!), it begs the question whether or not the Jewish community is, in scientific fact, actually more prone to stomach issues.

Since at least the late 1980s and early ’90s, scientists have studied the prevalence of #inflammatoryboweldisease in the Jewish community."

https://www.heyalma.com/are-jews-actually-more-prone-to-ibs-and-other-gut-problems/