Living with chronic digestive issues is exhausting. The daily battle with bloating, cramping, acid reflux, unpredictable bowel habits, constipation, anal discomforts and food anxieties can control your life. You may have been given a diagnosis like Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) or GERD, diverticulosis, fistula, fissure, haemorrhoids etc and told to “avoid stress” or “eat more fiber,” yet the problems persist. You’ve been given medications like acid blockers or antispasmodics that only provide temporary relief.

This is because these approaches don’t address the fundamental question: Why is your digestive system so distressed in the first place?

Our second opinion for GI conditions is designed to listen to what your gut is trying to tell you. We see your symptoms not as the problem itself, but as signals from a system that is out of balance. Our goal is to find and fix the underlying cause.

Beyond the Symptoms: The True Roots of GI Distress

Your gut is not just a digestive tube; it’s a complex ecosystem and the epicenter of your entire health. We investigate the core issues that lead to chronic GI problems:

1. Gut Dysbiosis (An Unbalanced Microbiome)

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria, both good and bad. When the bad bacteria or yeasts overgrow the beneficial ones, it creates a state of dysbiosis. This imbalance is a primary driver of bloating, gas, cramping, and irregular bowel movements.

2. Leaky Gut (Increased Intestinal Permeability)

A healthy gut has a strong, tightly-sealed lining. When this lining becomes damaged or “leaky,” undigested food particles, toxins, and microbes can pass into your bloodstream. This triggers a massive inflammatory response, causing local GI distress and contributing to systemic problems like allergies, joint pain, and autoimmune conditions.

3. Chronic Inflammation

Inflammation is the direct result of dysbiosis and a leaky gut. This is the “fire” that causes the pain of IBS and the tissue damage seen in more serious conditions like Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Simply suppressing this inflammation without fixing the cause is a short-term solution.

4. Food Sensitivities & Intolerances

While you may have been tested for true allergies, many people suffer from food sensitivities. These are immune-mediated reactions to common foods (even “healthy” ones) that can take up to 72 hours to appear, making them incredibly difficult to identify on your own. For an inflamed gut, these foods act like throwing fuel on the fire.

The CSLC CAP Approach: A Structured Plan to Heal the Gut

Our Clinically Supervised Lifestyle Correction (CSLC CAP) program provides a comprehensive, methodical approach to restoring digestive wellness, often inspired by the “5R” functional medicine protocol:

• Remove: We help you identify and remove your specific trigger foods and work to eradicate gut infections or bacterial overgrowths that may be present.

• Replace: We support your natural digestive processes, ensuring you have what you need to break down food properly.

• Reinoculate: We work to repopulate your gut with a diverse range of beneficial bacteria using targeted prebiotic foods and probiotics.

• Repair: We provide the key nutrients your body needs to rebuild and heal the gut lining, sealing the “leaks.”

• Rebalance: We address the lifestyle factors, especially stress, that have a profound impact on gut health through the gut-brain axis.

Who Can Benefit from a GI Second Opinion?

This approach is ideal if you’ve been diagnosed with or suspect you have:

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), including constipation, diarrhea, or mixed types.

• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) or chronic acid reflux.

• Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO).

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis) and are seeking a complementary approach to support remission.

• Unexplained chronic bloating, gas, or abdominal pain.

• Chronic conditions like Piles, fissure, Fistula etc.

Find Lasting Digestive Peace

You don’t have to live a life dictated by your digestive system. A second opinion can provide the answers and the actionable plan you need to address the root cause of your suffering. Let us help you translate your gut’s distress signals into a clear path toward healing.

Unique Advantage Of Second Opinion At Dr Jolly Thomson’s Life Care Centre

• Conventional modern medical treatment protocols are based on the available human trials conducted by developers- the pharmaceutical and surgical instruments industry.

•  Therefore treatment protocols are similar all over the world. Difference in treatment at different treatment centres depends on the infrastructure of the centre and availability of latest equipment and pharmaceutical agents. 

• An unbiased second opinion about a surgical or medical intervention can come only from a treatment centre which is not only well aware of all the latest developments but not depending on surgical or pharmaceutical interventions. 

• Universally lifestyle correction is the first line of management for lifestyle diseases. Only when the patient is not able to correct their lifestyle effectively do doctors prescribe medication. But effort for lifestyle correction should be continued along with chronic medication and also after surgical intervention to deal with the co-morbidities of the disease process or side effects of chronic medications.

• Life Care Centre offers scientific and evidence-based treatment approach focussing not on medical or surgical remedies, but concentrating to find the root cause in the patient’s lifestyle and helping out with CSLC CAP – Clinically Supported Lifestyle Correction with cell activation protocol to reverse the disease processes.

Unique Advantage Of CSLC CAP

• Most lifestyle diseases coexist and patients will have more than one disease or many diseases and discomforts. In conventional medical treatment protocol, lifestyle diseases are seen and treated separately by concerned specialists with specific medications for that particular disease condition or surgical interventions focussing on symptomatic relief.

• In CSLC CAP the first step is on identifying the root cause in current lifestyle. Then focusing on  eliminating the causative factors and helping to provide an enabling environment for repair of the body at cellular level by ensuring optimal nutrition, activity and minimizing toxin. Therefore CSLC CAP practice addresses all the lifestyle associated health issues simultaneously and gets relief for all health issues through a single protocol. 

• With CSLC CAP support most of the patients are able to come out of most of the medications for lifestyle diseases like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, arthritis, allergy, liver kidney diseases etc within a month.

Limitations Of CSLC CAP

• Willingness of the patient to make changes in lifestyle including food habits and activity pattern and invest time and resources for the purpose is essential. In CSLC CAP a patient is an active participant in treatment not just an on looker as in other conventional medical systems.

• The mental and physical ability of the patient to understand and do mild to moderate physical activity in lying and sitting position is essential.

• Children below 10 years are not generally suitable for CSLC CAP.

• Minors below 18 years if joining CSLC CAP at least one parent should also join the program and understand, support and guide the child.

• Patients with severe hearing, visual, mental impairment if joining CSLC CAP, one of the close family members who is residing with the patient and taking care of the patient should also join, learn and practice the program to fully understand and support the patient.

• Those with severe deformities, movement restriction, failure of multiple organs etc are not suitable for CSLC CAP.

• In case of organ failure success depends on the stage of the organ failure and the ability of the patient’s immune system for repair.

• Support of the close family members and friends, especially those staying with the patients has a major impact on the success of the treatment.

• The speed and extent of relief depends on the body’s ability to repair and the willingness and efforts of the patient to practice CAP principles.
• Even after the correction of body and blood parameters and tapering of medication, practicing the CAP principles and maintaining body and blood parameters are crucial for maintaining health.