Heather Van Vorous

Heather Van Vorous, an IBS sufferer since age 9, is the author of Eating for IBS and The First Year: IBS. Heather is also the company founder and CEO of Heather & Company for IBS, LLC, which owns and operates HelpForIBS.com and Heather's Tummy Care. HelpForIBS.com is the largest IBS organization in the world, with a hugely popular online community.

The website, HelpForIBS.com, originated in 1998 as an email letter Heather sent to other people with IBS, simply sharing what had helped her in the hopes that it would work for them as well. That letter grew to over 200 pages and eventually evolved into Eating for IBS, the only explicit dietary guide and cookbook for people with bowel disorders. Eating for IBS then led to Heather's second book, The First Year: IBS, a comprehensive view of the disorder and every way to successfully manage it. Together, these works have become the two best-selling, best-reviewed IBS books in America. Foreign publication is now in progress as well.

Heather's writing has led to an ongoing Canadian clinical research study of the groundbreaking dietary guidelines in Eating for IBS; this work also led to her inclusion in the 4th edition of Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare. Today's Dietitian has featured Heather's IBS dietary guidelines, and she regularly exhibits at the international Digestive Disease Week conference to reach gastroenterologists and internists. As a result, Heather has become recognized as the foremost "patient-expert" on IBS in America.

Heather now teach classes on managing IBS through lifestyle modifications, and is planning to work with corporate HR departments to offer employee IBS education programs. She also hosts Heather Cooks!, the television cooking show for good digestive health, and is currently at work on her third IBS book.

For more information, see HelpForIBS.com.