Stage 01
The seeds of IBS are sown
For many people, IBS develops after a combination of triggers: gut infections, periods of high stress, early life experiences, diet and medications.
Your clinician-designed digital IBS companion
Expert IBS support, in your pocket
Structured education, pattern tracking, and practical self-management tools for life with IBS.
Clinician-designedEvidence-informedPersonalised to your IBS pattern
Welcome to Ahara
Start with awareness — understand your IBS before changing anything.
Log symptomsThen we build your plan, one small step at a time.
Today’s actions
Small, doable steps that fit your day.
1 tbsp linseed at breakfast2 kiwifruit with breakfast10-minute walk after lunch
Evening symptom check-in
Wind-down before bed
Fibre fundamentals
The gentle fibres that ease IBS-C, without the bloat.
Kiwi
Oats
Chia
LinseedWelcome to Ahara
Start with awareness — understand your IBS before changing anything.
Log symptomsThen we build your plan, one small step at a time.
Today’s actions
Small, doable steps that fit your day.
1 tbsp linseed at breakfast2 kiwifruit with breakfast10-minute walk after lunch
Evening symptom check-in
Wind-down before bed
Fibre fundamentals
The gentle fibres that ease IBS-C, without the bloat.
KiwiOatsChiaLinseedEarly access
Be the first to Ahara
We're recruiting our beta now, with the Ahara app launching August 2026. Add your email to reserve free early access — no quiz required. Prefer a tailored start? Take the 60-second quiz below and we'll save your IBS pattern too.
Understanding IBS
Start with your IBS pattern
IBS patterns vary, and so does the support that helps. Answer a few quick questions so Ahara can tailor your programme to your bowel-habit pattern.
Before you start+
The IBS pattern quiz and Ahara IBS Foundations Programme are only suitable for people who have already been diagnosed with IBS.
This tool can help you understand your likely IBS pattern, but it does not diagnose IBS. If your symptoms are new, severe, worsening, or include rectal bleeding, unexplained weight loss, iron deficiency anaemia, persistent vomiting, or symptoms waking you from sleep, please seek medical advice before using the programme.
Ahara uses your responses to tailor education and self-management support. It does not provide a medical diagnosis or treatment.
Question 1 of 2
Has your IBS already been classified by a medical professional?
Choose the option that best applies to you.
The patient journey
A typical journey with IBS
From symptom confusion to food fear, conflicting advice and trial-and-error self-management. This is the cycle Ahara is designed to interrupt.
Stage 02
Symptoms begin
Debilitating pain, persistent diarrhoea, constipation or sudden urges to go begin to affect daily life. Your social life, work and health suffer quietly.
Stage 03
The investigation cycle begins
You are sent for scans, blood tests, endoscopy. Results return normal. The cycle repeats. Months turn to years. No answers, no management plan.
Stage 04
Turning to the online wild west
Desperate for relief, you may have tried a supposed ‘miracle supplement’ or followed advice from an influencer. This often deepens confusion and delays real, evidence-based solutions.
Stage 05
A diagnosis, but no roadmap
Even once IBS is diagnosed, you may feel you have been left to manage it alone, without the personalised, practical support needed for day-to-day care.
01
The seeds of IBS are sown
For many people, IBS develops after a combination of triggers: gut infections, periods of high stress, early life experiences, diet and medications.
02
Symptoms begin
Debilitating pain, persistent diarrhoea, constipation or sudden urges to go begin to affect daily life. Your social life, work and health suffer quietly.
03
The investigation cycle begins
You are sent for scans, blood tests, endoscopy. Results return normal. The cycle repeats. Months turn to years. No answers, no management plan.
04
Turning to the online wild west
Desperate for relief, you may have tried a supposed ‘miracle supplement’ or followed advice from an influencer. This often deepens confusion and delays real, evidence-based solutions.
05
A diagnosis, but no roadmap
Even once IBS is diagnosed, you may feel you have been left to manage it alone, without the personalised, practical support needed for day-to-day care.
My gut controls my life.
I feel dismissed by doctors.
I feel like I'm managing this alone.
1 in 10
People worldwide live with IBS
2 ×
Women are twice as likely to be affected
1 in 4
People with IBS have been formally diagnosed
4 yrs
Average time to receive a diagnosis
Origins
“Āhāra” (आहार) is Sanskrit for nourishment.
Not just food, but everything we take in: what we eat, breathe, feel, think, and absorb from the world around us. This matters in IBS because digestion and day-to-day symptoms are rarely shaped by food alone.
Ahara was built to reflect this: a modern, evidence-informed approach to IBS that looks at the whole picture.
IBS Foundations Programme
The Ahara IBS Foundations Programme
From scattered advice to a clear, clinician-designed plan.
This 4-week programme brings diet, gut brain science, movement, gut mechanics, symptom tracking and practical self-management into one clinician-designed pathway, personalised to your IBS pattern from day one.
How it works
01Find your IBS pattern
Take our 60-second quiz to identify your IBS pattern.
02Start your programme
Begin a 4-week plan tailored to your IBS pattern.
03Choose your actions
Select simple, evidence-informed actions that fit your symptoms and lifestyle.
04Track your symptoms
Log bloating, pain and bowel patterns to see what helps.
05See your results
Build the knowledge and habits to manage IBS day-to-day.
Week 1
Diet
Week 2
Gut Mechanics
Week 3
Reset the Gut Brain Axis
Week 4
Beyond the Foundations
Personalised to your IBS pattern
IBS-C, IBS-D, IBS-M, or IBS-U.
Built for daily progress
Short, digestible lessons over 4-weeks.
Evidence-informed supported self-management
Track symptoms and what actually helps.
Beyond the foundations
Your journey with Ahara
IBS doesn't simply disappear after four weeks, and neither do we. After the Foundations Programme, Ahara helps you keep learning, track your patterns, revisit key skills, and build a self-management routine that fits real life. Members can access ongoing check-ins, monthly pattern reviews, advanced education pathways, community support, and expert-led learning sessions.
Weeks 1–4
Foundations programme
Your personalised, clinician-designed 4-week plan — the first thing you'll get inside the Ahara app.
Launching soonOngoing
Track, learn, adapt day to day
Tracking, advanced learning, community and expert-led sessions.
Launching soonIntegrated platform
Specialist pathways
CBT, gut-directed hypnotherapy, advanced diet programmes, pelvic floor and yoga.
Coming soonThe Eight Pillars of Ahara
Diet
Understand the role of food in IBS, including practical dietary strategies without unnecessary restriction.
Movement
Learn how physical activity, gentle movement, and routine can support gut function and symptom control.
Gut Mechanics
Practical guidance on toileting posture, urge management, abdominal massage, bloating strategies, and pelvic floor coordination.
The Gut Brain Axis
Understand how stress, sleep, the nervous system, and gut sensitivity interact, and what you can do about it.
Myth-busting
Cut through conflicting advice and learn what actually matters, what is overhyped, and what may be harmful or unnecessary.
Evidence made digestible
Clinical evidence made digestible, translating research into practical, everyday decisions for people living with IBS.
Daily Life Support
Guidance for flares, sleep, socialising, travel, healthcare navigation, red flags, and knowing what to do next.
Symptom tracking
Track symptoms, habits, and patterns in a simple, structured way.
The comparison
How is Ahara different?
Other apps
Focus on one part of the journey
Ahara
Brings the different parts of IBS care together
Other apps
Offer limited personalisation
Ahara
Tailors support to symptoms, IBS pattern, and goals
Other apps
Emphasise tracking over guidance
Ahara
Combines tracking with education and action
Other apps
Support only narrow use cases
Ahara
Covers multiple domains of IBS self-management
Other apps
Leave users to piece things together
Ahara
Provides a more connected, clinician-designed experience
The science
IBS: a software problem in a world that only looks for hardware faults
IBS has long been an enigma for clinicians, as the usual tools in the diagnostic repertoire (scans, scopes and lab tests) come back normal.
That is because IBS is not a structural disease you can simply see on a scan. It is a disorder of gut brain interaction where there are changes in how the brain, gut and nervous system communicate.
We all recognise this connection in everyday life, like butterflies in your stomach when you are nervous.
IBS is a software problem rather than a hardware one.”
In IBS, that gut brain signalling malfunctions, leading to debilitating symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhoea or constipation.
In other words, IBS is a software problem rather than a hardware one.
Addressing IBS means upgrading the whole software programme, not searching for one faulty part. It requires a coordinated, personalised approach across diet, lifestyle, movement, stress, gut brain signalling and symptom tracking. Ahara gives you the tools to do exactly that.
Our team
Meet the Ahara team
We are a team of clinicians and researchers. Our work has been shaped by years of caring for patients and seeing first-hand how often they are let down by fragmented systems, limited support and overwhelming online noise. We built Ahara to change that.
Dr Sibhi Sreecanth Raja
Ahara Founder & CEO
Gastroenterologist, MBBS PhD FRACP
In clinic I have thirty minutes to help someone understand their IBS and change how they manage it. Most patients never get that. I built Ahara to close the gap.
A Consultant Gastroenterologist, PhD researcher and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow, Sibhi founded Ahara to give people with IBS the structured education and practical tools a short appointment cannot. He is passionate about turning the science of IBS into clear, everyday actions.
Dr Alice Day
Ahara Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Gastroenterology Dietitian, BSc (Hons), APD, PhD
The hardest part of IBS can be knowing where to find credible support, and the time and money it takes. Ahara brings science-led, multidisciplinary support together so people can live well with IBS.
A gastroenterology specialist Dietitian and scientist with almost two decades in digestive health, Alice's PhD examined diet therapies and food-related quality of life. She specialises in personalised nutrition, the gut microbiome, FODMAP therapy and disorders of gut brain interaction.
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Chris Filosi
Ahara Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Brilliant clinical care counts for little if the product is hard to use. My job is to make Ahara something people genuinely want to open every day.
Chris leads Ahara's product, design and technology. With over a decade of experience building consumer digital products, he turns clinical insight into an experience that feels simple, trustworthy and genuinely useful in everyday life.
Suitability
Is the Ahara IBS Foundations Programme right for me?
This programme is right for you if…
You have been diagnosed with IBS, and want structured, clinician-designed education to help you better understand your symptoms, evidence-informed self-management options, and treatment journey.
It may be especially helpful if…
You feel overwhelmed by conflicting advice, have tried multiple diets or supplements without a clear plan, are unsure where to start, or want a practical foundation before moving on to medications, advanced dietary strategies (e.g. Low FODMAP), psychological therapies or other specialist treatments.
Please speak to a healthcare professional first if…
Your symptoms are new, severe, rapidly worsening, or include rectal bleeding, black stools, unexplained weight loss, iron deficiency anaemia, persistent vomiting, fever, night-time diarrhoea, or a new change in bowel habit after age 50.
This programme is not designed to replace individual medical care.
It provides general education and self-management support, not a diagnosis, personalised medical advice, or emergency care.
Citations
- 1.Hookway C, Buckner S, Crosland P, et al. Irritable bowel syndrome in adults in primary care: summary of updated NICE guidance. BMJ 2015;350:h701.
- 2.American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). (2024). IBS in America Survey. Retrieved from AGA Press Releases.