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now sometimes when you do prolonged fasting and  you break the fast by eating you may experience  

certain digestive problems so i want to address  that you could experience diarrhea loose stools  

gas abdominal pain bloating or nausea now the  reason for all this is because your digestive  

system has kind of gone to sleep and it hasn’t  woke up yet and i’m talking about the fluids it  

could be hydrochloric acid from the stomach it  could be enzymes from the pancreas it could be  

bile or it could even be your good bacteria or  flora in certain parts of your digestive tract  

you definitely don’t want to eat a huge meal and  overload the system so you want to start small  

so if you’re going for let’s say i don’t know  48 72 hours or longer the best thing to do  

would be to start with some cooked vegetables  with some broth okay wait two hours and then  

consume some protein that’s easier to digest  and that could be some fish chicken or even  

an egg but make sure it’s like three ounces not a  lot you can also do like a little bit of avocado  

okay so because you just want to ease into this so  you don’t overload the system it wouldn’t hurt to  

also take some apple cider vinegar or obtain  hydrochloride to build up your stomach acid  

because the symptoms of low stomach acid  would be gas abdominal bloating and undigested  

food lower in the digestive tract you can  also take some purified bile salts to help you  

break down certain fats as well and the symptoms  of low bile salts would be like you’re nauseated  

or you have bloating okay or you might need  some enzymes and that could be also bloating or  

pain more on the left side of your lower  rib cage instead of the right the right  

would be gall bladder the left would be  more the pancreas you’re just not able to  

kick in the pancreas to release these enzymes so  taking enzymes we take the stress off the pancreas  

now there’s also enzymes in the small intestine  that could be asleep too that need to be woken up  

a probiotic wouldn’t hurt as well especially  if you have diarrhea or loose stools so  

the whole point is to ease into this slowly  so you don’t overwhelm the system you probably  

want to avoid things like nuts nut butters right  off the bat red meat raw cruciferous vegetables  

dairy like cheese because all of these need  certain enzymes purify bile salts more acid  

to break these things down and if you’re  missing them that can be the real problem  

now there’s also another condition that’s  very rare it’s called refeeding syndrome now  

this would occur if you went for let’s say a  week or two weeks of fasting and you’re already  

nutritionally deficient in certain electrolytes  like potassium phosphorus magnesium calcium  

and then you eat a refined carbohydrate or high  sugar food because what’s going to happen you’re  

going to spike insulin and that insulin is going  to take all these electrolytes from your blood and  

push them right deep into the cell that’s what  insulin does and so you’re going to end up with  

all sorts of electrolyte deficiencies in  your blood which could make you feel weak  

confused and can create a big strain on your  heart about three hours later now you can avoid  

this by not having a high carb meal you can  also avoid this by taking certain electrolytes  

and nutrients throughout your fast okay because it  all depends on how much reserve you have because  

nowadays there’s not a lot of people that have a  huge nutrient reserve in their body and if they’re  

new to fasting and they fast for a long period  of time and then they don’t have the necessary  

nutrients and they do a high carb diet big mistake  so anyway i wanted to create this video to give  

you a little more background on why you may  have digestive problems when you break the fast  

and i’m not talking about breaking the fast  doing intermittent fasting i’m talking about  

more of a prolonged fast like 72 hours or or  longer all right thanks for watching and i  

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