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do you experience bloating i know i did

for many many years it was very very

uncomfortable

it seemed like almost everything i ate i

was i felt like i was pregnant and it

was very difficult to sleep it was

difficult to constantly suck in my

stomach to try to avoid anyone knowing

that i was actually

bloated so this is what you need to know

about bloating there are many different

causes of bloating okay there’s not just

one cause so i’m going to go through all

the causes but there’s a real simple

thing you can do to identify

where it’s coming from okay number one

take a look at when you started getting

bloating okay was it yesterday was it

today

what time did you start getting bloating

and then what did you eat right before

was it the obvious junk food or

processed food was it sugar alcohols

let’s say you started the ketogenic diet

and you had some i don’t know xylitol

erythritol or mannitol whatever and then

that created the bloating because that

was new okay

or you saw in one of my videos that i

recommended consuming seven to ten cups

of salad and now you’re bloating okay or

was it that cruciferous vegetable that

you normally don’t consume

and then you start getting bloated or

maybe it was dairy okay that’s a common

cause of bloating or you bought a keto

snack or a keto bar that had corn fiber

for example which was a new ingredient

that you added to your diet and now

you’re pregnant well guess what all you

need to do is just avoid that thing and

you’re not going to bloat anymore or

like in practice i had this one lady who

came in and she says i’m bloating like

i’m pregnant and then she came in the

following day

and guess what she was pregnant so

you’re bloating could be that you’re

pregnant but very simply just find out

when you’re bloating what did you

introduce that was new

and just avoid that thing but let’s say

you have bloating is there anything you

could do to get rid of the bloating yes

there is so if this is the right side of

the underneath the rib cage and this is

your left side right through like this

you simply could massage

the two key parts of your digestive

system that are many times responsible

for bloating one is the gallbladder on

the right side or it could be the

pancreas which i’m going to talk about

so what you’re going to do is you just

kind of start massaging right underneath

the rib cage okay and i like to just

press about an inch off the midline to

the right and about an inch down from

your rib cage maybe two inches down and

press right into that area

and just kind of massage to the left and

the right and just kind of hold this

point for about one to two minutes just

don’t use this a sharp object when

you’re pressing in here you can use a

massage tool or the end of some

dull

piece of wood but don’t use a sharp

object okay and then you just kind of

work on the left side and you start

massaging these two areas and you’re

going to help kind of decongest these

organs and get rid of a lot of bloating

and it’ll either push

gas through or

fluid now one side note i want to

mention

uh one of my patients

noticed that

their constant bloating went away when

they went down to florida and laid on

the beach okay and that was because this

person was going through a massive

stress

and every time they experience sun

and the reduction of cortisol stress

their stomach reduced to the point where

it was flat and that is because cortisol

or stress creates inflammation and

swelling in the midsection okay so

that’s just a side note if you notice

that you go through a stress event and

you notice your stomach is distended

especially as the day goes on but let’s

go through each organ and talk about the

potential cause of your bloating let’s

start with the stomach here

if the stomach does not have enough acid

or the ph of the stomach is too alkaline

okay because you’re taking antacids or

whatever you can experience either acid

reflux okay or gerd

or heartburn

or indigestion indigestion is a real

good clue that you don’t have enough

acid in your stomach

or bloating okay

so if you have bloating

and you have indigestion or acid reflux

then it’s more likely that it’s coming

from the stomach the thing about the

stomach is it’s one of the first places

to help you start to digest okay and if

you don’t have enough acid like a lot of

people

from that point on the food stuff will

kind of go through this whole chain of

events and if it’s undigested here it’s

going to be undigested here and these

organs are going to have to work harder

so it’s very important to have enough

acid in your stomach to start the

process of breaking down the protein

especially with the right amount of acid

okay so if you need acid what you can do

is

take something called betaine

hydrochloride

it comes in a supplement and you would

take maybe five or six of these with a

meal and that’s going to greatly help

the stomach regain its acid

the other thing you could take is apple

cider vinegar either on an empty stomach

or

with food so you would take one or two

tablespoons and some water and that will

help your digestion okay so that would

be the stomach

the next thing i want to talk about is

the gallbladder the purpose of the

gallbladder is to concentrate

bile

which is like a detergent that helps you

break down fat

by a factor of 5x so it helps to

concentrate the bile so when you eat

it’s released into the small intestine

and it mixes with the pancreatic enzymes

to help you break down certain things

okay

now if the gallbladder does not have

enough bile

maybe you don’t have a gallbladder or

maybe it’s just sluggish

you’ll get burping

belching

or bloating

or you’ll feel

nauseated and there’s a lot of symptoms

but you can feel bloating if you don’t

have enough bile salts okay

so if you bloat and you have this

belching and burping and maybe you have

a

a full sensation underneath the right

rib cage or you have pain that’s going

into the right shoulder right through

here it could be up up back through here

it could be up here

or in your neck

then suspect gallbladder and then you

need some purified bile salts or

gallbladder formula to help assist

this gallbladder so that would be some

clues that it could be that you need

help right through in here the other

thing you can do

and you can use this also to help figure

out if it is the gallbladder is just

press underneath the right rib cage you

start massaging underneath the right rib

cage and if your discomfort on the right

side goes away or you feel less bloating

chances are

it could be that you just need a little

help with more bile salts all right now

we have the pancreas right pancreas is

more on the left side but it does cross

over a little bit to the center maybe to

the right side

but if your pancreas needs help let’s

say you don’t have enough enzymes okay

because of various reasons maybe you’re

diabetic or you’ve eaten a lot of carbs

in the past and

you’re getting a loss of function in the

pancreas the pancreas just makes enzymes

you could get diarrhea

you can get floating stool like kind of

like a greasy stool that floats that

means you don’t have enough enzymes to

break down that fat it’s called lipase

and guess what you’re going to get a lot

of bloating if this is the case okay

you need more enzymes so you’d want to

get some supplement that has a wide

variety of enzymes you also want to make

sure that you consume

food with enzymes maybe some raw like

salads okay to get more enzymes to help

you digest as well as fermented food

like sauerkraut things like that would

help take the pressure off the pancreas

the pancreas also improves when you cut

down the high carbs okay because the

more sugar you have the more insulin

that’s produced the more the pancreas

has to work harder

so that’s the pancreas okay so with the

stomach you need more acid

the gallbladder bile with the pancreas

enzymes moving right along we have this

thing called the small intestine which

is right in the center

the small intestine is where you have 90

of all the digestion okay

and so the food particles that are

broken down by the stomach into amino

acids the gallbladder breaking down the

fat the the pancreas helping breaking

down food and then the small intestine

which also has enzymes but it’s not

supposed to have a lot of bacteria

a lot of the bacteria the good bacteria

should be in this large intestine okay

further down but you have this long pipe

that the food should go through

and the enzymes and other things should

act on the food to break it down and

then help it be absorbed so it can go in

through the liver and other places in

the body but

a lot of people

get bloating in the small intestine okay

they actually have

fermentation going on in the small

intestine fermentation

is the action of a microbe on a food

like a carbohydrate a fiber or sugar

okay

now an example of this would be

with my chickens okay so i have about 16

chickens and we eat their eggs and what

i do is i ferment the food okay the when

you ferment the food you actually soak

it in water for three days and the

bacteria that’s normally in the grains

and which by the way the organic grains

is going to act on the carbohydrate

break them down and make it much easier

for the chicken to digest that food

plus in the fermentation process you get

a lot of

gases that are released like carbon

dioxide as you can see in this image

right here we have a lot of carbon

dioxide and other gases being produced

by the microorganisms

it looks like it’s boiling but it’s just

releasing gas but guess what when you

have this excess

fermentation going on in your small

intestine

that gas is going to produce a lot of

distension and bloating

so

you could have either

fluid retention okay going on the small

intestine

or

gas

because if you’re not able to digest

certain foods in the small intestine

you’re going to retain fluid and that’s

one version of bloating but it can also

be a combination of gas as well so

this condition in the small intestine is

called sibo small intestinal bacterial

overgrowth okay this is a situation

where you have

bacteria that normally should be in the

large intestine but it’s in the small

intestine it’s in the wrong place and

the food coming down is being fermented

in the wrong place and you’re going to

get a lot of gas and fluid retention and

how do we know you have

sibo well if you consume

probiotics

guess what you’re going to feel worse

you’re going to get more bloating or if

you consume more salad or fiber

it’s going to be worse you’re going to

get more bloating why because you have

these bacteria that are ready to

ferment it and at this level and you’re

going to feel worse if you consume that

so that’s one indication to know that

potentially you have sibo you can go get

a test

so what do you do if you have sibo well

you want to avoid

probiotics

and you want to avoid fiber so you

probably want to do

carnivore for a while which means you’re

not going to be consuming any

plant fiber okay any vegetables for a

while maybe one or two months to reset

your system the other thing you should

take is oregano and garlic to act as

a natural antibiotic you can also do

clove and thyme and even sage things

like that and that will act as a natural

antibiotic but these two work really

good

another really important thing to do

would be fasting intermittent fasting

fast as long as you can that will help

to reset and clean this out

okay so that’s the small intestine

all right

now we’re at the large intestine you can

also have excessive amounts of

fermentation going on giving you

bloating and gas

if you have this situation

it could be you just have an imbalance

in microbes and you have the wrong

amount of certain microbes versus the

other in which case

a wide range of vegetables might be

helpful

more fiber

a lot of people that i know that have

problems down here have like rarely have

any vegetables in fact the average

person consumes i think a cup and a half

of vegetables every single day it’s just

not enough so the the microbes live on

the fiber but if you’re not feeding them

on a regular basis they might not grow

to the the amount that you want or to

the diversity that you need

so a probiotic

and fiber would be beneficial for this

situation so

if you feel better when you take

a probiotic or fiber or a combination

like sauerkraut has good bacteria and

fiber if you feel better when you take

that chances are your problem is in the

large intestine if you feel worse when

you consume sauerkraut chances are you

might have a problem in the small

intestine okay so that’s just a way to

differentiate those two but anyway i

wanted to go through the whole system to

help you understand the different

parts of this digestive system and the

potential cause

of your bloating so you can fully

eliminate it now the other thing i want

to mention

if you’re not on healthy keto and you’re

not doing intermittent fasting

i would first

go for that implement that before you

even get into any of these things

because you just might need to have the

correct eating plan and the correct time

of eating to correct the whole thing

so if you want that information i put a

very simple playlist you can learn this

very quickly right here check it out

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