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hey guys dr. Berg here in this short video we’re  going to talk about why people eliminate less by  

eating more fiber you’ve heard it people say you  need to eat more fiber and it’s going to help you  

eliminate but a lot of times it doesn’t work  so let’s talk about why that is so this whole  

idea of fiber creating bulk absorbing water to  make you eliminate more you realize that the  

people with chronic constipation consume the  same amount of fiber as people who don’t have  

constipation yeah so that’s interesting people  with chronic constipation get more constipated  

when they add more fiber there’s a there’s also  a small amount of clients that I have where I put  

them on seven to ten cups of vegetables and they  get completely constipated so there are certain  

people that just don’t have the microbes to  digest all that fiber well first thing you  

need to know is that you want to consume your  fiber from vegetables and possibly even fruit  

if you’re not trying to lose weight okay now  let’s say you’re really constipated and you do  

have a weight problem and you’ve tried everything  well I’m okay with you doing fruit because there  

are certain types of fibers in the fruit that  do create elimination like prunes for example  

so I have no problem with that because it’s  much more important to eliminate than to be  

constipated especially if you’re trying to lose  weight okay but here’s the thing if you consume  

all your fiber from fruit and by the way the  recommended amount of fiber that even the USDA  

is recommending is 35 grams of fiber per day if  you do that from fruit that’s 143 grams of sugar  

that’s 10 teaspoons of sugar every single day  well that’s actually probably even better than  

the average American who consumes 31 teaspoons  of sugar every single day but still that’s way  

too much sugar so you don’t want to do all route  you want to do mainly vegetable in fact try not  

to do any fruit if you don’t have to but vegetable  is the best fiber now I consume at least probably  

10 to 15 cups of vegetables a day but I’ve been  doing it for a long time so my system can process  

these fibers so you might want to start off  small and gradually increase but if you below  

especially kale then you better back off and try  something else because it’s way more important to  

not bloat then to consume kale okay and the other  thing is that if you’re drinking a lot of water  

if you’re drinking too much water which by the  way will dehydrate your stool and the reason for  

that is that plain water will flush out sometimes  potassium and other electrolytes that you need to  

actually hydrate the colon so I have people that  are constipated and they had really Drive stool  

and they’re drinking like a gallon of water a day  so we cut that back put some electrolytes in and  

bam they’re actually eliminating one of the most  important minerals for called peristalsis which  

is the pumping action of the colon is potassium  so potassium is important especially if you want  

to get it from a less n type of electrolyte powder  that will also help you as well because that will  

also stimulate part of the nervous system that  helps release this waste materials called the  

parasympathetic nervous system and that actually  is kind of the opposite of the sympathetic or the  

flooded fight and that’s why it you have to be  really stress free and relaxed to eliminate when  

you’re stressed out there’s a reflex that just  turns off the digestive system so anyway I want to  

make a point in fiber so go ahead and apply this  information and I will see you in the next video