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now we all know for a fact that if you

have constipation you just need to add

more fiber okay I mean it’s the general

consensus of the medical community that

a lack of fiber is really what’s behind

constipation well today let’s just talk

about what the number one mistake is

with constipation and then some

additional things that you need to know

if you have constipation let’s just take

a look at constipation for a second it’s

a traffic jam in your gut right it’s

congestion

you have too much stool now fiber

increases bulk

okay it increases

stool it increases volume so just by

looking at that why would you ever want

to increase more volume or mass

or bulk into a tube or Plumbing that’s

already congested

that does not make sense to me also

think about what fiber does

it causes your microbes to create

fermentation with fermentation comes gas

and bloating usually people that have

constipation don’t need any more gas or

bloating the other point about people

that are chronically constipated is that

they’re already doing a lot of fiber but

it’s not working so to add more fiber

it’s not a good idea there’s some

fascinating studies with people who have

both chronic constipation and people who

have constipation with irritable bowel

syndrome or some other type of

inflammatory condition that adding more

fiber will make it worse that’s right if

you have sibo small intestinal bacterial

overgrowth

which is your microbes are in the wrong

place they’re in the small intestine

okay they should be in the large

intestine so they’re higher up and you

consume more fiber oh my goodness are

you going to get bloating it’s going to

make things really really bad so the

biggest mistake that people make for

constipation is adding more fiber in

fact I used to have very very bad

constipation and by accident I got rid

of it it was at the time when

I kind of stumbled on

cutting out carbs and so I was doing a

lot of grain carbs as my fiber for

cereal and things like that when I

switched to eating more

like Meats like a buffalo burger or even

even fish for breakfast

all my constipation completely went away

and it was like I was dumbfounded

because I’m like I just thought I had to

add more Metamucil or other types of

fiber but every time I did that it got

worse but it was really bizarre just to

eat more meat and find that my

constipation completely cleared up but

at the time I didn’t really know why so

instead of adding more fiber just omit

the fiber so number one reduce your

fiber now of course I just want to

differentiate two different types of

fiber okay

vegetable fiber is usually okay but even

that sometimes can bind you up but the

most likely reason for people having a

worsening with more fiber is the grain

fiber and that includes the fiber from

Beans lentils and bran and unfortunately

now even the keto Community there’s all

sorts of new synthetic fibers like corn

fiber and tapioca fiber and all sorts of

things that are I think very unhealthy

but we won’t go there on this video all

right number two is the side effect from

their medication and acids

antidepressants are common medications

that have side effects of constipation

but there are others as well so I always

like to kind of look at the obvious

what’s the elephant in the room and if

someone’s doing medication like just

look that up and see if it has a side

effect of constipation now the next

thing is a lack of thymine vitamin B1 B1

is intimately involved involved in the

What’s called the peristalsis or the

pumping action of the colon because it

helps build up what’s called a

neurotransmitter called acetylcholine

and so the reason why people are

deficient in B1 is that they consume too

many carbs and sugars but B1 can

sometimes easily correct constipation

plus it supports the vagus nerve which

is part of the autonomic nervous system

which actually can really help if

someone has like too much stress too and

their everything is locked up because

they’re more in this flight or fight

mode so that would be another reason

stress okay stress is a part of that as

well now the next one is a lack of bile

if you’re lacking bile typically you

will have constipation

bile tends to lubricate the colon and

sometimes people have like this bile

sludge that’s bound up into the bile

ducts and that can cause pain in the

right shoulder or or discomfort or

tightness underneath the right rib cage

which is indication that they don’t have

enough bile by adding more bile salts is

a supplement you can sometimes relieve

constipation and even get rid of

constipation because it helps to

lubricate the colon and also helps you

digest but I want to bring it up as a a

definite cause to constipation if you

take too much bile you’ll get diarrhea

so that’s a good way to know if you’re

taking too much bile the other thing is

that dysbiosis this is a involving

imbalance in your microflora and your

gut so instead of adding more fiber why

don’t you just add more of a probiotic

right that would be a a better thing to

do because the microbes in constipation

a lot of times are are missing but if

you have sibo which is small intestinal

bacterial overgrowth

if you take these microbes okay they end

up in the small intestine and that can

actually give you more bloating so if

you get more bloating with

probiotics then we know you might have

sibo another common cause of

constipation is the person’s eating too

many frequent meals they’re having three

meals three snacks and you never let

your digestive system have a chance to

breathe or rest in between eating so

going on an intermittent fasting

schedule is huge it’s a game changer for

someone that has chronic constipation

because you finally have a chance to let

your digestive system rest in between

eating it’s not natural to eat of that

frequency another thing is sometimes

when people eat way too much protein

sometimes they go on Carnivore and they

get constipated they need to increase

more fat to their protein ratios because

if they have too much protein you can

only digest or or assimilate so much

protein and the rest can be a problem

and sometimes it can be constipating

that’s why like on the Atkins diet which

is a high protein diet you know one of

the side effects is constipation versus

the healthy version of Keto that I

recommend it’s a moderate amount of

protein and then the other thing that’s

connected to that is low hydrochloric

acid if you don’t have enough HCL in

your stomach you’re not going to be able

to digest protein and that is going to

cause constipation because you’re going

to have incomplete digestion at a higher

level so you have this huge tube that’s

like 25 feet long if you can’t digest

way up at the top of the tube think

about what happens lower in the chain of

events you get a lot of undigested food

material that just backs up as a traffic

jam

so adding betaine hydrochloride apple

cider vinegar when you eat is a very

smart thing the other thing is like

you’re very low in magnesium and

potassium you have two electrolytes that

are needed

um to power these little

um batteries that power the nerves and

the muscle and your colon is muscle so

it needs potassium and magnesium as the

electrolytes and also magnesium

creates a nice relaxation of the muscle

so of course if you have too much you

can create diarrhea but anyway I wanted

to touch on this topic of constipation

to give you some additional things to

think about and do and if you have not

seen my video on intermittent fasting

that would be probably one of the most

important things to do if you have not

started yet and I put that video up

right here