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so the other day i was looking through my youtube videos and i was shocked to

find out i had no videos on constipation that i could

find so i decided to do one and this relates

to two situations one is that you develop

constipation after you do the ketogenic diet

versus having constipation years before you do the ketogenic diet

now if you’ve had constipation your whole life okay that’s a different

situation i would highly recommend you go to

a doctor that can evaluate that deeper maybe get some type of scan to look

at your intestines because many times the large

colon is completely dilated and distended to the point where it’s

going to take a lot of work and a long time

for people that had long term constipation and they’ve tried all sorts

of things i’m going to recommend some type of herbal laxative i’ll put

some links down below now some people are concerned about

being dependent on herbal laxatives well the danger of having constipation

or auto intoxication with all those toxins being recirculated

is much greater than taking an herb to help you eliminate these toxins

now there’s also many other things you can do for constipation but i’m going to

answer that when i deal with this other situation

you just started keto and all of a sudden you got

constipated now i know someone’s going to say in the comment section well what

about diarrhea because that’s what i had i already did a video on that i put the

link down below so you just did keto you got constipation this is the order

of things that i would take a look at you want to first adjust your vegetables

a lot of people are not used to seven to ten cups of vegetables

it may constipate them why because what is consuming that fiber

is your microbes and you need to kind of build up these microbes

you may not have enough to deal with that much

fiber so you may want to start out with like i don’t know

four cups of vegetables slowly go to five six seven

over time so overloading these microbes with too much fiber

could constipate you the other point is too when you

take fiber in it’s going to swell up with fluid

if you’re not drinking water after you consume the vegetables

there could be a problem with kind of dehydrating your colon

because of the gel effect with fiber it basically

absorbs water it expands and it helps to form the stool

so we want to adjust the quantity either up or down some people

get constipation by consuming a lot of protein with no vegetables

well then you might want to increase the vegetables so first thing is increase

the quantity up or down to see if that handles it

second thing is the type of vegetable if you’re consuming a lot of cruciferous

vegetables some people don’t do well with that they can’t

digest it as well so you might want to switch the type of

vegetables that you consume it could be like like green lettuce

leaves that might be something you could do

or asparagus or celery just change the type

next thing you can do is also switch to fermented vegetables sauerkraut kimchi

many different types and this is much easier to digest

the other thing you can do is you can steam some of your vegetables like maybe

half of them and have half raw that seems to also

help the ability to digest and process that

fiber so this would be number one number two you are not

ready to handle that much fat on the ketogenic plan

because your bile reserves are not sufficient so you have a certain amount

of bile that you’ve been using to digest food so you switch your

diet to a higher fat diet and now the requirement for bile goes

up because bile helps you break down fat it’s like the detergent that dissolves

the fat so you may need to add some purified bile salts after the meal

to assist in the digestion of the fat okay that’s the next thing i

would look at and by the way bile salts are a natural lubricant so it’ll help

you lubricate the colon and it’s actually good for constipation

next thing is you want to add more potassium potassium

helps the smooth muscle of the colon so you may want to take some electrolyte

powder you just want to beef up no pun intended your amount of

potassium okay number four you add a probiotic of

course you’d want to do this this and this with the long-term

constipation too but a good probiotic can help you break down these fibers i

would recommend something that survives the stomach

acidity but adding a probiotic is a very vital

thing that you don’t want to forget about

number five add a herbal laxative if you need it

as a temporary thing and number six b1 if you’re deficient in b1 you could lack

the necessary neurotransmitters to help activate the

muscles in the colon so b1 naturally helps the peristalsis or

the pumping action of the colon another common thing that a

lot of people do with keto is to do mct oil

mct oil has a natural laxative effect so in the process you may want to use

some of this to help keep things going all right there you

have it my video on constipation

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