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hey guys in this video I want to talk about  ketosis and constipation now I wish it was  

real cut-and-dry that it would always be this one  thing but it’s it’s usually a complex thing that  

could involve multiple things so I’m just going  to go through some of the scenarios that that  

come up most people think it’s a lack of fiber  that causes constipation that is absolutely not  

true in fact a lot of the fiber that people  consume even from vegetables it’s insoluble  

which means it’s not digesting so adding more  will actually constipate you more so if you look  

at what you did before starting this plan and  after we want to look at the big changes and we  

want to evaluate each change and I’m not talking  about constipation you had before doing ketosis  

that’s a whole different situation which involves  probiotics and a bunch of other stuff I’m talking  

about after the ketogenic diet you started getting  constipation what do you do what do you look at so  

we’re going to look at the change in vegetable  fibers okay the microbes live on fiber they will  

get overwhelmed easily if you have not adapted  these microbes to this new way of eating so just  

like keto adaptation you have to look at the  adaptation of the microbes that have to evolve  

and grow to digest all these fibers because if  they can’t digest the fibers you’re going to have  

this all this cruciferous or kale shaking you’re  going to bloat you’re going to get gas if that’s  

happening then you’re going to have to change  the vegetables that’s simple too maybe something  

like like just lettuce spinach other types of  vegetables romaine lettuce something like that  

to get your greens so just definitely look at that  other people have an issue with certain types of  

cruciferous like myself I can’t eat broccoli it  tears me up it will constipate me I can do lots  

of cabbage other people cannot do cabbage they can  do broccoli so you’re going to test it out I also  

recommend fermented vegetables simply because  those are much easier to break down and pickles  

are good sauerkraut kimchi very very good okay so  we have that and then we also have you know just  

the fat that you’re eating the protein in most  cases those two types of macros are easier to  

digest then the vegetable carbohydrates believe it  or not but it could be that you’re doing too much  

fat that’s plugging up the gallbladder and that  is backing you up so if we look at just the whole  

digestive system you have the ability to digest  fat proteins carbohydrates or or even fiber and  

just you want to just check each one of those so  so things to adjust our the vegetable the type  

of vegetable may be too much fat and the other  thing is that when you start a ketogenic diet  

you will sometimes lose a lot of water weight in  the process lose a lot of electrolytes so that’s  

why I always like to add that back in there I  highly recommend the electrolyte powder that I use  

because it has a thousand milligrams of potassium  it has magnesium and as all the electrolytes and  

trace minerals no sugar that usually will help the  elimination greatly so even potassium in general  

is the electrolyte to help with muscle cramps and  colon cramping or stagnant colon so when you have  

more potassium and helps facilitate elimination as  well as magnesium those two are electrolytes that  

are really important elimination on a very rare  occasion I may have the person make more water  

but typically that’s very rare that’s not usually  the cause but it’s something to look at if you’re  

eating drinking no water you know that could be  a situation but it’s rare the other thing is that  

if you’re doing too many nuts or even some seeds  which it’s usually nuts or peanut butter typically  

if you’re doing raw nuts you’re doing you’re  getting enzyme inhibitors which means that that’s  

going to stop your digestion right there that  could be causing the constipation so an experiment  

would be to germinate the nuts soak them overnight  draw them out in the oven on to lower temperatures  

and then consume them and you may find that that’s  also a problem the other thing is just to cut out  

the nuts for a couple days and see if that gets  rid of the constipation because that could block  

and it also has insoluble fibers so you’ve got the  combination of enzyme inhibitors and then you just  

can’t digest the nuts the enzyme inhibitors and  then as far as dairy goes so quite a few people  

are have allergies to milk sugar lactose okay so  that’s the situation and you’re bloating or you’re  

not digesting this cheese that you’re consuming  we got to look at that as well so just kind of  

experiment if you have some dairy and you get  gas or bloating then we need to eliminate that  

at this time there are types of dairy that are low  in lactose for example lactose free cheese lactose  

usually cheese has very low amounts of lactose  because the microbes consume that sugar and then  

they they basically you get more of a protein  than you would get if you had actual milk or  

yogurt casein is the protein in dairy which that’s  really high in hard cheeses and it’s also lower in  

soft cheeses it’s higher in Greek yogurt so you  know if you’re consuming too much of that protein  

that could back people up as well back you up so  you might want to try try goat’s cheese or sheep  

cheese which people can digest that much better  than actually cheese from cows so you might want  

to try that as well so these are just things  to look at in your search to find a solution  

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