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i’m going to share with you

the real underlying cause of abdominal

pain

now i’ve never done a video on this

specific link so

this might be new information for you

i’ve had some serious abdominal pain for

years and i searched out everywhere i

could to find

how to fix it i’ve done colon cleanses

i’ve done combination of enemas and

cleanses and i’ve been on every single

diet to try to fix it looking back now i

was simply missing

some crucial basic information that

you’re going to learn today

unfortunately when you go to the doctor

right now with abdominal pain

you’ll get a diagnosis

and then you’re going to get management

of that

symptom okay you’re good they’re going

to manage your symptom there’s not going

to be a lot of getting to the root cause

and fixing it it’s going to be more

managing it with a medication now

anything that i say is not meant to

invalidate your medical doctor so check

with your doctor before doing what i’m

going to tell you maybe you’ll get a

diagnosis like biliary dyskinesia which

basically means there’s a sludge in your

bile ducts okay

things aren’t moving

bile is not moving it’s kind of stuck

there and when we’re dealing with

abdominal pain we’re really dealing with

pressure from gas

fluids

fecal matter

or food

backing up somewhere causing pressure in

some of the plumbing going on whether

it’s from the liver to the gallbladder

or the pancreas

to the small intestine or maybe it’s in

your large intestine maybe you get a

diagnosis diabetic gastroparesis which

basically is a fancy term for the nerves

are so damaged in your digestive system

that everything is very very slow so the

transit time of food going through these

tubes is very sluggish which is going to

cause a lot of bloating and pain maybe

you’ll get a diagnosis with gastritis or

heartburn or acid reflux or indigestion

or maybe you’ll get a diagnosis with

gastro esophageal reflux disorder which

means this little valve on the top of

the stomach is not closing so food is

kind of backing up through your

esophagus and maybe you’re diagnosed

with an ulcer

regardless of what condition you have

there’s something very very simple and

very powerful that i’m going to show you

but in order to put things back into

place

you have to understand some basic

anatomy

and where things are in location to your

abdomen where you have pain because

that will give you a clue okay

okay i have my friend right here

if we take a look at the abdominal area

and we break it down into sections we

have this upper right part right here

you have the middle upper part right

here and the left upper part right here

okay so over here on the right side you

have the liver and the gallbladder and

you have the connections okay those are

called ducts like your bile ducts okay

in the center you have the stomach

okay and you also have this thing that’s

crossing over called the pancreas all

right

and then on the left side you have part

of the pancreas and then you have the

spleen over here and then right in the

center right here you have the small

intestine okay and it connects to the

large intestine that comes up through

here crosses over and comes down this

way and then in the middle part right

here on the right side okay a little

lower than the upper part you have the

kidney area you have in the little

connection between the kidney and the

bladder it’s called the ureter

and then on the left side you have the

kidney over here with the ureter and of

course right on top of the kidneys you

have the adrenals and they’re way back

over here and then in the lower part

right here in the center you have the

uterus and you have a prostate in that

area and then if you’re female in the

lower left and lower right you’ll have

ovaries so in other words if you know

where you have pain and you know the

organs that are connected

then it’s pretty easy to kind of narrow

it down the problem is that

the pancreas

crosses over

from not just the left side but the

middle

and even the right side so sometimes

it’s a little confusing and sometimes

the gallbladder if there’s stones can

cause pain a little lower and sometimes

the kidney stone can cause pain a little

bit higher up so there are certain

things you can do to differentiate

between the two but i just wanted to

give you a little orientation of where

certain organs are located so the first

thing i want to cover something very

very common

yet it’s not well known okay and that is

this problem in the right upper quadrant

right through in here okay you have the

gallbladder you have the liver in this

area and i kind of drew a picture out

right here

typically the symptoms that are related

to gallbladder are bloating burping and

belching but it can definitely be

abdominal distension or pain so we have

the liver here that makes

bile okay so bile

comes down from a little tube through

here and gets stored in the gallbladder

and then when you eat the gallbladder

contracts it’s a storage bile

and now that bile can squeeze into this

little tube down here okay

and go into the small intestine to mix

with

the food that just came out of the

stomach

and then with the help of the pancreas

certain enzymes specifically lipase

which digests lipids which can help

further break down the fat into smaller

particles so we have this

bile that breaks down fat to a certain

level and then the

enzyme lipase breaks it down to smaller

levels so now you can digest and use the

fats as in your fat soluble vitamins

omega-3 fatty acids

all the fatty acids okay so that’s those

two fluids right there now of course you

can have a gallstone right so

some people have gallstones some people

don’t

but a lot of people

have

sluggishness within this

duct right here in other words

the bile material is like sludge

and that’s an actual medical thing and

it can back up

into these tubes and cause tremendous

amount of pain

that then can refer

up to your right shoulder and even the

right scapula and the right trap through

here now this little duct right here

also joins with the with the pancreatic

duct or tube okay it joins right here so

a blockage in this area can not only

back up material back up within the

liver causing

pain up into the right side but it can

back up into the pancreas causing

pancreatitis or pain that goes in the

middle part or even the left side that

then can refer to your left shoulder so

it can be a little complex but this

problem is very very common

and the real cause of this is simply a

lack of bile okay because when you add

more bile into this area it dilutes and

it makes the bile flow real nicely

through there so

the bile that flows through here is

combined with bile acids and cholesterol

and so if there’s too much cholesterol

and not enough bile acids

then you get this sludge but when you

increase this ratio

of more bile acids to the cholesterol

then it can flow a very good remedy

which i’m going to cover a little bit

more later

is tudka and tutka is a

type of bile salt that if you take it an

empty stomach a few times a day it can

open up the flow of this bile and get

rid of a lot of pain in this right upper

quadrant i also recommend that when you

eat food you take some bile salts after

you eat not before because it’s alkaline

and we don’t want to add an alkaline

thing before you eat we add it after and

that’ll help the system build up more

bile so you can now have more bile to be

able to digest the fats now i will be

talking about what originally caused you

to be deficient about in the first place

but i want to kind of give you an

overview of everything first okay all

right so this is very common okay this

problem on the right side i had this

problem for about 12 years i had no idea

what it was

and boy did i suffer and unfortunately i

started taking antacids

and so one of the root causes of a lack

of bile okay a bile deficiency

is having weakened stomach acids you

just don’t have enough hydrochloric acid

to trigger the bile production and with

me i was taking all these antacids right

that then i ended up with a gallbladder

problem so i started out with a stomach

issue okay a lot of bloating in my

stomach and then i ended up with a

gallbladder problem probably because of

the quantity of antacids i was taking at

the time

but eventually i ended up with an ulcer

so just so you know if you have an ulcer

there’s a very specific way to correct

that you don’t want to add more acid

but typically the biggest symptom for

the stomach if you don’t have enough

acid is indigestion so you feel like the

food just is not being processed at this

level right in the center right here so

a simple remedy unless you have an ulcer

is betaine hydrochloride i will cover

that in a little bit as well as apple

cider vinegar now you also have to

realize

that the stomach has these acid sensors

that are connected with the valve on the

top

so if the stomach acid is not where it

should be between one and three which is

extremely acid

then this valve won’t close and now

you’re gonna start getting regurgitation

okay acid reflux

and you’re gonna get heartburn and then

eventually you’ll get an ulcer

so if you have heartburn or acid reflux

or gerd

but no ulcers

you want to take betaine hydrochloride

okay and you want to take like five of

those as a remedy

before a meal and then also apple cider

vinegar on a regular basis if you have

an ulcer you can’t take apple cider

vinegar or obtain hydrochloride because

that’s going to make it worse

you want to take

something else like chlorophyll

and zinc carnosine okay that’s the

remedy for an ulcer that one of the best

foods for an ulcer is actually cabbage

cabbage has something in it that can

actually heal an ulcer but zinc also is

very effective

now if you have problems on the left

side right here the upper quadrant

it could be the pancreas that’s coming

from this bio sludge or it could be that

you have been eating

like junk food and refined foods and

cooked foods for many many years

or you’re a diabetic or a pre-diabetic

and because diabetes is a problem with

the pancreas

not only are you going to have problems

with the hormone insulin but you also

have problems with the other part of the

pancreas that releases

enzymes so you’re not going to be able

to

release enough enzymes for digestion so

this is why diabetics usually always

have digestive issues i will cover what

to do about that potentially you could

have a spleen problem if it’s on the

upper left hand side but that’s rare

now if you have

pain in the mid part right here or the

right part or the left part and the

middle part and this is the belly button

right here so to the right of the belly

button to the left or right in the

center typically that’s going to be some

type of inflammation in your gut and you

can label it as irritable bowel syndrome

diverticulitis celiac now if it’s on the

right side of the left side potentially

it could be a kidney stone

and i’ll show you what to do with that

but there’s one more thing i want to

share with you there’s something called

sibo small intestinal bacterial

overgrowth

this is a situation that usually is

caused because you don’t have enough

stomach acid okay

and then you have certain microbes that

are starting to grow in your small

intestine where they really should be

mostly in the large intestine and so now

we have this competition with your food

where you have these microbes that are

eating the food as it comes down and

it’s producing a lot of gas

one way to know if you have sibo is that

you feel worse you get more bloating

when you take probiotics as well as

fiber

so if you do have sibo you should not be

consuming any fiber in fact you should

probably go carnivore for a couple

months

and the same thing with the ibs because

people with inflammation the colon

cannot tolerate a lot of fiber now if

you have pain in the abdomen area within

the very lower part that could

potentially be a fibroid if you’re

female or even a prostate enlargement

if you’re a male if it’s on the right

lower quadrant potentially could be the

appendix

that’s rare but it could be

or it could be just some type of

inflammation in the lower right hand of

the large intestine now if you go on the

lower part on the right side and left

side if you’re female

potentially could be an ovary issue now

just as a really quick thing

if you have issues with the ovaries or

the prostate

one really important thing to eliminate

from the diet is milk okay because milk

has all sorts of things that can

aggravate this because it can swell up

the ovaries because it has growth

hormones in it all right now let’s zoom

out and take kind of a

an overall view of what’s happening

and really what’s missing okay when you

go to a doctor for help with with

abdominal pain they definitely do not

look at the connection or relationship

between various things and they

definitely omit the topic of food okay

they don’t look at your diet enough

that’s actually number two in the list

it’s not the most important thing but

it’s the second most important thing and

there’s not a lot of emphasis on that

that important uh topic with food but

basically that’s why we have digestive

organs to help you digest food we have

acid coming down from the stomach to

help you break down protein we have bile

from the gallbladder that helps you

break down fats enzymes from your

pancreas that help you break down

carbohydrates proteins and fats and we

also have enzymes from our small

intestine that help

break that down as well in fact 90 of

all the digestion occurs in the small

intestine

and then if anything doesn’t get

digested primarily fibers the microbiome

your friendly bacteria

digest it in the large intestine now if

you can imagine let’s say you are

deficient in hydrochloric acid you’re

going to have heartburn what are you

going to be given

an antacid so now we’re gonna treat low

hydrochloric acid with something to take

that last little bit that you have left

and remove that

that is going to make everything worse

because this is the start of the chain

of events that occurs all the way down

through here and so the person ends up

taking

stronger drugs and more drugs the more

that you’re going to create a deficiency

in bile salts so now we don’t have

enough bile salts

so then all the supplements you take

like the omega-3 fatty acids don’t get

absorbed you don’t get vitamin a d e and

k and we have all sorts of problems and

also one really important thing about

bile is the elimination of cholesterol

so now cholesterol kind of just stays up

into the liver and then you have all and

backs up into the arteries and you

create all sorts of issues so a couple

things with the stomach acid

antacids will deplete your hydrochloric

acid just aging will deplete your

hydrochloric acid a low salt diet will

deplete the hydrochloric acid and then

when we get to bile

what would create a bile deficiency well

number

one antacids right number two

not consuming enough fat the production

of bile is stimulated by eating dietary

fat so if you’re a low-fat diet it’s

going to dry up the bile salts now you

also have gastric bypass surgery would

do it

and this right here

when you have a lot of insulin or

insulin resistance

you start lowering

the bile pool or

accumulation or reserve that you have so

that’s probably a very common cause now

estrogen let’s say you’re on birth

control pills let’s say for example

you’re pregnant

that’s going to lower your bowel salts

this is why women that get pregnant

sometimes have gall stones because the

gallstone is created from lack of bile

antacids i just mentioned that steroids

as in prednisone or cortisone cream

things like that and also a fatty liver

because if you don’t have the full

function of the liver you’re not going

to produce the bile without bile you get

bloating and a lot of pain that goes up

on the right side right here and pain on

the upper right quadrant right here now

by fixing the bile problem by actually

taking bile salts or tutka

a lot of times you’ll actually end up

helping the pancreas especially if it’s

like pancreatitis or there’s some

problem in this little duct

but the other big problem is people that

are consuming too many carbohydrates

have burnt out their pancreas or they

eat a lot of cooked foods

and what’s in raw foods is enzymes so

when you cook everything especially

vegetables you destroy the enzymes and

you force your pancreas to work harder

and of course here’s another big problem

antibiotics if you had an antibiotic

before

it destroys all the good bacteria and

now what happens is you’re not going to

have as much help from the microbiome to

actually break down the fiber and you

can get all sorts of issues like

inflammation

and

deficiency of bile because guess what

your microbiome also makes

bile salts other common causes of

abdominal pain food allergies could be

dairy it could be nuts

it could be soy it could be egg

it could be gluten okay that’s a real

common one or you can have a gluten

intolerance or you can have a lactose

intolerance in milk that’s the milk

sugar or a gluten intolerance okay

that’s the protein in certain grains or

just sensitivity to certain foods

it’s not a true allergy but your body

just reacts to it also certain foods

have enzyme inhibitors okay especially

nuts okay

when you eat a lot of nuts or peanut

butter with enzyme inhibitors

that can irritate the gallbladder as

well and create pain underneath the

right rib cage versus if you were to

take those nuts and germinate them okay

soak them in water and dry them out you

would find a lot less discomfort in the

right upper quadrant then you have foods

that have anti-nutrients and that could

be oxalates like in spinach or phytates

in the grains or lectins in the

nightshade family of vegetables some

people are more sensitive to these than

other people but it’s definitely

something to discuss and then this thing

right here is very very common consuming

things that are inflammatory and that

would be mainly the

omega-6 fatty acids the omega-3 are

anti-inflammatory and the omega-6 are

inflammatory so

unfortunately the omega-6 oils have

replaced the saturated fats as far as

the dietary guidelines so people are

consuming massive quantities of soy oil

corn oil canola cottonseed oil and it’s

creating a lot of inflammation in their

guts

and then we get the fiber okay i’m not

talking about the fiber from vegetables

i’m talking about the fiber that is in

virtually

most foods nowadays they’re putting

these synthetic fibers in these keto

bars and the keto snacks in so many

foods they’re called functional fibers

they’re synthetic fibers

even a certain type of maltodextrin is a

synthetic fiber you have dextrin itself

is a synthetic fiber then you have very

badly processed fiber like soluble corn

fiber soluble tapioca fiber

all these fibers are really irritating

the gut and causing a lot of pain and

you won’t know it until you don’t eat it

anymore and you’ll say wow man my

stomach feels so much better

all right and this is the part you’ve

been waiting for okay the number one

cause

of your abdominal pain is not

necessarily what you’re eating

it’s just that you’re eating too

frequently the frequency of eating is

literally cramming

so much food down our plumbing system

that the plumbing doesn’t have a chance

to process the food it overwhelms the

whole system never letting the system

have a chance to reset or breathe

our bodies were not designed to graze

like a cow that has four stomachs okay

in fact i have like i think eight or

nine cows and a cow will graze

most of the day

and then they will sit down through the

day and regurgitate the grass coming up

and spend time to re-chew it and bring

it back with humans we don’t do that

we’re doing

snacks for the day

and at night it’s a constant eating

right after dinner until you go to bed

so the amount of snacking is really the

big problem if you just stop the

snacking i would venture to say 80

percent of your digestive problems would

clear up immediately and it’s called

intermittent fasting all right number

two is all about the foods that you’re

eating they’re the wrong foods grains

are the biggest culprit not just gluten

but grains in general that have all

sorts of things that create inflammation

in the body not to mention the seed oils

that are connected with the grains

highly inflammatory a lot of abdominal

pain you get rid of these and your

abdominal pain goes away and then you

have the third main cause which is a

side effect from antibiotics that then

leave you with all sorts of problems

as a cascade effect and as well as other

medications like antacids so in summary

if your pain is on the upper right

quadrant you take tuttle on an empty

stomach and then you would take

bile salts okay with your meals and i’m

going to put all this in the description

down below if your pain is in the middle

part right here retain hydrochloride

okay

unless you have an ulcer then if you

have pain on the upper left side you’re

going to need more raw foods okay don’t

cook your foods as much and it might

help to take an enzyme to help you as

well as decrease the insulin with the

diet that i’m going to recommend down

below if you have sibo garlic oregano

will help kill the microbes with

intermittent fasting very very important

if you have a kidney stone

you need a lot of lemon water and to

drink at least 2.5 liters of fluid every

single day and that will dilute your

urine enough so you really never develop

a stone even if you’re susceptible to

getting stones all right if your pain is

in the lower part right here you need

probiotics you need fermented foods or

if there’s a problem with a prostate

uterus or ovaries you need to eliminate

dairy all right now that you know that

now you need to start intermittent

fasting if you haven’t seen my video on

that you need to check it out right here