Incubo Radio episode number 218 and we've got a short sharp show where I'm going to talk

about farting simple as that.

Nicola Russell, Russell wrote into the podcast and said, hello Ben, I was wondering about

gut health. One of the symptoms of poor gut health is flatulence, but my question is, is there a normal amount of gas production

that the body does before you can class it as a gut health symptom, Nicola? This is, and I think there's a very simple way to look at this.

Now, foods that tend to give us flatulence outside actually aggravating the gut and causing some kind of dysbiosis, reaction within our

gut bacteria and then production of gas is usually high fiber food. So if I went and ate a

can of refried beans I'd get a little bit of popping off.

There's a lot of fibre in that. It's going to fendement in my gut and you know we're

going to get some gas as a result of that so I think if you

I've got let's say you've eaten lunch and from three to seven o'clock in the afternoon

you've been passing wind and you went back to your lunch and thought well I had

quite a few chickpeas there was quite a few vegetables in there yeah that that's a

really high fiber meal that's probably down to the fiber that I've eaten.

Now on the flip side of that, let's say I cooked,

so I used to be kind of intolerant to white flower as a last bit of kind of my gluten

intolerance. It was the last thing that seemed to kind of make my gut react, a white flower.

You know that you can get those elder passo Mexican spice mixes.

Well, I'd create, I cook loads of mince, loads of veggies, throw one of those packs in.

So there's a fair bit of fibre in there, like with all the veggies, but not really enough to make me fart quite a bit.

And those spice packs used to make me fart a lot now they don't anymore

I think my gut is fairly bulletproof now I'm experimenting with even more things and now

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