487: How to Fight Bloated Belly with Edison de Mello, MD, PhD
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If you eat the wrong thing, do you get bloated? Constipated? Stomach pains often start off as a nuisance, but as the months and years go by, they can become chronic and even turn into serious physical and mental illnesses. If your gut is a garden, what do you plant? And how do you take care of it so the soil it's healthy and balanced? On this week's show, medical doctor, Edison de Mello, shares his best gut health insights from his career.
You'll Learn
- GERD, SIBO and candida - are they all the same?
- Stool test, blood test, how do we even know if we have problems?
- What do your hormones, kidneys, and liver have to do with gut health?
- Probiotics good or bad?
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Edison de Mello, MD, PhD, is an integrative physician and a licensed psychotherapist. He's the author of a new book, Bloated: How to Reclaim Your Gut Health and Eat Without Pain.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a common scenario that gets played out for many people every single day. |
| 0:07.0 | You wake up and you know the foods you should eat that will make your belly feel the |
| 0:11.2 | best. |
| 0:12.2 | But then something goes wrong. |
| 0:13.2 | You're too busy or you're in a rush or there's only a certain type of restaurant near |
| 0:17.3 | your office. |
| 0:18.3 | You eat something that isn't quite right and then boom, it happens again, gas and bloating |
| 0:22.0 | and indigestion. |
| 0:23.6 | And even though you know if you eat exactly the right thing, everything will be great. |
| 0:27.2 | So often it's so hard to do. |
| 0:29.8 | One of the more common health ailments that often last for years or even decades is |
| 0:34.0 | some type of bloating gas, indigestion, constipation, loose stools. |
| 0:39.2 | Sometimes it goes so far as it turn into gourd. |
| 0:43.1 | Sometimes it turns into small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, SIBO. |
| 0:48.8 | Sometimes it turns into Candida, a bacterial overgrowth that might manifest as yeast infections |
| 0:55.0 | or jockey age or athlete's foot or dandruff. |
| 0:58.5 | So many different ways that our gut health affects our overall health. |
| 1:03.3 | And yet it's so complex to even think about. |
| 1:05.6 | What are all those little good and bad bugs doing? |
| 1:08.3 | What does it even mean to have gut dysbiosis on this week's podcast? |
| 1:12.1 | We'll get into it with a medical doctor who's devoted his latest book to bloating specifically. |
| 1:17.4 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. |
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