534: How to Fix Gas & Bloating with Dr. Megan Rossi
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Did you know your body contains just as many bacteria cells as human cells–about 30 trillion in total? Around 3 lbs of those little buggers live in your gastrointestinal tract, and just as our planet’s soils are productive yet depleted, your gut microbiome is functional but often imbalanced and dysfunctional. No wonder you’re suffering from gas, bloating, acid reflux and even severe conditions like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
To complicate things more, health marketers would have you believe that if you simply take a fiber supplement and eat some probiotic-enriched yogurt, you can correct the mess fast–but the problem is far more complex. On this week’s podcast, you’ll learn from gut health specialist, Dr. Rossi, the ins and outs of a happy belly.
Listen and learn:
- Fecal transplants risk vs reward (yup, people are swapping poo)
- The importance of fiber, even the stuff that you’re unable to digest
- Why gas and fermentation are natural and don’t have to cause discomfort and problems
- FODMAP Diet to restore gut health and how to slowly reintroduce foods
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ABOUT OUT GUEST
Dr. Megan Rossi is a dietitian and nutritionist. She’s a Research Fellow at King’s College London where she investigates nutrition-based therapies in gut health, including prebiotics and probiotics, dietary fibers. Megan is the author of two books, Eat Yourself Healthy and Eat More, Live Well.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you noticed recently when you go into the pharmacy or when you go into a health food store, |
| 0:07.6 | there are products and food products all over the place marketed for gut health, digestive health, |
| 0:13.9 | acid reflux, calming and achy belly, all of the above. Why? What's going on? Well, people are |
| 0:19.2 | suffering from gas and bloating and indigestion and that's on the good side, on the really bad side, |
| 0:24.7 | irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, colitis, hospitalizations, |
| 0:30.0 | even a minor stomach problem can really, really affect the quality of your life and it's hard |
| 0:34.4 | to figure out what's going on. Our internal microbiome, our microflora is really complex. |
| 0:40.7 | Let's say your body has about 30 trillion with a T, 30 trillion cells. You have at least 30 trillion |
| 0:47.3 | bacteria cells as well, oftentimes even more. What that means is you're like half human half |
| 0:52.9 | bacteria and it's way more complicated than just eating some yogurt and taking a fiber supplement |
| 0:59.2 | to fix that complex system if and when it gets out of balance. If you imagine like the Midwest |
| 1:05.4 | in the US and you look at those swaths of corn fields, that soil, how do you turn that soil? How do you |
| 1:12.0 | do regenerative agriculture? People have all kinds of theories and you might be able to do that |
| 1:16.3 | in your backyard or on 50 or 100 acres, but how do you do that in a whole farming geographical |
| 1:24.2 | region? How do you do that with 30 trillion plus cells? It's a lot more complex. Our guests on |
| 1:29.9 | this week's podcast will hopefully help us demystify gut health, fiber, the microbiome and all things |
| 1:36.1 | achy belly. If you're new here, it is the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer, |
| 1:40.5 | I'm a serial entrepreneur, I'm a father, but first and foremost, I'm a student, I like to learn |
| 1:44.3 | things so I go and find people, researchers, writers, authors, experts and bring their work here, |
| 1:49.4 | so hopefully we can live more informed and educated lives. If you like the show, support me by |
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