Probably out of all the things to figure out if you're on the right diet or not, it's

Bloating when we're dealing with bloating we're dealing with the small intestine. This is a tube that's 22 feet long and it has a very large surface area. If we open it up and

stretch it out, the surface area is roughly about 2,700 square feet or about 250 square meters. The bottom line is you have a lot of

surface area for absorption of food because 90% of all your digestion and

nutrition happens in the small intestine. If you get

inflammation, if you get an infection or you take a medication or you have food

allergies all of this can irritate that lining and cut down the surface area of that absorption of nutrients.

And then you're left with nutritional deficiencies, vitamin D, as well as bile salts.

You're supposed to recycle these bile salts.

So if you run in a bile, now we can't absorb fats.

One of the purposes of bile is to get rid of excess cholesterol.

There's a condition called Cebo, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

That's where you have a lot of microbes that normally should be in the large intestine but they're in the wrong place.

When you eat food, especially fiber and things like that, you start getting tremendous amounts of bloating

because you're getting this fermentation. See fermentation

is a different process and that's supposed to be in the large intestine and if it's

in the small intestine boy you're going to get gas in the wrong place and it's going to extend and create a lot of

bloating pain and discomfort.

There are apparently certain microbes that can help it, but generally speaking I wouldn't recommend adding more probiotics

down there because you already have microbes there. On the flip side, let's say you don't have

Cebo, you just have some type of inflammation or damage or scar tissue in that small intestine.

Why would that be?

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