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Now we all know for a fact that if you have constipation, you just need to add more fiber.

I mean, it's the general consensus of the medical community that a lack of fiber is really what's behind constipation.

Well, today let's just talk about what the number one mistake is with constipation and then some additional things that you need to know if you have constipation.

Let's just take a look at constipation for a second. It's a traffic jam in your gut, right? It's congestion.

You have too much stool. Now, fiber increases bulk, okay? It increases stool. It increases volume.

So just by looking at that, why would you ever want to increase more volume or mass or bulk into a tube or plumbing that's already congested?

That does not make sense to me.

Also, think about what fiber does. It causes your microbes to create fermentation with fermentation comes gas and bloating.

Usually people that have constipation don't need any more gas or bloating.

The other point about people that are chronically constipated is that they're already doing a lot of fiber, but it's not working.

So to add more fiber is not a good idea. There's some fascinating studies with people who have both chronic constipation and people who have constipation with your double bowel syndrome or some other type of inflammatory condition that adding more fiber will make it worse.

That's right. If you have SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, which is your microbes are in the wrong place. They're in the small intestine, okay?

They should be in the large intestine so they're higher up and you consume more fiber. Oh, my goodness. You're going to get bloating. It's going to make things really, really bad.

The biggest mistake that people make for constipation is adding more fiber. In fact, I used to have very, very bad constipation. And by accident, I got rid of it.

It was at the time when I kind of stumbled on cutting out carbs. And so I was doing a lot of grain carbs as my fiber for cereal and things like that.

When I switched to eating more like meats, like a buffalo burger, even fish for breakfast, all my constipation completely went away. And it was like, I was dumbfounded because I'm like, I just thought I had to add more menomusal or other types of fiber.

But every time I did that, it got worse. But it was really bizarre just to eat more meat and find that my constipation completely cleared up.

But at the time, I didn't really know why. So instead of adding more fiber, just omit the fiber. So no more to reduce your fiber. Now, of course, I just want to differentiate two different types of fiber, okay?

Vegetable fiber is usually okay, but even that sometimes can bind you up. But the most likely reason for people having a worsening with more fiber is the grain fiber.

And that includes the fiber from beans, lentils and brand. And unfortunately, now even the keto community, there's all sorts of new synthetic fibers like corn fiber and tapioca fiber and all sorts of things that are, I think, very unhealthy, but we won't go there on this video.

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