Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you in the medical profession, just treat constipation as a symptom.

They do not look at the whole picture.

They might just tell you it's just a lack of fiber, just take more fiber, menomusal, whatever,

and fiber will stimulate the colon, which will help you evacuate

and it's hydrating, so just take some fiber. That's it. But constipation is the effect of

incomplete digestion anywhere in your digestive track. I mean, it could be a lack of stomach acid,

because stomach acid helps you break down protein.

If you're not breaking down protein,

that can end up as undigested protein.

Then you have the pancreas,

which produces all these enzymes.

And enzymes really work in the small intestine.

You have like 20 feet of tubing called the small intestine, which by the way, your small intestine,

the little villi actually make enzymes.

And also the pancreas releases enzymes in the small intestine.

And that's where 90% of all your digestion occurs.

And so that doesn't occur correctly.

Guess what? Undigested food, both undigested carbohydrates,

undigested fats, undigested protein, and it ends up as a constipation situation. Then you have a liver that makes bile salts, and it's stored by the gallbladder and that's

released into the small intestine and bile salts are the detergent that helps break down fat to a certain

level where the enzymes in the pancreas can then take over and fully digest the fats.

But the thing about bile is bile lubricates the colon. Bile hydrates the colon.

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