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treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information

without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone, I have a treat

for you today if you have been struggling with distension, this puffed out abdominal wall,

and you can't figure out why.

Well, this is the second podcast on which we investigate what muscular component might

underlie this abdominal extension.

Now, to clarify, the first thing one to do is improve their IBS or other kind of myriad of gut health

symptoms. If you have constipation, if you have diarrhea, if you have gas, you're not sleeping well,

right? This whole consolation of symptoms that accompany digestive symptoms in general, plus

extra-intestinal manifestations like depression and insomnia.

Start there, but there's clearly a subgroup for whom they've addressed those things and

they feel pretty good, yet they still have this abdominal wall distension.

So if you're someone who is otherwise in pretty good shape, but you're still having distension,

this was a follow-up podcast building upon the podcast we had previously with Yandra Mueller,

who is a physical therapist and we discuss pelvic floor.

Today, I spoke with Dr. Deborah Bose, who's also a PT, and she really opened my eyes to the

importance of the rib cage and how people can have adhesed or immobile rib cages.

And if you think of your core, kind of like a soda can almost,

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