Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So, someone had a question about what is that growling sound in my stomach?

Is that just hunger pains? What actually is it?

You may have these sounds when you're hungry, but the hunger is not the thing that's causing it.

The thing that's causing it is something called migrating motor complex.

Now, what that is that?

That is a certain housekeeping condition in your body where it's cleaning out the debris, the extra food particles,

and there's certain waves of peristalsis or pumping action of debris going through the small intestine and into the large colon.

Why is that so important?

Because one really important function of this is to prevent SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

A lot of people, by the way, have this condition, they don't even know it.

And that condition is when you have too much bacteria in your small intestine, the majority should be in the large intestine.

When the bacteria gets into the small intestine, it starts robbing you of nutrients.

Fat soluble vitamins, like vitamin A, vitamin D, potassium, vitamin C, zinc, and it leaves you deficient.

Not only that, you start getting fermenting of vegetables and other fibers that get in here,

and you start experiencing a lot of bloating.

So if you consume vegetables or fiber or even probiotics and you feel worse, you could have SIBO going on right here,

because this mechanism is not working.

It's not pushing things through.

And when you have SIBO, you have a lot of growling going on.

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