The Cause of Lower Abdominal Cramping Pain

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Today we're going to talk about the best and worst foods for lower abdominal pain.

There are many different causes of lower abdominal cramping or pain. But, in my opinion, we can usually trace the problem back to the person's diet and malabsorption.

If a person has a problem with malabsorption, they may also experience bloating, diarrhea, or loose stool. The more inflammation or gut problems you have, the more sensitive you're going to be to certain things like gluten, lactose, fruit, grains, legumes, beans, nuts, and seeds.

A good thing to consume would be a stew with homemade bone broth. The collagen in the stew is great for inflammation in the gut. Adding vegetables to the stew is also fantastic because they will cook down to the point where they shouldn't bother your digestive system.

High-quality saturated animal fats are important to help support the gut. This means the meat you add to your stew should have skin on it and should be fatty.

Lactose-free whole-milk kefir or lactose-free goat milk kefir is also great to help support healthy digestion. To support the colon, you may want to consume probiotic foods. Ghee and fermented vegetables may also be beneficial.

The best vegetable for digestive issues is cabbage. This may be because it contains sulforaphane or certain phytonutrients. Even people who have digestive problems like gastritis or irritable bowel syndrome may find it easier to consume cabbage.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the best way to treat lower abdominal cramping pain, okay?
0:06.0	Well, I think you would want to go to an expert, right? Someone who's qualified that really knows their stuff.
0:11.0	And that would be a GI doctor.
0:13.0	You'll probably get several prescriptions, one being an antispasmodic medication.
0:19.0	You might get some pain killers and acids.
0:23.0	Maybe they'll send you to the drug store to get pectobizmal or gasex.
0:28.0	Well, if that doesn't work, you can always be sent to a psychiatrist to get cognitive behavioral therapy, right?
0:35.0	I mean, to me, it's mind blowing that a GI doctor would not really emphasize your diet.
0:46.0	I mean, if I had to go back to school, I think I would want to be a GI doc because it would be so easy.
0:50.0	And I would be doing things so differently.
0:53.0	Yet I think I would get amazing results instead of focusing on all these complex diagnosis, which are really descriptions of symptoms.
1:02.0	I would focus primarily on the diet because the digestive system is really the machine to assimilate food.
1:10.0	And when we talk about lower abdominal cramping pain.
1:14.0	I will bet you anything. It's related to what the person is eating.
1:18.0	Even if they have a deficiency of bile, hydrochloric acid from the bacteria, enzymes, somewhere along the line, those problems originated from poor diet.
1:28.0	But typically when you're getting cramps and pain in the lower part of the GI track, there's something to do with malabsorption.
1:35.0	It could be any number of things that interfere with your digestion. It could be small intestinal bacteria overgrowth.
1:42.0	It could be irritable bowel syndrome. It could be diverticulitis, diverticulosis.
1:48.0	But primarily you're getting bloating, maybe diarrhea, loose stools.
1:52.0	If we have a malabsorption problem, we have a problem with the little colon cells.
1:57.0	There's a couple of different kinds. There's the entro site. There's the colonocyte.
2:03.0	And these cells do a lot of work helping to absorb food.
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