The Reason You Feel Bloated

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about bloating, the number one symptom associated with a leaky gut. If you have a leaky gut, you have crevices and holes in your gut where food particles and substances can travel through without a stamp of approval from the immune system.

For example, if you have a leaky gut and egg protein gets through, your immune system will respond as if it’s a virus, bacteria, or pathogen. The next time you eat eggs, you could have an immune reaction.

If you have a leaky gut, you’ll notice new food allergies along with the following symptoms:

•Inflammation

•Joint pain

•Skin reactions (e.g. psoriasis, dermatitis)

•Headaches

The most damaging side effect of a leaky gut is the development of autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto’s.

To get rid of bloating, you’ll need to address the cause of a leaky gut. Check out the 7 most common causes of a leaky gut:

1. Vitamin D deficiency

2. Seed oils

3. Raw vegetables

4. Lectins

5. Fiber

6. Sugar

7. Gluten

Even if you correct your diet, you must ensure you have enough vitamin D to fix your leaky gut. Get plenty of sun without burning, or take 20,000 IU of vitamin D every day.

Glutamine is crucial for gut health. Red meat is the best source of glutamine. Cabbage, bone broth, eggs, and kefir are also good sources. Zinc is also important for gut health. Oysters, shellfish, seafood, and sea kelp are the best sources. Fasting gives your digestive system a chance to rest and repair if you have a leaky gut.

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0:00.0	The most common sign of a leaky gut is bloating.
0:05.5	In your gut you have these little tiny upside down roots.
0:08.9	When you start to develop a leaky gut, you're getting this crevice or a hole between these little hair-like projections,
0:15.6	where all sorts of things can travel through without getting the stamp of approval from your immune
0:20.8	system.
0:21.8	Let's say, for example example you ate something with egg
0:25.1	and some of that protein leaks down
0:28.0	and gets through the intestine.
0:30.3	Your immune cells are going to go crazy because they're going to think this is a virus or a bacteria or some type of pathogen and so what it's going to do it's going to tag it
0:39.9	So the next time you eat peanuts all of a sudden you have this immune reaction and you're like wait a second I didn't think I was allergic to peanuts
0:46.7	The same thing will happen with eggs protein or anything so here you are all of a sudden allergic to all these different foods and you don't know why and this
0:56.2	generates a lot of inflammation and joint pain.
0:59.5	It's going to also show up on a lot of different types of skin reactions.
1:03.8	Suriasis, dermatitis.
1:06.0	You may even notice headaches because you have this connection between the gut
1:11.1	and your brain.
1:12.1	But the most damaging thing that a leaky gut will do, it can set you up for an
1:18.0	autoimmune disease. Things like Hashimoto's, which is a thyroid autoimmune condition where your own immune
1:24.6	system is attacking your own tissues. But now the big question is what causes a
1:30.2	leaky gut? If we can dig down into that, then we can get rid of the bloating and all the other
1:35.9	symptoms associated with it. The seven most common causes of a leaky gut, I'm going to start with
1:41.9	number seven, gluten. Okay Gluten is in grains, the only
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