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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When your diet is filled with processed foods and lacking essential nutrients, it can lead to constipation.

The most common type of constipation is primary constipation, in which constipation is the primary issue rather than being caused by a tumor or obstruction. The first line of treatment for constipation like this is often a petroleum-based medication called polyethylene glycol, but it can cause other problems.

Microbes are vital in breaking down fiber and supporting healthy digestion. When our diet lacks these beneficial microbes, it can lead to problems such as bloating, cramping, and constipation.

The first step is to practice intermittent fasting by eating only two meals daily with no snacks. This gives the digestive system a chance to rest and catch up.

The second step is fixing your diet by simplifying meals and avoiding processed and refined foods. This also includes incorporating grass-fed meat, fermented foods, including sauerkraut, to provide beneficial microbes for a healthy gut. Following a Healthy Keto® diet is also beneficial.

The third step is supplementing with betaine hydrochloride to increase stomach acid and improve digestion. This can also help alleviate constipation by lubricating the colon with bile.

In addition to these steps, consuming plants raised on healthy soils can provide essential nutrients and beneficial microbes for a healthy gut. Magnesium and vitamin B1 can help promote regular bowel movements. Castor oil and senna are also good natural remedies for constipation.

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0:00.0	There are three steps I'm going to show you to alleviate constipation.
0:04.4	For example, if you take a laxative for over a year,
0:08.3	you start to create damage to the nerves and the muscles of your colon and make sure you always read the
0:16.2	ingredients if it has mineral oil do not take it because what that's going to do
0:19.8	it's going to leach out fat-syll vitamins from your liver in other parts of your body.
0:26.6	The most common type of constipation is called primary constipation.
0:31.4	There's not like a tumor in there that's obstructing it. The first line of
0:35.2	treatment for primary constipation is polyethylene glyco petroleum-based
0:42.1	medication.
0:43.0	It's also used to preserve wood that's been waterlogged.
0:48.0	It's used in propellants for missiles, for the U.S. Navy.
0:52.0	Now, it is considered safe but growing evidence has shown
0:56.7	that it's becoming a problem in between 1990 and 1998 they tested people and they found over 72% of those who they tested
1:09.4	had anti-polyethylene glyco antibodies, which means these people have developed a
1:16.4	hypersensitivity to this product which is in a lot of different things including
1:21.5	medications like I mentioned but when they're exposed to it in other
1:26.0	related products they tend to get hives might get dizzy now what we've been told about
1:32.0	constipation of what we need to do, despite hardly any
1:36.4	evidence of this being true, is to eat more fiber and drink more water and exercise.
1:41.1	Ideally, the microbes consume most of the fiber,
1:45.0	so you don't have this undigested fiber
1:47.0	that's actually plugging up your colon.
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