If you've got bloating of any kind, here are the best ways to support it and why. Having adequate stomach acid nuetralises 99.9% of gas producing bacteria you eat, and helps food clear your stomach faster preventing fermentation, alongside ensuring proper bile flow and working on gut motility.
What actually helps with bloating and why?
If you've got bloating of any kind here are the best ways to support it and why:
- Having adequate stomach acid nuetralises 99.9% of gas producing bacteria you eat, and helps food clear your stomach faster preventing fermentation. Betaine + enzymes
- Ensuring proper bile flow again helps nuetralise gas producing microbes in the small intestine, it's largely dependant on stomach acid but using bitters and supporting the liver can help with this
- Not eating whilst stressed helps you stay in the rest and digest state helping foods move along smoothly, without this food sits and ferments
- Walking after meals physically helps food move along, can be as short as 15m
- Ginger tea + Chen pi is the gold standard for slow motility and bloating, the ginger helps both move things along so there is less time to ferment and helps the bloating itself
- Atrantil physically binds to the hydrogen gas preventing it from becoming methane that slows motility more or becoming h2s which causes loose stools
- Pom husk peel does the same as atrantil, but I'd avoid if I was sensitive to plant foods
- S boulardii helps regulate the microbiome and kill gas producers as well as directly lower gas production
- Working on the gut lining through tools like Zinc L carnosine or Butyrate means your gut feels every ml of gas less harshly against the lining
Bloating in my opinion having experienced it is just as bad as chronic explosive diarrhea. so hopefully some of these tools help you get some relief. More specifics in comments.
This connects closely to the ideas covered in stomach acid and bile flow, where the bigger levers behind SIBO are broken down further.
Why does gut healing feel like you're missing something even when you've done everything?
If you are like I was and have tried all the dietary interventions, all the supplements and all the lifestyle factors but your gut is still shaky at best, it's likely you're not doing anything wrong. You're just missing a piece of the puzzle.
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For more on how bile flow ties into gas producing microbes, see proper bile flow.
