Digestive Issues When Breaking a Fast?

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now sometimes when you do prolonged fasting and  you break the fast by eating you may experience certain digestive problems so i want to address  that you could experience diarrhea loose stools gas abdominal pain bloating or nausea now the  reason for all this is because your digestive system has kind of gone to sleep and it hasn’t  woke up yet and i’m talking about the fluids it could be hydrochloric acid from the stomach it  could be enzymes from the pancreas it could be bile or it could even be your good bacteria or  flora in certain parts of your digestive tract you definitely don’t want to eat a huge meal and  overload the system so you want to start small so if you’re going for let’s say i don’t know  48 72 hours or longer the best thing to do would be to start with some cooked vegetables  with some broth okay wait two hours and then consume some protein that’s easier to digest  and that could be some fish chicken or even an egg but make sure it’s like three ounces not a  lot you can also do like a little bit of avocado okay so because you just want to ease into this so  you don’t overload the system it wouldn’t hurt to also take some apple cider vinegar or obtain  hydrochloride to build up your stomach acid because the symptoms of low stomach acid  would be gas abdominal bloating and undigested food lower in the digestive tract you can  also take some purified bile salts to help you break down certain fats as well and the symptoms  of low bile salts would be like you’re nauseated or you have bloating okay or you might need  some enzymes and that could be also bloating or pain more on the left side of your lower  rib cage instead of the right the right would be gall bladder the left would be  more the pancreas you’re just not able to kick in the pancreas to release these enzymes so  taking enzymes we take the stress off the pancreas now there’s also enzymes in the small intestine  that could be asleep too that need to be woken up a probiotic wouldn’t hurt as well especially  if you have diarrhea or loose stools so the whole point is to ease into this slowly  so you don’t overwhelm the system you probably want to avoid things like nuts nut butters right  off the bat red meat raw cruciferous vegetables dairy like cheese because all of these need  certain enzymes purify bile salts more acid to break these things down and if you’re  missing them that can be the real problem now there’s also another condition that’s  very rare it’s called refeeding syndrome now this would occur if you went for let’s say a  week or two weeks of fasting and you’re already nutritionally deficient in certain electrolytes  like potassium phosphorus magnesium calcium and then you eat a refined carbohydrate or high  sugar food because what’s going to happen you’re going to spike insulin and that insulin is going  to take all these electrolytes from your blood and push them right deep into the cell that’s what  insulin does and so you’re going to end up with all sorts of electrolyte deficiencies in  your blood which could make you feel weak confused and can create a big strain on your  heart about three hours later now you can avoid this by not having a high carb meal you can  also avoid this by taking certain electrolytes and nutrients throughout your fast okay because it  all depends on how much reserve you have because nowadays there’s not a lot of people that have a  huge nutrient reserve in their body and if they’re new to fasting and they fast for a long period  of time and then they don’t have the necessary nutrients and they do a high carb diet big mistake  so anyway i wanted to create this video to give you a little more background on why you may  have digestive problems when you break the fast and i’m not talking about breaking the fast  doing intermittent fasting i’m talking about more of a prolonged fast like 72 hours or or  longer all right thanks for watching and i will see you in the next video hey before you  go if you’re benefiting from any of my content i would love to hear about your success  story please share it in the link down below