How to Stop BLOATING Fast / Learn the 5 Causes - Dr. Berg

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do you experience bloating i know i did for many many years it was very very uncomfortable it seemed like almost everything i ate i was i felt like i was pregnant and it was very difficult to sleep it was difficult to constantly suck in my stomach to try to avoid anyone knowing that i was actually bloated so this is what you need to know about bloating there are many different causes of bloating okay there’s not just one cause so i’m going to go through all the causes but there’s a real simple thing you can do to identify where it’s coming from okay number one take a look at when you started getting bloating okay was it yesterday was it today what time did you start getting bloating and then what did you eat right before was it the obvious junk food or processed food was it sugar alcohols let’s say you started the ketogenic diet and you had some i don’t know xylitol erythritol or mannitol whatever and then that created the bloating because that was new okay or you saw in one of my videos that i recommended consuming seven to ten cups of salad and now you’re bloating okay or was it that cruciferous vegetable that you normally don’t consume and then you start getting bloated or maybe it was dairy okay that’s a common cause of bloating or you bought a keto snack or a keto bar that had corn fiber for example which was a new ingredient that you added to your diet and now you’re pregnant well guess what all you need to do is just avoid that thing and you’re not going to bloat anymore or like in practice i had this one lady who came in and she says i’m bloating like i’m pregnant and then she came in the following day and guess what she was pregnant so you’re bloating could be that you’re pregnant but very simply just find out when you’re bloating what did you introduce that was new and just avoid that thing but let’s say you have bloating is there anything you could do to get rid of the bloating yes there is so if this is the right side of the underneath the rib cage and this is your left side right through like this you simply could massage the two key parts of your digestive system that are many times responsible for bloating one is the gallbladder on the right side or it could be the pancreas which i’m going to talk about so what you’re going to do is you just kind of start massaging right underneath the rib cage okay and i like to just press about an inch off the midline to the right and about an inch down from your rib cage maybe two inches down and press right into that area and just kind of massage to the left and the right and just kind of hold this point for about one to two minutes just don’t use this a sharp object when you’re pressing in here you can use a massage tool or the end of some dull piece of wood but don’t use a sharp object okay and then you just kind of work on the left side and you start massaging these two areas and you’re going to help kind of decongest these organs and get rid of a lot of bloating and it’ll either push gas through or fluid now one side note i want to mention uh one of my patients noticed that their constant bloating went away when they went down to florida and laid on the beach okay and that was because this person was going through a massive stress and every time they experience sun and the reduction of cortisol stress their stomach reduced to the point where it was flat and that is because cortisol or stress creates inflammation and swelling in the midsection okay so that’s just a side note if you notice that you go through a stress event and you notice your stomach is distended especially as the day goes on but let’s go through each organ and talk about the potential cause of your bloating let’s start with the stomach here if the stomach does not have enough acid or the ph of the stomach is too alkaline okay because you’re taking antacids or whatever you can experience either acid reflux okay or gerd or heartburn or indigestion indigestion is a real good clue that you don’t have enough acid in your stomach or bloating okay so if you have bloating and you have indigestion or acid reflux then it’s more likely that it’s coming from the stomach the thing about the stomach is it’s one of the first places to help you start to digest okay and if you don’t have enough acid like a lot of people from that point on the food stuff will kind of go through this whole chain of events and if it’s undigested here it’s going to be undigested here and these organs are going to have to work harder so it’s very important to have enough acid in your stomach to start the process of breaking down the protein especially with the right amount of acid okay so if you need acid what you can do is take something called betaine hydrochloride it comes in a supplement and you would take maybe five or six of these with a meal and that’s going to greatly help the stomach regain its acid the other thing you could take is apple cider vinegar either on an empty stomach or with food so you would take one or two tablespoons and some water and that will help your digestion okay so that would be the stomach the next thing i want to talk about is the gallbladder the purpose of the gallbladder is to concentrate bile which is like a detergent that helps you break down fat by a factor of 5x so it helps to concentrate the bile so when you eat it’s released into the small intestine and it mixes with the pancreatic enzymes to help you break down certain things okay now if the gallbladder does not have enough bile maybe you don’t have a gallbladder or maybe it’s just sluggish you’ll get burping belching or bloating or you’ll feel nauseated and there’s a lot of symptoms but you can feel bloating if you don’t have enough bile salts okay so if you bloat and you have this belching and burping and maybe you have a a full sensation underneath the right rib cage or you have pain that’s going into the right shoulder right through here it could be up up back through here it could be up here or in your neck then suspect gallbladder and then you need some purified bile salts or gallbladder formula to help assist this gallbladder so that would be some clues that it could be that you need help right through in here the other thing you can do and you can use this also to help figure out if it is the gallbladder is just press underneath the right rib cage you start massaging underneath the right rib cage and if your discomfort on the right side goes away or you feel less bloating chances are it could be that you just need a little help with more bile salts all right now we have the pancreas right pancreas is more on the left side but it does cross over a little bit to the center maybe to the right side but if your pancreas needs help let’s say you don’t have enough enzymes okay because of various reasons maybe you’re diabetic or you’ve eaten a lot of carbs in the past and you’re getting a loss of function in the pancreas the pancreas just makes enzymes you could get diarrhea you can get floating stool like kind of like a greasy stool that floats that means you don’t have enough enzymes to break down that fat it’s called lipase and guess what you’re going to get a lot of bloating if this is the case okay you need more enzymes so you’d want to get some supplement that has a wide variety of enzymes you also want to make sure that you consume food with enzymes maybe some raw like salads okay to get more enzymes to help you digest as well as fermented food like sauerkraut things like that would help take the pressure off the pancreas the pancreas also improves when you cut down the high carbs okay because the more sugar you have the more insulin that’s produced the more the pancreas has to work harder so that’s the pancreas okay so with the stomach you need more acid the gallbladder bile with the pancreas enzymes moving right al