How to STOP Farting & Bloating for Good (Do This!)

Whether it’s excessive gas, bloating, or smelly farting, this is for you. Discover how to stop farting and bloating, improve gut health, and uncover the hidden causes of SIBO and other digestive problems.

Let’s talk about how to stop farting and bloating. Is your problem the volume of gas or is it the smell of your farts? Or could it be when you wake up in the morning your stomach is flat, yet at the end of the day you feel like you’re pregnant. Or is it that you get bloating after meals? Today we’re going to talk about each one of these, exactly what you need to do to resolve it because each one of these has a different root cause and a different solution.

The first thing to know is 99% of all the gas that’s generated in your body or the gas that you take in is non-odorous. Only 1% of it has a smell, which usually involves sulfur. It starts off with the stomach. The stomach should be extremely acidic, between one and three. The purpose of the stomach is to help you break down proteins.

And when you break down proteins, you’re releasing the nutrients that are locked within the proteins. Like for example, there’s zinc and B12 in protein that’s all locked up and you need to be able to break those down to release those nutrients. The other purpose of the stomach is to have it so acidic that it’ll kill microbes. So there’s not a lot of microbes that could survive this normal pH between one and three. That’s like battery acid.

And the real important reason that you need to understand that the stomach needs to be very very acidic is this. It’s one of the most common root causes of gas and bloating. And that’s if you don’t have a strong acidic stomach. If we start off in the stomach, there are not many bacteria that live there and you go into the small intestine, we start to have an increase in some bacteria. Not a lot, but you still have some bacteria in the small intestine.

Where you really start to increase the number of microbes is in the large intestine. This is where you have what’s called fermentation. This is why the great majority of your gas is generated in the large intestine. Sometimes these microbes get in the wrong location. And then instead of having fermentation in the large intestine, you get it in the small intestine.

And that is called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. And that creates a lot of problems because you don’t want fermentation happening right here, especially E. coli. E. coli is very friendly if it’s in the correct environment.

But when it’s not in the correct environment, that’s where it creates problems. What type of foods are going to make SIBO worse? Fiber or probiotics? The two things that people consider healthy, right? So you can actually be consuming all this salad and fiber and things or probiotics and getting more bloating and more bloating and more bloating.

Why do I consume something healthy, yet I’m getting bloating from it, okay? Well, it’s because you may have SIBO. There’s something very similar to SIBO. It’s called small intestinal fungal overgrowth. This fungus is usually in the family of candida.

And this is very similar, but now we have a fungal thing going on right through in here. And these yeast and fungus and even some of the microbes that live right here thrive on sugar and starches. If you want to get rid of these, stop consuming the very food that they thrive on. And that way you can actually starve them. Now, when people have either one of these conditions, a lot of times they have inflammation in the gut.

They have pain. They have bloating. And this is why a lot of those people get benefits when they go on the carnivore diet. So they just stop eating plant foods and refined sugars, and they eat more animal products, and all of a sudden all that bloating goes away because they’re actually starving off the microbes in the small intestine, and also reducing the things that can irritate the large intestine. Now, let’s just back up for a second because SIBO is definitely going to create bloating and gas.

What’s happening is it’s usually related to certain foods, whether it’s beans or legumes or cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, or you might be consuming some dairy that just does not do well because maybe you have an allergy to it. Plus, the lactose in dairy is a sugar that can feed the microbes. A lot of people get gas after they consume fruit because there’s the fructose. So, when we’re talking about gas, usually we’re talking about fermentation, which has to do with microbes and what you’re eating. You’re either loading up your system with a lot of the resources that create fermentation, yet you don’t have the microbes to handle that, and so then we’re getting a lot of stress in this area, or you don’t have the enzymes to be able to break down these sugars or fibers or starches, and that’s creating a lot of undigested particles and a lot of stress within the digestive system.

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So, when people go on the ketogenic diet, they start doing all these sugar alcohols in cookies and candies and cakes and things like that. And boy, you talk about gas and bloating, that’s the culprit right there because the microbes will also ferment those sugars. And of course, the biggest culprit is grains, wheat, gluten. By the way, gluten is the only protein that we cannot digest. So, you’re basically giving the body something it’s having a difficult time breaking down, and that’s creating a lot of inflammation and stress and gas.

And then also, you have onion and garlic that are high in sulfur that can create smelly gas. But, also protein putrefaction. If your stomach is not acidic enough, you will not be able to break down protein to its amino acid level. And now, the small intestine has to take up the slack and try to break it down, and you can end up with putrefaction. In the process of trying to break that down, certain amino acids in meat are composed of sulfur.

So, you could have some of that nasty fart smell from protein, but it’s not really the protein. It’s the lack of acid in the stomach, okay? So, the solution is to re-acidify the stomach, and one of the best ways to do that is with something called betaine hydrochloride. Now, as an exception to this, if you take this and you feel more burning, you might have either gastritis, inflammation of the stomach, or you might have an ulcer, in which case, you don’t want to take this because you have an ulcer and you’re pouring acid into an ulcer, and that is not a good thing. But, if you don’t have an ulcer, this is the remedy.

I will put a link down below to explain how to fix an ulcer using zinc carnosine. It’s another remedy that you have to take for a period of time. Just to back up, what would cause this acid in the stomach to be less acidic. PPIs, antacids. If you look at the guidelines on that, you should only take these short-term, maybe 8 weeks at the very most.

You realize that people are on this their entire life. Like, you never get off of it. So, you actually start having all sorts of complications. I used to be on antacids in college, and I actually had an ulcer, so I can speak from experience. Antibiotics are another culprit.

Antibiotics kill microbes, but they don’t kill off the fungus, so you get this overgrowth. So, they’re killing off the good guys and the bad guys, so now you’re left with a compromised digestive system. I’m the poster child for having probably the most antibiotics, cuz I used to have them several times a year g