Healthy Ways to Reduce Stomach Bloating

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Reduce stomach bloating the healthy way, without toxic fasts or cleanses.

Fix the true causes of belly bloat to be healthier as well as trimmer.

Healthy Ways to Reduce Stomach Bloating

The stomach and intestines can contribute to belly bloat in different ways. Do some detective work and take action to feel better.

Top Causes of Belly Bloating

• Gassy foods 
• Insulin Resistance (excess body fat)
• Stress
• Infection
• Hormones
• Poor digestion

Foods Most Likely to Cause Gas and Bloating

1. Dairy products – The proteins and sugars in most dairy are difficult to digest. Milk, ice cream, yogurt, cottage cheese and many hard cheeses are common causes of gas and bloating. Butter and ghee are dairy fat and much easier to digest.
2. Complex carbohydrates – Grains such as wheat, corn and oats have a complex structure difficult to break down. We don’t have the correct digestive enzymes to eat these seeds. Fermentable food fragments get left behind in our gut, causing gas, irritated bowel and Leaky Gut.
3. FODMAPS foods – Fodmaps foods are shorter chain sugars found in certain grains, nuts, dairy, fruits and vegetables. If not fully absorbed, these sugar carbs can hold water in the gut, causing belly bloat, loose stool or IBS. Garlic and onions are high in FODMAPS. 
4. Raw Veggies – Raw vegetables are harder to digest than cooked. Cauliflower, broccoli, kale and cabbage can be gassy even if cooked, but are better cooked than raw. Steam, bake, grill or wilt veggies for less gas.

Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance and Belly Fat

If you hold extra weight around your middle you may have Metabolic Syndrome, known as pre-diabetes or Insulin Resistance. You can’t flatten your belly if it’s overweight with extra layers of body fat.

Get on the Paleo Diet (my Diet For Human Beings DVD), and your triglycerides and weight may come steadily down. 

Supplements for Insulin Resistance can help manage glucose, weight and high blood sugar. I use the combination of Synulin, Zinc and Systemic Formulas P-Pancreas in the clinic along with the Paleo Diet.

See this article and Podcast on “How to Test and Treat Insulin Resistance Weight Gain”.

Keep a Healthy Colon to Reduce Stomach Bloating

Constipation is a major cause of bloated stomach and gut. Bowels should move once or twice daily with formed stools that pass easily.

Getting off dairy and grains and add leafy greens and other vegetables. Try 6 cups cooked veggies daily.

For short-term help for constipation while fixing your diet, C-Colon from Systemic Formulas in my online store works great. Don’t use harsh laxatives or purges. They inflame the colon and contribute to IBS.

Stop Candida to Reduce Stomach Bloating

1. Yeast overgrows in the gut if you overeat sugars and starchy carbs. This yeast ferments and causes gas.
2. Candida and other gut infections cause poor digestion
3. Women’s yeast infections often mean Candida in the gut as well
4. Eating lower carb with less starchy food helps reduce Candida

There are several anti-fungal support products in the Online Store. Morinda and #4 FungDX are especially good.

Good Probiotics Improve Belly Bloat

The good bacteria in our Colon is reduced when we take antibiotics. Candida yeast can take over, as well as pathogenic (bad) bacteria.

Probiotics can be taken daily for life. Yogurt does not usually have enough variety of species, and often makes us gassy and bloated.

Buy at least two Probiotics and alternate them. I rotate 5 different ones, including those here in the Online Store.

PMS Can Cause Belly Bloat

Is it PMS? Many women have low progesterone at the very time it should be highest. This causes PMS symptoms including bloating and water weight.

This product is helpful when taken for the last 14 days of every cycle. It will help you produce progesterone naturally and reduce estrogen dominance.

Progesterone is the body’s natural diuretic. You don’t need water pills!

To check for low Progesterone, we do a saliva test on Day 21 of your cycle when Progesterone should be at its peak. I prefer Saliva Testing rather than blood as it tests Free Progesterone, not Total Progesterone.

Exercise to Tighten Your Abs and Reduce Stomach Bloat

• Planks
• Crunches
• Squats
• Sit-Ups

Keep good posture, using belly muscles to stand, sit and lift. Find a trainer or work-out buddy and get accountable.

Stress Reduction Helps Gut Function

Stress hormones can cause gut pain, bloating and sometimes loose stools.

If I have a stressful incident, I immediately take Passion Flower tincture or other calming herbs to calm the Adrenaline rush.

Irritable Bowel is easily triggered by stress. This article and Primal Diet – Modern Health Podcast detail how to eat if you have IBS. It’s work but it’s worth it!

Help Your Thyroid Burn Fat

The thyroid sets the metabolic rate for many body functions – how well you burn fat, how fast your hair grows, how quickly food moves through your system, your heart rate and much more.

If you suspect a thyroid issue, run the correct lab tests (read here). If needed, get a prescription for natural thyroid such as Armour.

Boost your metabolic rate without caffeine or herbal stimulants to help burn body fat and belly bloat.

Check Gallbladder Function for Better Digestion

1. Bile from the gallbladder. Bile breaks down fat for digestion
2. Gallbladder symptoms. Light-colored stools. Pain under the right ribs, pain in the neck and right shoulder blade. Nausea from fatty food.
3. Digestive enzymes. Enzymes that include ox bile or lipase help digest fat. 
4. Beets for the gallbladder. Eat beets to stimulate bile flow.
5. See Your Doctor. If you have pain, get a sonogram of the liver and gallbladder.

You may or may not have gall stones (see my articles on Vitamin K2 for calcification problems in the body); you may have “lost” your gall bladder; or you may have biliary congestion or slow gall bladder emptying. If you have no gall bladder, take this or something like it with every meal – forever. Beta Plus also helps with sluggish gall bladder function and digestion. This Lb – Liver/Gall Bladder has beets to help clear the gall bladder. 

TIP: See your doctor if pain and bloating persist