Hey guys I'm Doctor Jason Barker with the Natural Athlete's Clinic and today I'm going to
tell you how to get rid of the dreaded runners trots.
So what are the trots?
This when you are a little anxious or nervous and you run a race and mother nature is calling
very urgently for you to use the porta potty.
Of course this is disruptive and you're not going to get a PR if this happens.
So why do you get the trots in the first place?
It's said that you lose about 88 percent of the blood flow to your gut during times of
stress and exercise and it goes out to the working muscles.
So mother nature, being efficient, senses there's food in your gut, that you're under
stress, you're running, so she sends signals to get rid of that stuff.
And that is why it happens.
So what can you do to make this not happen any more?
Well the first thing is get a food sensitivity test.
So, food sensitivities can contribute to some degree of irritable bowl.
Whether you feel that during the week or not, if you are running a race and get the trots,
that is a sign that the food sitting in there is irritating to the gut and so you want to
be able to identify those foods and remove them from your diet.
So we have a 96 food and 184 food test that we can send to you and you can do in the privacy
of your own home.
It's a little finger stick.
And we'll send you the results from the laboratory and you will know which foods to remove from
your diet.
Next thing to use are digestive enzymes.
So digestive enzymes are similar to the chemicals you make in your own digestive system that
will help ensure more complete digestion.
So normally when we eat, there is a lot of reasons that interfere with our digestive
process.
It can be dehydration, eating under stress, caffeine, alcohol.
There is a number of different things.
But when you have incompletely digested food sitting in your gut, again that contributes
to some degree of irritability that starts to show up under times of stress like running
a race.
So, enzymes will help ensure a more complete digestive process for you so that your gut
is less irritable during those times.
Next thing to add is a probiotic right?
We need to have healthy bacterial balance in our guts.
And when this happens, the overall digestive system is more efficient.
It's again, less irritable.
So add in an enzyme, add in some probiotics, that will help you have a lot more healthier
digestion that is less irritable.
Now what can you do in the short term?
The first thing you can do is cut some fiber out of your diet.
So fiber is a bulking agent.
It sits in the digestive tract longer.
If that is sitting around the morning of the race, it's going to get pushed out at an in-opportune
time so cut the fiber out about three days before your race.
And you can replace that fiber though with a little bit of magnesium.
Now we are walking a fine line here because too much magnesium will also contribute to
lose stools.
But we're looking for a balance of taking that fiber out and adding a little bit of
magnesium in so that you are still going to the bathroom regularly.
You do not want to get constipated alright!
And constipation, is a day of missing a bowl movement.
So you want to make sure you are going every day up until that race including the morning
of.
So, less fiber, more magnesium.
Now what can you do about the nerves you experience?
Cause the nervous system is a big contributor to the trots because we make the same stress
hormones and neurotransmitters in our gut as we do up in our brain so if you are nervous
and anxious, so is your gut!
So there are several different amino acid type natural medicines that you can use.
And the first one you can use is L-theanine.
L-theanine is derived from tea leaves and it has a nice calming effect on the nervous
system.
So you can try theanine, you can try GABA which is gamma-Aminobutyric acid.
This is an inhibitory neuro transmitter and that also helps calm the nervous system down.
Or you can use tranquility formula which has Phenibut in it and a couple of other B vitamins
that also have a calming anti-anxiety effect.
Now, those are three different things.
You're not going to use them all at once but try different ones.
Try the Theanine, try the GABA, try the Phenibut, try one that works best for your body and
that will get rid of the nerves but it's not going to make you dopey and slow either.
You're going to have a nice calm nervous system so you can go and execute your race and ideally
not stop at the porta potty!
So check all these things out.
If you do all this, I bet you can get rid of those trots.
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