today i want to answer a question that came in from one of the viewers so Cindy wanted to know uh
i am so bloated while fasting like the waist is two inches out
is that a mineral deficiency so i thought i would take a minute make a video to try to answer this
question so first of all hello everyone and welcome to Mind Blowing Health and Wellness
Violet reason i make these videos is to help people to understand that their physical health
and their mental health come together to create the overall feeling of well-being these kind of
questions i feel like are really good because something's happening and then you're trying to
figure out like how do i solve this in my life and you know it took me i had to do some research to
put all my ideas together because i had a few ideas but then i was like is that the only reason
there's the physiological feeling of bloating so again bloating is an interesting word because
yeah you're stuffed and so that physiological feeling that you have when you've over eaten
that a lot of people that do intermittent fasting have because when you resume eating you tend to
eat more because you haven't eaten in a very long period of time i also feel that because
we're only eating maybe in a short eight hour window for our hour window even a one hour window
that we miss the sensation of eating and so we tend to eat a bit more in that sitting
so we over eat sometimes until we get used so i think once you get used to it and you're doing
it regularly you stop overeating but in that beginning especially we tend to overeat so that's
that feeling of bloat that you can have just because you've overeaten
i don't think this is what Cindy's talking about because she says this while she's fasting
the other thing that happens is that we've eaten nothing and then we will eat foods that
maybe are problematic for us and we don't know so gluten lactose as my situation
would be and so those foods when we eat them and we have like no other food in our body
so on our digestive tract to buffer so we end up eating and then the lactose in my case is
overwhelming and i end up being bloated so it's because i haven't eaten and then i'd end up
eating something that i have a reaction to that my body is bloated again this is though i've eaten
and then i experienced the bloating so not quite what i feel like she's talking about but i want to
bring up those two points because psychologically it still feels like bloating to me and it is going
to affect me i'm i'm going to be uncomfortable during the feasting part of my fast situation
and so it's going to maybe diminish my willingness to do this if i don't know how to get it under
control when we're talking about the in-between time so i finished eating and now i'm going into
my hours that i'm not going to be eaten if we're doing a fast less lasting about 24
hours or 48 hours or more some people decide to take vitamins and minerals to help their body to
stay equal while they're doing their fast and this situation can cause issues sometimes vitamins and
minerals that we will take so over-the-counter medic not medications but over-the-counter things
that you can purchase to supplement they have gluten in them and sometimes they have sugars
in them in the case where they would have lactose that would be a double whammy for me
because not only would i bloat because of my intolerance for lactose but then i would also
end up bloating because of the fact that there's a sugar there carbohydrates cause water retention
and so this is part of the issue that you're going to have is that when you actually have
a supplement of some kind to help your mineral intake to stay stable you have to keep in mind
that there's usually sugar in there and that there's usually gluten in there and that by
itself can cause you to have a bloating reaction because you're holding on to water and perhaps
you might become gassy if you have an intolerance to lactose like i do at the same time i'm going
to also point out that this doesn't seem to be Cindy's situation because she was saying could it
be a mineral deficiency which makes me think she wasn't ingesting any kind of supplement so let's
try to figure out now the ones that could possibly be related to what Cindy was talking about
the first thing i'm going to say is one thing that can cause bloating is chugging water so not just
drinking it normally but chugging it because when you chug water you actually swallow air
and so when we have excess air in our stomach of course we are going to experience bloating
the the solution to this would be to drink your water slowly so sipping it and this would help
to diminish the possibility that you ingest extra air and therefore end up feeling bloated
related to this is drinking a large amount of water can also help you to be bloated and so
what that is about is that when you drink a large amount of water you end up engaging
um the diuretic effect of water so if you drink too much then it pushes you to go to the bathroom
and when you go to the bathroom you're going to not just urinate out the water
you're going to lose some salt and then your body is going to want to hold on to
water that you have left and so it's going to then hold water and that's going to cause you
to be bloated so it's this kind of cycle that we go through where if we urinate too much we
end up having to hold on to water which causes us to be bloated and that would of course be
problematic because when we are doing that we end up drinking water regularly through our fast
so we're drinking a lot our body ends up holding a lot although it's pushing out so again a bad cycle
gets created where we're constantly our body is holding water but at the same time having
to release water because we're drinking so much water when we fast the other thing that we tend
to do because we are really aware of our need for minerals we do tend to drink salt water
so drinking salt water um although it's good because it helps us to maintain our potassium
sodium levels at the right so the sodium potassium pump which is in every cell of
our body needs the right amount of sodium and potassium to work appropriately this helps with
production of energy and make sure that the water levels inside and outside of cells are correct
if we are lacking in sodium of course we have issues with that so we do drink salt
water occasionally if you feel like you're you're depleted of salt it's good to drink salt water
at the same time if you over indulge in salt then your body can end up retaining water and of course
then you'll feel bloated another substance that causes us to retain water is caffeine
by the diuretic effect again so what happens is we drink caffeine then we go to the bathroom
extra than we normally would and then that causes us to retain water because your body
holds onto the water because you you're losing too much so it's a balancing act that we're
constantly trying to do there's another element here with coffee which is that if i drink coffee
and i allow myself to put cream in it the other issue is that it's not only the diuretic
effect of coffee but now we've introduced carbs because cream does have carbs in it
and then those carbs also hold on to water right carbohydrates hold water something else that's
going on when we fast is our body is detoxifying itself i mean that's the whole reason that we fast
to begin with and in this detoxification process it eliminates bacteria from our digestive tract
this is a good thing because the negative bacteria that are in there we need to flush them
however sometimes not only the negatives leave sometimes we end up having an issue where we've
eliminated positive and negatives especially if our fastest for a very long extended period
of time so what happens is that because our digestive tract now is not having the correct
bacteria that it needs to process food when we do eat our body produces gas
now again it's interesting because now this one looks like it would be again that situation where
but this is happening when you're eating well that's the tricky thing about food
and fasting see when you eat your meal especially if you're doing like a 24-hour fast or
a 48-hour fast or right like when you eat your meal that first 24 hours well the first six
hours the food is traveling through you so in actuality you'll be well into your fast
before you start to feel the bloating but the bloating is actually happening because of the
food that you ate hours ago it's important to keep that in mind when we're talking about
fasting we're trying to understand why we're bloating if i've eliminated too many bacteria
and then the food is passing through and it's not being processed appropriately yes during my
fast i'm gonna bloat the solution to this would be to have the kind of the correct probiotic
to reintroduce the good bacteria into your stomach so that could be taking a probiotic
that could be eating foods that help to increase your probiotics so now we're talking about
you know fermented foods like kimchi kombucha kefir sauerkraut maybe any other foods that you
could think of that would you know um increase the amount of good bacteria in your stomach
now another reason that we could have this bloating reaction when we reintroduce food
is that we're excited to eat it's been maybe 16 24 hours since we've eaten something last
and we're so excited about eating that we might be eating well too fast so if you are scarfing
down your food in a similar way to chugging water when you scarf your food you're not
chewing it properly and if you're not chewing it properly because you're eating so quickly
the food is arriving in your stomach but it's not first of all when you chew in your mouth
your saliva starts to break down process if i'm not allowing my food to stay in my mouth long
enough the saliva isn't really getting a chance to get all in between the food and start that process
then it's on its way down to my stomach but it's larger pieces because i haven't really chewed it
up well and so my stomach is dealing with much larger surface area rather than being able to
attack the food from a much smaller surface area which means it's going to be harder
for it to break it down and then that's gonna eventually either stay in my stomach and start to
decompose while it's still in my stomach causing gas or get passed through to my intestines not
small enough so then my body can't really take out all the nutrients it needs to take out of
it which is going to cause my digestive system to have issues with the food this could result
in me seeing actual food in my stool which is a good indication that this is what's happening but
the problem with that isn't the food in the stool it's that my body is trying to extract nutrients
from the food and it's not getting the nutrients it needs at the same time it's not breaking it
down properly so the food is kind of spoiling on this eight hour process through right again it's
staying in my system too long it might not leave me until a little bit longer than eight hours
which could cause a problem of bloating and gas and intestinal pains and cramps and other things
and again this is something that you're only going to see hours later you're already back into your
fast by this point low stomach acid is another reason that people have bloating and gas related
issues because your stomach acid is supposed to help break down the food so that it can go into
your intestines etc and be processed appropriately now here's the thing your stomach acid breaks down
the food yes but your stomach acid also disinfects the food if i don't have enough stomach acids if
my ph is not right then the food is not being broken down properly but also the bacteria and
pathogens that are in the food are actually being allowed into my the rest of my digestive tract and
that's going to be harmful to my digestive system and it's going to produce all these
painful symptoms and bloating symptoms and gassy symptoms etc so and these are all things again
you're going to see hours after you are eating so our ability to to notice what's happening and then
appropriately change what we're doing so if i have low stomach acid if none of the other ideas i've
mentioned to you before seems like it's it and you feel like maybe it's a low stomach acid issue
do the things that are going to help your stomach acid to be better so ingesting apple cider vinegar
or other foods that are going to increase my my acid in my stomach right so acidic foods
artificial sweeteners are another big issue because we don't digest artificial
sweeteners properly like part of the reason that artificial sweeteners don't give us a calorie
count is because we don't digest them but the problem with that is that they do cause gas
because we don't digest them properly so in the end what we end up doing is we add artificial
sweeteners to our coffee to get that little bit of sweet to encourage us to drink our coffee
so that we can stay on our fast but unfortunately then that coffee with the sweetener in it causes
us to feel bloated which could discourage us from fasting so kind of to make a decision there what's
more important to you having that artificial sweetener or having the the benefits of fasting
another thing that we do is we drink carbonated drinks whether it's carbonated water or carbonated
soda which we would then assume would be an artificially sweetened carbonated soda
so now we have a double whammy there because we just said artificial sweeteners cause bloating
but so does carbonated water in the sense that carbonated water is a liquid or carbonated drink
at all is a liquid that's full of carbon dioxide which is a gas it arrives in your stomach and
it it expands that's why you have all the burping reactions that you have so just because it doesn't
always come out that way so sometimes we'll drink something and it kind of stays in us
and then it's uncomfortable and of course we have bloating happening if we're trying to fast and
we're noticing that we're bloating sometimes we have the hard decisions to make because whichever
and there might be other reasons i mean these are the reasons that i i could come up with after
sitting down and thinking about what would be happening when we're eating and why would we have
issues with with the either these kinds of foods or having issues with um water and and carbonated
water and you know like slow stomach acid these are all things that are known to cause bloating
what's important for you is to figure out so which one of these seems like it could be affecting me
and then understanding what you can do to change it for example the carbonated water thing the
simpler answer is drink regular water drink it slowly because we noticed before gulping
it would cause issues as well and not to drink it excessively so that we're not urinating all the
time but drinking it over the course of a day in a leisurely way to help ourselves not um have to
urinate so often and and put our body in the state of wanting to retain water i hope you found this
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