In this video I'll uncover why you may have a big distended belly when you're not actually fat.
This is an area of frustration for a lot of
people because a lot of people work hard to lose weight.
They work hard to cut down the belly fat and then after all that's said and done they still
have a ton of distension in their belly. It seems
that every time they eat they get this bloating and then
from there they look fat even though they're actually not. You may think to yourself well
if you're having this problem this is just me but the
truth is a lot of people face this issue. As a matter of
fact I faced it and I've helped a lot of people reverse it. So that's what I'm going to share
with you in this video; is how to do that. Also,
what to do when you have a big belly but you're not
actually fat. So stick around to the end of this video but before we get started I'm Dr.
Zyrowski and welcome to the channel. If you're new
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help you excel your health and your life. Let's
go ahead and first talk about some of the many
reasons this can happen. Now the thing is about this; is that some people will have
one of these issues. Some people will have many of these
issues. It really just depends on the individual. So
we're gonna break down many of the different reasons you may have a lot of distension within
your belly. First of all let's go ahead and talk about irritation. Okay if you have a
lot of irritation within your gastrointestinal system then this
in fact will cause distension. Okay what is irritation?
Now irritation is gonna be like an inflammatory problem within the gut lining. This inflammatory
problem is very dangerous because this is what occurs years and years before somebody's
ever diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or any of these major inflammatory
issues within the gastrointestinal system. So it starts with an inflammatory problem.
This inflammatory problem can kind of set off a
cascade of many different events that cause a lot of
distension in the gut. Okay so if you're someone who is getting a lot of distension you may
have an inflammatory problem within the gut lining.
You may have a lot of irritation within the gut
lining. It's very important to work to reverse this issue. Okay so that's something you must
focus on at the end of this video. I'll give a bunch
of pro tips on some different strategies that you can
use to start helping with these things. Now irritations is a big one because that means
inflammation. What I'll do too is in the description below I'll put a link to the actual symptom
and then from there I'll link a nutritional supplement
that we use in order to help people reverse this
issue clinically. Because here's the deal is that you need to actually start working
to reverse it. In many cases this is what you have to do; you
have to use this nutritional approach because when we look at the medicinal approach most
of it doesn't work. In fact a lot of it has a lot of
different side effects that you don't want. So next on our list is going to be bacteria.
Now bacteria is a problem that many people face
as well. Just due to an unhealthy lifestyle. Due to
some mechanisms going wrong within the gastrointestinal system. Much of the bacteria that
should be staying within the large intestine makes its way to the small intestines. Okay
as a result when this happens you get a lot of
bloating. It seems that no matter what you eat you get
a whole bunch of bloating and distension from the food that you're eating. Now the thing
is that you might be thinking yourself well if I clean
up my diet so that I fix this problem. Wrong; because the problem is; is that pretty much
any starchy fibers, any vegetables, they can go and
cause this issue to be worse. So there you are cleaning up your diet thinking you're
going to fix the problem but in fact when you eat a salad
all of a sudden this just blows up and goes completely the wrong direction. You get a
ton of distension and a ton of bloating. So we want to
make sure that if we have this issue that we start working towards fixing it. Now this
is an issue that I face. This is an issue that is pretty
bad and it's really difficult to reverse it. Even when
you're doing a good solid natural approach it can take some time it doesn't happen easily.
As a matter of fact when it comes to any of these
different gastrointestinal issues that lead to
distension there is no overnight approach to them. It takes time and so when we have
this bacteria in there we have to get the bacteria
flushed from the small intestines and back into the
large intestines where it belongs. Keep it there so that we're not constantly bloating
and also getting a lot of fermentation of food in our
gut. So bacteria is a big one and the other reason that
this one's really dangerous is because it leads to many different vitamin deficiencies.
When I had this issue I kept having deficiencies
that were totally uncalled for because I was eating
plenty of the different nutrients that; that I was having deficiencies in but what happens
is the bacteria starts to eat all the nutrition.
So as a result you're not getting it and you're getting a
deficiency. Okay next our list is acidity. This is a pH problem within the gut. This
is a problem a lot of people face. Okay, now some of the
ways that you can know that you have this is first of
all if you are someone who is burping a lot. If you're someone who has a lot of gas. If
you're someone who is eating your meals and after
you have your meals you find that it just sits in your
stomach like a rock and as a result let's say it feels really heavy and you're really
full like you have this enormous full feeling for a couple
hours. Then it just goes away completely and you're
hungry now this is due to an acidity problem. You're having a hard time breaking down your
food because your stomach is too alkaline. As a result it causes a lot of distension
and it also leads to many other problems because the pH
or your stomach is acting as a trigger to actually
set off a whole bunch of other functions within the gastrointestinal system. When that pH
is off some of these functions aren't started. Some
of these functions don't occur and as a result you
end up with a lot of distension, a lot of bloating, you don't feel well and you can't
write down your food well either. A lot of times people who
have this issue will have a hard time with meat.
They'll eat meat and it just feels like a rock and their stomach. So another symptom
of this may be that you're eating salad and then when
your salad comes out basically it looks in some of
those same ways that it did when it went in. You're just not breaking that food down. Next
is digestion. Okay when I say digestion what
I'm referring to is the ability to actually break down
your food so that it can be utilized in your body for you know nutrition. So you can actually
feed your body. Some people don't have the proper
elements within their gut in order to break down
the food. When you can't break down that food what happens is it sits in your gut and it
ferments. Okay when it ferments it just causes tons of bloating, tons of gas, lots of issues.
So what we have to do is we have to make sure
that we've put in the proper elements to start breaking our food down right. This is like
really important stuff because a lot of people are facing
these particular issues and they just think to themselves well I'm just bloated all the
time; I don't know why. I just have this huge distension;
I don't know why.These are the mechanisms that go
wrong like I said in the description I'll put mechanism gone wrong what you do about
it. I'll just put them right side by side so that it's easy
to understand. Next is food sensitivity. What this is
referring to is that some people will have sensitivity to food simply because their immune
system decides I don't like that food. It can be
because you have an inflammatory irritation issue within
the gut. It can be due to immune dysregulation. It can be due to a lot of different problems.
The fact is as your body doesn't like it. When
your body doesn't like it; basically what will happen
within 24 to 48 hours of consuming that food you will find that you have a ton of distension
from that particular food. That food is not sugar
necessarily. That food is not a carbohydrate necessarily. That food can be something as
easy as are as healthy as a strawberry, a blueberry,
a vegetable. Those food sensitivities are just confusing because we don't know what
they are. The best way to actually track what is bothering
us is to actually go and chart your food. Ok
chart the food that you're eating and correlate what food is causing distension and then take
that out. Ok that's a good tip right there. Let's
go ahead and move to the next reason this can
happen. Ok when we look at; let me back up here. When we look at the masses of people
this is what masses of people are having a problem
with. When we look at a smaller percentage of
people this is a reason that they're having some problems. This is ascites; essentially
what this problem is, is when you have a severe liver
problem you can get a whole bunch of swelling and
distension in the gut. Simply because when you have that scarring in the liver that scarring
is causing the fluid to increase in the vessels
in the liver and then push a ton of fluid into the
abdominal cavity. So if you get a whole bunch of a fluid in the abdominal cavity it's likely
that you've got some serious liver problems. Now
once again this isn't somebody who has a minor fatty liver but this is something of course
to take seriously because so many people today have
fatty livers that is actually leading to severe liver degeneration. We want to take this seriously.
So you likely if you're having this problem the ascites; you likely have liver damage,
cirrhosis and then the fluids getting into the abdomen.
Okay here are some different scenarios as to why
you might be having this problem or some different symptoms associated with this. So you can
really identify if this is an issue for you because it's a big issue that you really need
to go see your doctor about if you have it. First of
all if you have a known liver problem. Okay then there's
a good chance you could have this. Sudden weight gain, you just gained a ton of weight
overnight. it seems like and you gained quite a few pounds within a very short period of
time just a couple days. Decrease appetite, abdomen
pain because of all that swelling it's uncomfortable. Nausea, vomiting and then heartburn. Okay
so if you're having these different symptoms and
then of course your belly is just protruding then there's a good chance you may have this
problem but like I said this is associated with some pretty deep liver damage. So we
want you to know that this is serious. You're gonna work
with your doctor then you got to start implementing a lot of different nutritional protocols in
order to help fix your liver. You know pouring in different
nutrients to fix the fatty liver, reverse a fatty liver, reverse the cirrhosis of the
liver and then of course make sure you're adding some of these
pro tips. Okay now these pro tips are really associated with both of these big problems
we talked about. It is associated with all of these
right here but it's also associated with this problem of ascites. Now quick strategies intermittent
fasting works really well. I want to say something about these quick strategies. Okay these are
building blocks in order to fix the problem. However they are not the only thing that you
should be doing. Many people when they see me do
presentations like this they're very quickly grab
some of these quick tips like this but they leave out the other stuff and they go well
it didn't work. Well look these are strategies like I said
to build on one another. Now the truth is if these
different strategies fixed every single issue out there. There would be no need for hospitals.
There would be no need for doctors. Okay every every building would just say do some
intermittent fasting and cut out the sugar. Obviously that's not the case. Obviously there's
so much more to the complexity of many of these
issues but one of the things that we can do is we
can add these in with some of the other strategies and that's how we get results. Intermittent
fasting is great for a couple reasons. Some people do better with 16:8, some people do
better with one meal a day. When you talk about a
lot of this distension if it's irritation in the gut the
intermittent fasting allows your gut to have a break. Allows for the inflammation to decrease.
Allows for the microbiome to almost have a little bit of a reset. allows for your gut
to reset. So the intermittent fasting is a great strategy
for doing this and it also is good for your liver. Okay so
if you have liver problems it's good for your liver as well. Cutting out sugar is also important
because pretty much any of these issues whether it's inflammation, whether it's pH and alkalinity
whether it's a problem with bacterial overgrowth. Sugar pretty much just messes all of this
up. So we want to make sure that we're cutting
out sugar and that pretty much goes for any health
problem that you're facing. Remove the food sensitivities. Like I said you can actually
journal and chart your food and when you chart it
and you realize what particular foods are causing you
to have a lot of distension remove them. Once you remove them you're going to be way better
off for it and you're gonna feel so much better. Okay and you're going to want to take a lot
of these strategies and kind of pile them up
because you know sometimes like I said from the
beginning you may have one of these you may have multiple of them. Eat clean. Okay I always
say that this goes without saying make sure that you're eating a good clean whole food
diet. Make sure that you're cutting out all the
artificial foods. Make sure that you're cutting out all
these irritants to your gut health. Like I said from the beginning the gut is a very
difficult thing to work with when we look at the medicine out
there there's so little actually out there that can help
with gut problems and when we look at actually reversing them like this is it. Like the things
that I'm talking about, this is how you reverse
them and so eating clean is very important because
we can't put on irritants in the gut and then expect to get results with it. So give this
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a lot of people need this put in the comment section below if you are having distension
in your gut. A lot of people suffer from this issue. Let
me know if you have this problem and then be sure to check out this video on bacterial
overgrowth in the gut. You're going to want to see this if this is a problem for you.
So essentially when we look at this I said what we're doing
is we're looking to kind of reset that whole environment in the gastrointestinal tract
we're looking to reset some of that acidity.