IBS and Gut Health with Dr Megan Rossi #5
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome - What Is Fiber?
I see patients who've tend to have bloating very quickly after eating maybe within 20-30 minutes sometimes or needing to burp and release that gas from their mouth. Often you know we hear about that potentially being symptoms that might be consistent with SIBO but your white it is a very new area. So probably one of the big points on that is where this gas is coming from will these bacteria actually ferment our food? I think many listeners will probably have heard before that they need to eat more fiber but what does that exactly mean? Yeah so fiber is actually a type of carbohydrate but what's really interesting about fiber is that human cells can't digest it because we don't produce the enzymes
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