Menopause - Digestive Issues - Nigel Denby - Harley Street at Home Ep 61
Henpicked Menopause Podcast
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The Effects of Menopause on the Gut
Stress management, meditation and abdominal massage can help. If you are a lady who's had abdominal surgery or C-section that kind of trauma around your abdomen can really upset what we call the microbiome. Other things that might also upset that bacteria could be lots of use of antibiotics 10 to 20 years ago. A really poor diet, maybe when you were at uni, you didn't eat so well. Also if you've had food poisoning, gastroenteritis, invasions of bad bacteria, all of those things can upset that microbiome. Occasionally it will mean that you then start struggling to digest a group of foods called thodmaps,. which is an abbreviation for fermentable types of
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