How To Have a Healthy Gut
The Wellness Scoop
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The Different Mechanisms of Bloating
Bloating is the most reported gut symptom and if we think about bloating I guess there's probably three different mechanisms we can kind of pool it as to understanding. The first mechanism is around the food. If a large amount of undigested food makes its way into the lower part of the intestine the large intestine when the bacteria are the bacteria are going to rapidly ferment it and release a lot of gas. Other things like if you actually have a food intolerance so things like lactose intolerance milk sugar intolerance is quite common in some populations not in the British population more of the Indian and Asian populations.
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