Dr. Josh Axe

Your body will tell you so much.

If you eat something and you keep getting gas and bloating, don't keep eating that.

Now, sometimes there's like, okay, let me give you one example though.

When you're increasing your protein intake,

You will get some gas and bloating because your body has to start to get used to creating enough of certain enzymes to break down the protein.

And then even then later, if you have too much, well, then you'll still get gas and bloating.

But so sometimes it's an adaptation issue.

But I would say if this is months long and you're still having problems when you eat a food, listen to your body.

It's just not agreeing with you.

You know, like I had a, I have a patient I'm working with right now and he has IBSD and, um, and I gave him a diet that was like all cooked food, you know?

And I, and so rather than a smoothie, what I have a lot of people do is I have them do a pumpkin smoothie for breakfast, have them do a 30 can of pumpkin and I have them do vanilla, like a bone broth, like a protein powder that's made of bone broth, maybe another vanilla plant protein.

And then I have them do pumpkin pie spice with a lot of ginger cinnamon and do that as a smoothie.

And, um,

And he ate that, and along with the diet I put him on, and he went from having 11 bowel movements a day down to just two.

This is after just one week.

And then I saw him again the next week, and he's like, oh, man, I had like, you know, I'm up to like seven or nine bowel movements again today because I just haven't, you know, just major problems there.

And I said, well, what do you do differently?

He's like, man, I'm still eating healthy.

You know, he's like, this morning I went and I had yogurt and I had melon, and then I did, and I'm like...

Rob, like, okay, I know melon sounds incredibly healthy, and I know yogurt sounds incredibly healthy, but you've got IBSD, and your constitution right now is so cold, and digestive system's so weak, you can't, like, it's going to wreck your system.