00:00It can happen to feel bloated even when you maintain a balanced, correct, calibrated diet
00:19or when you think you have eaten a light meal or even after eating a fruit, maybe as a snack.
00:27But what is the cause of bloated stomach?
00:31It is associated with a series of other problems, such as, for example,
00:36a sometimes painful tension in the abdomen or maybe malodorous flatulence,
00:42that is, with malodorous emissions of intestinal gases, alternation of diarrhea,
00:48stomach swelling, sometimes with stomach burn and reflux, tachycardia,
00:54a tingling sensation in the throat with, perhaps, coughing, low voice, difficulty swallowing,
01:02metallic taste in the mouth, calitosis antipathies.
01:06Here is all this series of symptoms that has as the first element the abdominal swelling.
01:12It is linked to what?
01:14Let's start by examining those that can be the most common causes of abdominal swelling,
01:19the most common ones.
01:21Place, for example, that the first phase of digestion occurs,
01:26happens inside our mouth, it will always be the case of eating slowly,
01:34that is, to chew slowly, avoiding eating food in a very hasty way.
01:41This is because this slow chewing favors digestive phenomena.
01:47Another element that can be very useful to contain the distension of the abdomen
01:54and maintain a certain tonicity of the abdominal muscles.
01:58On the other hand, a flaccid abdominal wall would generate an expansion of visceral fat,
02:05but also of the same intestine, out of its usual location,
02:11precisely because there is no adequate containment of the muscle wall of the abdomen.
02:17Another element that can favor abdominal swelling is chronic constipation,
02:23which can generate a dilation of the intestines with the formation of gaseous sacs.
02:28But the main phenomenon that is linked to the abdominal swelling
02:35seems to be represented by the consumption of some foods
02:41that are identified with the term FODMAP.
02:45Now, FODMAP, which is not FOODMAP, is an acronym,
02:49that is, it is not a word that derives from English,
02:52but it is a kind of acronym that derives from the combination of the initial letters
02:56of the fermentable terms oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols.
03:04The low-content diet of FODMAP was an alimentary regime
03:08conceived and studied in an Australian university
03:12and has been shown to be able to reduce the phenomenon of abdominal swelling
03:17in about 75% of cases.
03:20That is, it turns out to be effective in the vast majority of cases
03:25in which patients manifest this type of problem.
03:29Yes, but where are the FODMAPs? What are the FODMAPs?
03:32They are sugars, sugars present in a large quantity and variety of foods
03:38that we introduce in various ways,
03:41compared to which, attention, we have no allergy
03:45and even no intolerance,
03:48but they are foods that become critical
03:51because they are the privileged food of some bacteria
03:55that we have inside our intestine,
03:58so by having a bacterial mass that is called fermentative,
04:03those foods become critical
04:06because they become the favorite food for those bacteria
04:10and those bacteria will consequently discharge,
04:13after being nourished, a series of metabolites,
04:16one of which, for example, is sulfhydryl acid,
04:19which is an acid gas that immediately inflates the intestinal joints
04:23because it is released into the intestine
04:25and by inflating the intestinal joints,
04:27it gives us that feeling of turgor of the abdomen,
04:30in addition to generating either flatulence,
04:33obviously having to be emitted through the rectum,
04:37or reflux, that is, a rise upwards.
04:40I remind you that sulfhydryl acid is not a chlorhydric acid,
04:44so gastric protectors will never work on sulfhydryl acid.
04:48But let's now define what these FODMAP foods are.
04:53Let's start with the oligosaccharides,
04:56which are distinguished in two groups.
04:58There are fructans and galacto-oligosaccharides.
05:02Fructans are chains of some units of fructose.
05:07Well, these fructans, which are mainly contained in foods
05:12such as asparagus, garlic, onion, chicory, artichoke,
05:19these fructans are sugars that are not absorbed at the level of the tenuous,
05:25so more than 90% of those taken with food
05:29arrive in the colon.
05:31They arrive in the indigested colon,
05:33but if we have a mass of fermenting bacteria in the colon,
05:36those sugars become a privileged food
05:39of those fermenting bacteria,
05:41as a result of the influx of the abdomen.
05:43Galacto-oligosaccharides,
05:45well, these are mainly present in the leguminous cortex,
05:50such as beans, chickpeas, lentils.
05:54An alternative could be, for example,
05:56decorticated red lentils, which don't have this kind of capacity.
05:59Another sugar, fructose,
06:01fructose present, obviously, in fresh fruit,
06:05apple, pear, apricot, peach, cherry, watermelon.
06:09Well, this fructose is a monosaccharide
06:12that, at the intestinal level,
06:15can generate, in certain subjects,
06:18this type of...
06:20in subjects that are endowed with a fermenting bacterial flora,
06:23this problem.
06:24I remind you that fructose is also present
06:26a lot in honey,
06:28or in maple syrup,
06:30so, in these cases,
06:32we need to pay attention to this as well.
06:34Finally, I would like to remind you of polyols,
06:37which are sugars such as
06:39mannitol,
06:41sorbitol,
06:43xylitol,
06:44sugars that are often used
06:47in the candy industry,
06:49and are used to make candies sweet,
06:51rather than other products of this kind.
06:54So, if, by chewing a chewing gum,
06:56we should notice an abdominal swelling,
06:58we know that the problem is linked to this type of product,
07:02which is able to generate, in sensitive subjects,
07:06a really important abdominal swelling.
07:08What is the alternative?
07:10The alternative is to eat foods
07:12that do not contain FODMAP.
07:15Fish, for example, is one of these.
07:17Fennel, also fennel peas,
07:20which can have a relative importance
07:23in generating a block of the production of intestinal gases,
07:28that is, some types of meat,
07:30especially, that do not contain this type of sugar.
07:34The additional alternative
07:36would be to make ourselves available
07:39to consume those foods,
07:41not avoiding them,
07:43but rather correcting the intestinal bacterial set,
07:46that is, studying the microbiota,
07:48replacing the fermenting bacteria
07:51with good bacteria,
07:53which will be able to regulate
07:56the balance of the entire microbial flora of our intestine.
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