I Have Excessive Smelly Gas! Can You Help?!

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I have excessive smelly gas. Can you help? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and and fitness hall of famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions. And now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert Deepa from my Super Immune Secrets masterclass asked. I'm a vegan. I eat a lot of vegetables and fiber and I have excessive smelly gas. Can you help?

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I certainly hope so.

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For the past few months I've been experiencing excessive gas and foul smelling farts, especially towards the evenings. I follow a healthy lifestyle with regular exercise and I eat dinner by 6pm can you help me know how I can fix this? Hey, it's jj. We're gonna fix this for you and all your friends and family around you. I've got America's gut doctor and author of Happy gut, my pal Dr. Vincent Pedri with me to answer this question. Vincent's a longtime meditator and yoga teacher and because of this, he was able to use this to overcome his fear of needles. Yeah, it's kind of hard to be a medical doctor with that. And he even became certified in medical acupuncture. And bonus point, he is an amazing salsa dancer. He'll be right back with the answer. Stay with me.

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I see this a lot in my patients. They come in thinking they're being the healthiest, can be eating lots of raw vegetables and fiber, and yet they're suffering from all this digestive distress. In this case, the excessive gas and foul smelling farts could be a sign that she's created a dysbiosis within her system and that means an imbalance between good and bad bugs. So the first thing I would do is figure out what is the underlying problem. We got to figure out what the root cause is here. And two really helpful tests are first a stool study, especially a PCR based stool study that can look at the types of bacteria that are hanging out inside her gut, but also rule out that there are any parasites, yeast overgrowth or any other unwanted organisms like worms that could cause all this gas and foul smelling farts. Now the other thing that we have to worry about here is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth sibo and that is tested through a breath test. So the other really important test in evaluating a patient like this would be doing a breath test to look for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. And you can have hydrogen positive, methane positive, or a combination thereof. And if she's suffering from that, then really start to dig deep and figure out well what is the reason that she developed this? Maybe she's eating too many raw vegetables and she needs to mix it up and start eating some more cooked vegetables mixed in with other types of foods and mix in insoluble fibers like greens with some soluble fibers found in gluten free oats. So really the way to fix this is to first figure out what is the underlying cause. But right off the bat, I would say that whatever she's doing in her diet, as healthy as it sounds, it may not be the healthiest thing for the body. So as the tests are cooking, I might actually already be changing her diet and asking her to reduce the amount of raw vegetables that she may be eating and mix in cooked or maybe only cooked vegetables until we know exactly what's going on with the digestive system and then take it from there.

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