Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

New episode about gut health! 🎧 #guthealth #gutmicrobiome #digestion #podcast

11 May 2023 · 1 min

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This is a conversational transcript excerpt from a YouTube podcast episode by Josh Trent (May 11, 2023) focused on indicators of gut health and how to optimize it. Speakers list practical signs of healthy vs. unhealthy digestion: regular, low-strain bowel movements, ease of expulsion, minimal persistent gas, absence of bloating after meals, and low sensitivity to high-roughage plant foods; they advise comparing stool quality (color, shape) to the Bristol Stool Chart.

When you look at people who are in most need of gut health and just improving and really optimizing like we talked about earlier for their gut, are there a couple things that they should be looking out for?
Yeah, and the most.
Obvious one is.
If you don't wake up every day feeling excellent about your bowel movement. Again, the hallmarks of like a regular bowel movement are you should have little to no strain.
You should have an.
Ease of expulsion.
You should have very.
Manageable to no amounts of persistent gas.
You shouldn't have bloating.
Which is marked by a distension of the upper gut after consumption of food.
And you shouldn't have.
Many sensitivities to diverse plant matters, especially roughage. And so if you just go through that simple checklist and then screen, look.
Compare that to a Bristol stool chart.
And the stool.
Quality coming out, the color, the shape.
The texture, the hydration, those are their, those are your best indicators.