What Causes Gas and How to Eliminate Flatulence Naturally
by BodyEcology.com

Do you experience excessive flatulence and painful bloating on a
regular basis? You don't have to live with these embarrassing
symptoms. Body Ecology shows you how to alleviate painful gas,
naturally!

Experiencing flatulence on a regular basis can be both embarrassing
and painful.

Not only do you have to deal with the anxiety of having gas in public,
but also gas, belching and bloating sometimes cause serious
discomfort.

Any number of things can cause gas, from chronic diseases to improper
food combining. In our guide to gas, you'll learn what might be
causing your symptoms and how to use natural methods to alleviate
them.

What Causes Gas?

We all know what flatulence is, but where does it come from?

One list says 86 different diseases are potential reasons you could
have gas, and most of them are related to the gut.1 Among them are
colon cancer, diverticulitis, gall bladder disease, Irritable Bowel
Syndrome (IBS), food allergies, esophageal problems, Cystic Fibrosis,
endometriosis, Celiac disease, malabsorption syndromes, and pancreatic
disease.

Even if you don't have any of these serious conditions, you still
might experience gas.

Other common causes of flatulence include:

Too much fiber too soon

Lactose intolerance

High legume diet - beans are legumes

Fatty foods that you cannot digest

Dairy products that you cannot digest or are allergic tos

Improper food combining

Fruit sugars

Carbonated drinks

Refined sugars and other carbs that contain sugar

Gut fermentation

Bacterial, yeast, and fungal infections, like candida

Even so-called healthy foods that contain large amounts of natural
sugars, like prunes, raisins, bananas, apples and apricots, along with
prune, grape and apple juices all may cause gas.

Some experts even recommend avoiding certain vegetables including
onions, radishes, cabbage, celery, carrots, Brussels sprouts,
broccoli, cauliflower.

But if you avoided some of these foods, especially the nutritious
vegetables, you'd be missing out on valuable vitamins and nutrients
just because you're afraid of gas.

There is a better way. And that involves healing the root cause
instead of the symptoms. If the cause of gas is in your gut, then so
is the solution!

Build Your Good Bacteria to Banish Gas

Your digestive tract is a complex inner ecosystem populated by
bacteria and yeast.

If you are healthy, the good bacteria and yeast (also called
microflora) thrive, helping you to digest food, manufacture vitamins
and boost your immunity.

But in our modern world, the Standard American Diet, chronic stress
and prescription drugs often throw your inner ecosystem out of
balance. An imbalanced inner ecosystem is an environment where
pathogenic and disease-causing yeast and bacteria can thrive.

These pathogenic bacteria and yeast take over your digestive system,
sometimes invade other organs in your body and even enter your blood
stream. They may cause your blood to be acidic, make you feel tired
and contribute to chronic disease and cause gas, belching and
bloating.

Read more about how yeast infections harm your health in: The Largely
Unknown Health Epidemic Affecting Almost ALL Americans.

At Body Ecology we'd like to recommend that your first step to
banishing gas is to rebuild your inner ecosystem.

If you have a thriving colony of beneficial microflora populating your
gut, not only will you fight infection and disease, but also you will
help your body break down food and eliminate painful and embarrassing
flatulence.

Cleanse Your Colon

We highly recommend seeing a Certified Colon Therapist when you first
begin The Body Ecology Diet because our recommended foods will be
softening the toxic material in your intestines and you want this
material eliminated quickly. This way you will have fewer signs of
cleansing and will have more energy to heal. Enemas are also valuable
for eliminating gas and bloating. Sixty years ago every home had an
enema bag. (See www.I-ACT.org to find one in your area.)

Body Ecology's Anti-Gas Protocol

Fermented foods and drinks are the cornerstone of the Body Ecology
diet. Our newest probiotic liquid, Innergy-Biotic, actually builds
energy from the insde out, while populating your gut with healthy
microflora that helps reduce flatulence. Throw out gas-producing soda
pop and try Innergy-Biotic today!

Here are 6 easy ways to avoid gas, belching and bloating:

Eliminate sugar and sugary fruits. On the Body Ecology diet, we
recommend that you stick to the more sour "acid fruits" like lemons,
limes, black currants, cranberries and pomegranates. These fruits and
their juices are tart and do not have lots of sugar that can cause
gassiness. Sugary fruits also feed infections in your intestinal tract
and blood stream while acid fruits do not.
Slowly introduce more fiber. If you suddenly begin to eat large
amounts of fiber from vegetables and grains, your body may respond
with gas. Remember the principle of step by step and introduce your
fiber slowly, following our fiber plan.
Steer clear of carbonated sodas. If you still like a sparkling
beverage, then try one of our delicious, naturally sparkling fermented
drinks. A small juice-glass of our new Innergy-Biotic is the
healthiest and best-tasting probiotic liquid yet.

Innergy-Biotic has a delicious citrus flavor and provides easy to
digest, gluten- free vegetarian protein. It's the ideal solution for
an energy boost any time of day and satisfies the need for a
carbonated drink. While InnergyBiotic doesn't need it, you could add a
few drops of Stevia to make it sweeter. Small amounts of InnergyBiotic
2-3 times a day will help cut sugar cravings and gas. Soon, you'll
wonder why you ever drank conventional sodas!
Consider food combining. One of the 7 Body Ecology principles is the
principle of food combining.

Basically, your body digests proteins and starches differently, so it
is best not to eat them together at the same meal. While this flies in
the face of most common menus, if you start experimenting with food
combining, you will likely find that you digest food much more easily,
suffer less from excess gas, and even lose weight effortlessly!
Start eating cultured vegetables. Fermented foods and drinks are the
cornerstone of the Body Ecology system and essential to establishing
your healthy inner ecosystem. Cultured vegetables, fermented with
beneficial bacteria are an easy and delicious way to populate your gut
with probiotics that enhance digestion and can minimize flatulence.

Just follow our easy cultured vegetable recipe and directions to make
your own cultured vegetables at home. You can eat a ½ cup with every
meal and notice the difference they make!

Remember that when you first add fermented foods and drinks to your
diet, the healthy microflora will start to battle the pathogens in
your gut. As the war ensues you may experience more gas and bloating
for a week or two until the good guys start to thrive in your
intestines. Their goal is to change the environment of your inner
intestinal world...and this takes a little time. Be patient and
introduce fermented foods and drinks consistently each day, and slowly
but surely, a quiet world will be established. However, will the gas
go away forever? No, some gas is natural. But it would be mostly
odorless and never painful.

For more on how to introduce fermented foods and drinks into your
diet, read: Is It Possible to Get Too MUCH Fermented Food in Your
Diet? By Dr. Leonard Smith to learn the proper way to include
fermented foods in your new low-gas lifestyle.
Use peppermint oil for a natural remedy for those times when you still
have gas and bloating. Maybe it's travel, stress, or a new food.
Whatever causes it, if you have peppermint oil on hand, you can rub a
few drops mixed into a carrier oil (any unrefined oil, like almond oil
or even warm coconut oil) over your belly for relief.

Peppermint oil naturally soothes your abdomen and is an anti-
spasmodic, so it's good for cramping associated with IBS.

For more information on the multiple uses for peppermint oil, read
Gas? Bloating? Cramps? Other Digestive Issues? You May Want to
Consider Peppermint Oil.

Certainly we all experience flatulence every once in a while, but
ultimately, gas and bloating are your body's signals, telling you when
something is a little "off."

Next time you have gas, think back to what you ate and consider your
future food choices. Did you have a cookie or a chocolate bar
yesterday? Was last night's dinner properly combined? While changing
your diet can seem very challenging, if you take it in small steps,
you will soon create new habits that create great health.

Body Ecology is ideal for healing your gut AND your whole body. Your
body will thank you by feeling great, reducing or eliminating gas and
giving you more energy.

For more information on how to incorporate the Body Ecology program
into your life, step by step, read: The Body Ecology Diet.

Sources:

Flatulence, WrongDiagnosis.com. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/flatulence.htm

"Change in diet can clear the air and ease flatulence,"
NutraIngredients.com, Jan 4, 2008. http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?id=82339-flatulence

Food Combining: The Little-Understood Secret to Optimal Weight &
Health Revealed http://www.bodyecology.com/07/01/18/food_combining_optimal_health_and_weight.php

Gas? Bloating? Cramps? Other Digestive Issues? You May Want to
Consider Peppermint Oil, BodyEcology.com.
http://www.bodyecology.com/07/04/05/gas_bloating_cramps_peppermint.php

Smith, Leonard, "Is It Possible to Get Too MUCH Fermented Food in Your
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