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- Gastroenterologists Dr. Fola May and Dr. Austin Chiang debunk 12 myths about indigestion. They explain how spicy food doesn't cause ulcers, why you don't need to poop every day, and how long it really takes to pass gum. They also talk about probiotics and why they might not be the cure-all you think it is.
0:00 Intro
0:58 It takes years to digest gum
1:30 Smelly farts always mean something is wrong
2:30 You should be pooping every day
3:47 Only spicy food causes ulcers
5:12 Your stomach shrinks if you eat less
6:26 Jumping or exercising after eating will give you appendicitis
7:15 You need to wait 30 minutes to swim after eating
8:15 Probiotics will fix your gut
9:30 "I got food poisoning from the last thing I ate"
10:51 Women don't need regular colonoscopies
11:57 "I feel really bloated, so it must be IBS"
13:02 I just know I have a gluten allergy"
Dr. Fola May is the director of the Melvin and Bren Simon Gastroenterology Quality Improvement Program at UCLA. You can learn more about her and her work here:
www.uclahealth.org/gastro/hea...
Dr. Austin Chiang is the Director of the Endoscopic Bariatric Program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. You can learn more about him and his work here:
www.austinchiang.com/
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Colorectal cancer survivor, stage 3, NED 6 years. Diagnosed at age 50, when I got my first colonoscopy. Glad they changed the standard.
Hugs and congratz on kicking cancer! Must have been harrowing.
Congrats. Toxic megacolon survivor myself, had it removed... Age 20. Went from being perfectly healthy to toxic megacolon in a span of 2 weeks. Scary stuff.
Congrats!!! My father was diagnosed with colon cancer and my doctor told me that I should get tested as soon as possible after my 30s. Im now 30 but I dont seem to be able to get tested with all this Covid stuff. Also my sister refuses to get tested (even tho she is 33) because she thinks its something only for men ...
I’m so happy for your positive outcome. My dad did not find his cancer until his first colonoscopy and it was already too late. I’m happy to see that the standards have changed.
@@Croblji Just get on the list and they will take you at some point. I was able to get a colonoscopy in July - in between COVID waves.
I make my kids wait at least an hour to swim after eating other wise they run around and get excited and hot and puke up their food in the pool lol
Yes!! Most parents aren’t afraid of drowning (in relation to food), we just don’t want to clean puke in the pool. My son was that kid; we closed an indoor water park once bc we didn’t wait long enough after lunch. Embarrassing 🙈
Exactly. So that rule makes complete since
On the other hand it is a matter of habit. You have taught your children that they cannot eat and then exercise.
Agreed Hannah! I was one of those kids lol
@@cyn.05 I know as an adult if I ate a standard meal (as opposed to snack), I would have to wait because otherwise I would get a terrible stitch in my side when exercising.
You know the smelly farts thing is still something that can be concerning...and these doctors are right. Always pay attention to the symptoms and always observe very closely to them or your kids. My parents used to think it was hilarious that it happened to me all the time as a very young child. From like 3 years old very gassy kid, very smelly. They thought it was funny and never mentioned it to the doctor. Then when I got older like 5...the lack of appetite started. Then by 6 I would throw away my food without my parents noticing, it started to hurt when I would eat, was still gassy and everything. Parents would complain that I was a picky eater, losing weight, but never bring up the flatulence. The doctor would just say it was a picky eater phase and to feed me peanut butter etc. By age 7 all hell broke loose. The severe abdominal pains started...I remember going to the bathroom with severe pain in 1st grade, being in there for such a long time, feeling faint, and when I went to flush....there was no stool it was pure blood. I panicked and got sooo scared. I thought I was in trouble, thought I was going to get punished, thought I did something wrong, thought I was gonna get a whoopin. So I flushed and I cleaned up as best as I could in a panic and I kept it a secret from my parents, my teacher. I remember as time went on I got weaker and weaker. Was hardly eating, was in soo much pain. Kept going to bathroom and hiding the bloody evidence. Until one day I remember being soo pale and weak and dizzy I forgot to hide the toilet paper after I went to the bathroom. My mom found out. Confronted me about it and yelled at me and I cried. I told her what happened. But instead of taking me to the hospital they took me to church to get me healed by the pastor. Cuz ya know....1990s christianity. Lol I got worst and worst and then one day I remember barely being responsive. I couldn't move. They finally took me to the hospital and I remember being in the PICU. Getting a central line and getting tons of bags of blood. At first they thought it was dysentery. I remember being there for a week after I recovered and they sent me home. They did a ton of studies while I was there. But then the hospital called my dad and it was the GI attending who later became my pedi GI. Told him they needed to bring me back to the hospital to be admitted asap. That I didn't have to go through the ER they already were waiting for me at admiting services. My dad was freaking out saying "doctor please tell me is it cancer? Don't say it's cancer!" And they told me him "no its not...but its a very tough disease." Turns out I had a severe case of Crohns Disease. It's ruined my life. 32 surgeries since and it's still tormenting to this day. It's almost killed me soo many times and it's given me soo many complications. From septic shock to bacterial meningitis to leukemia and thyroid cancer from its biological treatments. It's been a nightmare. It all started with bad smelling flatulence that my poor parents ignored. I wonder if they caught it sooner...would it have not been as severe as it was? Be mindful of your symptoms and the symptoms of your children.
Wim hof has helped multiple people with chrons. Not to go eastern medicine on you,,, but it appears western medicine is failing you
@@excfontec6272 tell me something I don't know. It's failed me ages ago and has given me more diseases and complications than I can count. Don't know what else to do.
Damn, I’m sorry you’ve had to go through that. It’s such an unfair world where things like that happen to people and it’s just random and the parents on top made it worse, that’s rough.
I can somewhat relate in that as a kid I’d get pale and weak and at one point became delirious and spoke to my cat to get me help because I felt like I was dying, never got officially diagnosed but very very likely kidney stones I got many times, I seem to get every few years now, my mom gets too. But I used to have stomach issues and still have some. I don’t go in though, but I should. I know I have a lot wrong with me and I’ve never had a physical in my life, I’ve only been to the ER and for broken bones or internal pains. I used to hide my issues and lied to a doctor once, he pushed into an area and to be a “man” I lied and said it didn’t hurt (was told men don’t cry and all that stuff since around 7)
Even now, I have some pains in side and abdomen, I’ve found some things correlated and a few months ago went in and since was bleeding from belly button, but I felt very invalidated at the ER by most and never scheduled another. My anxiety has definitely ruined my life. But I don’t mean to center myself or anything, just to relate somewhat, it’s a rough world, hope you’re doing okay all things considered, my dad has some pretty bad issues with his stomach, both parents got a lot of health issues. Sad some get fucked over with them and others have no idea what it’s like or may even invalidate
Thank you for sharing. It's so important for people to instill truest with their children Xoxo
Not to be fucked up, but it sounds like a wonder that no one in the hospital during that time called CPS on your parents for neglect & child endangerment.
So glad they acknowledged h. Pylori. I had to diagnose myself 7 years ago because the drs either washed their hands of me or gave me anti anxiety pills and I was soooo sick for a year. Be your own advocate people, you know when something is wrong with you. Demand the testing.
I am also glad people are talking more and more about H. Pylori!!!
I had it ravaging in my stomach for over a decade before I could even get someone to understand something wasn't right! It started late 2004 and we thought it was due to stress and undiagnosed severe anxiety, but what I got the anxiety fixed up, I didn't gain any of the weight back that had lost! After that I just thought it was my sugars so I would get them tested consistently. Nope! Then later on it's like "I know what I can't digest! Fats, proteins and sugars! The three things needed to help the body have energy!!! When I told the drs I had a hard time digesting fat, they just said it was acid reflux, until one time I elaborated, saying one day I ate cherrios fine and then the next day I got sick eating the same thing (I think it has to do with the amount the body could tolerate at one time!) anyway he told me to tell me GP. I told her, she sent me for a stool sample and lo and behold, I had H. Pylori!! Thankfully one round of triple therapy helped, but my stomach has not been the same since!!! Going from 2004 to 2017! It was crazy! You're right when you say "be your own advocate!!"
I was a non-medical hospital employee 30 years ago. We were talking about h. Pylori then. What's up with not knowing about it? Also, lots of my medical info used to come from women's magazines like Ladies Home Journal. No excuse for even the average person being ignorant, much less doctors. It's in the headlines, guys, at least on p.6. (refers to a newspaper for you younger folks).
Can we get an eczema myths debunked episode next!
Yes please! 👍
First thing I thought about
THIS!
YoU kNoW tHe SkIn Is AlL aBoUt ThE gUt HeAlTh. Ok thank you please leave me alone.
Maybe skin myths in general
Had a gastroenterologist tell me to chew my food better and several tell me I had acid reflux. Finally had a real gastroenterologist help me and put me on an anti-spasmodic medication. After 15 years I was finally able to digest food and eat things like vegetables. Thanks to him I'm finally better and off the medication and know how to watch my diet carefully. All doctors are not created equal and that unfortunately makes most hard for me to trust. 😢
That's true. It's hard to find a good doctor.
Hey, just want to say trying drug-less solutions first instead of going straight to drugs isn't always a bad thing.
The final gastroenterologist probably gave you drugs because you had the history that other methods didnt work.
@@ThatNORM That's true. In my case I was with it for 15 years and it took medication to get it under control.
thanks Science Insider for actually segmenting each question
So many lies getting debunked and it's nice to see
Yeah
I agree
Have you ever thought on growing a mustache??
@@rockraphlegal his twin brother has one, he's not as popular tho
Man you’re literally everywhere! Hello 👋
"is there such a thing as a good smelling fart?" well, there are non smelly farts that literally DO NOT SMELL LIKE ANYTHING. Which (at least for me) is the most common fart. Funny tidbit: I can actually feel when it will smell (I guess most people can?), and it feels warmer
The silent ones are mostly smelly!
Exactly my thought
For me it's like a sour feeling in my stomach
I agree, most of my farts are just air with no smell.
Yes
The human gut is more complex than previously thought and has a huge impact on whole-body health. A healthy gut contributes to a strong immune system, heart health, brain health, improved mood, healthy sleep, and effective digestion, and it may help prevent some cancers and autoimmune diseases.👍
Anyone with IBS (like me) understands this all too well. 😪
Literally. Everything can be healed through the gut.
@@listenclash 🤣 they should cover this for the next video... Obviously you can't fix everything through the gut ??
@@Estertje93 almost all disease stems from something you ingested. Argue wit google man lol. Even western med believes this, why do you think we ingest pills for most ailments? There are quite a few comments here where ppl with stomach diseases are expressing that they are glad people are sharing the importance of keeping your gut healthy. If you had IBS, you would be prone to a lot more disease. I hope u understand the subject better luv 🖤
@@listenclash As a person with a medical science degree I can tell you that there are many problems in the body that have nothing to do with gut health. Yes medication can be absorbed through the bowels but 99% of them could be administered intravenously. A few things that come to mind are skin cancer, respiratory infections, genetic diseases, trauma, birth defects, all pregnancy-related complications, different types of embolisms, infection, different auto-immune diseases... So good luck with googling but I'll stick to my degree...
Am I the only one who thinks that a gastroentorologist with a bowel plushy is both adorable and feels trustworthy? ☺️
I want to know how they knew it exists...special medical catalogs, I assume.
@@maryrosekent8223 targeted advertisement?
@@maryrosekent8223 Hospital gift shop?
BTW, I've seen your thoughtful, reasonable comments around YT for a long while, and I think I've seen you in other comment sections too. Nice to run across you again. Peace ✌️☮️
@@akinpaws
Thank you-you’re so sweet! 🦋🦚💐🍓🧁🎼
it gives you the assurance that there are no dumb question 😆
As someone with celiac disease, I’m happy there are way more options at the grocery store and at restaurants. I still get contamination’s so I tend to cook all meals from scratch. Even a little bit of gluten will make me bloated, vomit, horrible diarrhea, aches, and fever for a few days to over a week. Got my first colonoscopy endoscopy at age 23 ✨ it was actually a relaxing experience haha!
Contamination’s what?
@@williamwilson6499 gluten
"Is there such a that's a good-smelling fart?"
Well I certainly take pride in mine...
You could make a podcast called "Callin Colin in the Closet"....especially if you had another Colin as a co-host. Just something to think about. . .
My farts are horrid and I’m so proud of them
Roses honey !!! 🥀
Loved the dynamic between these two. A collaborative spirit without trying to one-up each other 👍
...because they’re adults!
They are from LGBTQ so they are peaceful
@@xaynmemon2559 no
@@EyeDisagreeWithYou Most of those members are peaceful. It's you hateful magas who are violent.
@@xaynmemon2559 She's actually straight and married. He's, well..."fabulous". 😂
I always liked the explanation of the "no swimming until 30 mins after you eat" is that it helps to make sure kids don't puke in the pool, and gives the parents a half hour to chill out a bit. XD
It is, but by the same token, eating draws blood into the stomach to deal with it. I guess that could cause some issues in some cases, but the main reason is probably that parents wanted a bit of time after eating to not have to watch kids in the water for one reason or another.
Wow.. I did not know that it's normal to not poop everyday
I'm loving how calm and pleasant they are while talking ab bloody poop.
It’s kinda comforting in a way. Like you know there’s zero judgment when talking to your doctors about what you’re going through.
They're professionals, they can talk about *human bodily functions that we all have* in a *professional* manner. You wouldn't like to go to the doctor with blood in your shit and then them just laugh at you.. They're not little children, they're adults and professionals
That is a perfectly normal attitude, especially coming from medical professionals!
@@Twisted_Rose96 exactly! I've had medical professionals make audible disparaging sounds while looking at my stuff before and it's so upsetting
What’s fun is how much we talk about y’all once y’all leave ,,, healthcare workers are a different breed
And thank you for advocating for women getting colonoscopies! There is a long history of IBD in my family (and I’ve had IBS all my life) so I had a colonoscopy at 21 after relevant symptoms. Luckily I was all clear, but I woke up twice during the procedure and that was really scary! Apparently I’m one of those people who have a really high tolerance for opiate anesthetics. Hopefully dont have to do that again until 45!
I'm so sorry you experienced that! I metabolize anesthesia rapidly and, after a lifetime of not being believed--and held down and scolded while un-anesthetized dental work, stitches, etc were performed, and woke up during not one, but two surgeries, I was convinced my PTSD was something I'd just been cursed with. Thankfully, I found a therapist who not only helped me process the trauma but also gave me tools to be my own advocate. Now, I'm able to communicate clearly with providers what my experiences--and expectations--are. If they dismiss my concerns or condescend, it's a no-go. Seriously, I've gotten the, "You're just nervous; that doesn't happen. Our usual will be fine."--I will walk out! I'm giving them vital information about my body; if they don't listen, how can I trust them with my life?! It's such a relief when they engage, ask me what's worked and what hasn't, and discuss different protocols and what they'd recommend. Because I know they'll be prepared and watchful, so I'm in good hands.
Dr Chiang having perfect skin 😊
and a bloody red eye?
@@moblue2899 that's just a haemorrhage....it occurs sometimes randomly due to a burst capillary but it will go away on its own in a few days. Looks scary tho😂
@@child_of_lilith He had eye surgery with a slight complication but he's ok :)
@@CellRus yeah I came to know that in another comment thread! Its still a haemorrhage but as a consequence of eye surgery yes.
And an overly fair skin. He's whiter than a white guy. lol
The whole "exercising after eating gives you appendicitis" is quite a common saying in East Asian families. My parents said it!
Yep everyone here says it. Everyone.
Interesting... I'm from Brazil and never ever heard that one! 😊 But if you eat and go swimming you will die, lol!
I need to have Dr. May’s energy, consistent even when talking about farts.
Ah shoot, I was hoping they'd talk about GERD/acid reflux at some point. Guess there aren't any major myths about it?
Sameeee it's my most concerning problem right now :(
Ask your doctor to test you for helio pylori. I had doctors tell me for more than 8 years I had acid reflux, but after getting examined by a US Naval Doctor the test came back for h. Pylori. Took medication for a month, never had a problem since.
@@S.Clause Unfortunately, I've already tested negative for H pylori. :/
My father has acid reflux because of a hernia. Sadly in that case only a operation can fix it.
Drink more water. Eat smaller meals. I find spicy food and citrus type food set me off but I think it's very individual
I have a degree in nutrition and what was most shocking was finding out that %55 of health problems are food related, but on average doctors only have to take one semester of nutrition. 🤯
Crazy, no? I never had a nutrition course in medical school. Just pick up some of it in other courses like biochemistry.
This is why nutrition is almost always chalked up to be “not an exact science”. I’m not saying it’s entirely the opposite. But there must be more information out there than we know.
If 55% of health problems are food related and the Japanese and South Koreans are amongst the longest living humans on the planet, shouldn't we adopt some of their eating habits instead of relying on the US food industry and restaurateurs that just want us to come in and consume the most addictive foods possible?
Added bonus: their food is amazing
@@ohdaUtube A lot of Asian food is super healthy. But, they also preserve a lot in nitrogenous salts. That can lead to stomach cancer.
@@guillermoflores3199 doesn't seem to affect their overall lifespan. If western food takes away 10 years of your life, you don't want to reverse that out by adopting certain nutritional philosophies?
Also, most of Korean and Japanese food is healthy. Especially when consumed the way they do
As a kid I cramped up whenever I swam immediately after eating a meal.
You never know how bad a cramp will hit you. And if it were to happen, not in a backyard pool, but the lake or ocean? 🙅♀️
THANK YOU for addressing how poorly regulated probiotics are!!!
I love the diversity of Drs they get on this show!
She's beautiful!
i say this as non white probably a few capable white doctors were never considered to make sure the screen looks diverse enough which racism in a way i am saying this cause it happens a lot in west.
@@flaminmongrel6955 Sounds like you don't know the definition of racism. Also why do you think these people weren't super capable in their field anyway and their must have been more capable white people who were not included??
I always think about why first thing western ppl think about in these situations is the race of the ppl who are talking it's kinda weird because you think the thing ppl might pay attention to is the information in the video .and it happens mostly when the experts are not white westerners try to point that out makes me feel kinda weird ngl . I mean i know the history behind it but seems like it's still not normal for them
@@ghazalsalehian Did you know that there was a psychological study conducted here in the U.S., and they found out that minorities won't listen to 'white' doctors on health information, but they will listen to other minority doctors, even if the facts are the same?
Wait 30 minutes before swimming I didn't know people were in fear of drowning. My nephew would throw up if he had a big meal then went swimming never failed on every trip when he was little.
As a swimmer, it’s a good idea to wait 30 minutes but you don’t have to. It’s because I get stomach cramps when I swim, so I prefer eating after.
Any vigorous activity after eating might cause children to vomit because the food is still in the stomach. I find this is true of cats too.
@@chrish6001 cats swimming would be fun to see lol 😆 jk I know what you meant 😉
I think the truth of it is is that the parents need the 30 minutes after you eat to get in the pool and not have you clamoring and hanging all over them. Don’t steal their free swimming time. Leave the myth firmly in place myths are the things that societies are built upon. 😉
@@pjschmid2251 I like it! 👍😉
This video is amazing - so refreshing to get a down-to-earth clinicians' insight. Thank you!
I used to have IBS as a teen and it was crazy painful. It took so much of my quality of life away. That’s not just bloating.
Exactly. When you're having a soaking wet break out sweat, and just about puking and passing out on the bathroom, that's when you're having IBS. Bloating is a simple minute problem in comparison.
I'm so glad that they're debunking the myth about how many times a day you should poop. This girl literally told me her doctor said she should poop after every meal. I'm like very rarely do I poop after ever meal. For me normal is somewhere between every other day to once a day.
I'm normally a once-a-day person, but during my second pregnancy, it was once every 3 or 4 days. I kept getting pissed off at the medical providers, since they kept telling me I needed to eat more fiber. Except here's the thing - for one, I always have a healthy diet. For two, during my pregnancy, I had an extra healthy diet, considering my preggo body refused to allow me to consume any processed sugars and most processed foods, and all my cravings were for fruits and vegetables. I ate tons of fruits and veg, way more than normal. One day, I literally ate a heaping plate full of cabbage, and still didn't poop for 3 days. Ditto with watermelon. So yeah, not my fault my hormones slowed the peristalsis of my digestive system. It's not an uncommon symptom, apparently, yet the medical providers wanted to blame me.
It's like how when I started having preterm contractions, they tried to blame me, that I wasn't drinking enough water. But no, I drink more water than any human alive. It's actually a running joke in my family. The reality is that they didn't know what caused my preterm labor scare. But doctors being the know-it-alls that they are, they had to give me a reason for it - dehydration. Nah brah. (By the way, the baby was born healthy, at full term. I had 4 weeks of contractions though. That wasn't fun.)
Im glad they addressed the daily poop issue, really. When I was little, I was a once every 3 day person. I thought it was completely weird that anyone had to poop once a day, let alone multiple times a day. I know people now who literally.. 3 or 4 or 5 times a day, it still is a little shocking.
Food poisoning people dont learn.. it takes a while. I tell people ok, maybe like 4 or 5 hours, youll.. definitely be feeling off. Im a firm belief you have a very small window of opportunity to change how badly it hits you. If youre stubborn, and refuse to puke, or go "sleep it off", then.. youre gonna have the shits the next day. Badly. But if you can recognize it, and go ahead and throw up, get it out, you might not feel too well, but it wont hit you nearly as bad.
i remember when i got food poisoning and i tried to sleep it off but i ended up going to the bathroom and all hell broke loose. i could not sleep after, i was bothered for days. then i got gastritis 2 weeks after smh
That used to be me too as a kid. Once every few days. Now, its at least once, sometimes 2-3 times a day. The body can adapt if you allow it to.
Who made up the 7 yr gum rule, we all have different parents yet they all said the same thing, and this was before the internet days.
Myths have a way of traveling long and fast.
It's probably meant to scare kids so they won't swallow their gum
I love making my parents watch this, and get their myths debunked.
Me: *eats bread*
My stomach: Not today! Bring the diarrhea!
Do you have a gluten intolerance?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.... Lol
Me: *eats anything*
My stomach 30 minutes later: *SCREAMING*
I got a ad about “healing your leaky gut” for this video about busting myths. Why does this happen on so many videos 😭
Good, and informative video, kudos!
Docs, please do an episode about what's happening when our emotions cause physical discomfort: butterflies, nausea, stabbing pains, gut-punch feeling, etc.
I've never understood "emotional eating," because when I'm upset, I have overwhelming nausea!
Do you ever teach patients vagus breathing or other techniques to help at those times?
This was absolutely amazing! The hosts was just amazing!!! And the video was extremely informative
My parents say : If you don't eat soup you get stomach shrink.
If you eat little, you will have holes in your stomach because your stomach is digesting itself.
They terrorise me with this since i was a little kid.
My daughter was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 34. No family history of it or any other cancers. It was discovered at the ER when they thought she had a blocked bowel and had swollen up twice her size. It was the size of a basketball. Many younger people are getting this diagnosis. So if you feel something is wrong don't give up keep getting other opinions until someone listens to you. By the time it was found on my daughter it was stage 4. She then had a massive stroke 10 days later.
😔
I've always been told that "wait 30 min after eating to swim" is about that abdominal cramping talked about... that someone is risking cramping and unless you're 100% ready to force your way through it's just a better idea to wait (or watch the amount you put in your stomach).
Gluten is complicated. It could be few other things. If you eat bunch of donuts or chocolate croissants and you’re feeling bloated or constipated, it may be the refined flour, sugar or chocolate. If you eat wheat bran and have a diarrhea, it may be too much fiber. Unfortunately, you have to play Sherlock to get to the root cause!
That's why doctors should take a byopsy and a run blood test, my blood test came as non-conclusive but my byopsy confirmed that I have celiacs disease. I was told that it's fairly common in adults to have a non-conclusive or a negative result in their blood tests, which sucks, so the byopsies are necessary.
Or quit being sherlock and let Dr. Watson take a look
@@aidab93 A lot of people get negative blood test results because they are not told that they have to eat gluten every day for 6 weeks to get an accurate test result
I have plenty of glutenase and digest it fine.... But my immune system thinks the gluten is a foreign invaders and sets a full immune response. Fever, body ache, brain fog... no donut is worth a few days feeling so bad
I honestly hoped they talked a bit more about lactose probiotics. I'm lactose intolerant and usually if I have a yakult before eating anything with lactose, I can actually digest it with no stomach pain or any of my other usual symptoms. It really helped me save a lot of money on lactase tablets
That's really good to know, I'll give that a try.
Same with kefir
I have just been diagnosed with IBD this February, I have Gerd and Gastritis as well and ever since 2019 and each year I was always being hospitalized. I’m so relieved tho because it’s explained my weight loss and severe abdominal pain where I can’t even walk or standing properly because I’m in pain and hopefully I don’t have to be hospitalized again now that I’m treated right and feeling so much better. Stay healthy and take care everyone 🙏🏼
Probiotics is life-saving in my experience. I had a disbiosis due to overuse of antibiotics - I had 11 different antibiotics in one year - by the end - I didn’t digest food at all and was in insane pain constantly. I wanted to die I was so sick.
The only thing that helped me to start to be able to eat was probiotics. I also had several bad bacterial over growths along with some fungal overgrowth.
Only when my functional doctor started to look into my symptoms I got real help.
Yes, I've seen probiotics help people heal over and over and over again and yet the medical community still acts like they have no idea how probiotics work or if they even do work 🙄
That thing about the stomach not changing size based on how much you eat made me feel good actually, because I have feared that I fucked up my stomach by eating to much (I know losing weight is still going to be hard, but at least that is one less thing to worry about)
She was also saying that if it gets frequently over-extended, it will get larger in time.
You know you have IBS when you spend hours on the bed with a heating pad.😅 it wasn’t until I had to eliminate onion, garlic, beans, Brussels sprouts, and almost all fiber containing foods that my symptoms calmed down. The only fiber I can eat is leafy greens, carrots, and some fruit.
Amazing videos! I always learn with them! Thank you.
I thought I had a gluten sensitivity, but I actually have a sensitivity to a lot of grains. It's the wheat itself, not necessarily the gluten. Oats and wheat cause big problems for my autoimmune & neurological condition, but I can tolerate corn and white rice (in small portions), and sprouted grains tend to digest much better!
If you have trouble with grain digestion, try sprouted grains or sprouting your own grains! 😃
How did you find out what it was? I think I'm intolerant to something because I wake up with a floated belly literally every single day for years now but I can't seem to understand why
Just be mindful with sprouting grains that you don't end up with moulds. Ergot can really colour your day in a most hallucinatory way!
There is non-coeliac wheat sensitivity as well
@@leela5636 Some historians think ergot was responsible for triggering the Salem Witch Trials due to crop conditions that encouraged mold and they way they tested for witchcraft (giving urine to dogs in a cake to eat).
@@richardarriaga6271 do you perhaps have any resources on this? Would love to know more!
Hi um lifeguard and pool manager here :) i don’t want to go against what the doctors are saying, but i want to clarify there is some truth behind the 30-minute rule. At the swimming pool we still recommend waiting 30 minutes after a meal because the risk of stomach cramps is very real when you’re swimming. Your core is the most-worked muscle while swimming, and like the doctors said, it is also digesting. So while this isn’t a problem if you’re in a pool where you can just stand up and hold your side until you feel better, it can be life-threatening if you’re in the deep-end of the pool. I’ve seen proessional lane-swimmers nearly drown and require saving from a lifeguard, because a serious side-cramp prevents you from even keeping afloat, nonetheless swimming to the edge of the pool. So there’s a reason why you shouldn’t swim in the middle of a lake or do lane-swim in the deep end right after a meal. But going for a dip in your friend’s shallow backyard pool? Not a problem.
Wow this is important thank you
Yes I have observed cramps in my body, inner side of feet when I was full and trying to swim probably because my core is not strong enough to do both digestion and support. I am an adult trying to learn to swim so I guess it's even more dangerous who can't really stand in the pool. I guess this one point seemed to be lost on them in the semantics. Yes in theory, one can't drown solely because of that. Also I observed so many burps where I could smell the food back up my digestive tract when in the pool whereas I usually don't get any burps after a regular meal.
Great info from real physicians. Thanks Insider!
My grandmother died of colon cancer . Thanks for sharing that one.
oh my god that plushie was unexpectedly adorable
I know, they are very common in the medical field. I used to work in medical records and a lot of the clerical team, even the drs and nurses had one. Since I was in urology the kidney and bladder ones were the most popular.
Thanks for this!! Ok but both these doctors are so beautiful and smart
Thanks for the video!
Trigger warning - talking about celiac and gross stuff don't read if body stuff bothers you!
As someone with Celiac, if you are curious, when I eat wheat, rye, barley etc it is very very painful. You'll know if you ate some gluten very quickly.
First, you get a hot, sharp ache in your stomach area, then lower, or if you're lucky like me - even my mouth and throat can be affected (i have a systemic nerve disease, all pain is amplified and lasts a long time.)
Next, gurgling intestines and deeper, stronger pain. You know you need to get to a bathroon.
Then, after a short while - 10 mins sometimes - you have a really painful poop. It usually repeats 2-7 times over a couple of hours to five. Sometimes you see blood but honestly i try not to look as at this point I usually have nausea.
During this time you can have shivers and or sweat, hot flashes, weakness, fatigue, dizziness, trembling etc
For a couple of weeks i can't eat normally. No spicy food or acidic food. I take fibre supps and probiotics after a while.
The severity of the episode is determined by how much you ate of the wheat or barley rye etc. I can tell if something has even a tiny amount and have to be very careful what food I buy or other products like medicine or lip balm etc. A lot of foods you wouldn't think have gluten do. Everything from veggie soup to gumny bears to prepared salads. Factories use gluten as a lubricant, thickener and more.
Anyways I am a good witness for pain as i have had my leg broken, stick in the eye, a severe burn, been awake and sensate during surgery, I have regular migraines etc etc.. it is a long list due to my monster illness that has a finger in every pie so to speak.
I would rate being glutened (Celiac attack slang) as worse than a broken toe, same as the small but serious burn, same as a broken tibia, not as bad as a cluster migraine or surgery or a stick in the eye (corneal abrasion) - but it goes away faster than many of those things. Overall it affects your life on a daily basis and makes shopping for food harder. Not my biggest problem but I take it more seriously than a lot of my problems. And when you get badly attacked, it takes a long time to heal so you have to be careful about vitamins and other micronutrients.
The poop smells absolutely foul.
But you can absolutely live a good life with it, if you are careful. No worries if you've been diagnosed, you're going to feel so much better when you get into the groove of it, and don't need weird meds for it usually. Sucks at first and you might not think you can live without the foods you love, but you will adapt and find new things to love. Hang in there babe.
I got biopsies to confirm I don’t have celiac, as well as allergy testing, and ultimately got a diagnosis of gluten-triggered IBS. It blows my mind that I’m so sensitive that food from a shared fryer makes me ill, and it isn’t celiac or allergies.
Not everyone that says that they can’t handle gluten is deluding themselves - it is still a legitimate thing.
As far as I understood them, they wanted to debunk that not everyone who shows symptoms after eating gluten has an allergy.
Definitely do stay away from gluten if it causes problems with your digestion.
That said, the people who can digest it just fine shouldn't arbitrarily exclude it from their diets. I think that's what the two of them were getting at.
Were you already eating gluten free before the biopsies? That will give you a false negative, and then all they can say is gluten sensitivity.
@@tamcsilva I did a 5 week challenge but I was strict GF for years before.
@@4mpersan did they test you for the gene for celiac disease?
@@tamcsilva Yes, and I have one of them. Having the gene doesn't mean you have the disease, though.
You two were great! Fantastic video. Thank you!
Thank you, doctors!
I thought gum took 7 years to digest too. Thank you for debunking that. Im glad it's digested at a normal rate.
Most gums are just plastic so they will never biodegrade, much less be digested.
Excellent information! Thanks for sharing. I learned a great deal, and things I needed to know,.
I tried to listen to this while working on my shopping list, and I have regrets.
If really foul smelling farts are an indication of something wrong then my dad's been dying for 40 years.
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i love the positivity ahhh 🥰 very informative
The number 1 comment from a patient having a colonoscopy "Can you write a note to my wife telling her my head isn't up there?"
That swimming myth was quite surprising. I am scared of swimming or exercising right after eating because my stomach might feel bloated and cramps might occur. So I was right!
If you eat a large meal then yes. I've always eaten before swimming and must before I workout. If I eat too much I have gotten a cramp in the side of my stomach but if I eat a sandwich and go ice never had an issue..
I even saw signs here in Germany at the public swimming pool, telling people not to swim for 30 minutes after eating! 🤯
I always heard that you shouldn't swim after eating because you might throw up... Especially kids! That always made a lot of sense to me...
@@nusuth24 it happened to me and i got hospitalized and doctors told me that if u get sick and dont vomit u could die
This was amazing 😭😂 story AND hair ! How is your timing so perfect ??
we need more of this
Darn both these doctors are also hella cute in addition to their awesome brains! That plushie colon as well xD
Literally looking for this comment!!! Lmao they're really adorable 😭
FYI, the jumping gives you appendicitis myth is absolutely rampant in Malaysia.
Really! I've never heard of it tho hahaha.
Here too in ph, like it's really a common myth. It probably originates in south/east asia
@@zurrick quite
Jumping/running after eating gives you appendicitis. This is the myth specifically believed in ph.
I was hoping they’d tackle the myth about there being 5, 10, 15, 20, pounds, (take your pick), of undigested red meat hanging around in your colon. Maybe next time. Thank you, guys, for the informative and intelligent discussion.
What?! Never heard that one. I’ve heard mention that you keep x amount of pounds of residual feces in your digestive tract though. It’s usually a “fact” thrown out there by the detox crowd. Hint hint, don’t buy into the idea of detox either
@@blakew5672 Yep, I’ve heard it several places, the usual amount is 5+ pounds of undigested red meat just sitting in the colon “poisoning” our body. Of course, it’s ridiculous, our digestive system makes pretty rapid work of nearly everything that’s digestible, as you mentioned we always have a certain amount of poop in us (some more than others if you get my drift) but that’s usually stuff on the way out of the body. I guess the actual amount depends on our metabolism, through-time, and other things.
Our body detoxifies itself just find, people!
Yeah, the red meat probably didn't even make it past the duodenal tract. So that's a total myth that red meat sets up shop in the colon.
@@jonimaricruz1692 It does happen that people get a bunch of stuff hanging out in their colon, but it's not normally anywhere near the much. If you weigh yourself before and after a particularly large dump, it's probably not anywhere near that heavy. Feces will often times float, which means that you've probably got more urine weight than from feces.
But, I have heard of instances where severe constipation has led to a significant amount of build up in the digestive track, but it's definitely not normal and even then it rarely gets up to those amounts. I weigh nearly 200# and that 20# would be like 10% of my total body weight just in that little bit of my body.
I'm really curious about the studies I've seen about gut microbes around anxiety and depression helpfulness.
I've been a server for 20 years and the amount of customers trying to claim " food poisoning".... 🤦♀️🙄.
My mom has Lynch Syndrome so she has to get a colonoscopy and an endoscopy every year.
Sorry to hear about your mother. Have you been advised to get tested for it? You likely know it’s a hereditary condition
@@fushiashade5 Thank you, yes I've been tested and I'm ok. But my niece does have it
Probiotics are the only thing that helped me, after years and years of stomach pain.
You're lucky. They did nothing but make me have a lower back account
of course they're going to crap all over them, and of course they haven't been studied, so a doctor has cover to say there's 'no proof' that they work, because if they were studied, and then there was proof, doctors and big pharma would lose a ton of money, if all people had to do, was take a pill or drink a little drink of healthy bacteria each day and a lot of their gastrointestinal problems would go away
I love learning about these facts!
I had that "smaller stomach" feeling happen to me when I had surgery on my tailbone. I couldn't sit up comfortably, so I had to stand up to eat, which led me to eat way less. Now I think that what happened was the lowering of my caloric intake may have improved my leptin response, which made me feel satisfied faster.
I feel like the stomach one has to be right, if I go through a time of eating less I won't be able to eat very much more then that without feeling too full. Wheres if I've been eating more I can eat a ton and still not feel full.
So that's actually you just training your brain to determine your level of hunger! All of those signals of feeling hungry, full, etc. all come from your brain and it can fluctuate pretty drastically over short time spans. The human body is truly something!
I have always been told to drink Yakult (a probiotic drink) when I get diarrhea. This is, of course, in addition to drinking electrolyte water.
Always worked great for me.
Thank you so much! ♥️♥️
This made me feel so much better about my gut and how often I poo a day. Lol
thank you for this video. it was recommended somehow and i'm glad it was!!!! plus you both are so beautiful 🥰🥰🥰🥰 thank you💜💜💜💜
I love these Insider Debunk videos, but hearing about all these many symptoms on this one makes me frown so much 😂
So informative thank you!
Thanks for the timecodes.
If smelly farts are the indicator of bad health than I should have been dead for years ago
Maybe you're dead inside, and the rotting smell is coming out... 😖😬😶
Well, when I developed Helicopter pylori my symptoms started with a very bad smelling fart. Than it escalated a few days later. Yes, pay attention to other symptoms, but the smell can give a warning.
Also your stomach cannot shrink yes, but remember that when a person struggling with anorexia eat for the first time again their stomach is so sensitive to stretching it can appear that their stomach shrinked, just wish they said this in the video, I mean it's common sense.
*helicobacter
Thanks for the class!👍
Loved the video 😍😍
Once my nutritionist treated me for my stomach (i've been dealing with helicobacter pylori pretty much my whole life) bye changing my diet gradually. At first she told me not to eat anything with gluten, for like a month and a half, plus some other recommendations. What impressed me was that it really worked so i'm wondering... Even if i don't have gluten allergy (i eat gluten now with no problem) is there like some sort of component in it that can affect you if you have helicobacter? She really focused on it and it seriously worked!
Everybody has it, just some of us have enough of it in the wrong place to cause problems. My infection was so bad that it would have killed me if not for antibiotics. The usual reason why bacteria cause problems is that they're either overrepresented in the area or are where they aren't supposed to be. Most of the time when people do have infections, it's bacteria being where they arent' supposed to be, but sometimes it's because the conditions and other strains are leading to one bacteria taking over and upsetting the balance.
It's also worth noting that there's a range of reactions to gluten from an actual allergy or celiac disease to just an insensitivity and sometimes it's not the gluten, it's something that's also in glutenous foods. It can even just be unrelated..
So when are you all going to come up with a cure for IBS? Millions of us are suffering and waiting. 😢
The pain is excruciating. I'm sorry that you're going through it too.
Unfortunately, not much is understood about IBS. Soluble fiber - acacia fiber - helps lessen the symptoms. Also, check if you’re reacting to any foods. You need a food diary to uncover. It’s not easy. But no worse than the symptoms.
@@wokeymcwokeface1974 Thanks, but been there, done that. The list of things I no longer eat is long.
When I was diagnosed with IBS I looked it up and it’s just like fibromyalgia, basically a catch all term for you don’t have crohns or ulcers so we don’t know what the hell you have. What sucks is the comes and goes part. I lost 60lbs and rarely eat trigger foods and I was great for two years now it’s back with a passion. I am at the healthiest of my life yet I visit a toilet more in a day then most people in a week. Just to hear try this, try that it’s all BS they don’t have a clue what’s wrong with us. It’s 2021 and these people still have no clue. I can do everything right and my stomach still gets pissed off. Such an eye roll. IBS medication is also garbage.
@@patrickfitzgerald2861 I’m sorry!
Dr. Chiang!!!!! Know you from TikTok :). Love your informative and professional, yet fun TikToks :)
Very informative thanks.
6:12 now I'm wondering about the physiology behind fasting though. Particularly, during Ramadan, especially later in the month, I cannot eat a lot of food after breaking fast. Last 10 days I eat for 5 min and I'm full. Even after the month of fasting, for a while, I get full quicker, I need to "retrain my body" into accepting larger servings, normal portions..I'd always joke that my stomach shrunk as I fasted. I wonder what the real reason is
it did, they're wrong, too many people have experiences just as you describe (for various reasons & situations), for them to be correct
Adaptation time. When you exercise everyday, you can climb stairs easy peasy, right? But if you go without exercise for even just a month, suddenly those stairs make you run out of breath and get tired.
If you get your body and stomach used to eating a small portion of food at every meal for an extended period of time, it will take you the exact amount of time to get your stomach used to eating bigger portions, because your stomach simply adapted to the smaller quantities. It's not that it changed size or shrunk. Same thing when you're sick and can't eat for three days, suddenly even when you get healthy you can't eat as much as before your cold.
Hope this made sense ;)
@@eduardaarrais oooh, okay.. is this happening at the nervous level? Hormonal?
@@cmoneman3025 I saw someone else who had an education on the medical field explain it much better, so sorry if my explanation is lacking 😅 from what I understood from their explanation, it happens on the stomach itself "level", your enzymes and other digestive processes. Your body/brain just gets used to a certain amount of food, but the size of your stomach doesn't change.
Why is it if you don't eat much for a few weeks you get full with less? And on flip side if you eat more and more it takes more to feel full? Since the stomach doesn't stretch out as you said.
Maybe it has something to do more with a person's insulin
I’m no expert, but I’ve had quite a bit of education in anatomy/biology. Think of your stomach as a balloon - it can enlarge and shrink depending on how much air (or food in this case) that you put in it because your stomach has expandable ridges called rugae. Rugae allow the stomach to shrink/expand depending on how much food you eat. The physicians in the video mentioned that your stomach doesn’t change size, and this is true surface area wise (the stomach won’t expand or shrink past its normal limits in typical situations), but it can more consistently stay shrunken or expanded depending on how consistently those rugae are stretched (when you eat a lot) or folded (when you don’t eat a lot), so it can change sizes in that way. If you don’t eat much and watch your portions, your stomach becomes used to being “shrunken” cause your rugae isn’t consistently stretched out, and thus feels like you fill up faster. I hope all that makes sense :)
@@Amber-zg6ir makes sense. Thank you
Don’t confuse the feeling of satiation with stomach size. What makes you feel “full” has nothing to do with the size of your stomach.
It also has nothing to do with “amount of food you need to survive” that they mention in their version of the myth.
Careful with perception. Our perception isn't reliable. It could be that when you eat less for a while, you 'forget' the feeling of fullness and your perception changes. Stretching your muscles has a similar quirk. You don't develop longer muscles. Your body starts telling you 'too far!' later.
Great show!
Really like these two. Well done.
6:36 it's nice that his plushy has an appendix there, but it also has something else at its other end...
It’s the rectum I think
Huge respect for pointing out that "stress ulcers" aren't psychological stress but actually physiological stress. I was taught that psychological stress causes ulcers at my medical and I argued but was told to basically stfu lol.
I agree that psychological stress can have profound impacts on the body, but this isn't one those impacts.
Really lovee their energy!
I remember in the 80s in Britain there was an advert actually a public address where a gentleman had a meal and decided to have a swim in a pool he progressively started to disappear until only his hat could be seen floating. I believed it 🤣 thanks both for both information your teaching approach is appealing.