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The 3 Simplest Changes that Radically Improved my Bloating · Blush

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  OK, for this episode, I do need you to do me a really big favor,
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  and that is to pretend I don't look the way that I look right
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  now. We are working on three days of
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  no sleep in this household. My poor sweet Sam who was at my
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  feet, You can't see her. She's below frame, has the most
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  aggressively moving infection I've ever seen in my life.
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  Now you guys know how we are basically UTI connoisseurs in
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  this household. Like no one knows UTI's like we
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  do. Like no, no household in America
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  or the world has had more Utis than we have had collectively.
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  Mainly her. But you know, I like, I like to
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  contribute to the 'cause once in a while.
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  This is something else. This is truly like nothing I've
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  ever seen before. My heart aches for her in a way
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  that I I truly cannot put into words.
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  And then that's weird. I'm going to try to keep this up
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  so quite concise. And honestly, there isn't even
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  that much to say. It's good.
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  It's by nature a concise episode, so let's just fucking
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  get into it. But I just want to acknowledge
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  that I I see the irony of me talking about things that have
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  made me less bloated when I'm out here looking like a puffer
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  fish. I'm also supposed to get my
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  period, hopefully. I mean, the sooner the better
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  for, you know, the safety of everyone involved.
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  Anyway, the past month or so is by far the best my gut health
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  has ever been. Maybe like 85 to 90% of the time
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  I go to bed with my stomach equally as flat as when I wake
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  up, sometimes even more so. It's very very rare that I go to
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  bed with a rounded belly, and that truly only happens if I go
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  on like a full emotional stress binge.
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  The rest of the time, my bloating is it's never been
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  better. And I attribute it to these
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  three things. The first one is the most
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  notable one. I started eating breakfast.
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  Now I know this isn't revolutionary.
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  I know that most people eat breakfast.
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  But for me, it is revolutionary. It is new and it is very new to
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  me. And what I didn't see coming
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  from eating breakfast, and more specifically, just like eating
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  three meals a day, is what an intense difference it would make
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  in my bloating, digestive, and my gut health.
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  So I think that there are two reasons for this.
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  I mean, I think that based on research I've done, there are
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  other reasons why help eating breakfast or eating three meals
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  a day can help with bloating. But for me specifically, I think
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  that there are two big reasons #1 now that I eat 3 meals a day,
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  each meal is significantly smaller and it just allows my
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  body to digest more efficiently and just like move through it.
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  So that's the number one reason. I'm just overeating less, which,
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  you know, going back to what episode was that?
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  I think I called it am IA fraud. I talked about the bloating and
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  the overeating and stuff, but the other reason is something
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  called it's like, hold on, it's like the gastrocolic reflex,
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  something like that. Let's see, I have it written
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  down here. I feel like I'm probably
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  pronouncing it incorrectly too. Yes, gastrocolic reflex.
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  So that's basically what happens when you eat and then have you
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  ever eaten and then after a meal gone and pooed?
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  So it's not like the food you just ate that you pooed, right?
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  It's the gastrocolic reflex. So it's when you eat and your
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  brain sends a signal like, oh, OK, there's new food coming in,
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  let's go ahead and process the last batch, right?
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  It's kind of like, have you ever had a dinner, a reservation and
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  then towards the end of the meal they're like, okay, like we, we
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  have another table coming in like you're booked out for this
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  one. Like you got to kind of wrap it
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  up guys, same situation here. Your body's like, all right, we
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  got like new stuff coming. You got to go.
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  So when you're eating consistently, like when you eat
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  meals consistently, you just eliminate a lot more
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  consistently than if you're eating less frequently.
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  And this throws a wrench into everything I ever thought.
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  Like I thought I had to intermittent fast in order to be
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  able to eliminate. And there's so many people out
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  there on the Internet being like, you shouldn't have your
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  first meal of the day until after you poo.
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  And I totally thought that was true.
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  But now doing this, I mean I do usually still poo before I eat
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  breakfast, but if I don't, eating breakfast will make me
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  poo 100% of the time. And then I find that eating
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  other meals I often, not always but often will poo after those
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  meals too. So that has been the single
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  biggest game changer for my gut health and my bloating out of
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  anything I've ever done in my entire life.
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  Like I can't put into words how good it feels to go to bed not
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  feeling and looking pregnant. Like I truly cannot put it into
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  words. And honestly, I personally think
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  that there's something more to it than just these two reasons.
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  Because when I fasted on my flight back from Australia, the
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  next thing I ate, I didn't overeat.
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  I was, it was like a pretty small meal.
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  I immediately ballooned up. It's like my body was like,
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  wait, I don't know how to do this anymore.
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  It like I, I, I don't know, I don't know what it is.
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  I don't know the science of it. But I'm telling you, I think
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  there's some there there like if you're someone who is not eating
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  consistently throughout the day and you're getting super, super
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  bloated each time you eat, try increasing your meal frequency.
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  Watch what happens the next 1 is warm beverages.
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  So I don't know if you're on TikTok and I don't know if you
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  are if you're on the Chinese body TikTok.
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  If not, I highly recommend it. It's so entertaining.
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  So it's this TikTok trend where people are talking basically
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  about TCM, but it's Chinese mainly girls talking about just
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  like things that their moms made them do growing up that are all
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  TCM based and they're sharing it.
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  And then all these people are being like, wow, this is
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  actually life changing. So one of the big things is to
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  never drink anything cold. Now, this is really big in
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  Persian culture and in Persian medicine, too.
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  And it's something my parents have been saying to me for years
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  and years and years and years. Because my parents have also
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  like, not only is it in our culture, but my parents also
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  started going to acupuncture, like, way before it ever became
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  cool. So they've been hearing it from
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  their practitioners, too. And I remember in college, I was
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  always like, no, but I have to have, like, iced beverages
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  because it raises your metabolism.
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  Like yeah, but but by such a minuscule amount that it makes
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  quite literally no difference at all.
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  Contra drinking warm beverages seems to stimulate that same
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  that same glucacolic reflex. I just find that I poo so much
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  easier. Plus I, I have never been more
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  resilient to the winter in general.
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  Now, I think there are other reasons for this.
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  I think eating breakfast is a huge contributor.
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  I've gained some weight, so that's a huge, huge contributor.
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  And I've put on a lot of muscle, so that's another huge
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  contributor. By the way, I've not gained
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  weight from eating breakfast. If anything, I'm not.
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  If anything, I have been weighing myself.
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  I've been losing weight like almost rapidly ever since I
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  started incorporating breakfast. I just want to get this out
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  there for the person who's afraid to eat breakfast because
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  you're worried you're going to gain weight.
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  It's been the opposite for me anyway.
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  So the warm beverages like it's, I feel like I've been like I
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  because I'm warming up inside, I'm just able to deal.
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  Like New York has been so cold and everyone's complaining about
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  it and I'm just kind of like it's whatever.
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  I'm so much less affected by the cold and I am someone who's
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  usually so fucking affected by the cold.
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  So this is a huge game changer for me.
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  And then the last thing is almost like a combination of the
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  two things. Oh, by the way, going back.
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  So this is like a big thing in TCM to like never drink cold
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  beverages. I don't know if that's just the
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  winter, but like, I think in general they're really kind of
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  against cold beverages too. That brings me to my third
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  thing, and it's kind of just a combination of the two.
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  It's to have soup for breakfast. Well, OK, there's two parts to
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  this. So and what I have been doing
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  lately, like what I have been doing basically all winter is
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  I'll have a cup of room temperature water and take my
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  supplements first thing in the morning and then I have my teas
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  and my coffees, etcetera. But something I just started
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  doing is having the very first thing that touches my stomach in
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  the morning be hot water. And then I do room temperature
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  water to take my supplements and stuff.
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  And then I go and do the the teas and the coffee, etcetera.
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  And then for breakfast, I'm having a big bowl of soup.
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  And this has been all the biggest game changer for me.
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  Like I can't put into words even just that like having the very
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  first thing that goes down my gullet be hot, huge game
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  changer. And then on top of that, having
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  that soup for breakfast, another huge game changer.
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  Now I actually filmed my exact breakfast for you.
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  It's this week's Blush Kitchen, so you'll see the whole thing.
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  You'll see my breakfast soup, you'll see my breakfast drink,
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  you'll, you'll see everything. It's so good.
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  I'm so excited for you to watch. But yeah, that's basically it.
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  It's really just eating consistently and eating hot,
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  eating and drinking hot things. That is literally it.
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  It's no fancy supplement. It's no fancy probiotic.
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  It's no, you know it like there are all these other things that
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  helps. Like do I think you should be
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  eating like roughly 30 different fruits and veg throughout the
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  week to diversify your gut microbiome?
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  Yes, of course all these things are helpful.
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  I'm not saying any of them are not helpful.
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  I'm just saying like the simplest, the easiest thing has
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  been single handedly the biggest game changer in my life.
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  If you're prone to bloating, please try it.
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  Please let me know what you think.
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  This is what's worked for me. I'm just here to share.
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  OK, I'm going to go back to taking care of my girl because
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  it is. It's pure chaos in this
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  household right now. Love you.
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  We will chat. Well, I'll see you on Thursday.
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  Bye girl. You did an excellent job.