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My 21 year old son is currently on 30 gms net carb per day diet to reduce fat. After about 10 days on this he has a lot of flatulence and very scanty bowel movement. He also trains four days a week. The flatulence has lead to a frustrating big gut and the scanty bowel movemet keeps him on edge and anxious.
The same thing happened to him last year on V-diet.
Any help for him will be most appreciated.
My 21 year old son is currently on 30 gms net carb per day diet to reduce fat. After about 10 days on this he has a lot of flatulence and very scanty bowel movement. He also trains four days a week. The flatulence has lead to a frustrating big gut and the scanty bowel movemet keeps him on edge and anxious.
The same thing happened to him last year on V-diet.
Any help for him will be most appreciated. Bala \
I have put Miralax in my protein shakes and it helps. I also take Colace daily 100mg. Both these are non-prescription. I also take 12g psyllium husks in water daily, drink it real fast. I get the unflavored, but you could get the orange-flavored. However, the first 2 weeks I took the psyllium it caused flatulence; the company (Yerba Prima ) said it was restoring bacteria in my gut.
The combo of the 3 has really helped my chronic constipation.
I suggest you start with the miralax.
Well, he's 21, so he's probably winning all his farting contests with his buddies.
I had the same thing happen when I dropped to lower cals and lower carbs (or higher protein). I'll add some metamucil (psyllium husks) to gatorade or a protein shake.
The problem's not as bad as when I first started. So either the psyllium's helping, my body's adapting, or I'm cheating on my diet more. Probably all three.
I talked a lot about this on the last episode of the Fit Cast. Your son my like the show in general. You can check it out here. I believe it is about halfway in.
Changing your diet does this.. we have a ton of enzymes that help digest food. If you start eating much more of one type of food, the body needs time to catch up.
Can happen for protein (eggs or protein powder are notorious) but also for starches, especially for legumes..
I'm avoiding legumes due to slight intolerances (same for gluten) and yet, ate peas last night.. been farting all day long as I didn't take digestive enzymes containing the enzyme for it: alpha galactosidase it is..that's the secret behind 'Beano' .
After a very long time of very low carb diet the same happened for just any starch I ate, especially fibrous starches are causing MAJOR trouble.. reduce the fiber by all means if you are doing refeeds unless you love the farts. . But like I said, this now only happens when eating legumes. Sometimes dairy too where you need yet another enzyme: lactase. Good protein powders won't have lactase in them.. Most fermented dairy neither.
Plain and simple lack of enzymes for proper digestion .. had peas last night which are an unusal food for me (legumes being something I'm avoiding mostly) and didn't open a digestive enzyme bottle . Today I'm farting all around.
Too long low-carbing made me fart already after just plain starches.. legumes are harder since they have specific difficult starch needing alpha-galactosidase to break them down. Normal starches just need amylase that is easy to 'start up your enzyme factory on'.
Upping protein is another famous reason for farts and this is what may happen here.. another one could be lack of lactase but good protein powders don't contain lactose.
My 21 year old son is currently on 30 gms net carb per day diet to reduce fat. After about 10 days on this he has a lot of flatulence and very scanty bowel movement. He also trains four days a week. The flatulence has lead to a frustrating big gut and the scanty bowel movemet keeps him on edge and anxious.
The same thing happened to him last year on V-diet.
Any help for him will be most appreciated.
Bala
I see this was your first post.
Assuming you are still around, make sure he's getting enough fat in his diet. That will lubricate things and get things moving.
Please Help: Flatulence and constipation
. But like I said, this now only happens when eating legumes. Sometimes dairy too where you need yet another enzyme: lactase. Good protein powders won't have lactase in them.. Most fermented dairy neither.
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