True or False - Excess bloating means you have more fermentation or gas being produced in the gut.

Answer: False.

This is often a case of a disrupted gut-brain interaction and not because of excess gas production. 

Over the last number of years there are a number of studies that are comparing people with more bloating/gas to people who eat similar foods with no bloating/gas. The studies show there isn’t more gas being produced, for the most part. What we do see is that the people with more bloating are hyper responding to the stimuli (aka the gas being produced), and they are feeling it inappropriately. 

Submitted by Dr. Karen Wallace, ND