Gas pains anyone?
I have been given some information that you may interested in.
We get gas pretty bad, right? That's a given. Her'es why a lot of gas remedies have little or no effect on us.
As food travels down our intestines it moves in clumps. Those clumps act like little corks trapping air between them. This air then gets added to by the gas that is given off through our digestive process. The space stays the same but the volume grows because food is breaking down on either side of the gas pocket. As it move slowly through the volume grows and grows till we get cramps. Gas remedies can't help because they are on the wrong side of the cork. Through all the twists and curves and kinks in our intestine the gas grows until,,,,, You guessed it. You become unpopular!
Now, how to fix it. Chew the bejesus out of the food. It must turn to mush before you let it go down the gizzard. Eat slow and take small bites. A small, mushy well placed set of plugs is better than close together, tight hard plugs - the GasEx may help in this case.
When you get those screaming meany type of pains it could be from some big chunk of food that is not moving at the same rate as the stuff behind it and the space gets smaller and the gas gets bigger and then you get tears. Sort of an intestinal traffic jam.
To recap,,,, CHEW CHEW CHEW CHEW CHEW, SLOW SLOW SLOW SLOW,,, SMALL SMALL SMALL SMALL bites and move your bowels everyday. LOTS OF WATER.
There. I said it. From a man who knows his gas.
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