7 Myths That Stop Your Stomach (And You) From Settling
By Dr Alfred Novakola
Nutrition and Botanical Sciences Department
You've been told to cut out dairy, try a probiotic, relax more and stop worrying. Most of it you've already tried. Your stomach still won't settle, and after a while, neither do you.
A lot of that advice rests on beliefs that sound sensible and keep people stuck for years.
Here are seven of them, and what's true instead:
Myth #1: "Bloating every day is just normal."
Myth #1: "Bloating every day is just normal."
The truth: common and normal are two different things.
Plenty of people bloat every day, so it gets brushed off as something everyone puts up with. That doesn't make it fine to feel six months pregnant by lunch. A stomach that settles after meals is a reasonable thing to want, and it's possible.
Myth #2: "Cut out enough foods and it'll settle down."
Myth #2: "Cut out enough foods and it'll settle down."
The truth: cutting foods shrinks your life faster than it settles your stomach.
Dinner invitations get turned down, birthday cake becomes a negotiation, and the shopping list gets shorter every month. After all that, the cramps, the bloating and the rush to the toilet still turn up. What you eat is only part of the story.
Myth #3: "Fix your gut bacteria and your stomach will settle."
Myth #3: "Fix your gut bacteria and your stomach will settle."
The truth: good bacteria help, and they're only half of the job.
A probiotic changes what lives in your gut. It can't change the state your body is in while it digests. Three brands and two months later, plenty of people still feel unsettled. The next myth is about what's missing.
Myth #4: "It's all in your head."
Myth #4: "It's all in your head."
The truth: it's physical, and it has a name.
Checking for toilets, bracing before meals, never fully switching off. That's survival mode, and it started when your stomach began letting you down. Digestion works best in rest-and-digest, the missing half, and a body on alert rarely gets there.
Myth #5: "If it's not prescribed, it won't work."
Myth #5: "If it's not prescribed, it won't work."
The truth: plenty of people follow every prescription and still feel unsettled.
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Myth #6: "You'll relax once everything else is sorted."
Myth #6: "You'll relax once everything else is sorted."
The truth: the pause can come first.
"After this week." "Once my stomach calms down."
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Myth #7: "If it doesn't work in a week, it never will."
Myth #7: "If it doesn't work in a week, it never will."
The truth: reviewers describe the first changes around two weeks in.
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