{"id":11026,"date":"2025-12-30T17:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nutritional-humility.me\/oxystaging\/?p=11026"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:33:33","slug":"a-word-about-gastroparesis-distension-and-bloating-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritional-humility.me\/oxystaging\/a-word-about-gastroparesis-distension-and-bloating-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A word about: Gastroparesis, Distension and Bloating (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

***UPDATE 7th February 2026 = GLP 1 agonist and gastroparesis (please read further in Other Food For Thoughts)***<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following from part 1 here continues my share of thoughts.<\/p>\n

***December 2025 delay apology Notice***
\n<\/strong>I solemnly apologise for this delay of writing this feature writeup. I have been inundated lately with the obligate ten years anniversary.\u00a0<\/strong>Nonetheless I aim to to finish and wrap up this write up as succinctly and deservedly as possible. ~ AW.\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n

Environment, Temperature and Season<\/h3>\n

Colder seasons tend to bring worse(r) outcomes, at least for my case. Intuitively this makes sense given the body's own effort to maintain thermal stasis. Generating heat after all tends to require more <\/strong>energy.\u00a0Cold - quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

Apart from mainstream media articles (here<\/a>), The literature examining seasonal variabilities on gut distress or levels \u00a0is sadly far and few from what I can gather.<\/p>\n

Bit off tangent, but in case anyone asks me whether or not cold exposures is \"good\" for fat loss - I don't quite subscribe to this. Because it'd be too stressful. \u00a0I do not however, for one second disagree with the mechanism (just for mechanism sake, not withstanding repercussions - psychometrics, stress over prolonged periods, for instance). This <\/a>research review<\/a> did not posit convincing enough of difference from metabolic standpoint even when<\/strong> combining both types stress response - that is - both cold exposure AND training energy expenditure.<\/strong>\u00a0 Likewise to this meta analysis<\/a> that looked at papers over nearing two decades<\/strong>\u00a0 between 1990-2021.*<\/p>\n

Indeed it all seems to point to \u00a0\"BAT\" \u00a0or browning of adipose upon cold exposure. But in terms of overall appetite and hunger? This study generally finds that people tends to inc\u00a0<\/a>rease calorie intakes during cold exposure.<\/h6>\n

\u201cCoke\/Diet Coke helps? For real?<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

This actually got a lot of scientific coverage as recently as of February this year<\/a>. There is a\u00a0 case study<\/a> here. Also, how often do you get see the word \u201cMagic\u201d <\/a>in a research paper?<\/p>\n

This case study found<\/a> that over FOUR (4) litres of Coke throughout 12 hours <\/b>was required to \u201ccompletely\u201d dissolve the plant based bezoars. That\u2019s a lot in my opinion. But if it is indeed proclaimed as \u201ccomplete\u201d removal, then it\u2019s certainly thought provoking.<\/p>\n

It appears that Phosphoric Acid<\/a> is responsible for the mechanism.<\/p>\n

For context, the pH \/ acidity in Colas has a narrow range between 2.6-2.7. \u00a0A range between 1.5-2.0 is required to activate pepsin ~ <\/strong>necessary for protein digestion.<\/a><\/p>\n

Putting myself to the test a couple of weeks close to a month and quarter as I'm typing this, having tried out bunch of different cola brands. Coles, Woolworths, \"Ice Cola\" <\/strong>(an alternative brand as seen in Woolies and Spushed), and including Coke and Pepsimax ~ all turned out<\/strong> rather<\/strong> ambivalent<\/strong>. AMbigiuos. Difficult to discern if any, differences. Keeping in mind that my overall net intake of fizzy drinks are very mild, to say the least (<500ML total).<\/p>\n

Apart of mild orogenic workout \/ training aid (from its small caffeine content, speculatively) - I am yet to find anything of a drastic\u00a0<\/strong> or significant improvement per se to the distension. However without it, certainly does make my gut slightly worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe most commonly reported substance used is dark soda (i.e. Coca-Cola, RC Cola, Pepsi), where the acidity from carbonic and phosphoric acid allows for fiber digestion, the sodium bicarbonate act as a mucolytic, and carbon dioxide bubbles penetrate between fibers to increase the surface area for interaction with acid.\u201d ~ Palchaudhuri S. 2021<\/a><\/h6>\n
\u201c\u00a0Given the promising outcomes of the Coca-Cola treatment observed in this study, which demonstrated a 100% success rate in dissolving phytobezoars and showed reduced costs and occurrence of gastric ulcers, it is recommended as a primary treatment option for phytobezoars.\u201c Galan DM & Rabago RL (2024)<\/a><\/h6>\n

(The known)<\/b> gut irritants so far. <\/b><\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

Both from food derived or industrial additives. \u00a0Here are my suspects so far both old (and new, as indicated) ~<\/p>\n