 Happy Thanksgiving! I have five tricks for you guys to aid with digestion and each of these things is assumingly something you would have around the house. So maybe you actually have something better than what I'm showing you. Maybe you might not have it but let's get started. These five are actually in the order that you would take them throughout the day. So we'll start with yogurt and the reason you would want to consume yogurt maybe a couple hours for breakfast, lunch, a snack prior to your Thanksgiving meal is due to the probiotics, the different cultures mostly lactobacillus based that will help you digest the foods you're eating later in the day. The bacteria in yogurt will digest carbohydrates so mainly starches and sugars that are consumed with the meal in the form of mashed potatoes, stuffing maybe dessert later on. This will help keep your gut bacteria in check, help prevent overgrowth of candida, stuff you don't want and in regards to the actual yogurt you want to make sure there is some type of lactobacillus culture and for the most part any whole milk yogurt is pretty safe. This is Stonyfield organic probiotic with vanilla whole milk. The milk quality here is definitely not great. Your best option is something you know raw, grass-fed from a farm which might cost you a little bit more. There was actually a Stonyfield yogurt that was 100% grass-fed that was like twice the price for half as much but the ingredient list was much better. The only thing in it was you know organic whole milk. This one has sugar, vanilla, pectin, lactase as well as vitamin D added so it's definitely not terrible. It's probably better than the yogurt that most people have in their refrigerator but you know if you do have something in your fridge that is a dairy culture it could be kefir, it could be buttermilk, it could be even some types of cheese. We'll have bacteria that is conducive to digestion later on and this could even be like water kefir or some type of fermented product that keeps your gut bacteria in check. Sour crowd is another one that's something I'm glad I remember. So if you have sour crowd that's something else you can consume prior to the meal to aid with digestion. So probiotics very helpful for keeping gut bacteria in check, aiding with food digestion. Something else that aids with food digestion is lemons. Here I have a bag of organic lemons and you know just like we're assuming most people are going to have some type of yogurt or probiotic dairy product on hand. A lot of recipes call for lemons. If you don't have lemons what we're looking at here is enzymes and digestive enzymes help break down the food. Lemons also have the bonus of added acidity which will also help break down the food and what enzymes do is basically break down larger components like starches, proteins, fats into sugars, amino acids, as well as triglycerides. We have some pineapples in the background here. Pineapple has bromelain which is another type of enzyme. You can have some broad spectrum digestive enzyme supplements. That would be a much better more effective option here. But again we're assuming it's what you have on hand. You know just like really high quality sauerkraut or perhaps that raw kefir from a local farm is going to be your best option. The best option in regards to the enzymes would actually be a very strong digestive enzyme supplement. But lemons are decent. What you would do is have maybe a quarter cup to half a cup of lemon juice with the meal right before the meal to help break down the food. The one thing to keep in mind though is that lemon juice is very corrosive so you definitely want to use a straw or try to swallow it down without it getting too much on your teeth. Now our third thing is actually what we're not doing. This is an empty glass and if you drink a lot of liquid, if you drink too much water with your meal when you're digesting, if the water content is very high that can dilute stomach acid which will in turn prevent the enzymes from breaking down the food. So if you can avoid it, you know, drinking excessive amounts of liquid with your meal, try to keep it about an hour apart. And I mean overeating is probably more of a concern than avoiding water. You know you're better off drinking some water and having a small to moderate size meal than just completely stuffing your face because what's going to happen is if you eat very large amounts of cooked, processed, heavily heated food you're going to get very thirsty and probably in turn drink more water than you should. You know the probiotics, the enzymes are also kind of alleviating that possible issue. Now after the fact there's a couple of things you can do to help you out depending on what's going on. So one thing we have is magnesium and magnesium is commonly sold as a laxative and no with large amounts of dairy consumption with the calcium. Magnesium is antagonistic and most people are very deficient in magnesium and I figured a lot of people do have a magnesium supplement on hand. So you know with your meals, after your meals, you probably want to pop maybe you know 500 to a thousand milligrams of magnesium throughout the day throughout your Thanksgiving meals. That would definitely help keep gut motility high as calcium can kind of constipate you and you know in a really bad case scenario you can just take a lot of magnesium and that might even induce some diarrhea to help kind of clean you out. Moving on to our fifth option, Pepto-Bismol and this is something that most people are going to have in their house. The better alternative would be something I'm sure a lot of people have something like charcoal powder as well as clay you know the white-calin clay we sell on Frankie's Naturals as shampoo or even diatomaceous earth, even dirt or clean clay from your backyard is something you can use to drink and that will help bind to toxins or any negative things in your digestive system. The unique thing about Pepto-Bismol is bismuth subsolicilate which actually can kind of go into the gut, break down the mucous, break up the bacteria and it's more effective. So if you were to take something like Pepto-Bismol with heavy antimicrobials like combining with lemon juice, magnesium probiotics, it magnifies the effect basically. The ingredient list on this is basically just the bismuth subsolicilate. So it's not an all-in-one thing you know this would be a component of some type of antimicrobial protocol and you would definitely want to take a bunch of stuff with it but it can be helpful if it's all you have access to if you need something in a pinch. It's definitely more effective if you take it like towards the end of the meal or right after the meal. If you have to kind of wait for this stuff to go through it might take a little while and above everything guys just make sure you avoid foods that you know give you issues and you know if everything is not being made with like high quality organic natural ingredients you know be prepared to either you know feel like crap or have to kind of do something to alleviate the issues. If I could choose one thing here that would be the most helpful it's probably charcoal but again that's something that people might not have. If you you know put a couple tablespoons of charcoal in water and you had that throughout the meals that would definitely help clean things out of it. So hopefully this helps some of you guys out I would imagine most of you are going to be able to you know have some probiotics earlier in the day then maybe incorporate some type of enzyme or something to help digest and break down your meals. You'll be mindful of you know avoiding too much liquids around the meals, magnesium, Pepto-Bismol, organic charcoal powder and then there's probably a laundry list of supplements that you could use depending on what you have access to. You know most people do have one or two alternatives for each of these things on hand most of the time so definitely try to parallel what I'm explaining here be creative and try to stay healthy guys so I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving. Let me know how you like this video if this helps any of you guys out but if you do want to support me please just you know share the video on social media drop me a comment down below like the video and if you do want to support me further than that you can go to frank-shafao.com we have a bunch of things ranging from Frankie to your range foods my other businesses consultations and you can also get my book thanks again guys I'll see you for tomorrow's video