{"product_id":"bloating-and-gut-health","title":"Bloating and Gut Health","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n  .fsl-pd{--blue:#5B6CFF;--blue-deep:#3B43E0;--check:#2F8C6A;--ink:#232026;--slate:#6B6770;--line:#E6EBF0;--blue-tint:#F4F6FF;\n    font-family:'Poppins',sans-serif;color:var(--ink);max-width:760px;margin:0 auto;padding:8px 0;line-height:1.7}\n  .fsl-pd *{box-sizing:border-box}\n  .fsl-pd p{font-size:16px;color:#3f4855;margin:0 0 18px}\n  .fsl-pd p:last-child{margin-bottom:0}\n  .fsl-pd .lead{font-size:17px;color:var(--ink);font-weight:500}\n  .fsl-pd h3{font-family:'Red Hat Display',sans-serif;font-size:19px;font-weight:700;color:var(--ink);margin:30px 0 14px;letter-spacing:-0.01em}\n  .fsl-pd ul{list-style:none;margin:0 0 22px;padding:0;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:14px}\n  .fsl-pd li{display:flex;gap:12px;align-items:flex-start;font-size:16px;color:#3f4855;line-height:1.6}\n  .fsl-pd li svg{flex:none;margin-top:4px}\n  .fsl-pd li b{color:var(--ink);font-weight:600}\n  .fsl-pd .bill{font-size:14px;color:var(--slate);background:var(--blue-tint);border:1px solid var(--line);border-radius:12px;padding:16px 18px;margin-top:4px}\n  .fsl-pd .closer{font-family:'Red Hat Display',sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:600;color:var(--ink);margin-top:26px}\n  @media (max-width:560px){\n    .fsl-pd p{font-size:15px}\n    .fsl-pd .lead{font-size:16px}\n    .fsl-pd h3{font-size:18px;margin:26px 0 12px}\n    .fsl-pd li{font-size:15px}\n  }\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003clink href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Poppins:wght@400;500;600;700\u0026amp;family=Red+Hat+Display:wght@600;700\u0026amp;display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fsl-pd\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eCutting food out is a test, not a treatment. Almost everyone does the first half of the protocol and stops, which is why they end up eating thirty foods and still guessing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe pattern is always the same. You are bloated, you read about FODMAPs or gluten or dairy, you cut things out, and you feel better. Relieved, you stay there - eating a narrowing list of foods, permanently, without ever finding out which of the dozens of things you removed was actually the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThat is not a treatment. It is an unfinished experiment. \u003cb\u003eThe low FODMAP protocol has three phases, and the one that gives you your life back is the second\u003c\/b\u003e - reintroduction - where you challenge each group systematically and find your actual thresholds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis is a digital guide, an instant PDF download, with three printable pages you fill in. Every figure is sourced to Monash, the ACG, the European and American neurogastroenterology societies and published meta-analyses, listed at the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhat this guide gives you\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eA two-week baseline log,\u003c\/b\u003e printable, so you find out what your symptoms actually correlate with before you change anything. Most people skip this and then cannot tell whether they improved.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhase one with a hard stop date,\u003c\/b\u003e real food lists, and the honest expectation that about one in four people do not respond - which is a useful result, not a failure.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe full reintroduction schedule,\u003c\/b\u003e printable - all eight FODMAP groups, the exact test foods, the three-day dose ladders, and a verdict column. This is the part nobody else gives you.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe mechanism behind visible distension\u003c\/b\u003e that almost nobody is told about - and the five-minute daily breathing protocol that addresses it.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn honest account of SIBO,\u003c\/b\u003e including why two specialist societies cannot agree on how to test for it and why a mail-order breath test is not a diagnosis.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat actually has evidence\u003c\/b\u003e - and the list of things being sold to you that does not.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eThe thing most people get wrong first\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGet tested for coeliac disease before you go gluten-free.\u003c\/b\u003e The blood test only works while you are still eating gluten. Go gluten-free first and you need a six-week gluten challenge - deliberately eating the thing that makes you ill - before anyone can give you a real answer. That one paragraph saves people months, and it is in chapter two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Bloating Card.\u003c\/b\u003e One printable page: what needs a doctor rather than a diet, the five things to rule out first, the three phases with date boxes, and what has evidence versus what does not.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe quick wins chapter\u003c\/b\u003e that involves no food groups at all - and which for a fair number of people is the whole answer.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhase three,\u003c\/b\u003e how to build the widest diet you can tolerate, plus what to do in a flare without dismantling everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eA chapter on when restriction has become the problem,\u003c\/b\u003e because a bloating guide written carelessly can push someone somewhere harmful.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eEight scripts\u003c\/b\u003e for the appointment, and fourteen things people get wrong.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eWho this is for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003eAnyone bloated who is tired of guessing which food did it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003eAnyone who did an elimination diet, felt better, and never reintroduced anything.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003eAnyone whose belly visibly changes size through the day regardless of what they eat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003eAnyone who has been handed a SIBO diagnosis and a long supplement protocol by the same person.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eWho this is not for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eAnyone with unintentional weight loss, blood in their stool, anemia, symptoms that wake them at night, or a new change in bowel habit over 45. Those need a doctor, not a diet, and the guide says so on the first page. It is also not appropriate for children, during pregnancy, or for anyone with a current or previous eating disorder without specialist supervision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eAn honest note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis guide is educational information, not medical advice, and it does not diagnose anything. Elimination diets carry real nutritional risk and are best run with a registered dietitian. FODMAP values for specific foods get revised as new testing is published, so use a current reference alongside this guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003eInstant digital download, delivered the moment you purchase.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003ePrint-ready US Letter, including three fill-in pages: the Bloating Card, the baseline log and the reintroduction challenge sheet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003csvg width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#5B6CFF\" stroke-width=\"2.6\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\u003e\u003cpath d=\"M4 10l4 4 8-9\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003eReads on your phone. No app, no subscription, nothing to buy afterwards.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eFormat: PDF (digital download). Scope: United States, current to September 2026. Delivery: instant download after purchase. License: single-user, for your personal use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"bill\"\u003eThis is a digital product. Because of the instant-download nature, all sales are final and no refunds are offered. If you have any questions before purchasing, reach out anytime at \u003ca href=\"mailto:info@freshstartlibrary.com\"\u003einfo@freshstartlibrary.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"closer\"\u003eCutting food out is a test, not a treatment. 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