Why Bloating Triggers Heart Palpitations

Añadido: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Your cardiologist told you your heart is fine, and it is fine, but why does it feel so off? A normal EKG does not mean nothing is wrong. It just means nothing's wrong with your heart, and there's a very big difference between those two. Palpitations after meals, irregular rhythm, chest tightness, anxiety that comes out of nowhere. If this sounds familiar, keep watching because what's causing this isn't your heart. Once you understand what it is, it changes everything. Let's start with a little bit of anatomy. What's normal is that this is your diaphragm, so this is your breathing muscle. It's also an organ. And your stomach sits happily, happy face, below the diaphragm. Now, your heart is just right above your stomach, very close. And your heart, happy heart in this diagram, it has a sack around it protecting it. What's very important to know is that the sack around your heart is literally fused, there's a shared fused wall to your diaphragm. So, this means every time you're breathing in and out, your heart is going up and down. And that's normal.

[00:01:11]So, everybody's in their rightful place, everybody's happy. Okay.

[00:01:15]Moving on. Now, we have an overly full stomach. So, a lot of pressure, maybe you felt that. You you overeat, everything feels stuffed, you feel like you can't really get a breath, maybe um or you have a hiatal hernia, so the stomach has pushed up beyond the diaphragm. But, here's what I want to show you what happens is that there's a mechanical pressure. So, just literally like here's your diaphragm and my and the stomach is pushing up on it, so it's moving up. So, that's what I'm showing here. We have a full stomach, and there's a mechanical pressure pushing up. That diaphragm is now pushing up. So, of course, that heart, remember we've got a fused wall, a shared wall. So, now that mechanical pressure, this green dotted line, is showing the heart is feeling that.

[00:02:11]That's transmitting through up to the heart. So, that's the mechanical part of it, where things are literally being moved and shoved around in a way they should not be. Now, we're not talking about a lot of motion here, we're talking about less than an inch to an inch and a half. So, you know, it's not a lot of motion, but it's still abnormal and it's influencing your heart. So, there's a mechanical pressure. There's also a nervous system pressure, and we're particularly talking about the vagus nerve. So, your vagus nerve is your longest cranial nerve. Uh how does how does food get to your stomach? There's a tube called your esophagus. So, it starts in your mouth and goes all the way down, connects to your stomach. So, it passes through your diaphragm. I didn't put it on here, I didn't want to confuse things, but that esophagus passes through behind um the heart, and it connects to the stomach.

[00:03:07]So, the vagus nerve goes to your esophagus, it goes to your heart, it goes to your lungs, it goes to your entire digestive tract. So, it's going everywhere.

[00:03:19]So, when you have this overfull sensation, and this is pushing, it's it's distorting how the diaphragm is lying, it's tweaking the vagus nerve, it's putting pressure on it. It's not destroying it, it's not damaging it, but it's sort of pinching and stretching and irritating it. So, with that vagus nerve pressure, what they call it a gastro Gastro just means stomach, okay? So, gastrocardiac Cardiac's heart. So, there's a reflex, a nervous system reflex that occurs, and this has been very well known. If you've ever heard of Roemheld syndrome, this was a doctor back in the 1800s that put his name on this syndrome, but he also called it this gastrocardiac reflex because what he noted was that someone could have a perfectly healthy heart, like yourself. So, this video is all about you've been to the cardiologist, they tell you your heart's fine, you go, "I'm really happy to hear that. Why do I have heart palpitations and atrial fibrillation, and it's giving me anxiety?" This is the video for you.

[00:04:31]Okay. So, you've got this reflex, and what does it trigger? It triggers heart rhythm issues. That can be your heart racing, skipping beats, you get anxious because of this, and you can you can turn on what's called vagal, meaning vagus system, vagus nerve system, AFib, atrial fibrillation. So, when you have a atrial fibrillation, of course, you get checked out by the cardiologist, that's a given. I've said that a few times, so I'm not going to keep saying it. But, this vagal AFib, we're talking about a nerve. So, this is a nervous system event with a digestive trigger, and that's the key that's missed because we live in this siloed medical system, right? Digestive problems, gastroenterologist, heart symptoms, cardiologist. These these two specialists are not talking to one one another. And maybe you've been to both, and you're like, "I I don't know, I feel like it's related. I feel like my heart when it acts up is related to my gut."

[00:05:33]And they'll kind of shoot you down, which is unfortunate cuz you're right.

[00:05:36]You're absolutely right. So, let's continue. So, we have a mechanical pressure, and we have a nervous system pressure. Okay. Now, let's go into this bloat gas because you can have this, you know, feeling that things are just stuck, they're not moving, you have a lot of uh gas, you're burping, etc. So, you've got this bloat and gas, and the pressure of that, again, the stomach pushing on the diaphragm, now the diaphragm is restricted cuz that See here, the stomach is very comfortably below the diaphragm. The diaphragm can move up and down unencumbered. But, now we get this pressure, right? Because of bloat, gas, maybe it's a hiatal hernia, but it's this pressure pushing the diaphragm up.

[00:06:25]So, the diaphragm can't move as well as it should.

[00:06:30]From a pressure standpoint, you should have higher pressure in your chest, lungs in in inhaling, diaphragm moving, higher pressure here, lower pressure in the abdomen. So, it's higher pressure so that diaphragm can really move. When it flips and we're getting pressure below, now the diaphragm is it's trying to move, but it just can't move against the pressure.

[00:06:55]So, we have diaphragm restriction, so what happens? We start breathing shallowly. We're just breathing up here, we're not doing that nice deep belly breath because the diaphragm can't do it. So, now you get the shallow breathing. That influences your vagus nerve. So, it's very interesting how this is all tied together. So, the vagus nerve is responsible for what's called your parasympathetic nervous system. All you need to remember is it's rest, digest, and relax.

[00:07:27]Opposite of how you're feeling when you're having heart palpitations, certainly. And with the shallow breathing, you're not allowing that nervous system, that vagus nerve to have the right tone, in other words, the right activity. And so, you get shifted away from the rest, digest, relax into what's called fight or flight. We've all heard about that. That's your sympathetic nervous system. So, now what are you feeling?

[00:07:52]You're breathing shallowly, you're feeling anxious, your heart's palpitating, you've shifted into the wrong part of your nervous system, and it all started with the bloat and the gas. Very interesting. So, let's let's finish our cycle here. One more step. So, because your vagus nerve has gotten irritated, now we have worsened digestion, and everything slows down because the vagus nerve dictates motility or motion, not just in your stomach, but throughout your entire digestive tract. So, you can get the feeling of the bloat and the gas in the stomach, you can have constipation, you can just feel like you're overly stuffed all the time, things are not moving the way you want them to. So, that's the worsened slowed digestion, which when it sits there and it slows, leads to more bloat and gas. So, this whole thing just keeps cycling around and growing and amplifying and getting worse, and you feel miserable, and your heart is feeling the effects of it.

[00:08:59]So, solutions. How do we solve this?

[00:09:03]We have to solve the pressure. Okay, we talked about the pressure and the inflammation that occurs because of that. Now, I'm going to go through the list, and then I'm going to talk about all the facets because they very much interrelate with one another. So, we're going to solve the pressure and the inflammation. We're going to strengthen the diaphragm because the poor diaphragm's gotten pushed up for so long, and we've gotten that shallow breathing, and it's not working the way it's lost its tone, okay? Just like a muscle you don't use, it is a muscle, it's an organ and a muscle. You don't use a muscle for a while, it loses its tone, right? It loses its strength. Same thing with the diaphragm. So, we have to strengthen the diaphragm back up again.

[00:09:45]We have to normalize the vagus nerve, right? Because it's gotten it's gotten reduced in tone. And there's this gut-vagus nerve relationship. So, sometimes people hear about what the vagus nerve does and they say, "Oh my gosh, that's me. I have, you know, slow digestion and I have the anxiety and I'm I'm into this fighter flight and I've got the shallow breathing. That's me."

[00:10:08]And they hear about some vagus nerve exercises, breathing exercises and they're like, "That's what I'm going to do." And there's nothing wrong with that. But, what I want to explain is that the vagus nerve influences the gut and then the gut influences the vagus nerve. They're constantly playing off one another, intercommunicating to one another. So, if we're not at its root cause handling the gut, then the vagus nerve will still be irritated and if we're not handling the vagus nerve, the gut will still be irritated. That's why here my team, we're always working both ends against the middle and explaining to patients why one has to do that to really resolve it. Okay. And then, balancing the hormones and retraining the nervous system. So, sometimes you can have this for so long.

[00:10:57]You can have so much gut inflammation that the hormones have gotten askew and as I mentioned, the vagus nerve and now you're stuck more in fighter flight and so not only is the nervous system in fighter flight, but the sex hormones can get imbalanced as well. So, you're having uh anxiety and sleep issues and mood issues secondary to this chronic imbalance. So, we work with that and then nervous system being retrained, that's the you know, vagus nerve getting us out of the fighter flight into the parasympathetic and we want balance. I mean, right now I'm in fighter flight.

[00:11:32]I'm having fun. I'm talking to you. I'm excited. You know, you you like fighter flight when it's appropriate. What you don't like is it's just this anxiety coming upon you and your heart start beating out of your chest when you're just trying to relax. That's an inappropriate nervous system response, right? So, all of this has to be done. Now, when we're solving the pressure issue, what are we looking at? We're looking at diet. We're looking at um infections.

[00:12:01]We're looking at not having enough uh hydrochloric acid, not enough acid and enzymes in the stomach and the small intestine. We're looking at what's called dysbiosis, which is an overgrowth of bad organisms. We're We are looking at toxins, things like um mold and heavy metals and environmental toxins. We're looking at the hormonal imbalance as I mentioned. So, we're we're addressing everything that's pertinent to you and there can be a little bit of a list. So, we do laboratory tests and get to the root cause. Uh so, it's not a one-size-fits-all because as you can see, there's a lot of influences that are coming together here. The nice thing, the exciting thing is it's not drugs and it's not surgery. So, it's a natural approach that gets the job done.

[00:12:46]That's what my team and I have been doing for 40 years, specializing in this. So, um so, that's the good news.

[00:12:51]So, if you've been struggling with this for a while and going to various con- ventional medicine doctors and specialists, the whole thing wasn't missed because you're complicated. It was missed because these various specialties are not speaking to one another. The great news is is that it's fixable. If this gave you some information that your doctors haven't, please share it with somebody who needs it. Subscribe if you want to keep going deeper. There's a lot more where this came from. If you're ready to stop managing it and start resolving it, the link to connect to my team is below. Your heart is fine. Now, let's get the rest of you there as well.