When Bloating Isn't Gas: Retraining the Diaphragm

My Weird Prompts · Oct 3, 2026 · 21m

You eat a normal meal and thirty minutes later you look pregnant. For years the answer was "gas" — until CT volumetry showed patients with abdominophrenic dyssynergia (APD) have perfectly normal gaseous volumes. So what's actually happening? This episode digs into APD: how the diaphragm and abdominal wall fall out of sync, why post-surgical cases look more like a learned motor pattern than nerve damage, and what thoracoabdominal wall motion guided biofeedback actually involves. We look at the evidence behind it, the Barcelona research that anchors the field, and the honest limits — small…