Jodie Sweetin Struggled With 'Daily Bloating' Before Finding This Supplement
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Jodie Sweetin will be the first to tell you that even a “lovely” Thanksgiving can have its downsides. Namely: the digestive issues that come afterward. “I definitely ate in a way that I don’t normally eat,” the Fuller House star tells SheKnows after celebrating the holiday last month. It wasn’t so much the quantity of food — “I didn’t even eat that much, like little dollops of each thing” — but the richness of it, she says. “The butter and the cream and the sugar. It was delicious but… there are only so many buttons you can undo before it just gets weird.”
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At 41, Sweetin says, “my body just does not work like it used to,” especially when it comes to digestion. (“Dairy and me,” she says sadly, “we’re just not as good of friends as we used to be.”) She started experiencing “daily bloating,” a symptom she says is worse when she’s working on set. “You’re kinda just trying to grab food wherever you can,” she explains. “The snacks are delicious but not exactly, like, veggie sticks. It’ll be something that’s a little more heavy comfort food.”
Looking for a solution, Sweetin found Align Probiotic for digestion and bloating relief, a product she’s now partnering with because, as she says, “this stuff actually works.”
After starting to use the supplement a month ago, Sweetin quickly noticed “such a big difference.” She explains, “I just didn’t feel as bloated. My stomach didn’t hurt.” Even on Thanksgiving, “it was nothing like that normal uncomfortable feeling that you usually get when you eat really rich foods.”
It’s a common issue, as Sweetin found when she started talking to friends. “It’s like the bloating bandwagon,” she says. It’s something she and fellow Fuller House star Andrea Barber have bonded over as well. “When you’ve grown up with somebody since, I was 5 and she was 10, there’s kind of nothing that’s off limits at this point,” Sweetin says. “She’s like my sister. We have very honest conversations.” Barber loves to cook and, Sweetin says, “I love to eat,” so their conversations naturally trended towards the less pleasant physical effects of those things. “It really came up in conversation and I was like, ‘are we like… bloat buddies? Is this what we are now?’”
Sweetin says she’s grateful to have tricks like Align up her sleeve so she can eat these delicious meals and not feel like “a Thanksgiving day balloon going down the street,” but she’s also passionate about fully indulging in and enjoying the holidays, from food to the social experience. “I get rid of the guilt,” she says. “Guilt that you didn’t do enough, buy enough, eat too much, whatever it is — let that go.”
“It’s the holidays,” she explains. “There are things that come around once a year that we love. We can enjoy those things and put the guilt to the side and allow yourself the ability to enjoy those foods and treat yourself.”
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