Ten things You need to know about healthy digestion!

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

#1 of healthy digestion is chew your food well… we have heard this our whole life but we never understood why.. the truth is it  not only break downs our foods but it actives our enzymes in our mouths and is essential in our digestion processes.

Today in our fast pace lives we eat on the go and wolf down our food and there is no wonder we end up with constipation and gas.. Our intestine is trying to break down chucks of food.. and we are not absorbing our nutrients.

As we age we lose the ability to produce enzymes, and we will go into this later on. The way we release enzymes is by chewing.  BTW that’s why chewing GUM IS BAD BAD BAD!!!

First of all, the chewing process mashes your food into small pieces and partially liquefies it, making it easier to digest.

Secondly, when food hits your mouth, it stimulates saliva production. Saliva contains its own digestive enzymes, so the longer you chew, the more time these enzymes have to get to work while your food is still in your mouth. This makes it easier on your stomach and small intestine.

There's also a third reason to chew your food thoroughly. The chewing process stimulates a reflex that primes your pancreas and other digestive organs to do their job. It's a brilliantly designed part of the automatic communication system that keeps your body's organs working in harmony. Don't mess it up by skipping the important first step -- chew thoroughly!

 

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

#2 of a healthy digestion is Good bacteria or probiotics. We need good bacteria In our small intestine for so many reasons..  Really to many to list. Antibiotics kills every good bacteria we have in our body, there today it is every so import to maintain healthy level of probiotics. Probiotics are not only for good digestion but also for healthy immune support.

Now the probiotic you get are super important, today every company is jumping on the probiotic band wagon.. The truth is probiotics are live bacteria… therefor if it is not alive… (Meaning refrigerated) It’s not…at all going to benefit you. It’s basically a placebo.

Most of the food today has stripped our digestion of health bacteria and therefor this is one of the main reason we have digestion issues today in our society. We are more concerned with taste and shelf life than health.

When we eat food that is pasteurize it strips away all the healthy probiotic and enzymes the food has naturally to help us digest the food in its original state. There for today a lot of our bodies our way out of ratio with our healthy bacteria and unhealthy bacteria. Our body should be 80 percent health bacteria  and the average person today has about 10 if that.

When you eat to many grains, sugars, and processes foods this is breeding grounds for bad bacteria. The best thing you can do is eliminate sugar and processed foods.

Cultured foods and fermented food ( raw is even better) are full of live healthy probiotics and healthy bacteria’s… I suggest eating these in your daily diet it help keep build and maintain probiotics in you digestion. You can find these in Sauerkraut, Kim chi, Kefir. Keep in mind if any of these are pasteurized it kills the probiotics, you can find them raw in your local health food stores.

 

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

#3 of a healthy digestion is eating raw food that means unprocessed foods. (Preferably organic, locally grown, and or home grown vegetables). When we cook our food we damage the enzymes and nutrients  in our food that helps us to digest. When we chew our food thoroughly a signal is release to our brain that signals a chemical to increase the production of the enzymes. SO again chewing our food is very important.. This actually why you don’t want to chew gum** because it sends a false signal!** so you wasting you enzyme production.

Enzymes are proteins and are catalyst in our digestion. RAW food is live there for they have live

 

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

 #4 of a healthy digestion is don’t chew gum! I touched on this in the previous step. Chewing gum sends a false signal to the brain to release enzymes to digest food when there is no food to digest. This simply dilutes our enzymes and frankly we don’t have any to waste. Gum causes a major issue with digestion actually. I struggled personally with this one for year because I was a serious gum chewer and I didn’t want to believe this but it’s very much true. Gum not only seriously affects the breakdown of your food and how we digest with our enzymes. An interesting fact is that after the age of 30 we lose the ability to reproduce enzymes therefor most of us benefit and require enzyme supplementation. So chewing gum is serious detrimental to the enzymes that we do have.

 Gum also contains artificial sweetener which causes bloating, intestinal gas, and intestinal blockage. I see this daily working in colon health, almost every client of mine that struggles with chronic intestinal gas either has lacks enzymes of is a gum chewer and or both. The body was not equipped and made to digest chemicals there for when foreign objects like artificial sweeteners and chemicals enter the body, the body doesn’t know how to break the substances down and therefore it causes serious digestion issues… and it manifest in gas, diseases, and cancer. Our body is naturally attempting to dispel these foreign products that are indigestible, and anything indigestible gets dumped into the colon and typically it shows up as gas.. Interesting fact that is why when you eat those protein bars or sugar free bar that have sugar alcohol you get gas.

 

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

 #5 of a healthy digestion is take enzymes, I recommend digest gold by Enzymadica. Enzymes are proteins that breakdown our foods. While chewing a signal is created in the brain that release chemicals reaction that signals enzymes to be released. Now due to our culture and processed foods and how our food has evolved today getting enzymes from our food has become a major issue. We get enzymes naturally from raw food, that being said the food today although eating organic and locally grow will help reserve the natural state of the nutrients of the integrity of raw food. We will still struggle with obtaining enzymes from our food. As we age we lose the ability to produce enzymes.

 SO do you feel bloated after you eat?

 Do you have gas?

 Do you have constipation?

 Do you have digestive issues?

 Our bodies require enzymes to break down food. The list is the basic enzymes we require to break down food in our system, although there are over 13,000 enzymes that our body produces.

 When we have any of the above symptoms it is usually due to that lack of our body being able to break down and absorb our food.

 

• Lipases -- to break down fat

• Amylases -- to break down large carbohydrate chains

• Proteases (also called proteolytic enzymes) -- to break down protein

 

 Most people respond very well to enzyme supplementation. After taking enzymes you will notice that your body is digesting, absorbing, and processing food more efficiently. You will have less gas, gas is produced when our body is unable to digest or process our food. You will have less bloating after meals. As a result you will have more energy and your metabolism will increase due to proper food absorption and your body will be less tired from having to work so hard to digest your food. nutrients and live enzymes that aid us in health digestion, and helps in enzyme production.

 

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

#6 of a healthy digestion is a get lot of fiber.  So where do we get fiber? It’s fruits and vegetables roughage that our body deposes of after our body absorbs the nutrients. Today Most people do not get enough fiber, not even close.. I highly suggest them either triple there fruit and vegetable intake or supplement with a fiber supplement I recommend phylum husk. Flax seeds and chia seeds are great to but there is something so powerful and aiding about phylum husk.

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

#7 of a healthy digestion is stay hydrated, drink lots of water. This is the lubrication on your digestive system. The truth is the colon is where we store the majority of our water for our entire body so when we are hydrated, our system will move effetely. That being said we also need to make sure that we our electrolytes are balanced as well, because when off balance we can be drinking a ton of water and we will not actually be absorbing the water. Are electrolytes are essential for our body to run optimally.  These are mineral that our bodies need to function. I will go into that more in my next point.

Take notice to how much caffeine you intake, for every cup of caffeine you will next to drink 2 times that in water on top of your regular water intake to keep hydrated.

 

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

#8 of a healthy digestion is electrolytes….SO we can drink water all day long and still be dehydrated. How Is that? There are minerals in our body that balance and hydrate us called electrolytes. They are VERY important.. and if off balance can cause major health issues.. Like heart attacks. What are electrolytes are ions found in our blood: sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate!  WE NEED THESE TO LIVE!!

 Food for thought both sodium and Potassium is used to build muscles, there is an exchange that goes on with in the muscle between the two minerals when exercised. 

Ok so back to digestion.. Our colon is the gas tank of water for our entire body right so its natural that it would require a balance of healthy mineral and or electrolytes right.. To function.. so I encourage all my clients to take magnesium every night before they go to bed , to help them relax to calm the colon and to sleep well, it also gives great recovery to all muscles. It will also aid you in pooping.. Side note.. I am a big fan of Calm by natural vitality because it is in ionic form and I prefer vitamins that go directly into the blood stream, I also like the one that includes calcium because the only way we actually assimilate calcium is when it is taken with magnesium.   

To get all the other electrolytes I am a big fan of mineral water, or the Power Pak I love to take those as pre work out drinks..  And My all-time favorite RAW.. Please see the word raw Coconut water or coconut kefir.. all the coconut water out there that is packaged is wonderful I love to see people moving in a healthy direction.. I would encourage you to drink RAW the real deal because ANYTHING PACKAGED is pasteurized unless they saw RAW  and unpasteurized and I guarantee with the laws in California and the fear there is only a few companies  that are main stream that are raw selling packaged foods. That being said when pasteurized they heat the coconut water and killed all the good vitamins and the reason we drink it to begin with.  Now true it does still contain mineral content so on the run its better than the alternatives.  But as far as vitamins and healthy bacteria’s and live enzymes.. Zip…

 

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

#9 of a healthy digestion is cleansing! I am big advocate for cleansing… I mean all types of cleansing.  So many toxins, chemicals, and garbage go through and come into our bodies on a daily bases that it effects more than ever before. Today we have food that last week’s even months… convenience comes at a price. That food really taxes our digestive system.  Preservatives and pasteurization kills any kind of good bacteria and it simple has nothing in it to aid in digestion.  Therefor eating food from the earth has natural enzymes and bacteria that aid and support digestion. Anything man made typically unless it is raw slows down digestion if not hinders digestion greatly.

So cleansing today has become a necessity! Colonics is virtually a must to maintaining colon and digestion health. It cleanses the colon of built of fecal matter and bad bacteria.  It also cleanses the entire body.  The colon is the sewer of the body, if it toxic so is the entire body.

Cleansing the vital organs are as important as ever, I recommend doing it at least once a year if not twice.  We hear of people loosing gallbladders and kidneys all the time why loose them when you can simply cleanse them. If we cleansed our body like we took care of our cars and did scheduled maintenance. We do oil changes on our car every 3,000 to 5,000 miles to prevent major blow outs on our vehicles why don’t we do this for our bodies? If we did we would minimize major health issues in the future.

There is several ways to cleanse juice detoxing, colonics, herbs, tinctures. There is lots of information out there on detoxing but make sure its valid and not just marketing… Simple is better. If it’s easy then I say it’s not a good detox usually detoxing requires you to give up all the things we love but the rewards are worth it. If you would like to know more you can contact me.

Ten things you need to know about healthy digestion!

#10 of a healthy digestion is reduce your stress.. Breathe …. Relax… and let go.. If you are not present and in the moment …and live in the here and now… today will pass you bye. If you don’t have your health you have nothing. If you don’t make time today  to feel  your body and what it is trying to tell you trust me your body will eventually take over and make a loud enough noise that you will have to pay attention.. so why not listen, feel your body,  be still… it is giving you signal and telling what you need to do to take care of you. Be like Nike Just do it…