Promoting a Healthy Digestive Tract

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Healthy Digestion is the Highway to Health -
Bad Digestion can be the Road to Ruin
Di·ges·tion: the process of making food absorbable
by breaking it down into simpler chemical compounds.

Estimates are that more than 80 million Americans are paying the price for bad digestion - heartburn, indigestion, IBS, diarrhea, constipation, food intolerance, frequent illness, gas, bloating and more.

Most people do not think or talk about bad digestion. They choose to deal with the consequences of neglecting this aspect of their health instead of choosing to manage digestion.

Managing digestion is easier than you might think. It requires 3 things:

  1. A basic understanding of healthy digestion.
  2. A few minor changes in your diet.
  3. Supplements to restore digestive function (including digestive enzymes and a probiotic of friendly intestinal microbes) and then, maintain healthy digestion afterwards.

Healthy Digestion
Digestion is an intricate dance between enzymes, stomach acids and microbes. One partner preparing the food for the next with one goal – a strong, healthy body.

It is the process that keeps you alive, breaking down the food you eat, converting it into different nutrition components that are absorbed carrying the nutrition in the blood stream to nourish and sustain your body.

In truth, everyone benefits from a healthy digestive system. But, they pay a terrible price when it goes astray -   they learn how much pain these powerful, caustic substances can create.

The Process of Healthy Digestion
There are three parts of digestion: Enzymatic, Gastric and Microbial. The process is an elegant interplay of these functions which occur along a tube called the digestive tract.

  • Teeth grind the food, mixing it with saliva (containing an enzyme called Amylase) passing the ground food on to the top half of the stomach (the pyloric stomach).
  • Muscles mix the ground food with its resident enzymes (food enzymes) with the body’s enzymes (digestive enzymes), which turns the food into a liquid.
  • After a brief resting period, the liquid is passed through an acid bath in the lower half of the stomach (the gastric stomach).
  • The acid rinsed liquid is delivered to the intestines, for final processing accomplished by an extensive and diverse number of microbes.
  • The processed nutrients and microbial byproducts pass through the intestinal wall, water and recyclables are recovered, wastes wait to be expelled from the body.
    Enzymes, Acids & Microbes
    The process is fully dependent on the interplay between enzymes (both food and digestive enzymes), stomach acids and intestinal microbes. It is these microbes, in the final analysis, that are responsible for the final conversion of food to absorbable nutrients..

    Enzymatic Action
    The first part of the process (enzymatic) is pretty simple, but it can go astray.

    • Inadequate chewing affects the size of the food particles contributing to inadequate liquidization.
    • Inadequate food enzymes (which are destroyed by processing and cooking) can create inadequate liquidization.
    • Diminished reserves of digestive enzymes can create inadequate liquidization.

    Gastric Action
    Each of these situations place more demands on the gastric stomach which responds by producing more stomach acid.

    Friendly Intestinal Microbes Perform a Microbrial Action
    The final part of the process, Microbial, while simple, is delicate. Intestinal microbes (micro flora) finalize the conversion of the liquid into absorbable nutrients and, along the way, create byproducts on which the body depends.

    These Micro Flora are Vulnerable.They are especially vulnerable to antibiotics. Prescriptive antibiotics are the most obvious culprit, but, agricultural antibiotics, which are used extensively for production of meat and dairy products, find their way into our bodies in the foods we are eating.

    Changes in the acidity in the intestines due to dietary choices, alcohol, stress and excess stomach acids impact the extensive intestinal micro flora colonies.

    Decreasing numbers and diversity of intestinal microbes (probiotics) affect nutrient absorption, specifically and health, generally, since our bodies rely on the byproducts produced by these microbes.

    •  Energy
    •  Moods
    •  Skin
    •  Gas
    •  Bloating
    •  Immunity    		 •  Food Tolerance
    •  Regularity
    •  Diarrhea
    •  Constipation
    •  Heartburn
    •  Allergies

    It is clear that 80 million Americans, who are experiencing declining health, could benefit from managing their digestive system.

    For most of us, an enzymes supplement , to promote enzymatic action and a probiotics supplement, to reinforce the army of friendly intestinal microbes, should be the cornerstone of a supplementation regimen; otherwise, we could be wasting a perfectly good nutritional strategy.

    The relationship between health and this delicate process is quite clear. You cannot use nutrition, enjoy good health, or life – without good digestion.

    Stop paying the price.  Choose a nutraceutical system can help stop the pain and embarrassment of bad digestion and help restore this important, delicate process.

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