How to FINALLY Heal your Gut
It is true amigos: all disease begins in the gut.
Your digestive system contains a single layer of cells that determines what can enter systemic circulation and what is removed as waste.
It’s not about what you eat, it’s about what you absorb.
If your gut lining becomes compromised (aka - leaky gut), large food molecules enter the blood stream to cause systemic issues and inflammation. This is the mechanism of how issues in the gut can lead to things like headaches, rashes, joint pain, and acne.
What Breaks Down the Gut Lining?
☑️Stress - activation of the sympathetic nervous system moves blood flow away from the gut, leaving it more susceptible to digestive dysfunction, infection, and decrease in motility.
☑️Toxins - cause direct damage to digestive lining.
☑️Undigested Food Particles - if you are not chewing your food and breaking them down with digestive enzymes, the bacteria in your gut will ferment them causing the production of toxic byproducts that can lead to many symptoms of irritation and inflammation.
☑️Drugs - many pharmaceuticals directly influence the microbiome and digestive functioning including hormonal birth control, SSRI's, antibiotics, PPI's, and more!
☑️Organ Malfunction - your digestive system is one big highway from your mouth to your anus. If anything along the road is not working properly, symptoms can present.
How to Heal
☑️Slow down around meal time - CHEW WELL. Do not eat when you are stressed, angry, driving, multitasking, working, etc. Your parasympathetic nervous system is active when you are calm to help to stimulate digestive enzyme release, motility, and absorption.
☑️Listen to your body - If you know that your body does not like a certain food, listen and stop eating it.
☑️Eat the rainbow - different plant fibers act as prebiotics to feed different strains of bacteria to help maintain a healthy internal army against unwanted critters.
☑️Pause between meals rather than graze - this activates something called the migrating motor complex, which acts as a big broom to sweep things down the pipeline and to prevent toxic buildup.
☑️Poop everyday - constipation leads to the accumulation and reabsorption of toxins within your entire body causing inflammation.
