Digestive system
Health is a state of physical, emotional and mental well-being, it is the state of harmony between mind, body and soul. Optimal health is when your mind and body are in harmony.
Our ability to digest and assimilate nutrients is as important as the food we choose to eat. And this is where I start, with digestion. Our digestive system houses approximately 70% of our immune system. It absorbs the nutrients that are required by each and every one of our cells. And it eliminates waste and toxins from our body. If it is not able to perform these vital functions our health begins to fail and the opportunity for disease sets in.
The gut is basically the barometer of the rest of the body. In our gut,we have almost a whole another organ living inside of us which is the microbiome, and that’s another buzz word going around right now.
What exactly is that? It’s basically a conglomeration of a bunch of bacteria living in there. These bacteria are working in conjunction, what we call a symbiotic relationship, where our body and the bacteria are working together to perform for our body in the sense that we’re taking in nutrients and these bugs are processing and helping us bring the nutrients into the body, and then when we’re detoxifying and eliminating things out of our body that we don’t need, the bacteria, this microbiome are doing that, too. They’re helping detoxify and helping remove things out of the body.
Symptoms of a struggling digestive system are an indication of nutritional deficiencies. These include issues such as:
- fatigue
- bloating
- skin problems
- irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- arthritis
- constipation
- diarrhea
- autoimmune disease
- hypothyroidism
- mental fog
- depression