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| Good Digestion Is Key To Good Health The digestive system is known as the cornerstone of good health. It has been believed and proven for centuries that our mental and physical energy stems from good digestive function, which is responsible for the assimilation, or uptake, of all nutrients and elimination of waste and toxic substances. When this system is healthy and in good function, all of the body's processes and systems run smoothly. When the body is not digesting well, signs of gas, bloating, nausea, constipation, obesity, and emotional imbalance will be present. When these symptoms appear, the body is not detoxifying to its full potential and the liver is overwhelmed with toxic substances. The incidence of many toxicity diseases has increased. Cancer and cardiovascular disease are two of the main ones. Arthritis, allergies, obesity, and many skin problems are others. In addition, a wide range of symptoms, such as headaches, fatigue, pains, coughs, gastrointestinal problems, and problems from
immune weakness, can all be related to toxicity.
Research has revealed that toxicity is responsible for rapid aging, promoting degenerative diseases, and breaking down the immune system.
Understanding The Digestion :
Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breaking down of food into smaller components, to a form that can be absorbed into the blood stream. Digestion is a form of catabolism; a break-down of macro food molecules to smaller ones. In mammals, food enters the mouth, being chewed by teeth, with chemical processing beginning with chemicals in the saliva from the salivary glands. As part of the initial process of food digestion, the enzymes in the saliva break down some of the starch and fat in the food at the molecular level. Saliva also breaks down food caught in the teeth, protecting them from bacteria that cause decay. Furthermore, saliva lubricates and protects the teeth, the tongue, and the tender tissues inside the mouth. Saliva also plays an important role in tasting food by trapping thiols produced from odourless food compounds by anaerobic bacteria living in the mouth. Once swallowed, the food bolus travels down the esophagus into the stomach, where acid both kills most contaminating micro-organisms and begins mechanical break down of some food types and chemical alteration of others. After being processed in the stomach, food is passed to the small intestine,where the majority of digestion and absorption occurs, then on through the large intestine, which breaks down some of the substances which remain after processing in the small intestine and also reabsorbs fluid, and finally, waste is excreted during defecation.
Although the small intestine is much longer than the large intestine (typically around 3 times longer), it gets its name from its comparatively smaller diameter. Although as a simple tube the length and diameter of the small intestine would have a surface area of only about 0.5m2, the surface complexity of the inner lining of the small intestine increase its surface area by a factor of 500 to approximately 200m2, or roughly the size of a tennis court.
The small intestine is divided into three structural parts: ..
* Duodenum 26 cm (9.8 in) in length
* Jejunum 2.5 m (8.2 ft)
* Ileum 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
The small intestine is where most chemical digestion takes place.
The three major classes of nutrients that undergo digestion are proteins, lipids (fats) and carbohydrates:
Once chemical breakdown of the food has completed the digested food can now pass into the blood vessels in the wall of the intestine through the process known as diffusion.
The small intestine is the site where most of the nutrients from ingested food are absorbed. The inner wall, or mucosa, of the small intestine is lined with simple columnar epithelial tissue.
Structurally, the mucosa of the small intestine is covered in wrinkles or folds called plicae circulares, From the plicae circulares project microscopic finger-like pieces of tissue called villi. The individual epithelial cells also have finger-like projections known as microvilli. The function of the plicae circulares, the villi and the microvilli is to increase the amount of surface area available for the absorption of nutrients. When the villi and microvilli become clogged then nutrients are not correctly absorbed and toxicity problems and nutrient deficiency problems occur.
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Modern Westernised societies are arguably the most overfed yet, ironically, undernourished nations in the world. Our fast food diets tend towards soft, sweet, gooey, delicious foods - foods with very little fibre to carry the waste particles from the digestive system.
These foods and waste particles coat and clog our villi, packing them like concrete. The accumulated, now poisoned, food particles prevent the villi from doing their job. Nutrients cannot be passed to the blood to feed all the body’s cells. The body then attempts to eliminate the cellular waste via the kidneys, lungs, skin and sinuses. The body also stores waste in the form of kidney stones, gallstones, arthritis, gout, crystallized lungs, clogged arteries, and other congestion.
The small intestine, about 21 feet long and about 1.5 inches in diameter, has a total surface area about the size of a tennis court. That’s more than 300 square yards of osmosis-type membrane surface. Nutrients are suppose to pass through the villi to your blood; and the blood is suppose to pick up the used food waste and pass it, via the villi, back into the intestines to be eliminated.
Years of build-up in the colon wall prevents the body from absorbing any good nutrients, while poisons and toxins are released from the accumulated, compacted fecal matter.
Over the years this build-up is the cause of many chronic illnesses.
Quality natural foods are the “life force”. Good foods burn thoroughly but adverse foods leave a “residue” that adds waste to this process. The foods we eat that lack this life force simply clog up our digestion, assimilation and elimination process. The body then needs to detoxify. The more adverse foods one eats, the more elimination problems one can anticipate.
One of the most important and least understood of our bodily processes is elimination. The skin is the largest organ of waste removal. If the skin does not eliminate properly, it puts stress on the lungs, bowels, and kidneys. If any of the waste eliminators fail to do the work it was designed to do, then each of the other organs has to bear the load and will be under additional stress. Old fecal matter slowly goes putrid. It gives you bowel disorders and eventually poisons your entire system. This is why you need to do some bowel cleansing.
Aloe Vera Gel is very effective in bowel cleansing.
A good bowel cleansing product must be effective and able to:
1. Cleanse your bowels of harmful body toxins
2. Promote good digestion
3. Improve your small intestine's absorption of nutrients
4. Strengthen your immune system.
Based on the above criteria for body cleansing, aloe gel is one of the best because of these powerful ingredients:
Lignin: A deep-penetrating agent
Saponin: A water-based detergent
Proteolytic Enzymes: They eat rotten waste inside your bowels
Enzymes, by the way, are proteins that facilitate every single chemical action that occur in your body. Your cells, tissues and organs are ran by enzymes.
In addition, proteases, a protease (also termed peptidase or proteinase) is an enzyme that breaks down protein, maximize your immune system. How? Macrophages use proteolytic enzymes to literally digest invaders such as:
Bacteria
Viruses
Fungi
Molds
Drinking Aloe Vera Gel helps the body deal with villi clogging in a number of ways.
The saponin scrubs off all the grease, chemicals, and toxins that clog the interior walls of your small intestines. The lignin penetrates deep into your cells and makes it possible for the saponin to scrub off the toxins that managed to get there.
Then the proteases do their job and digest the dead proteins in the fecal matter in your bowels.
By doing bowel cleansing with aloe gel, your cells also get nourished because aloe vera is loaded with vitamins and minerals.
Healthy Digestion
Healthy digestion is when you get the most benefit from the food you eat.
The result of healthy digestion:
* Boosted Immune System
* Abundant energy
* Feeling of lightness in the body
* Clear eyesight
* Sharp mental function
* Balanced emotions Healthy Digestion =
1. Break-down of food in the mouth, stomach, and the small intestine +
2. Proper absorption of the broken down food +
3. Proper elimination of the waste.
Although we can help our digestion by healthier eating habits, unless our digestion is healthy to begin with then we will not derive optimal benefits from following such habits. Oral consumption of Aloe Vera gel helps our digestive system to repair itself.
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Of course, once the Aloe Vera has made sure that the repair is underway we should also make lifestyle changes so that we are not continually reclogging the villi.
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These simple actions will benefit your digestive problems.
1. Chew all food really well. Chew until you can 'drink' each bite: 20 to 100 times! Good digestion begins in the mouth. Chewing also gives notice to the body that food is coming down, so the stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, etc., all get ready, and bloating is avoided. Chew the food well. Especially for complex carbohydrates, which digest only in the mouth and the small intestine. The stomach acids DO NOT break down carbohydrates! If you don't chew the carbs (greens, salads, grains, and beans) you probably will not digest them. So you may experience gas, bloating, and slight pain in the belly. In fact, those symptoms are very common due to the way we eat: little chewing, on the go, multi-tasking.All herbivorous animals chew. Sometimes for hours. Have you noticed that? Except for us, humans. Somehow, we have ignored to observe nature and our obvious biology.
2. Lessen the amount of your meals. Smaller meals are easier to digest and history shows repeatedly that people who eat fewer calories and little in general, have fewer diseases and live longest.3. Eat simple meals with fewer than three types of food (i.e. veggies, beans, grains, fruits, etc.) Types of food are vegetables, greens, legumes (beans), grains, nuts and seeds, fruits, dairy products, and meats.Each kind of food requires different digestive juices and enzymes. When too many types of foods are eaten together, digestion is compromised because different enzymes may interfere with each other's digestive functions.4. Don't snack between meals. (Eat four small meals if you have to, but don't graze all day).When you snack, you don't let the body and the digestive system recover and rest.That recovery and rest are essential for healthy digestion.
5. Drink a tablespoon of raw Apple Cider Vinegar diluted in a glass of water first thing in the morning. Apple Cider Vinegar also works well to stimulate healthy digestion at any other time of day. You can find it at most health food stores. The raw kind has strands of pro-biotic culture, often called 'the Mother', which supports healthy intestinal flora.
6. If you have eaten too much rich and fatty food, get some hot water with lemon as an after-meal drink. You can also try seltzer with lemon, or peppermint tea. Lemon helps cut the grease, and according to Chinese medicine, the sour taste stimulates the liver.
7. Eat pro-biotic foods a few times a week to maintain healthy bacteria in the large intestine. Healthy intestinal flora helps digestion. In addition, it's able to 'produce' certain enzymes and amino acids, otherwise required to obtain from food. Healthy bacteria (created by green raw foods and raw pro-biotic foods) is able to make Vitamin B12. B12 is essential for the red blood cell production, and is known to lack in the vegan diet due to the cleaning and disinfecting of our food.Pro-biotic foods: Kombuch (fermented tea), raw Apple Cider Vinegar, raw Sauerkraut, Kim-Chi (Asian sauerkraut), yogurt (soy or dairy), cottage cheese, miso, and tempeh (fermented soy beans).There are a few other cultural foods obtained through fermentation. Old cultures have always had one or two pro-biotic foods consumed on a regular basis. They obviously knew better!
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