Digestive Problems and Your Health

During healthy digestion, your stomach uses an acid cocktail made up of hydrochloric acid (HCl) and the powerful digestive enzyme pepsin to break down food into the vital nutrients your body needs. Pepsin requires a highly acidic environment to do its job, and when HCl is low which can happen for many reasons, including age, poor diet, infection, overusing antacids, excessive amounts of water consumption, or other medications it becomes increasingly difficult for your stomach to fully process your food. If you suffer from poor digestion, you could be having one or all of these conditions gas, bloating, belching, muscle pain, skin disorders, insomnia, constipation, diarrhea, and heartburn in most cases you are unaware of the association. Poor digestion is the root of many seemingly unrelated symptoms that can snowball, facilitating more discomfort and pain finally setting up a condition much worse than poor digestion.

Undigested foods also cause both detectable and hidden excessive mucous in the colon. An abnormal amount of mucous is the tip of the iceberg of problems that are on the horizon. Food that is not completely digested is counter productive to any efforts to establish or maintain optimal health. Undigested food is directly related to the creation of toxins in the colon, which tends to overwhelm the immune system. The relationship between a healthy colon and the immune system is well documented. When the body is forced to rid itself of chemical combinations that diminish functionality; the energy required to facilitate the elimination of these chemicals lowers the available energy needed from normal cellular processes. As a result, it’s not difficult to understand why poor digestion is a factor in every chronic illness.

A colon cleanse is the initial step to improving many conditions associated with poor digestion. Many experts suggest a cleansing at a minimum of once a year, however the more popular suggestion is every three months.

By:Sydney Hayes