Exploring Healthy Options - Are You Malnourishing Yourself?
By Janet Shultz
NaturWell Center-Homeopathy & Nutrition
Smell your food and chew, chew, chew. So important. Ever do the dashboard diner or meals on wheels? So many times we shovel in the food, chomp, chomp, swallow, run, then wonder why we feel so yucky.
You can easily do so much to improve your digestion. Consider that the time and money to purchase an antacid could be put to much better use just to chew your food. Poor digestion results in the body mind not getting the nutrients and hormones needed to support a healthy life. Are you malnourishing yourself?
Sniffing your food activates brain chemistry. The sight, taste, smell, or thought of food triggers parasympathetic reflexes and gastric juice is secreted in healthy response. Ever walk by a restaurant and smell the aroma wafting out the door and find your mouth filling with saliva? Your body is wise to start the juices and get ready for first morsel. Saliva is the early digestive juice to prepare food for stomach processing.
Chewing breaks down the food. Consider chewing as a great opportunity to savor all aspects of the food. Mastication prepares food and gives stomach, pancreas and gall bladder time to squirt digestive acid and juices into stomach and prep for good processing of food to make chyme. Adequate stomach acid is very important in this processing.
Heartburn can occur from too much acid in the stomach, and also from too little, as maldigestion and fermentation produce organic acids that have the same symptoms of burning and discomfort.
U.S. News & World Report recently featured information from the Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA) about the overuse of antibiotics “then dosing ourselves with Pepcid and Prilosec that may prevent severe heartburn, or reflux, by lowering the acidity of the stomach gastric juices.” “Most sore throats are caused by viruses, which don’t respond to antibiotics, so the majority of the children [and adults] wouldn’t have been helped.”
The wisdom of the body operating as it should uses stomach acid to keep the upper part of the digestive tract free of unhealthy bacteria. By using drugs to reduce the acidity, the body’s natural barrier is compromised. In addition, the digestive acid is not in the stomach to process the food. Are you compromising your health?
Consider homeopathy for acute and chronic indigestion, with a large number of potential remedies. Use of plant-based digestive enzymes, and acidophilus may aid digestion until the system is stronger. Potent strains of acidophilus and probiotic cultures are also helpful to the intestinal tract for reducing inflammation and recolonizing the intestinal walls for healthy processing of nutrients.
Homeopathy seeks to ameliorate symptoms by focusing on the source of the imbalance causing them. Consider homeopathy as a vitalizing, detoxifying and regenerative approach to wellness. Homeopathy complements other health and medical care.
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Janet Shultz, NaturWell Center-Homeopathy & Nutrition in El Segundo, welcomes your inquiries: 310-322-0549. To find out more, go to www.naturwellcenter.com.
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