Part 2 is on digestion and getting this right can make everything else you do better.
Just in time for Thanksgiving. Lots of food on Thursday will definitely challenge your digestion. So why is digestion second on the list? Your nervous system is first because it controls everything. Digestion is next because it controls whether or not nutrients get into your body. Since, nutrition is one of the cornerstones to your health, you need good digestion to utilize the good food you're eating and the whole food supplements you're taking.
Take a look at the symptoms below.
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This is alarming to me when I walk down the grocery store aisles and look at the empty shelves of acid blocking products. There are countless people, unknowingly, slowly, killing themselves and it doesn't have to be that way. This is based on physiology and my experience with hundreds and hundreds of patients, just like this.
#1 You were born with, and need stomach acid. Stomach acid is there to digest food, ionize minerals, and kill bacteria.
#2 That burning people feel coming up their throat ISN'T stomach acid over-production. It is organic acids from food putrefying, rancifying, and rotting in the stomach from LACK of stomach acid. (Think roadkill in your guts)
#3 What does your body do when you eat bad food? You throw it up, and/or have diarrhea to get it out as quick as possible. Your body isn't dumb, it is trying to send this rotting mash back to where to came. So if you take an acid blocker, you temporarily quell the rebellion and pass the fight on to your intestines.
#4 Right now if this is you, you are likely thinking you like being able to pop a pill and prevent that burning. I get it, but...it's not natural, and it will slowly starve you of minerals like calcium. That's a well known side-effect. So, if you are female, worried about osteoporosis, this is a bad scenario.
#5 So how does this happen? When you were 18 you likely didn't have too many problems, right. First, nutritional deficiencies play a role, and especially if people are eating processed foods and a lot of simple carbohydrates like bread, cereal, and pasta. It takes water to make stomach acid, and I rarely meet a new patient who's drinking enough water. Also, as you age, your stomach acid production drops. And my favorite, subluxations (bones out of place) in the mid-back and the upper neck. Those nerve areas control the stomach. (This goes back to section 1)
Now, we just covered the first and most common symptom, there are plenty more potential problems, so if you have more questions just ask. I added info at the bottom to contact me.
Quick bit of trivia. Nearly all fibromyalgia / chronic pain patients have digestive problems.
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Since Thanksgiving is Thursday, I'm moving those hours to Wednesday.
Check online SLCSAW.com for open times
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Lifestyle advice for those over 30: PART 1