Digestive
Videos
Dr. McDougall's Medicine: Digestive Tune-Up Session #1
Dr. McDougall's Medicine: Digestive Tune-Up Session #2 AND Cooking Demo
The Universal Digestive Formula
Digestion Time - How Long Should Food Take To Digest?
The Top 5 Common Digestive Supplement Mistake - HCL, Enzymes and Bile Support
Glyphosate & How To Improve Digestion
Four Strategies to Improve Digestion and Gut Function
Biooptimizers - How to Biooptimize your gut & digestion
Microbes influence stomach acid & enzyme activity; microbial enzymes; microbial metabolic products. They can make their own enzymes like proteases and enzymes that break down carbohydrates.
In stress there’s an 80% decrease in blood flow to the entire digestive system. Chewing food helps signal the parasympathetic nervous system (needed for digestion).
Support Normal Digestion to Raise Vitality
• “Food Qi” in Chinese medicine = 70% of energy
• An initial course of digestive herbs will frequently remove the indications for tonics or adaptogens
• Must be accompanied by appropriate dietary changes, primarily removal of immunogenic/inflammatory foods.
Food Elimination Traditions in History
• Hippocratic writings recognize milk allergy as a potential cause of serious disease, and noted a dose/threshold effect
• Alexandrian medicine to the present: fasting during inflammation or fever
• Alexandrian/Roman medicine: Meat and vegetable diet as prevention and intervention in chronic disease
• Henry Lindlahr, ND (1913) noted that some patients could not digest milk or bread and prescribed meat and vegetable diet for some
• Contemporary movement = Paleolithic/Primal Diet, Vegetarian or Vegan Diet
Pungent/Spices
Spices have long had a central role in digestion and have a key role in traditional therapeutics overall. They can both stimulate and calm upper digestive functions, depending on the circumstance and particularly the individual constitution. Usually the patient will know whether these remedies suit them or not and it is always a good question in a consultation.
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- Hot spices can feature in prescriptions taken at various times of the day. When taken primarily for their impact on digestion, they may be taken before meals if there are no local inflammatory conditions in the upper digestive tract, with or after meals if the gut wall proves to be sensitive or there is a tendency to hyperacidity.
- Long-term therapy with pungent remedies is acceptable if the individual is comfortable with the regime. It should be discontinued if there are any digestive discomforts.
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