Do you have an unhealthy gut? Unless you have been living under a rock you have heard about gut health and how it impacts your daily life. I see people daily that haven't made the connection to their gut health. 1. Halitosis or bad breath: This is more than bad breath. This is coming from the gut region not the mouth. No matter how much you brush your teeth or clean your tongue the smell doesn't go away. It is important to identify the cause. Start at the dentist. If the dentist can't find anything obvious then investigate for these conditions; helicobacter pylori, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), reflux or dysbiosis. 2. Burping, gas or bloating: Bacteria causes these symptoms during the digestive process. In a healthy person there should be no problem. Test … [Read more...]
How Stress Affects Your Health
How Stress Affects Your Health Hippocrates said ‘All disease begins in the gut’. Stress creates physiological changes in our bodies. Our body reverts back to its primitive instincts. Should it fight or should it flee? This instinct sets about a chain reaction. When there is stress your blood pressure goes up, your heart beats faster. Your body shunts blood away from your digestive area and into your arms and legs so you can be ready to flee or fight. When this happens this is what is triggered in your body. You stop digesting food so you have decreased nutrient absorption You have decreased oxygenation due to blood being pushed to your extremities Your metabolism slows because less blood flows to the area Enzymes don’t work efficiently because they need co … [Read more...]
Do You Have Stress?
Drawing Credit: Leah Blount Art When you get nervous or stressed do you get butterflies in your stomach? Does your mouth becomes dry or if you have a very important decision to make do your bowels get looser ? Do you get digestion problems? This shows us how important the link is between our gut and our brain. The gut –brain connection is controlled by the enteric nervous system. This nervous system sends out hundreds of thousand signals that communicate to our central nervous system. So when you are nervous, anxious or even scared of something this slows down your enzyme secretions and how the food moves through your body. This can lead you to have a bit of heartburn or reflux, slightly constipated or things just slow down and don’t move through your system as fast as they … [Read more...]
