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Digestion, Stomach And life Module Digestion, Stomach 3 and Gut Module 3 – Stomach and Gut A healthy digestive system is essential for every process in the body. Many chronic illnesses can trace their root cause back to a problem in the gut, including illness to do with poor immunity or autoimmune diseases, but if you focus on healing the gut many symptoms and imbalances will clear themselves. It's true to say that “we are what we eat” but it’s more accurate to say that “we are what we can absorb”. Our bodies are literally made from the food substances that we put into our mouths and chew – how much goodness we can extract from those foods and transport through the body to where they are needed, is dependent on how well our digestive system functions. Our ability to eliminate toxicity from our bodies is also reliant on a healthy digestive system. Removing toxic elements from the body uses a lot of nutrients like calcium and magnesium in the process. Digestion needs to be good to make the most of the nutrients available in the food we eat, otherwise they are taken from other areas of the body, causing deficiencies. It is also important to have good transit through the liver and intestines, so that those toxins can be cleared out of the body. As usual, the symptoms your body produces are our clues to where your organs need support: Do you suffer from indigestion? Common symptoms are heartburn and pain after eating. Indigestion can be caused by too much or too little stomach acid being made. If you have heartburn with bad breath, belching and flatulence then it’s from too little acid. If you have heartburn with nausea and sometimes regurgitate food, then it could be from too much acid. Either way it's also connected with increased pressure in the abdomen pushing acid up from the stomach into the oesophagus – which can have many causes. You can test whether your stomach acid production is too high or too low with a “burp test”. Mix 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda dissolved in approx. 200mls water and drink on an empty stomach. There should be significant burping within 5-10 mins. If burping takes longer then acid levels are too low. Do you tend towards constipation? It is normal to pass a bowel movement 2-3 times a day with the first time being between 7 and 9 am each morning. If you are not opening your bowels at least once a day, you don't feel finished after passing a stool, or you sometimes have rectal pain or haemorrhoids from the stool being too hard or dry, these are all forms of constipation. If you have bouts of cramping pains with nausea, vomiting or diarrhoea as well as exhaustion, then you may be suffering with gut inflammation. Do you have phases of constipation alternating with diarrhorea and sometimes wind and cramping pain, or pain passing stools? If you do, then you may have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). If you often suffer with diarrhorea this can also be caused by anxiety, medications, parasites and food intolerances. A bloated abdomen is a common symptom with constipation and IBS and is caused by gut dysbiosis (gut bacteria imbalance). A thick white coating on the tongue, feeling tired all the time and catching colds frequently can be other signs. If your stools are soft, pale, bulky and float plus you have bloating of the abdomen and possibly weight loss, this indicates poor digestion and malabsorption of nutrients in the small intestine. This is usually caused by dysbiosis in the small intestine (SIBO). Leaky Gut is the term used when gut dysbiosis has damaged the gut lining and caused symptoms throughout the body like asthma,nt joi pain, brain fog, poor immunity, anxiety and fatigue. Read this full module for more information about all these digestive problems and how to help these to improve. It lwil take you about 10-15 minutes to read this module. Then, if you are sure that this module applies to you, we suggest you either print it off and make notes on it, or you make a separate list of what support products to order and what dietary and additional advice you are going to try first. We would suggest that you aim to change 5 things about your diet per week and only introduce one new product (nutrient, remedy, supplement, herb, essential oil etc.) every few days, so that you be sure of what is helping you and easily identify if anything makes your symptoms worse. Use the forum for any questions. If you are unsure whether this module should be part of your recovery programme, you are able to request an on-line consultation with one of our practitioners. Click on Consultant led recovery on any of the module pages for info. Support products recommended for module three – stomach and gut: For the stomach: Recommended if you have low stomach acid symptoms: Nature's Wisdom Herbal Digestive Bitters Tincture £22 for 4 week supply Homeopathic Stomach support remedy £7 for 8 week supply Homeopathic remedy for symptoms of H-Pylori £5 for 4 week supply Plus: Biokult probiotic - take two capsules twice a day with meals – not if you have SIBO symptoms Recommended if you have symptoms of high stomach acid: Nature's Wisdom Digestive Support Powders £22 for 4 week supply £30 for 8 week supply Homeopathic Stomach Calm remedy £7 for 8 week supply For the gut: Recommended if you have constipation: Nature's Wisdom Buffered Vitamin C Powders £22 for 4 week supply £30 for 8 week supply £7 Homeopathic Constipation support remedy for 8 week supply Recommended for symptoms of gut dysbiosis (inc. gut inflammation, IBS or diarrhoea): Nature's Wisdom Digestive Support Powders £22 for 4 week supply £30 for 8 week supply Homeopathic Gut Calm remedy £7 for 8 week supply Plus: Biokult probiotic - take two capsules twice a day - not if you have SIBO symptoms Recommended for symptoms of SIBO: Nature's Wisdom SIBO Support Powders £22 for 4 week supply £30 for 8 week supply Homeopathic Gut Calm remedy £7 for 8 week supply Plus buy Prescript assist probiotic online and take two capsules a day For symptoms of leaky gut - take products and remedies as per gut dysbiosis or SIBO above plus these: Homeopathic Gut Repair £7 for 8 week supply Nature's Wisdom Herring Oil Capsules £22 for 90 day supply More detail about the stomach and gut: The stomach is the upper-most part of t he digestive system, food gets squeezed into there from the oesophagus and usually stays there for 3-4 hours. Good digestion in the stomachs i reliant upon cells in the stomach lining secreting chemicals and digestive juices, as well as mucus that protects the stomach lining. The stomach lining also absorbs crucial elements like salts and vitamin B12 as well as water and alcohol. The most important chemicals secreted are hydrochloric acid which liquefies the food and kills bacteria and the enzymes lipase and pepsin which help to break down proteins and fats. Indigestion is a common problem and can be caused by the stomach lining producing too much or too little acid. In the majority of cases it is from too little acid production. Symptoms of indigestion can be heartburn, pain after eating, belching, hiccups and chest pain. Symptoms of under-acidity are indigestion but also include bad breath, belching and flatulence because food ferments in the stomach. Infection with Helicobacter-Pylori bacteria is thought to be the main cause of under-acidity. This very common bacteria suppresses the acid production and can be checked for with a blood test via your GP. In most cases it does not need treatment (conventional treatment is with anti- biotics). The naturopathic supports suggested in this module are usually enough to bring bacteria levels back to balance. Symptoms of over-acidity can be indigestion with nausea and sometimes regurgitation. Long term stress and use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (including aspirin and ibuprofen) are common causes of over-acidity. Naturopathic treatment reduces the acid levels naturally without the need for life-long medication. Either way, over time gastritis can develop (inflammation of the stomach lining) and can cause damage that can lead to bleeding. This can be seen as dark streaks in stools or vomiting with blood (it usually looks like coffee grounds). Ulcers can also develop. Nausea and vomiting can also be caused by gastritis – especially if alcohol or eating fatty foods are triggers. Hiatus hernia or GERD / GORD (gastro-oesophageal reflux disease) are other aspects of indigestion. Weakening of tissue around the diaphragm combined with an increase of pressure in the abdomen allow the top of the stomach to push up too high (this is a Hiatus Hernia). This can weaken the action of the valve between the oesophagus and stomach, allowing acid from the stomach to well up (this valve should only open when we belch). This up-flow of acid is called reflux and is felt as heartburn (pain is worse when laying down if you have reflux) and can also cause burning pains in the chest than can extend into the neck and arms and feel like angina pain, as well as nausea and vomiting. This frequently happens during pregnancy and to women on contraceptives that contain oestrogen which weakens the function of the valve. Heartburn medications relieve symptoms by successfully reducing the amount of acid that is welling up intothe oesophagus, but they are doing nothing to fix the underlying cause of the problem.
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