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I’m gonna talk about how to speed up your digestion this video is not just

for people that have constipation it’s for people that have indigestion gas

bloating stomach pain anything that could be an incomplete cycle of

digestion so what we want to do is we want to actually break down each part of

your digestive tract and just talk about it so let’s start with the stomach okay

acid is the key thing in your stomach that helps break down the protein it

also helps you absorb certain minerals and it kills off pathogens many people

do not have enough acid in your stomach many people have acid in our stomach but

it’s not very very strong it’s a weak acid so the pH needs to be between 1 and

3 that’s like battery acid if the asset is really nice and strong and you have

enough then the valve on the top of the stomach closes you can eat food and it

just breaks down pretty fast adding more hydrochloric acid would be a good thing

now you’re not gonna actually drink hydrochloric acid because that’s gonna

completely burn your mouth your esophagus all the way down so you want

to take a weaker acid that will then build up your hydrochloric acid and

that’s called betaine hydrochloride you can get this in a supplement ok now

other things you can do is you can add the materials that help you build up

hydrochloric acid so salt is sodium chloride so the chlorides from salt can

actually help build up hydrochloric acid also taking more potassium because you

need potassium to build stomach acid there’s other nutrients you need as well

but these are the two most important ones

one would be taking apple cider vinegar you dilute it one tablespoon in a glass

of water or kombucha tea if you’re doing kombucha tea make sure that you get the

the bottle that has the least amount of sugars ideally like two grams per bottle

would be perfect okay and also you’re not going to drink the

whole bottle because it’s like it’s pretty big and it’s a lot of acid to

drink in once but both of these would help acidify

your stomach the thing that counters and makes this worse are antacids and

calcium carbonate would make it worse and then we go to bile bile is made by

your liver it’s stored in the gallbladder and it helps you break down

fats now you can actually take purified bile salts you want to take one after

the meal and that will help you with bloating burping belching and it will

help in the breakdown of fats in general if you wanted to increase your body’s

ability to make bile you can also take a probiotic since microbes help you

recycle the bile but you can also consume beet tops so that will help your

liver make more bile also ginger artichokes lemon milk thistle and

choline all of these help the liver stimulate the production or more bile

salts now the things that will reduce your bile would be decreasing your

probiotics that’s your friendly bacteria because you took an antibiotic taking

out the gallbladder or having a fatty liver or having some damage to your

liver in general that will reduce the production of bile you can also have a

problem with the drainage the bile ducts you can also have a sluggish gall

bladder there’s a lot of things that can go wrong with that I’ll put some links

down below more about the gall bladder but taking more purified bile salts or

things that will increase the bile production would actually help in that

section of digestion then you have the enzymes a lot of enzymes are produced by

your pancreas it’s right underneath the left ribcage your small intestine

actually has the ability to make certain enzymes your stomach actually makes a

few enzymes the microbes in your intestine both small and large also make

enzymes but enzymes help you break down specific things like carbohydrates

proteins fats the more that you eat raw foods the more help you get with enzymes

why because heat destroys the enzymes food so if you’re consuming mostly cook

food or canned food or pasteurized food you’re gonna deplete your enzymes and

the more enzymes you might need to take you actually can take a blend of quite a

few different enzymes as a nutritional assistance when you eat certain foods

but the point is that if you have enough enzymes you actually can digest a lot if

you don’t then you actually get all sorts of symptoms from indigestion

you can get a dark tarry stool like a kind of a black stool that’s sticks in

the toilet seat because you’re not breaking down the fats there’s an enzyme

called lipase that works together with the bile to really take fat and break it

down into the smallest particles now let’s talk about flora Flora’s your

friendly bacteria it’s the microbiome most the flora in your body is in the

large intestine you have a small amounts on the outside of the body actually in

every crevice of your body as well as even in the small intestine so taking a

probiotic is a very smart thing to do because that will build up your flora

now if you had an antibiotic or you consume a lot of GMO food you’re gonna

lose your friendly bacteria and then you’re gonna get things like

constipation you won’t be able to make certain vitamins you have nutritional

deficiencies there’s a whole list of things that happen when you lose the

flora so you need probiotics and then you also need the food that feeds these

microbes and that’s called a prebiotic or a fiber and I recommend getting your

fiber from these things called vegetables then we have something over

here called the para sympathetic nervous system

now this opposes the sympathetic nervous system which is the flight or fight

mechanism so with that’s like more stress this is rest and digest what

stimulates this system is keeping your stress low okay also taking be one from

nutritional yeast can actually stimulate this system and this system helps what’s

called peristalsis the pumping action of your colon also taking more potassium

will help support this system as well is taking more magnesium and if you

want to see the entire digestion from A to Z a more comprehensive video I put it

right here check it out