Unlike mechanical plumbing, your gut lining is
not a sealed pipe transporting your food from one part to another. The
gastrointestinal tract, or the shute that connects your throat when you swallow
your food, to all the organs that play a role in digestion including your
colon, is porous. How much gets through is the measure of the nutrients and
minerals your body has access to. Let's umbrella that all as your gut.
The Gut lining is then the term for the
frontline cells that make first contact with the food your body wants to
digest.
First contact is a term you
can apply to many relatable topics, most relatable in these strange times are
the health care workers who are called to duty on the frontline of the covid
pandemic. When those workers are in full force, on the frontline of exposure,
they change the outcome for the body of the community beyond the walls of the
hospitals they work in.
With this in mind, let’s consider applying
some sense and reason to giving your gut lining all the support it needs to
digest food effectively for the greater good of your overall health.
When at their best, the frontline cells
control what gets absorbed into your bloodstream and transported to all the
organs in your body. When there is damage or a lack of strength and integrity,
larger undigested particles and unmanageable liquids can permeate the membrane
and it is suggested, in published conversation, that this might be what leads
to some of the most basic chronic diseases.
Nothing qualifies me to say whether the jury
is out on what causes chronic disease but the sense seems to lie in the value
of what good gut health looks and feels like and what an influence it appears
to be in the wave of studies surfacing "all
things gut health". What appears to be the winning candidate for
balancing disrupted health is balancing your gut-microbiome; the culture of
good bacteria in your digestive tract or gastrointestinal tract; gut
for short.
So what can you do to improve your overall
health by focusing on your gut lining?
1.Observe and assess your health status.
What does your poo look like? Compare
characteristics in a previous blog "The Best Thing About Poo..!" and
adjust according to logic. If you are constipated, drink more water. If you are
losing nutrients before you've absorbed them, eat more fibre.
That said, make sure if you are not well and
on the outer fringes instead of the centre of good health indicators, see a
doctor or health practitioner for professional advice.
2.
Introduce probiotics in the form of fermented foods and beverages.
Fermentation is a process of allowing a SCOBY
to feed on a provided food and the result is a transformed drink or food with
alive cultures of good bacteria. You can introduce these cultures to your
digestive system to your benefit. Theoretically (I am not qualified beyond my
own interpretation; be sure to explore the topic in all directions for
yourself) it is these micro-organisms that exist to do the work of mineralising
nutrients for you. Milk kefir and water kefir are readily
available beverages that compete with popular drinking yogurts and soda's for their delicious creaminess and fizziness and are outstanding in their delivery of the perfect collections of cultures for your
microbiome.
3.Test
your assumptions and be ever ready to notice the
results of what you did to adjust and be consistent. If you are feeling out of
sorts and adjust to the reactions in your body, notice the changes that happen
and seek advice. We aware that the process of rebalance may sometime cause an intensity of symptoms if your gut has been right out of wack. a process called die off or herxheimer Take it slow.
We at NUMESA believe that if you have a healthy
tummy, that is a balanced gut microbiome, then you will see the results manifest as a happier life. Your gut lining will have the
support on the frontline that it needs and if the first contact cells are doing
their job correctly and are given enough water to sustain their efforts, they
can flatten the curve of that disruption and restore all of your potential body
functions to good health.
Written by Viv Brown
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