Premium Blend By Dr David A. Pierotti Digestion is one of the most fundamental processes all animals need working optimally in order not only to survive, but also to thrive.
alive to navigate and choose the right food for you at
the right time. Your sense of smell and sight will fire
up and you will even engage touch and hearing into
your experience (think about walking into a
restaurant and feeling moved by the hum of
conversations of the other diners or the sounds of
vendors at a market or feeling the outer flesh of a
it does? I’d like to briefly address some forgotten ideas on eating and digestion.
Once the food has been picked up with your hands
or with cutlery, your mouth engages it in a tide of
I’d like to invite you to use your body and mind to
saliva followed by mastication. The mechanical
consciously participate in the ordinary everyday act of
chewing of the food as well as the chemical
eating. Not only will your health improve as a result
components of the saliva have already begun the
of this heightened awareness, but your experience of
transformation of the food into it’s constituent parts
enjoyment will also most certainly be lifted.
to become part of you. Your taste now becomes the
dominant sense but olfaction (smelling) is crucial, and
I will focus on the stomach in this article primarily
in fact makes up a significant part of taste (try
due to the primacy of this organ as the origin of much
blocking your nose during chewing and see how little
of digestive upset. But remember this is but one small
snippet of an overal picture of digestion, and
therefore general knowledge I will share on this topic
The gustatory receptors for taste on your tongue will
is not meant to serve as diagnosis or treatment. If you
send signals to the rest of the body, including the
suspect an issue with your own digestion please
brain, the instant the food touches them. This means that
check in with myself or Eric and we will advise and
wel before that food has left the mouth and
journeyed through the rest of the digestive tract, your
body knows what it’s about to receive. This is an
Firstly, you should understand that the conversion of
ancient evolutionary tool the body has developed so
food into nutrients that wil be absorbed and
it can prime the next stages of processing to best
distributed by the body (i.e digestion) does not begin
in the stomach. It actually begins in the brain. The
signal to eat the food in the first place begins with the
If chewing is conscious and complete, it will lessen the
hunger hormones. From there, your senses will come
load the stomach must bear to mechanically mince
the substrate into smaller and smaller parts. So
As you can see, there is not a single solution to your
chewing properly, swallowing and waiting for that bite
stomach digestion issue. It must be diagnosed and
to enter the stomach before the next bite is taken is
treated accordingly if a solution to the cause is
vital to lessen the stress on your stomach.
desired. Of course you may take a symptom relieving
drug. However you will experience incomplete
The bolus of food then makes its way via the
digestion and therefore lowered overall wellness. But
esophagus into the stomach, a highly acidic
if you’re here, reading this, then I suspect you’re
environment of pH around 2. This is no mistake, the
high acid environment serves to kill the majority of
parasites, bacteria, fungi and viral particles that have
In the bulk of cases, these kinds of problems are
come along for the ride. Secondly, the acid actually
imminently treatable. In fact it’s one of the areas
activates the enzymes that will do the first part of
Firstly, there are several things I urge you to ‘get right’
So now it begs the question: if stomach acid is so vital
as part of great digestion. Please ensure you’ve
to digestion and we must digest food to live, why
mastered these before seeking assistance.
would we want to use an ant-acid or acid-reducing
drug like Nexium??? The simple answer is that the
#1 Engage your senses: before eating, during
pharmaceutical companies have it backwards. Their
preparation of meals and of course during the actual
goal is to reduce a symptom. If we have acid reflux,
eating itself, be sure to really smell, hear, feel and taste
which means acid is making it’s way up into the
your food. It’s one of life’s great joys that we get to
esophagus, the logical symptomatic solution is to
eat many times a day for many years. The more you
reduce the acid, right? Well, kind of.
can involve heightened, conscious sensations the
We must ask why that acid is in the esophagus in the
#2 Chew thoroughly: Initially, shoot for a number
such as 30 chews. When you get used to it, you’ll
subconsciously chew your bite until it’s uniform in
#3 one of which is to close the sphincter between the esophagus and the stomach.
#4 Therefore, low acid = open sphincter.
#3 Savour: This means sit to eat. Never stand, and
#5 Open sphincter = acid reflux into the esophagus
certainly don’t eat ‘on the run’. This also means to
and all the fun and pleasant symptoms of burning,
savour your eating experience both as an entire meal
discomfort, burping etc. So the solution in that case is
and also each bite. Make sure you don’t go for
actually to increase acid so that the valve will close
another mouthful until the previous one is in the
thus preventing it entering places it’s not wanted.
There are many reasons that there would be low acid
to begin with. Firstly, each individual, as we mature
and spend more time on this earth, will eventually
experience lowered functioning of the cells that
produce the acid. After the age of about 40, there is a
fairly significant drop in this natural acid production.
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Secondly, mechanical/structural subluxation of the
empower individuals to become the change they
sphincter/stomach itself will cause dysfunction of the
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Thirdly, a nerve interference of the Vagus nerve along
it’s course from the base of the brain to the stomach
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Fourthly, a deficiency in the chemical cofactors to
manufacture acid will literally halt production of acid
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