November 23, 2023 
One school of thought about promoting good digestion is called “food combining”. The theory holds that certain foods digest well together because of compatible length of time required, pH, and enzymes, etc. and that INcompatible foods lead to toxic products and disease. This website has a simple chart. One example is to avoid combining starches and proteins. I guess that alone makes Thanksgiving dinner basically the “poster child” of what NOT to do. Thankfully (er…hopefully?), we don’t do that every day.
Good health depends not only on eating nutritious food but also on being able to extract the nutrients from them and deliver them to the cells where they are needed. (Somehow calories seem to make it through to our waistlines no matter how bad digestion is). And, after the food value is removed, whatever remains can become a toxic burden if it hangs around. We literally “are what we eat” but also what we don’t get rid of. It is easy to ignore poor digestion if it isn’t talking back to us with something like heartburn, gas, bloating, constipation or diarrhea. However, that doesn’t mean that all our intricate systems are working up to optimum capacity.
To suppress obvious GI symptoms mentioned above, there are natural approaches that are safer than drugs. However, there is no substitute for fixing the root cause of the problem and doing so pays dividends all over the body. Quite often (almost always) the most fundamental cause of GI disturbances turns out to be an imbalance of gut organisms like bacteria and yeasts, inadequate water and a lack of fibrous foods in the diet. “Leaky gut” is thought to be the cause of most if not all autoimmune conditions and probably many more health troubles.
The text so far is the introduction an HBN library page. The balance of the page lists lots of resources such as info on a common cause of leaky gut, yeast and take the quiz.
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One simple thing you can do to help minimize the trouble from Thanksgiving dinner (or any others) is to chew slowly and thoroughly. That gives your enzymes a fighting chance. (And you will be less likely to over eat which compounds problems.
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