Digest This! Part II

In the last email I sent out I talked about WHY it’s important to first, heal your digestive tract and to eliminate the ‘12 BAD Foods’. With some mention of the 90 essential nutrients.

Today, I want to focus on why those foods are bad, an in particular, focus on the first half of that ‘BAD Food’ list and why they’re just awful for your gut, so… Let’s Get Started!

Why Wheat (Barley, Rye & Oats)? ‘That’s my breakfast cereal we’re talking about here!’ I hear, but this is why: wheat, barley, rye & oats are proteins that are hybridized to withstand long growing seasons, such as those during the winter, and when you hybridize something, you always give up something to get somethng, in this case, to hybridize wheat (or bread) you give nutritional content of the bread.

Moreover, wheat, barley, rye and oats are part of the gluten family which is not digestable to most of us humans. And when these gluten proteins make contact with our intestinal villi, the villi actually swell up.

Think of an animal coming across poison ivy for the first time,… the poison ivy has a defensive mechanism in it which produces a toxin to defend against animals and bugs, etc.

Once animals touch that poison ivy they won’t do it again! Our bodies are similar in the sense that when our intestinal villi come into contact with gluten it’s like a contact enteritis, where the reaction is almost immediate.

OTHER THINGS TO CONSIDER?

Consider how good you are at absorb nutrition from supplements, or from foods. And this is not something that people think about, because their frist reaction is, 'the product's sh**'. This isn't always the case.

I would clean your diet up by using a rotation or elimination diet to identify what foods are causing your body inflammation, because a lot of the time people will be unknowingly harming themselves with certain foods, and they may have been doing this since they were old enough to walk.

When it's been done for so long you eventually adapt to it and it just becomes "the norm". So it takes an elimintation diet (usually for two-three weeks) for you to actually identify the problem. And, I cannot stress this enough,... you MUST JOURNAL IT!

The second one I will mention today is the quality control of the companies that handle the products you are buying. There are a lot of companies (world wide!) that will 'cut corners' to get products on shelves. Other factors to consider here are the physical form the products in (powder, hard pressed capsules etc...), how it's stored, where it's stored, to name a few.

Some forms are more absorbable than others.