Heal:
Anxiety - High Cholesterol - The Gut - The Heart - The Liver - Inflammation - The Kidneys - The Lymphatic System - The Nervous System - The Pancreas - The Pineal Gland - The Reproductive System - The Thyroid
Anxiety - High Cholesterol - The Gut - The Heart - The Liver - Inflammation - The Kidneys - The Lymphatic System - The Nervous System - The Pancreas - The Pineal Gland - The Reproductive System - The Thyroid
Heal the Gut
"All Disease Begins in the Gut" - Hippocrates
“If there's one thing to know about the human body; it's this: the human body has a ringmaster. This ringmaster controls your digestion, your immunity, your brain, your weight, your health and even your happiness. This ringmaster is the gut. - Nancy Mure
The importance of keeping your intestinal tract clean and healthy cannot be overstated. Remember that this is your main canal of digestion, which is where the breakdown of your foods into fuels and building materials takes place. After your food is digested, it is then absorbed through the lining of the intestines through the villa. Absorption of the nutrients from the foods you eat is just as essential as the digestive process. The billions of cells that comprise the body depend upon the absorption from the bowels for their nutrition. As previously stated, proper nutrition can be blocked from the cells by retained waste in the colon. This leads to a toxic buildup and the accumulation of a gluey substance throughout the intestines called “mucoid plaque.” This plaque causes inflammation and the breakdown of the tissues of the intestinal walls. Mucoid plaque is mostly a by-product of refined starches, sugars and dairy products. When the walls of the intestines are coated with layers of sticky plaque, the nutrients the body needs to properly function and perform to its highest potential cannot be absorbed. In addition, the sticky mucoid plaque is a breeding ground for parasitic infestation. These destructive parasites consume any remaining nutrients left in the GI tract. (Dr. Morse)
'The digestive system essentially consists of a lengthy tube or tunnel beginning at the mouth, dropping 10 inches or so down the esophagus, enlarging to form the stomach, then continuing as the intestine in a winding course through the abdomen to exit at the anus. The main digestive canal is assisted in its function by the pancreas, liver, and gallbladder. The purpose of digestion is to break down food, both mechanically and chemically, so that it can be altered into a form suitable for assimilation in the stomach and small intestine, carried off by the blood and lymph and ultimately made available for cell metabolism – the conversion of matter into energy and the conversion of simple substances into more complex ones to perform specific cellular, intercellular, and systemic tasks. The human body is a wonderfully complex creation, and the digestive system is a vital and fascinating aspect of it.
When we eat, the food molecules are broken into small particles in the mouth as we chew and are mixed with saliva which partly digests starches through the enzymes. As we swallow, the food passes down the esophagus to the stomach where it is churned up further, mixed with pepsin, hydrochloric acid, and lipase, which aid in protein and fat breakdown, and liquefied until it is ready to be passed into the duodenum, the entryway into the small intestine. Small quantities of food are "pushed" into the duodenum every 20 seconds or so for from 1 to 4 hours by the process of peristalsis, which moves food along in a wave·like rhythm characteristic of the entire gastrointestinal tract.
In the duodenum, bile produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, is added along with pancreatic juices. The bile, which is the only digestive juice that contains no enzyme, breaks up and emulsifies fat particles. The bile also activates the pancreatic enzyme just as hydrochloric acid activates pepsin in the stomach. The pancreatic juice helps digest carbohydrates and proteins and converts the fats partly processed by bile into fatty acids and glycerol. The intestinal juice contains four enzymes which complete much of the digestion process before the food is absorbed through the intestinal mucosa into the blood and lymph vessels that line the intestinal walls. During this process, the digesting food is being propelled along the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum of the small intestine (about one inch in diameter and twenty feet long) by peristaltic motion, as the small intestine secretes hormones that signal the pancreas and liver to stop injecting digestive juice and bile into the duodenum.
In the lower right quadrant of the abdomen, the remaining unabsorbed wastes are propelled into the cecum. The colon is slightly more than double the diameter of the small intestine and about six feet long. The ileum of the small intestine contains a one-way valve that allows wastes to travel out but never back in. The waste, after passing through the cecum, is moved up the ascending colon on the right side of the body, across the transverse colon (just below the liver and stomach) to the left side of the body, down the descending colon to the sigmoid colon which joins the rectum. When the rectum becomes enlarged with wastes, the desire to defecate occurs and wastes are eliminated from the anus.' (Bernard Jensen)
When we eat, the food molecules are broken into small particles in the mouth as we chew and are mixed with saliva which partly digests starches through the enzymes. As we swallow, the food passes down the esophagus to the stomach where it is churned up further, mixed with pepsin, hydrochloric acid, and lipase, which aid in protein and fat breakdown, and liquefied until it is ready to be passed into the duodenum, the entryway into the small intestine. Small quantities of food are "pushed" into the duodenum every 20 seconds or so for from 1 to 4 hours by the process of peristalsis, which moves food along in a wave·like rhythm characteristic of the entire gastrointestinal tract.
In the duodenum, bile produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, is added along with pancreatic juices. The bile, which is the only digestive juice that contains no enzyme, breaks up and emulsifies fat particles. The bile also activates the pancreatic enzyme just as hydrochloric acid activates pepsin in the stomach. The pancreatic juice helps digest carbohydrates and proteins and converts the fats partly processed by bile into fatty acids and glycerol. The intestinal juice contains four enzymes which complete much of the digestion process before the food is absorbed through the intestinal mucosa into the blood and lymph vessels that line the intestinal walls. During this process, the digesting food is being propelled along the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum of the small intestine (about one inch in diameter and twenty feet long) by peristaltic motion, as the small intestine secretes hormones that signal the pancreas and liver to stop injecting digestive juice and bile into the duodenum.
In the lower right quadrant of the abdomen, the remaining unabsorbed wastes are propelled into the cecum. The colon is slightly more than double the diameter of the small intestine and about six feet long. The ileum of the small intestine contains a one-way valve that allows wastes to travel out but never back in. The waste, after passing through the cecum, is moved up the ascending colon on the right side of the body, across the transverse colon (just below the liver and stomach) to the left side of the body, down the descending colon to the sigmoid colon which joins the rectum. When the rectum becomes enlarged with wastes, the desire to defecate occurs and wastes are eliminated from the anus.' (Bernard Jensen)
The Digestive System as Seen Through The Lens of Iridology
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