Digestion and chewing. If any cute little thing brings us a lot you're seeing them teach you. I like chewing. The first symptom of every disease, digestion. 400 BC, Hippocrates said, all diseases start in our intestines. That was a long time ago, somehow we still haven't gotten it right.

Our digestion is made of fire and movement, whether it is health or disease, it's creating one of the two of those. So all diseases start with circulation. They then go to the tissues and then they then go to the organ. So what happens is you can read something over and over and over again. It's going to go to your circulatory system, what does your circulatory system do? It moves stuff around your body, that's what its job does.

So then it starts dropping stuff into your tissues, whether it's good or bad, it starts dropping it. Then when it hits an organ that's weak for whatever reason, just because of normal Personal makeup, that's where there's going to be a problem. So that's how it all works starts in the digestion, though. So organic foods and digestion, first organic foods again, we went over that earlier. They're less tech toxic pesticides, the dangers of altering food DNA, which we don't know how that's going to work out, a lot of people are on the side saying it's absolutely great. It's gonna save the world.

I'm on the opposite side with a lot of other people saying, I don't know about that. It could be really dangerous. I've seen a lot of sci fi movies and things go really wrong. And the lack of nutrients in the soil, all these things have made our digestion really weak. If we go back to the beach, well, this is why a lot of people have problems with B 12 that aren't necessarily vegans because it takes strong digestion and because of those problems, we don't have really good digestion. If diseases caused by imbalance wouldn't organic food be less taxing and create less disease?

If As nutrients in it, it doesn't have a lot of toxic chemicals. Dirty gas in or oil in a car. Do they work real well with you have dirty gas in your car dirty oil when they do an oil change or they just slap oil on top of the old oil that's been sitting in there and then they drain it out. For an object's you wouldn't put salt or sugar in the gas tank, maybe somebody didn't mind, but you will do it on your own. So there's, you know, why do we do it in our bodies? It's essentially the same thing.

Can car sit in the garage without being driven? I promise you they don't. They don't work really well, if you just let them sit. It's the same thing with humans. We need to move. How about food on shelves, it's the same thing.

Food that's been sitting on a shelf for possibly six months is going to work about as good as that car that's been sitting for six years. It's gonna do the same thing. It has the same life force in it not good. digestion is seasonal. Again, if we go back to the milk In the springtime, your body can digest a little better because that's when nature naturally produces more milk. That's when cows normally give birth and have milk flowing and all that fun stuff, your digestion is, is just like that.

Keep fresh food coming in and going out. digestion requires a whole lot of blood. This is why you don't want to exercise plus it just doesn't feel good. But this is why you don't want to exercise after eating a big meal because all the blood that's needed to digest now can't go everywhere else and you're gonna feel really weak and sluggish because you can't get blood going to those muscles. Biology of a plant powered digestion. animals that consumed flesh have smaller stomach straight intestines, eat fresh kale and sleep for hours after eating.

If you look at a cat, it's a very simple dog same thing. The wasted body odor is worse than an herbivores Have you ever smelled the breath of your pet? It's horrible as much as I love them. Thank you It's horrible. However you take an ape or an herbivore, their breath is much sweeter just because of what they're ingesting. During serious illness, most physicians prescribe meatless diets again, I would, I would question why we're not doing it more often or eliminating or lessening the amount we're eating.

Before we get to that point. Your upper digestive tract food is in your mouth for one to two minutes. Most people maybe 10 to 20 seconds, esophagus seconds, so it goes into your stomach, pretty much all stomach, it's there for two to four hours. If you're not chewing properly, maybe like six hours, then your upper digestive tract. prebiotics feed your intestinal flora. Probiotics are the intestinal flora.

There's a lot of hoopla on that lately. So just so you understand the difference. prebiotics are very important but they don't always get the press of the probiotics yet they feed your microbiome so they feed what's down here digesting your food. prebiotic fiber fiber is found in garlic, onions, beans and asparagus. So if you like those foods, eat more of them. There's other foods to your lower digestive tract.

This is where the probe prebiotics feed your microbiome. So they give all of those little things food and it keeps them going. Probiotics are the microbiome. microbiome is your intestinal tract. It's just a much fancier terms like is it small intestine foods, they're about two to four hours, two to four hours not that long. It's 21 to 26 feet long.

Holy cow, that's a lot of intestine. It's only three centimeters in diameter. So it's really really tiny, really, really tiny. It absorbs nutrients while passing food upward, goes up against gravity. human body's amazing intestinal mucosa creates a barrier for absorption nutrients and waste secretion. Your immune system is dependent on the strength of that mucosal lining which is your brain gut barrier.

You may have heard that up to 90% of your serotonin is believed to be produced in your small intestine. So if you want to be happier, get those small intestines happy. Break down breakdown starch, it also breaks down starches and sugars break down proteins into those amino acids except those eight that we can't make turns fat into fatty acids and like are all absorbs food and water and fat soluble vitamins. chyme absorbs salt and water as it passes through making kind of more solids substances in their diarrhea is basically the same consistency as time so as it moves along in your intestines, it starts absorbing stuff and slowly becoming more and more solid, hopefully, lower digestion continued. Your large intestine This is where food sits for a good amount of time. 10 to 48 hours.

It's there. Bacteria absorb additional nutrients here like those August saccharides. Or they can give you being gassed. It's five feet long. I don't understand all of that, that's you're looking at almost 30 feet of stuff just going in your belly right there and that would be your large intestine also synthesizes vitamin K and B complex vitamins via that gut bacteria that should be in there. one milligram of fecal matter has a lot of bacteria, as you can see 1.5 million bacteria.

That's a good thing though. From intestinal flora. It absorbs more water and salts, making waste more solid. Hopefully this is again a food passes through too quickly in your large intestine. It basically comes out at time it's that same consistency, that's what diarrhea is. It comes out too fast.

Then you have these accessory organs. I don't even know if you can read them but they're in your book. The liver which is my favorite organ does a lot of other things. Also These organs help you digest food, your liver, your gallbladder, your pancreas. If you have an imbalance of any of those organs, there are certain foods in Eastern medicine that you can eat that would help you with that. If you have problems with your large intestine for instance, you would eat pungent foods like onions, garlic and spicy peppers.

If you have stomach or spleen issues, you would eat sweet foods if you have liver gallbladder, organs as well. In other words, summer rules the stomach and the spleen. So if you have a problem with those two organs, or one of those organs, you want to focus on the season the organs and then take foods that are good to support those and then that will start to bring in balance. Season also means the time of the day. We aren't designed to eat anything at any time. Unfortunately, that's just not the way our bodies are designed.

This is where the Fit for Life was really good because they emphasized breakfast being very good. Light breakfast the word itself fast. You don't want to eat like this huge sandwich first thing in the morning have something very light factor fad, food combining maybe something to look into and if you are having digestive troubles digestion is always strongest between 10 and two. That's when you want to eat your heaviest meal it's not at dinner unfortunately. 3pm law back to the three panel is the natural rhythm of resting not grabbing caffeine chips or chocolate instead, there are options. Fresh Fruit banana ice cream, which is delicious popsicles are the best.

People love it popsicles and then if you if you must snack but we'll get to snacking in a bit. Heavy foods are best avoided in the evening, large meals equal a lot so blood going to your stomach. At that time of day your brain needs blood. So the blood is going now to your stomach instead of to your brain where it needs to be going. So large meals are undergo also easily digestible foods in the evening promote better sleep yay goes back to chapter one see how it all comes full circle at some point it really is my favorite topic I'm not gonna lie habit is a dinner guest with you bringing chewing to your table How does this How does as a separate place set up I think it's really really important it's the first stage of digestion that's where food is supposed to be for one to two minutes it's not there for one to two minutes.

I'm I'm a big tuber and even I don't think I have food in my stomach for I mean in my mouth for one to two minutes. salivary glands are very important, but this only happens when you chew. So salivary glands release mucus and digestive enzymes that are mixed while you chew. Remember that pound of I think it was a pound of saliva that only happens when you chew. Chewing breaks food into smaller masses. neon choke on it, that's always a really good thing.

If you want to absorb the nutrients, you need to chew it and not choke on it. It increases the immune system by triggering the release of th 17 cells, those th 17 cells help fight those conditions. periodontal disease is one of those things. It's why we were always told to chew gum after a meal because it does actually, in fact, it's not the sugar in the gum, but the chewing creates saliva, which releases all kinds of good things that then helps digest your food and make your mouth healthier and all that good stuff. swallowing large amounts of food without chewing equals gas. So if you have a lot of gas problems to your food slow down because you are inhaling your food, you should be inhaling air.

No more wolfing down your food. I promise I'll start with the cliches wolfing down food again is something that we had to do in primitive times. In case that wild boar about the food before us or in case that wild boar came after us, we don't need to do that anymore. We can slow down. How much so how much would you pay for a one song performance? Not very much right.

But yet we can pay 20 to $50 for a meal and eat it in five minutes. I can promise you most chefs who spend three hours on a meal don't want eat next five minutes you'd be really pissed if they only came on play one song and then laughed and you'd spent $50 so make sure you food enjoy it. aroma is also linked to your taste buds. Remember, we talked about that, that your nose is related to your mouth so use your senses when you eat, smell the food before you put it in your mouth. It kind of gets everything ready a it'll activate some saliva, but it also starts to get you ready for the digestive process. I don't know where I heard this race, but it's one of my favorites and I caught it all the time.

Drink your food and share your liquids. Your food should be the same consistency when it goes down your stomach or down to your esophagus no matter what it is whether it starts a solid in your mouth or as liquid water is the exception. juices. Does anybody here ever drink juices or smoothies? Okay, do you chew them too. That's what I mean by by drinking your liquids or chewing your liquids.

Because again, those enzymes even though you don't think it's important to actually and you don't need to because you're not going to choke on it and stuff like that. There's still enzyme activation that needs to happen. So when you actually start chewing those smoothies, it tastes a lot better. Unless you've got like some weird green one that doesn't taste good no matter what and then I understand plucking notes. It does actually work because again, the aroma and the taste are linked together. But if you To your liquids, that's what I mean by that when I used to do juice fasts or smoothies or whatever it is I chew my food I'm an obsessive chewer 20 minutes signal from your stomach to your brain.

Again, there's that stretch receptor, the nutrient receptors, they are slow, which so bad for us, it really wouldn't be helpful if like, once our stomach was full, the brain went, Oh, god, I'm full stop. You don't need that bite. Oh, okay, cool. Unfortunately, there's a 20 minute lag. So if you slow down by chewing, by the time you get done, you fall, and then you get like three quarters of the way through your plate. That's pretty cool.

I like that. So your assignment for this week. Sometimes I like to do this in person. I'll have treats but we don't have time. Normal as you normally eat your next meal. So when you take a body, just just quickly chew your food the way you normally do, I count how many times you chew it, it's gonna be a little skewed because once you put focus on It is going to change it a little bit, but you will get a pretty good estimate.

You can even just do it. Now that was about four years, then consciously to 20 to 30 times on the next bite. By the time you get done with it, you're gonna hate me and I apologize but it is what it is. You'll notice a lot of different tastes and textures when you do that. Hopefully