Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
This is the Foundation of Good Health (Part 2)
Scenario #2:
Digestive remnants that are broken down enough to be absorbed into your bloodstream and lymphatic system (but are still too big to be used for energy) are called "circulating immune complexes" (CICs).
These CICs are THE leading cause of fibromyalgia and can impede healing, encourage and worsen pain and inflammation and compromise your immune system even more, making you susceptible to infections and viruses of all kinds.
The kicker here is SO many people are walking around with a gut that's leaky and they don't even know it.
A primary reason for that is ALL of the most commonly prescribed drugs make leaky gut even WORSE.
I'm talking about:
1) Anti-inflammatories--including NSAIDS like Tylenol and Advil, aspirin and steroids such as prednisone and cortisone.
2) Antacids that decrease the acidity of the stomach
3) Antibiotics
If you take any of those drugs on a regular or even occasional basis, chances are excellent you're "leaky."
Not so innocent symptoms after all
So as you can see, when you get heartburn, gas, constipation or diarrhea, there's a LOT more going on inside than you realize. These should not be shrugged off as just little annoyances or worse yet, normal consequences of eating!
Your body is telling you that there's something seriously wrong with your digestion.
You have to listen.
Because if you choose to just keep blindly popping your Tums, Nexium, Imodium, Ex-lax or Gas-X, you're playing Russian Roulette. Sooner or later your number will come up.
Don't let that happen to you.
Natural, efficient digestion is the foundation of great health.
And the good news is, it's very easy to achieve.
It just involves two simple steps:
1. IntestinalFlora are properly balanced
The friendly bacteria in your system help to keep the gut wall non-porous, as well as assisting with digestion and keeping harmful bacteria under control.
The ideal flora balance is having at least 85% beneficial bacteria and no more than 15% harmful.
But most people have the complete OPPOSITE of what they should have. This is not only due to poor digestion, but also environmental toxins, medications, stress and lack of sleep.
So it's essential to give your gut a helping hand with a quality probiotic supplement like Flora Plus Probiotic formular
Flora Plus contains proven, effective medical-grade strains of friendly bacteria that are robust and ready to take their place in your system. They'll help fend off the bad bacteria, keep your digestion smooth, support your immune system and help keep that gut wall nice and strong.
2. Give your DIGESTION a boost
What is becoming the Standard Nigerian diet (lots of fast food, packaged food and complex meals) is VERY hard for your system to digest. Your body needs to expend a LOT of enzymes trying to break everything down.
But your body can only produce so many enzymes. And longer you eat this way, the more you reduce your body's ability to provide adequate enzymes for digestion.
Not enough enzymes = poor digestion (and leaky gut).
There are a lot of people walking around with enzyme deficiencies and they don't even know it.
Because you live in Nigeria, this very likely includes you.
The good news is, you can help your body tremendously through enzyme supplementation.
Our range of Digestive enzyme supplements can be just what you need
Our range of enzyme supplements contains a wide variety of enzymes that each have their own specialty and target all the different types of foods you eat.
Studies show that supplements that have a variety of enzymes are the most effective and help the greatest number of people.
Take care of your foundation of health -- your digestion -- and it will take care of you in countless ways for years to come.
Start now.
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Have a Blessed New Month
Evelyn Okere
MD St Eve Concepts
eokere@eveconcepts.com
This is the Foundation of Good Health (Part 1)
Hello Friends,
Tell me, if you build a new house on a foundation that wasn't level, quite off kilter in fact, what do you think would happen?
The answer, of course, is that even if you used the very best materials, eventually your doors would stick and you'd need a crowbar to get your windows open. Stairs will creak. Walls will crack. Cupboard doors won't stay shut. The roof will leak and eventually all will be lost.
Soon enough, after a never ending stream of problems, it will have to be condemned and bulldozed.
Your body is the exactly same way.
It needs a solid foundation or it will fail.
Good digestion is that "foundation" on which your health is built from head to toe.
Everything good and bad in your health begins and ends with digestion.
You could be taking dozens of very expensive, highly specialized supplements or medications. But if your digestion is out of whack even a little bit, all those pills could be for naught. Totally useless due to poor absorption; money down the drain.
When your digestion isn't right (signs of this are: diarrhea, reflux, constipation, heartburn, gas, bloating, etc.) it's only a matter of time before the rest of the "structure" (YOU) starts to break down, and illness occurs.
What makes this worse is that the average person pays little or no attention to the symptoms of inadequate digestion. In fact, today it's commonly seen as normal!
And instead we rely on covering up symptoms with antacids, acid reducers, gas relievers, laxatives and anti-diarrheas.
But eventually the problems will become so big that you can't ignore them.
And they'll stem from one of these two things...
The two forms of poor digestion
When your foods are not broken down and reduced in size enough to be used by your body for energy production, one of two things is possible:
1) Food particles that are too big to pass through your gut wall will continue down the digestive tract, where they will putrefy and form toxins that get absorbed into your bloodstream.
OR
2) Food particles that ARE small enough to pass through the gut wall but are STILL too big for your body to use for energy will be absorbed into the bloodstream and the lymphatic system.
Neither of these is good. Here's why:
Scenario #1:
When your foods aren't completely digested and are too big to pass through the gut wall, they move down the GI tract and become nourishment for the harmful bacteria in your gut.
This is a double whammy.
For one, the food particles become putrefied, which is a fancy word meaning rotted. And as they rot, the harmful bacteria in your gut feed on them and multiply like rabbits.
As a result of this rotting, chemicals are formed that are poisonous to your body. They are SO toxic that they irritate the lining of your colon and eventually eat away at it, making it porous like a sieve.
This is called "leaky gut syndrome" and it allows those poisons to leak into your lymphatic and systemic circulation.
From there the poisons target specific organs, causing pain and inflammation and compromising their functioning until and unless they are detoxified by your liver (which can only handle so many toxins before IT gets overloaded and can't work properly).
The inflammation can manifest itself as a variety of conditions seemingly unrelated to digestion, so you (or your doctor) might not make the connection.
Some of the signs of leaky gut are:
* ADD (Attention Deficient Disorder)
* Joint and collagen problems
* Food allergies
* Chronic and rheumatoid arthritis
* Malnutrition
* Chronic fatigue
* Psoriasis
* Diabetes
* Fibromyalgia
(Fibromyalgia is a common syndrome in which people experience long-term, body-wide pain and tender points in joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues.
Fibromyalgia has also been linked to fatigue, sleep problems, headaches, depression, anxiety, and other symptoms.)
* Eczema
* Autistic-like symptoms
* Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
* Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
* Schizophrenia-like symptoms
* Skin problems like acne, hives and rashes
Plus the harmful bacteria overgrowth that's going on during all of this makes your gut wall even MORE porous. And having such unbalanced intestinal flora greatly weakens your immune system too.
And if THAT'S not enough for you, there is more……….
ST. EVE CONCEPTS LTD IS AN INTERNAL WELLNESS AND WEIGHT LOSS CENTRE WHICH SPECIALIZES IN ENZYME THERAPY TO ACHIEVE 3-5KG WEIGHT LOSS IN 7 DAYS OR MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. VISIT US AT 15 UDI STREET, OSBOURNE ESTATE, IKOYI, LAGOS. CALL: 08087630040 OR 08082043180.
www.eveconcepts.com
Evelyn
eokere@eveconcepts.com