The digestive tract is the first out of four of our body’s major filters: the first of the Foundations of Health!

Would you have ever considered that chronic pain can be linked with poor digestion?  Well, let’s take a look at components withing the digestive tract and symptoms which are linked to pain:

• parasites,
• lack of good acids to break down foods,
• small intestine bacterial overgrowth,
• viral and bacterial particles,
• undigested food particles.  All of these create ‘bad acids’ in the body

Symptoms of poor digestion are huge and include the obvious symptoms of:

• bloating, burping, belching, wind, flatulence, diarrhoea, constipation
• reflux and heartburn
• allergies: eczema, dermatitiis, hayfever, sinusitis
• chronic coughs
• headaches and migraines
• chronic  fatigue and fibromyalgia, just to name a few…

Just about any long term health condition is linked with poor digestion: think of bones and muscles - what are they made out of: we are what we eat, but moreso, we are what we digest!  So if we can’t break down our proteins and fats, we can’t repair our muscles and nerves.  If we can’t break down our veggies and fruit, we can’t utilise the nutrients and keep our cells clean and healthy.  Get the picture.  Digestion is everything.

It takes many months to cleanse the digestive tract properly…  Parasites, for example, can be everywhere:  the gut, the liver, the bloodstream - the more we have the longer it takes.  We can even have parasites in the brain and nervous systems, so it’s not something that can done quickly.  In fact, the killing off of parasites, the process itself needs to include natural anti-inflammatory substances and immune boosting substances since the membranes of the parasites release about 30x more toxins than the parasites themselves.

Parasites, fungus, candida and bacterial overgrowth can all take some time to cleanse, and then we start the process of healing the leaky gut.  Then we start to deal with the liver, once the gut is feeling strong enough to cope with the onslaught of toxins we’re about to release through the liver.

All in all it really does take 9-12 months of taking you step-by-step through the process…  but the digestive process itself takes about 3 months or so (although if the leaky gut has been long-term some gut support can be recommended long-term…)

Take care,
4BC’s Madonna Guy ND & Jacqueline Dekoke ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
07 3348 6098
www.newleafnaturaltherapies.com.au