Digestion & Your GI Microbiome
In This Lab...
Orientation to Digestion & Your GI Microbiome
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Introduction to Optimizing Your Digestion
Your Digestive System, Human Microbiome & Gut Microbiome
Timeless Adaptation & Modern Convenience
The Surprising Power of Simple Eating Practices
Psycho-Physiological Aspects of Digestion
Part 1: Exploring Why You Eat
Part 2: Exploring When You Eat
Part 3: Exploring Your State When You Eat
Part 4: Exploring How and What You Eat & Drink
Optimizing Your Gut Microbiome
Practical Explorations to Support Your Gut Microbiome
Key Takeaways
Experiencing the Joy of Food
Key Habits
Digestion & Your GI Microbiome Checklist
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AT A GLANCE
We’ve all heard the saying, “we are what we eat”, and there is some truth in it. However, if we don’t digest what we eat properly, we won’t benefit fully from the nutrients within the food. Worse, foods that are not properly digested and in the appropriate segment of our digestive tract, can end up feeding yeast and the wrong types of bacteria in your intestines and favor their overgrowth, contributing to health challenges.
If you are experiencing any untoward digestive symptoms, from excessive gas or sluggish bowels, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel, heartburn, or gastric reflux (GERD), stomach ulcers, to colitis or Crohn’s disease, they are likely rooted in compromised digestion and imbalances in your GI microbiome. The most recent and evidence-based understanding of the role of the digestive system is that many diseases and everyone’s vitality, performance, and well-being, are intimately related to the function and efficiency of our digestion. This Lab will equip you to make substantial improvements in what and how you eat – in turn, improving how well you digest, the health of your microbiome, and positively influencing your health and vitality - systemically.
If you are experiencing any untoward digestive symptoms, from excessive gas or sluggish bowels, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel, heartburn, or gastric reflux (GERD), stomach ulcers, to colitis or Crohn’s disease, they are likely rooted in compromised digestion and imbalances in your GI microbiome. The most recent and evidence-based understanding of the role of the digestive system is that many diseases and everyone’s vitality, performance, and well-being, are intimately related to the function and efficiency of our digestion. This Lab will equip you to make substantial improvements in what and how you eat – in turn, improving how well you digest, the health of your microbiome, and positively influencing your health and vitality - systemically.
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
- How knowledgeable are you about your digestive function and gut health?
- Do you have any lingering or recurrent digestive, gas, or abdominal issues?
- Do you use any medications to manage digestive symptoms or bowel function, whether over the counter or prescription, fiber, herbal, or nutraceutical supplements?
- Symptoms aside, are you confident that you have optimized your digestive and intestinal function and microbiome health?
- Improving digestive function and intestinal health often has a favorable effect on sleep and body composition. Have you explored these relationships personally?
HYPOTHESIS
Sub-optimal eating habits and the resulting compromise of optimal digestion is affecting the majority today. The likelihood of you experiencing significant improvements in how you digest, look, feel, and function as the result of your engaging this Lab and exploring our guidelines, is very high. If you are experiencing any digestive or intestinal symptoms or dysfunction, or are simply looking to function better overall, you are very likely to experience improvements upon following the guidelines in this Lab. Improvements that cannot be achieved in the absence of these understandings.