Holistic Nourishment

Digest Your Food With Ease!

One of the fundamental aspects of a nourishing lifestyle is to maximize your body’s ability to digest and assimilate nutrients.  Eating foods in combinations that promote optimal digestion empowers your body to use the nutrients to fuel biochemical reactions that promote health and wellness, rather than create inflammation, malabsorption, weakened intestinal wall, and an open door to infection and disease.

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Testing your digestive wellness is a great way to assess the efficiency of your metabolism.  Healing your intestinal tract will clear up digestive problems as well as other issues such as joint pain, allergies, inflammation, even acne.  (more…)

The path of digestion begins even before you put food in your mouth.  When you see and smell, or even just think about food, your salivary glands (parotid by the ear, sublingual and submandibular), release an enzyme called amylase, and mucus and water to coat the lining of the mouth.  Chewing your food is crucial to prevent malabsorption and indigestion.  (more…)