The Human body was designed to get its energy from food and water Not Pills and energy drinks.
Many nutritional deficiencies start at the stomach. You can eat all the right foods and still be nutritionally deficient if your digestive system is not functioning properly. What good does it do to eat fruits, vegetables and proteins only to have it sit in your stomach and cause you cramps, bloating, and acid reflux? Rather than to gain energy and strength from the intake of food you feel more fatigue.
We've had many patients come in to our office looking to be evaluated for low energy, Epstein-Barr, and other forms of chronic fatigue because they feel their energy levels down or they're always tired. The digestive system is designed to take your food and convert it to the fuel necessary to run your body and function every day. If your digestive system is not functioning properly then your body is not effectively converting food to fuel and you're always fatigued despite eating the right foods.
Many patients come to us discouraged that their low energy conditions were treated by handfulls of vitamins, energy drinks and shakes, and vitamin B injections. While these treatments momentarily helped, in the long run all they did was add frustration to the condition. We continually hear people ask about treatments to increase, or pump up their energy levels. That's rediculous! They don't need their energy levels pumped up or increased, what they need is for their digestive system to work normally so that they can get the energy they need right out of the food they eat. When the digestive system is working normally, you can get up with energy, compete with energy, function all day with energy, and have energy to end the day with stamina. If your digestive system is normal you will scarcely be suffering from low energy symptoms.
The foods that you eat also help the body heal and repair. This makes the digestive system a paramount issue with athletes. The constant breakdown associated with training and competition requires that the foods that you eat contribute toward the healing process, as well as, the performance aspects. Either way, if the digestive system isn't processing the foods you eat efficiently, your energy levels will suffer, as well as, healing and repair.
Acid Reflux isn't from too much stomach acid, it comes from having too little.
Everybody has burped and felt that burning in the esophagus and the benefit of re-tasting your dinner's main course. It's called Acid Reflux and it usually follows dinner or lunch when you've eaten a spiced protein such as meat. Now this becomes a problem when it happens several times in an evening and even disrupts the sleep pattern. The usual cure is antacids, after all, the tv commercials told us that this is excess stomach acid causing all the trouble.
What would you think if you found out the problem was not too much stomach acid but too little. And then if it is too little acid, why are you taking pills that reduce tha stomach's acid levels even more?
Digestion begins with your first bite, chewing, and salivation of the food. By the time the food hits the stomach, the chewed and salivated food is digested by means of hydrochloric acid and peptic enzymes. These are very important secretions because they are necessary in the digestion of collogens and meat proteins. Should the body be low in acids the food sits in the stomach longer that it should and begins to putrify. Gasses form and when they are released in the form of a burp...you feel the burning acids in the esophagus and taste the food again.
Since the acid levels were low and digestion at the stomach remained incomplete the food was not passed into the small intestine. So it sits in the stomach, and you burp and burp and burn and burn. The acid levels of the stomach must be maintained to properly digest the foodstuff that we consume. Gas in the bowels also indicate a need for more hydrochloric acid and enzymes.
If you are suffering from these symptoms we'll be glad to discuss them with you. Feel free to contact us for information or to set up an appointment for a digestive exam.
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