Everything in the body is connected. If one thing isn’t right, it impacts everything else in your body.
That’s not a difficult concept to understand. Yet we forget that all time time. We eat junk food with little nutritional value and wonder why we still feel hungry, or are fatigued and out of energy.
Your body is controlled by what happens in your deep core: this includes your abdominal muscles, your pelvic floor, your intestines, your stomach, and more. When you take food in, the organs in your deep core process food into fuel and waste.
Eating good for you foods, whole foods that are easily digested and full of fiber, speed up the process and allow your body to work in an efficient way.
Eating processed foods has the opposite effect. Your body still reaches out to find the nutrition it needs and attempts to convert it into fuel in any way possible. The result is slowing down the digestion process.
Eating the wrong foods (highly processed foods, artificial sugars, chemicals, gluten, etc) aren’t processed as easily within your body. Because your body doesn’t recognize them, it isn’t sure what to do with them. They stick around much longer in your system, making you bloated and feeling weak and out of energy. It’s your body telling you it needs food!
It’s not just the foods we eat. Our stressed-out lifestyle is also to blame. We run here and there from the moment we rise until the moment we go to bed. Our sleep is impacted. We rely on junk food rather than whole foods and overuse antibiotics because of the way we feel. As a result, our internal ecosystem is completely out of whack. This is why we’re seeing a rise in things like food allergies, autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, among other things.
Where do you begin?
The most obvious place is to start by cleaning up your diet. Consume more fiber, more fruit, and veggies. Cut back on processed foods, animal protein, and simple sugars, all of which have harmful bacteria and contribute to many different diseases. Select foods with the fewest ingredients on the labels - ingredients you can actually read and understand.
Also, consider a probiotic supplement. Some foods contain probiotics: sauerkraut and yogurt. A good supplement can also work wonders. It helps increase the number of good bacteria in your GI tract, helping to alleviate some of the things that plague us every day, like mood swings, anxiety disorders, even chronic fatigue syndrome.
Avoid unnecessary medications. This includes over the counter as well as prescription. All of this wipes out the good bacteria that live in your internal organs. If you do go on antibiotics, you should take a probiotic for twice as long to help prevent things like nausea, diarrhea, and stomach cramping.
Also focus in on stress reducing techniques, such as more exercise, walking, or a yoga class. Do something every day to help you relax.