Importance of good digestion

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Importance of Good Digestion Many ancient civilisations understood the importance of good digestion and that many ailments could be attributed to something wrong with the diet. Eating and drinking is essential for life. We wouldn’t last long without either. Food equals energy and the processes that the food goes through in the gut would not have been known in ancient times. But now with modern science we have a much better understanding. Apart from the mechanical processes of starting the action with chewing food in the mouth and acid churning stomach movements, the rest involves various enzymes and bacterial activity. By far the most critical part of the thirty-foot digestive system when it comes to absorbing nutrients occurs in the longest part; the small intestine. It’s long and only called small because compared with the large intestine it’s much narrower in diameter. It’s here that bacteria along with oxygen and hydrogen molecules complete the process of reducing the food into molecules that can be absorbed through the minute blood capillaries in the lining.


It has long been thought that with our poor modern diet that lacks enough roughage and contains far too much in the way of additives and preservatives that an oxygen boost would not go amiss. One such supplement is sold as oxygen elements and the advantages can usually be quickly felt. In a good healthy diet oxygen is naturally conveyed to the gut but modern highly refined foods are not the way to obtain this essential element.

We all know that without oxygen there would be very little life on Earth. Every body cell requires a fresh boost of oxygen to stay alive. Even most of the helpful bacteria in our gut needs oxygen.


These aerobic bacteria help the waste to pass through the system and when their oxygen levels are low then just like any other microorganism dependent on oxygen they fail to do their job. The poor diet and underperforming digestive system leads to any number of ailments both major and minor. From a bloated feeling to constipation, diarrhoea to crones can all be attributed to poor digestion. Although there is no single cause for the more worrying conditions that leads to bowel cancer a poor diet and under-performing digestive system is thought to be a probable factor. The very fact that obese middle aged people are more likely to develop this cancer indicates this is true. A simple change in diet that includes plenty of healthy roughage helps to keep the bowel unblocked and whilst diet is always the first consideration, some supplements containing oxygen and healthy bacteria may also help. There are a number of oxygen supplements deigned to release this element into the lower part of the digestive system. The way to choose the one that may be best for your particular condition is to read as many testimonials as possible and make sure a reliable source supplies the goods.


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