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How to keep your gut healthy

By Mary HobbsPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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According to the digestion and absorption of food materials eaten by the human body every day, some beneficial substances are sent to each organ of the human body for operation, while some harmful substances and endotoxins are discharged out of the body in the way of excretion. And because some people usually overeat and overdrink, some food materials contain more harmful substances, resulting in the deposition of endotoxin in the intestines and stomach also follow the rise, but also slowly reduce digestion and absorption, slowly appear a series of digestive system problems. Especially the elderly body recession, intestinal function weakened, so we should pay attention to some countermeasures to clean up the garbage for the stomach.

Which behaviors hurt our guts the most?

1. Anxiety

As the "second brain" of the human body, the intestinal tract can sense our pressure and mood changes, and long-term bad mood will cause gastrointestinal dysfunction. Some people work under too much pressure, too nervous anxiety, even cause irritable bowel syndrome.

2. Constipation

Constipation is not a serious disease, but neglect or abuse of purgative can be a big problem. Long-term use of laxative may also lead to colon melanoderma, which is a problem with intestinal mucosa, so that the intestinal tract loses its contraction function, and the residue stored in the intestine cannot be discharged. In this way, it can even cause inflammatory changes in intestinal mucosa cells and induce intestinal cancer.

3. Staying up late

The cost of staying up late is too high, in addition to causing immunity to decline, skin deterioration, intestinal tract can not escape.

4. Eating

Long-term irregular diet or overeating or dieting, will lead to intestinal more or less damage. Irregular eating and sleeping can disrupt the secretion of digestive enzymes.

Here are some ways to keep your gut healthy and get rid of waste.

1. Give bowel rest time, bowel is also need to have a rest, when our mouth to eat, intestinal also can't stand it, between meals to eat less a bit, to give them a nap time, let it can better digest food, in addition, after dinner, before going to bed don't eat, add burden to intestines and stomach.

2. Eat slowly, eating like a pig is a very bad habit, on the contrary, eating slowly is a very good habit, to the body of food in your mouth and chew slowly to a certain extent, ease the burden of the gut, with food, saliva in the mouth first completed the part of the digestion, still can increase satiety, reducing food intake.

3. Get up early with a cup of warm boiling water. Morning is the most suitable time for defecation.

4. Proper exercise, exercise can not only improve metabolism but also promote intestinal peristalsis. Generally speaking, the intestinal peristalsis ability of people who do not exercise will also decline, but intestinal peristalsis becomes faster after exercise, which can make the garbage discharged as soon as possible.

5. Eat some good intestinal food, you can eat more vitamin rich food, intestinal can play a protective role, but also conducive to the discharge of garbage.

Protect intestinal health, experts think that the first suggestion to develop a good rest time, a cup of warm water or honey in the morning to stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis. Secondly, eat more food rich in crude fiber, such as celery, leek, fungus, mushrooms, lotus root, appropriate addition of coarse grain. Fruit, it is suggested to eat more apples, bananas, dates, dragon fruit and so on. There is also massage zhongwan point, the position in the midline navel 4 inches, the first finger knead clockwise by rubbing 50 ~ 100 times. Then with the palm of the hand clockwise around the navel as the center of the massage belly 50 ~ 100 times. There can be beat back stomach Shu point, spleen Shu point.

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