Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now, it doesn't know the difference between a moisture prohibitive in the food or a moisture prohibitive in the digestive tract.
Mike: So, you're dehydrating your dog.
Newman: Right. So, when you're dehydrating the digestive tract, all that old, rancid fecal material hardens in the digestive tract and actually creates a barrier to assimilating nutrients into the blood stream.
Mike: Wow, so not only is the dog malnourished, its whole digestive tract is cancer-causing.
Newman: Exactly. That is why we have seen such an increase of dog cancer. Now, you mentioned diabetes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Looking at your skin is actually a very good way to get a quick glimpse at the overall health of not only your digestive tract and your large intestine, but your entire body.
If you want a healthy digestive system, all you really have to do is adopt a healthy lifestyle. The same things that irritate skin also irritate your digestive tract. If something is giving you acne, rashes, eczema or any kind of skin problems, chances are it is doing the same thing to your large intestine and perhaps your entire digestive tract.
Remember, the body is holistic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The combination of the barley and the oatmeal helps maintain a really clean digestive tract. Remember, a clean digestive tract helps the food get assimilated after it gets broken down and helps the nutrients get assimilated into the blood stream. It's very important through the lifestyle process that the animal has a clean digestive tract. These two grains help to promote that.
Mike: Some would say that is the essence of being free of disease -- a clean digestive tract.
Newman: As a naturopathic doctor, Mike, I couldn't agree with you more.
Mike: You also have flax seed in there. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 The vagus nerve is the main nerve responsible for moving food through the digestive tract. If this nerve is damaged by glycation and free-radical damage/oxidation as well as other elements associated with long-term exposure to glucose, the intestinal and stomach muscles can stop working properly, and food will move much more slowly through the digestive tract. This condition is known as gastroparesis. Because the stomach of someone who has gastroparesis does not empty itself normally, it is more challenging to monitor and control blood glucose levels. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, when you're dehydrating the digestive tract, all that old, rancid fecal material hardens in the digestive tract and actually creates a barrier to assimilating nutrients into the blood stream.
Mike: Wow, so not only is the dog malnourished, its whole digestive tract is cancer-causing.
Newman: Exactly. That is why we have seen such an increase of dog cancer. Now, you mentioned diabetes. Another reason for diabetes is that you don't maintain proper blood sugar. Then you put on top of that all the sweet treats. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 It forms a gel in your intestines that regulates the flow of waste material through your digestive tract. This type of fiber is found in oatmeal, oat bran, dried peas, beans, lentils, apples, pears, strawberries, and blueberries. Soluble fiber is good for you, but no matter how much of it you eat, it won't influence your hormonal equilibrium. Insoluble fiber, on the other hand, can directly help to decrease estrogen overload. It binds itself to extra estrogen in the digestive tract, which is then excreted by the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, when you're dehydrating the digestive tract, all that old, rancid fecal material hardens in the digestive tract and actually creates a barrier to assimilating nutrients into the blood stream.
Mike: Wow, so not only is the dog malnourished, its whole digestive tract is cancer-causing.
Newman: Exactly. That is why we have seen such an increase of dog cancer. Now, you mentioned diabetes. Another reason for diabetes is that you don't maintain proper blood sugar. Then you put on top of that all the sweet treats. |
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| Remember, a clean digestive tract helps the food get assimilated after it gets broken down and helps the nutrients get assimilated into the blood stream. It's very important through the lifestyle process that the animal has a clean digestive tract. These two grains help to promote that.
Mike: Some would say that is the essence of being free of disease -- a clean digestive tract.
Newman: As a naturopathic doctor, Mike, I couldn't agree with you more.
Mike: You also have flax seed in there. You have omega-3 oils.
Newman: Yes. Wonderful fatty acids. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The same things that irritate skin also irritate your digestive tract. If something is giving you acne, rashes, eczema or any kind of skin problems, chances are it is doing the same thing to your large intestine and perhaps your entire digestive tract.
Remember, the body is holistic. One organ can reflect the health status of another, or even of the entire body. You can tell a lot from the skin, and even from fingernails or eyes. All you have to do is learn to pay attention to your body and interpret the obvious signs of health or disease. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Zelnorm is one of a new class of drugs called serotonin-4 receptor agonists, which activate receptors for serotonin, a relaxing neurotransmitter, in the digestive tract. This action is thought to normalize digestive tract movement.
Studies involving Zelnorm show a mild benefit, such as improved bowel movements and reduced abdominal pain, discomfort and bloating, but the drug's long-term safety and effectiveness have not been established. The most common side effects include headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and dizziness. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Probiotic supplementation is especially critical if a lot of yeast is present, and will help restore a healthy balance of microbes in the digestive tract. Since a healthy digestive tract is critical for prevention of allergies, working with a health-care provider who can eliminate yeast and replenish some of the good bacteria through probiotics use will help to diminish eczema flare-ups.
Folic Acid and NAC for Hearing Loss
IF YOU'RE A woman and you're at an age when it's even possible that you can get pregnant, you've probably heard that you should be taking folic acid on a daily basis. |
| Many people know that the gel of the aloe vera plant has a proven ability to soothe and heal the skin, but truth be told it's darn good for healing and soothing a variety of conditions in the digestive tract, too. Virtually anywhere there's an irritation—on the skin or in the digestive tract—aloe vera can help.
The Healing Power of Glyconutrients
There are more than 240 species of aloe, which grows in Africa, the Near East, Asia, Europe, the southern Mediterranean, and the Americas. Although it's a member of the lily family, it looks like a cactus. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 ENERGETIC DRIVER 8: STOMACH DRIVER
The major organs of your digestive tract, including your stomach, intestines, and bowels, generate the Stomach Driver field. However, the main bioenergetic mechanism by which this field is generated is the electron transfers caused by the myriad activities that take place in this region of your body. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Here's how it works: Urine is normally sterile and free of bacteria, but sometimes tiny organisms like bacteria from the digestive tract make their way to the opening of the urethra. Then they do what bacteria like to do—they multiply. When that happens, infection is right around the corner. (An infection that stays in the urethra is called urethritis, and if it moves up to the bladder it causes an infection called cystitis. It can even move further up the ureters and infect the kidney in which case it's called pyelonephritis, but that's a whole other story. |
Ron Garner
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 Kouchakoff s study was that eating cooked foods or foods that have been processed, preserved with chemicals, pasteurized, or homogenized, causes the body to divert its immune fighters to the digestive tract to deal with what it views as toxic substances. In the process, the rest of the body is left less protected. Also, it must attempt to eliminate the harmful substances as well as cope with the lack of nutrients contained in processed foods.2
The Pottenger Cats Experiments
In 1932, Francis Pottenger Jr. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The obligatory ten minutes most physicians spend per patient often became an hour of discussing drug strategies and counseling patients on how to manage life-derailing symptoms, including abdominal pain from severe inflammation of the digestive tract, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding. It was nothing for Mullin to call a patient over the weekend to see how he or she might be faring on a new medication. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Because the micronutrients and the bulk of plant fiber activate the ultimate satiation hormones produced by cells in your lower digestive tract. That's right, these plant compounds activate the ultimate "I'm not hungry" hormone switch. This switch can stop a rampaging teenager at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
In the Teardown phase, you learned that the more you consumed animal products from animals that ate green things, the healthier you'd get. In each case, the animal was just the middleman between green things and you. |
Anne Harrington
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 When he was still a student at Harvard, his mentor, Henry Pickering Bowditch, set him and another student, Albert Moser, the task of using newly developed X-ray technologies to study the passage of food through the digestive tract of laboratory animals. The work proved fruitful, and Cannon went on to use X rays to study peristalsis—the intestinal movements associated with digestion—about which at the time very little was known.10
It was in the course of these investigations of peristalsis that something unexpected happened. |
Ron Garner
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| As digested food moves through the digestive tract, the walls of the colon are constantly at work absorbing moisture and nutrients out of the contents for use in the body. The colon wall acts as a two-way filter that allows the passage of body wastes, toxins, and fluids en route to elimination. The longer that digested material remains in the colon, the more moisture is absorbed from it, and the drier and more compacted it becomes.
Chemical laxatives are harsh and irritating to the bowel and should not be used. They only provide temporary relief and add to the problem. |
| This causes the body to secrete greater quantities of acid or alkali to achieve adequate concentrations to break down food in the digestive tract, which lengthens digestion time and uses more energy. Water should be consumed approximately thirty minutes before meals, and not until two hours after consuming a carbohydrate meal, and three to four hours after consuming a heavy protein meal.
Using Too Many Condiments
Condiments such as refined salt, distilled vinegar, and most relishes, sauces, and seasonings are not real food because they contain toxins and very little, if any, food value. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Breaking protein down into usable fuel in the digestive tract liberates an excessive amount of heat, which induces rapid aging. (Remember those dozing carnivores?) This excess heat production can be used to your advantage during initial weight-loss efforts; in fact, it is the secret of success in high-protein/low-carb diets. But in terms of longevity, the iron overload in animal protein induces oxidative damage to your tissues. Moreover, in terms of weight loss, animal tissue or products-think cheese-have dense caloric loads that thwart long-term weight-loss efforts. |
Ron Garner
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| DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
The purpose of the digestive system is to convert food into simple, usable components that the body can use to build and maintain health. The digestive tract is actually considered to be an external tube extending from the mouth to the anus because there are no direct openings from it into the body.
Mouth and Salivary Glands
The mouth is the initial holding area for food, and is where the breakdown process begins through chewing and the mixing in of digestive enzymes produced by the salivary glands. The teeth, with the aid of the tongue, perform the chewing process. |
| Fermentation in the digestive tract results in flatulence and lower bowel gas. If this toxic air is not eliminated by "off-gassing," it is absorbed into the body.
The process of normal digestion requires a considerable amount of energy. When foods are incompatibly combined at the same meal, the body must direct more energy than normal to the task of digesting and clearing it through the system. Excessive amounts of enzymes are used, which results in lower energy production. This is why we often feel sleepy after a large or improperly combined meal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is only possible if you have 9 pounds of fecal matter stuck in your digestive tract that are flushed out by the fruit. It is not humanly possible to lose 9 pounds of actual body fat in 3 days unless you're dying of cancer or radiation poisoning. Jay Robb is well educated about nutrition, of course, and he knows all this. I imagine the "9 pounds in 3 days" claim is simply a marketing hook to get people to pay attention to this very helpful nutritional guide. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 It improves digestive tract function and is prescribed also to treat constipation. With its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties, aloe vera juice also effectively eases coughs, and the steam from the gel can be inhaled to soothe bronchial congestion—both applications useful for asthmatics.
A wide variety of preparations are available, including juices, gels, ointments, creams, lotions and shampoos.
Sourcing herbs
You should consult a reputable herbal practitioner when seeking herbal remedies, but health food stores can often supply proprietary lines. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Since a healthy digestive tract is critical for prevention of allergies, working with a health-care provider who can eliminate yeast and replenish some of the good bacteria through probiotics use will help to diminish eczema flare-ups.
Folic Acid and NAC for Hearing Loss
IF YOU'RE A woman and you're at an age when it's even possible that you can get pregnant, you've probably heard that you should be taking folic acid on a daily basis. What you may not have heard is that folic acid can also help with hearing loss.
First let's get the pregnancy issue out of the way. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Internet is a storehouse of information and testimonials about aloe vera curing IBS, ulcers, Crohn's disease and other disorders of the digestive tract. This is one of the best-known applications of aloe vera gel.
Taking aloe certainly isn't a magic bullet cure, of course. It won't reverse your disease after drinking one glass of aloe vera gel. It needs to be used regularly. Most people report positive results in 3 - 30 days, depending on the condition. |
| Halts colon cancer, heals the intestines and lubricates the digestive tract.
Ends constipation.
Stabilizes blood sugar and reduces triglycerides in diabetics.
Prevents and treats candida infections.
Protects the kidneys from disease.
Functions as nature's own "sports drink" for electrolyte balance, making common sports drinks obsolete.
Boosts cardiovascular performance and physical endurance.
Speeds recovery from injury or physical exertion.
Hydrates the skin, accelerates skin repair.
Truly, there is nothing else that compares to the medicinal potential of aloe vera. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Things like brain cell function, hormones, gland function, oxygen transport, cell wall function (keeping things in or out of your cells) and digestive tract operation (putting together nutrients and blocking allergens) are adversely affected.
Food manufacturers don't tell you this on the product label, of course. Your body needs essential fatty acids and you are programmed to keep eating until you get them. If you're only eating trans fats, you'll never feel fully satiated, because your body will never get the fatty acids it needs for essential function. |
Ron Garner
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| It is also valuable when taken internally to neutralize toxins and harmful bacteria in the digestive tract and respiratory system. Only minute amounts are necessary, so you need to educate yourself properly before taking it internally.
As with other remedies mentioned in this section, tea tree oil is available at most healthfood stores.
THE ROLE OF ANTIOXIDANTS IN HEALTH
Antioxidants play a very important role in maintaining health and slowing the aging process. They are the "soldiers" that keep cellular "terrorists" to a minimum within the body. |
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