The average person who over eats a big meal will only suffer from temporary bloating, gas, and indigestion. But the person who cannot digest certain foods because of problems in the stomach will suffer the same problems, every single day and after every single meal, no matter how small. When this happens, they fill up with gas and fluid, then have bouts of diarrhea possibly followed by constipation, and suffers chronic, painful, toxic bloating and indigestion; which encourages the development of abnormal microbes and flora (like candida and bacteria).

When it comes to intestinal problems and diseases, you will need to eliminate all foods that offend and damage that area for as long as necessary to allow the gut to heal. Offending foods for most people include starchy foods, corn, rice, potatoes, soy, corn syrup, sugar, grains, milk, dairy, cereals, wheat, gluten, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, chocolate, onions, tomatoes, citrus and all processed foods.

Another fact is that 90% of foods that are consumed are processed, refined or dead food and so it lacks the necessary live enzymes and cofactors needed to break down or assist in digestion. This food is dead & chemicalized there is no nutritional value in chemicals or preservatives. Food stays in the stomach, being preserved until it sits and rots and ferments, then you get bloated and the multitude of bacteria which has developed, causes a burning sensation along the sternum and even in the throat. Sounds familiar? Then it gets digestive help from some over the counter remedy (which also creates another problem by decreasing the acid from the stomach & is made of even more chemicals). Eventually, it gets to the intestine, but the body doesn’t recognize it as anything other than foreign. The body has to now fight those bacteria that infested the stomach and at the same time try to find some nutrition in what is left? Can you imagine the enormity of all this? Think about it.

Compare an apple to a doughnut. Apple has water, pectin (fiber), sugar, enzymes, nutrients and many more. Doughnut has refined processed bleached white flour, refined white sugar, preservatives, chemical version of vitamins (maybe), and no nutritional value nor enzymes to help with digestion, do you see? So just think about the foods you are eating, are they alive or dead? How many other foods are you eating that have no enzymes to aid in digestion.

I can help, you don’t have to live with it, because that is the way it is. Why don’t you give us a call we would love to hear from you and see how we can help you through Clinical Nutrition.