Digestive System

The Digestion System is well equipped to break down each and every morsel we feed it to supply all the nutrients necessary to live a healthy and vibrant life if we choose to feed it with the right foods.  If you treat it good, it will treat you good.  So while we are here on earth let’s make sure the vessels we are renting get its proper love by feeding it food that can release energy not suck us dry any life left to perform our daily tasks. .

Let’s begin this amazing journey along with what organs the foods we eat travel through.

Mouth

We begin digesting as soon as food touches our lips.  To get the optimal potential of our food, it is best to chew thoroughly.  Not only does this create more saliva and break down the food for a increased assimilation and absorption  for digestion to take place but it also allows your stomach to become fuller faster thus stimulating the full feeling and in turn makes us eat less.  That means you save money on over eating and your body does not have to stress over more food and allows weight loss to take place.

Esophagus

Also known as the windpipe, the esophagus send food from our mouth by muscular contractions called peristalsis to our stomachs

Stomach
This hollow organ acts as a container or food processer by mixing food with enzymes that break down food for further absorption.  Located between the esophagus and the intestines just under the sternum and extends to the bottom left.  The cardiac sphincter is the connection between the esophagus to the stomach and prevents any food from traveling back to the esophagus.  Heart burn is the sensation from stomach acids entering back into the esophagus. After receiving food from the esophagus,  gastric juices are used to break down the food. Enzymes are released to help break down proteins and transform them into a liquid called chyme and then passed to the small intestine where

Some substances such as alcohol is absorbed in the stomach lining.

The stomach consists of five layers from the inside out are as follows:

• The Mucosa-acids and digestive juices are produced in this layer
• The Submucosa
• The Muscularis-The layer of muscle that mixes
• The Subserosa and the serosa are the last two layers that wrap the stomach. The Serosa is the outermost layer.

After the break down it then enters the douendolum which is the beggining of the small intestine. The pyloric sphincter separates the stomach from the duodenum.

Small intestine

At 22 feet, this long muscular tube breaks down foods using enzymes released by the pancreas and bile from the liver. The mixing and moving is also working by peristalsis.

It is made of three segments

• Duodenum- Responsible for the continuous breaking-down process
• Jejunum- Important in re-absorption process of bile salts and absorption of nutrients during digestion
• Ileum- third and longest portion of the small intestine, about 12 feet in length in humans, Major functions are digestion and absorption of nutrients, and absorption of electrolytes into the bloodstream.

Food in the small intestine start out semi-solid, and end in a liquid form after passing through the organ. Once the nutrients have been absorbed it moves on to the large intestine, or colon.

Pancreas

Laying toward the back, the pancreas is a small organ, approximately six inches long, located in the upper abdomen, and adjacent to the small intestine. The pancreas is a gland organ in the digestive and endocrine system of vertebrates.

The endocrine system is a system of glands, each of which secretes a type of hormone to regulate the body.

Hormones regulate many functions of an organism, including mood, tissue function, growth and development and metabolism.

It is both an Endocrine gland and a exocrine gland. The Endocrine gland produces several important hormones, including glucagon, insulin and somatostatin. The hormones secreted affect the level of sugar in the blood.  Insulin is the chief hormone for metabolizing sugar.

The Exocrine gland secrets pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes that pass to the small intestine. These enzymes further breakdown carbohydrates, fats, protein and the chyme.

Liver

The liver is a multi-tasker!  Its main function within the digestive system is to process the nutrients absorbed by the small intestine. The liver is the body’s chemist and secrets bile into the small intestine that is important to digest fats.  It transforms raw material absorbed by the intestine and creates various chemicals need by the body.  Thank God for the liver for those who have left alcoholism behind as it detoxifies harmful chemicals that may have been taken intentionally or unintentionally!

Gallbladder

This small sack stores and concentrates bile made by the liver and then releases it into the duodenum (small intestine) when a meal is eaten to help with the fats in the meal.

Colon (large intestine)

This 6 foot long muscular tube made up of cecum (ascending colon), the transverse colon (descending colon) and the sigmoid colon which connects the small intestine to the rectum. This organ is a highly specialized organ responsible for processing waste so that emptying the bowels is easy and convenient.

Peristalsis takes place when waste is left over from the digestive process first in a liquid state and ultimately in a solid form. Bowel movements should happen from the rectum two or three times a day. From ingestion to defecation it normally takes about 12-36 hours assuming that the colon is fully functional and non-toxic.

Nearly 60 varieties of microflora or bacteria aid digestion, promote vital nutrient production, to maintain pH balance, and to prevent proliferation of harmful bacteria are contained in the colon. Good bacteria provide important functions such as the synthesis of folic acid and valuable nutrients from foods, including vitamins ‘K’ and portions of the ‘B’ complex. Bacillus coli and acidophillus comprise the majority of healthy bacteria in the colon along with other disease producing bacteria in lesser numbers.

Did you know?…

The average American person may be carrying around 10-15 extra pounds comprised of old fecal matter and that is even for a normal weight for their height and age. Now imagine if you are highly allergic or overweight!  You could be lugging around more than 15 lbs of old fecal.  Did you know that allergies are one of the first signs of poor colon health?!  You do not have to have allergies your whole life, you do not have to accept it as normal.  The Standard American Diet also known as the SAD diet consists of a low-fiber, high-fat, refined junk foods, over processed foods including fat, sugar, flour, meat, alcohol, toxins, preservatives etc etc… This SAD diet is the main reason for unhealthy large intestines. The left over old fecal matter is perfect breeding grounds for all sorts of bad bacteria and mucoid plaque to manifest. I cannot stress this enough that 99.9% of all disease forms in the colons.

Fiber is key to a consistent cleansing of the colon walls and the average American consumes less than the fraction needed for a single healthy bowel movement. In this type of environment it is fundamentally insurmountable.

All weight issues can be traced to shortcomings in the digestive tract as either a chief contributor or a secondary problem which emphasizes delays in other critical body systems, like the endocrine system and the circulatory system.

What do you think happens when the toxins present in the unhealthy colon are conveyed into the circulatory system?

One of the first things women notice is their bellies which are a direct result of colon toxicity in women.

This predicament may be very manageable to appropriate by changing your eating habits. A bulged tummy may indicate a more severe problem like the building and infestation of bad bacteria growing in the old fecal matter that is not being eliminated by a healthy diet with fiber.

Indications you need a fiber cleanse or colon hydrotherapy:

• Constipation
• diarrhea
• frequent severe headaches
• backaches
• fatigue
• bad breathe
• foul body odor
• irritability
• frequent mental confusion
• chronic skin problems
• abdominal gas and bloating
• lower back pain
• sciatic pain
• low resistance to colds and infections
• low energy and vitality

Just how serious is clean colons? Well here is what build-up of old; putrefied fecal matter can potentially create:

Blockage for proper digestion

• Blockage for nutrient absorption
• Blockage of waste elimination
• Creates desirable breeding grounds parasites and bacteria
• One of the best health assurances

Rectum
This 8-inch chamber connects the colon to the anus. It is like the signal receiver to let the brain know there is stool to be evacuated.  If elimination cannot happen at the moment it holds until evacuation can happen.  When it can evacuate, the sphincters relax and the rectum contracts, disposing its contents.

Anus
The anus is the last part of the digestive tract. The anus is a 2-inch long canal consisting of the pelvic floor muscles and the two anal sphincters (internal and external) that conclude the digestive tract. The lining of the upper anus is specialized to detect rectal contents. It lets you know whether the contents are liquid, gas, or solid. The anus is surrounded by sphincter muscles that are important in allowing control of stool. The pelvic floor muscle creates an angle between the rectum and the anus that stops stool from coming out when it is not supposed to. The internal sphincter is always tight, except when stool enters the rectum. It keeps us continent when we are asleep or otherwise unaware of the presence of stool. When we get an urge to go to the bathroom, we rely on our external sphincter to hold the stool until reaching a toilet, where it then relaxes to release the contents.

In conclusion:

If your colons are plastered with build-up, even if you eat healthy foods, your body can not absorb most of it.  If you suffer with an illness or disease, your body is crying out to you that is lacking a nutrient.  In order to get the internal organs what it needs, you must first remove the build up!  Only then can your body flourish and organs rebuild themselves  from the raw and live foods you give it.

If you feel you are lacking fiber, which most Americans are, then let’s get the sludge moving!  I suggest Psyllium Husks.

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