Let's Improve Digestion!
Channel: Happy Holistics
Date: 2016-12-15

Hi everyone!  This is Judy from Happy Holistics and in this video, I’m going to share with you some ways to improve your digestion.  You’ve probably heard the expression, “You are what you eat”, but I actually disagree.  I believe that you are what you digest.  That you can eat as much brown rice and broccoli as you want, but if you’re pooping out intact grains of rice or if you can still see flecks of broccoli in your stool, you're not digesting your food.  

This means that you’re not obtaining the nutrients from your food.

1) Chew your food - each bite at least 30 times.  

2) Take your time eating and breathe slowly, where each meal should last about 1 hour.  

3) Choose real, whole foods at least 80% of the time and include raw foods in there.  

4) Consume fermented foods on a regular basis - foods like kimchi, plain-flavoured kefir, sauerkraut, pickles, and miso.  

5) Consume pre-biotic foods in their raw form like sunchoke, dandelion greens, garlic and burdock root.  

6) Eat raw pineapple and papaya for their digestive enzymes.  

7) Don’t drink too much water before and during a meal.  

8) Eat simple meals.

9) Rotate your foods so that you’re not eating the same thing all the time.  

So, that’s all for this video - there are a bunch of other ways you can improve digestion that I haven’t listed here due to time, so don’t hesitate to do your own research.  

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