Food is information for our cells

I like the saying, which was made popular by Hungry for Change, 2013 “We are overfed, but at the cellular level we are starving to death”. The problem isn't that we are eating too many calories. We are eating too few for the right places. How can we look at 100kcal from gummy bears the same way as 100 calories from nuts? Instructions given to the body isn't the same.

What and When we eat determine if our body will be healthy or not. Every symptom we experience is a direct signal from our body to say something isn’t quite right: constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloat, tired, acne, rashes, joint pain, depression, acid reflux etc. The problem? We don’t listen.

We go through life experiencing symptoms but we don’t’ change anything. Then one day our body can’t keep up after years of bad habits and we start having serious health issues; high blood pressure, Type 2 Diabetes, atherosclerosis, High Blood Pressure, Cancer, IBS, Underactive Thyroid, etc.

When the diet is wrong, medicine is of no use, When the diet is right, medicine is of no need. Ayurveda proverb

Did you know that in 90% of cases, constant acid reflux is a result of low stomach acid production? The conventional medical approach is to prescribe a proton pump inhibitor, which reduces stomach acid production even more, compounding the problem. Symptoms may go away with medication but the root cause of the problem has not been addressed. Proteins are digested in the stomach by HCL while carbohydrates are digested in the small intestine, not in the stomach. When HCL is low in the stomach, proteins take a longer time to digest and carbohydrates sit in the stomach, waiting for proteins to be digested and after 30-45minutes start fermenting. This process creates gas, which start creeping up the esophagus along with the little bit of HCL present in the stomach causing the burning sensation. The solution: increasing HCL in the stomach.

Your body has been programmed to heal itself. If you understood all of what the body does to protect itself from developing diseases, you could not help but be amazed. Let’s start listening to the signs!