We have all heard the saying you are what you eat. While there is a lot of truth to that statement, it is becoming clear that it may need to be updated to “you are what you and your gut bacteria eat.” Research into the function of the 100 trillion
Read more »In my last blog post, we made our way through the 22 feet of the small intestine. Once what has remained of our food completes that journey, it goes through a gate called the illeocecal valve and finds its way into the large intestine. The large intestine is only about
Read more »When we last left the gastrointestinal tract we were in the stomach where stomach acid and enzymes in conjunction with the mechanical forces of the stomach’s muscles were breaking down our food into a liquid known as chyme. When the gate at the bottom of the stomach called the pyloric
Read more »Last month our journey through the gastrointestinal tract took us from the mouth down the tube called the esophagus. As the journey continues in this the fourth blog in this series, we have come out of the esophagus and found our way into the stomach. When most people think about
Read more »When last we left our journey through the digestive tract, we had prepared ourselves to eat in a relaxed state; we took a bite of food, and chewed it well to get the digestive process started. Now its time to swallow. We go through the act of swallowing countless times
Read more »Summer is a time of many get togethers and with that comes a lot of opportunities for eating. As we continue our exploration of the digestive tract, now that you are in the right mind state for optimal digestion it’s finally time to take a bite. (If you missed the first
Read more »When it is working well, most of us don’t spend much time thinking about our digestive tract. We put food in our mouth, we may chew it a little bit, we swallow, and then its gone. If all is well, we have a bowel movement or two a day and
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