Human Digestive system - Gut Health

50% of the health problems can be corrected by only looking or enhancing the gut health. Almost 70% of the immunity originates in gut health. Your overall health, Quality of hair, skin all depend your gut health.

Importance of gut Health

The food we eat gets digested and absorbed by the intestine and are lead to blood stream where nutrients are delivered to different parts of the body. This happens accurately only with healthy gut. Because of Poor gut heath there may be accumulation of metabolic waste in our intestine and as a result same waste material may be circulated throughout the body resulting in various disease like Diabetes Hypertension, Autoimmune disorder PCOD etc.

A Gut also communicates with brain through nerve and hormones, which manages general health.

A healthy gut contains, Gut microbiomes which are community of bacteria and fungi. They have positive or negative impact on our health. The gut micobiome helps to absorb nutrients and improves Immunity and behavior.

What are common Gut health Problems?

Bloating, Constipation, Irritable bowel syndrome, Indigestion, Flatulence, Gastritis etc.

How to Manage Gut Health?

Life style management with consistency is the key in managing Gut health.

Adequate Sleep: Sleep is where your body repair and rejuvenates recent research shows not sleeping adequately can have negative impact on gut heath.

Regular Exercise: By regular excises stress is managed well which is important in gut health. Exercises helps increase blood supply to different organ of the body. Which in turn helps in digestion and ensure better absorption.

Healthy Diet: Good amount of fiber, Greens and whole grains with normal herbs and spices from kitchen like Cumin, fennel seeds and Ajwain can do wonders for our gut. These food help in healing our gut. Avoid food with lot of preservative, artificially processed food refined food and food which cause irritation to your intestine.

Stress Management: Stress directly has negative effect on gut health. So managing stress becomes crucial. Brain and gut are connected and are communicating constantly. Therefore when you are stressed the normal digestion process can get disturbed.

Having understood the common and important methods for healthy gut, it is also important to note that clean gut is essential to prevent diseases. Here understanding on Detox therapies which have been explained in Ayurveda and Naturopathy will be useful.

 - Vivekananda Health Global