Digestion/Intestines

If you answered yes to any of these symptoms, your intestinal tract may be in need of some cleansing and detoxifying.

Myth # 1
Frequent Constipation is normal.
False. It’s important for the intestines and colon to flush and cleanse out old food on a regular basis.  If food is sluggish to move through, it begins to stick and build up on the walls of the intestines which can begin to putrefy and create infection.  If and when infection happens, it can create a list full of issues all the way from mood swings to the need of surgery.  Optimally, one should have a bowel movement after every meal, so that comes to three times a day, although most people can only get on a schedule of once per day.  This is fine, but for full elimination and optimal health, 1-3 times is preferred.  Constipation can be caused by many different things, always remember that water is a major key player in regular bowel movements.  Make sure that you are drinking half of your body’s weight in ounces per day to fulfill your needs, this means if your weight 150 lbs. you would be drinking 75 ounces of water per day.

Myth # 2
GERD/acid reflux is due to too much stomach acid.
Acid reflux, also called heartburn or GERD (gastroesopha­geal reflux disease) is linked to insufficient production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach not too much. With a lack of HCL, the food sits there longer than it is supposed to and is not properly digested causing the food to ferment resulting in a buildup of lactic acid and other metabolic acids. The refluxed liquid can also contain bile that has backed up into the stomach from the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine). Once GERD begins, it often becomes chronic. In America the nutritional content in our common food is so poor that ability to produce HCL declines drastically with age. We need an abundance of minerals particularly adequate amount of high quality minerals salts. In addition, it takes over 2000 calories to produce ¼ cup of stomach acid.  Most Americans by the time they are 70 produce only 5% of the hydrochloric acid that they did when they were 18 years old.  When we were 18 years old our bodies produced the equivalent of 30 caps of our Betaine HCL per meal! Supplementing our lives with a natural, food based HCL can be a tremendous key to achieving optimal health.

Digestion:
Digestion is one of the top concerns when dealing with any health issue.  With a poor digestive track, you are unable to absorb and process your food properly, which can leave you with a number of issues from feeling sluggish to acid reflux and many other major issues.  A poor digestive system can allow the blood to become more toxic due to incomplete digested food particles absorbed through the bowel into systemic circulation, not to mention that if your digestion is not working to its full potential, you’ll be missing out on feeding your body with the nutrients from your food.

Enzymes:
Tiny, highly active substances called enzymes play an amazing role in digestion. The body cannot absorb whole protein, whole fats or complex carbohydrates that are found in the food and require that these nutrients are broken down into smaller units by the enzymes before they can be absorbed into the blood from the gastrointestinal tract. Enzymes in the body are critical to all known life processes. Without enzymes, life could not exist. All uncooked foods naturally contain a wide variety of enzymes. Uncooked food contains all the highly active enzymes needed for proper breakdown of that food. The process of cooking food destroys the enzymes inherent to the food, which forces our pancreas to produce larger amounts of these enzymes in order to digest the food for proper absorption. Enzymes degrade at the very low temperature of 118 degrees.  Recent research has now shown that our digestive enzyme systems gradually wear out with use, especially if we eat a predominantly cooked food diet. Using Digest, Quantum Enzymes 60Vcaps with your cooked meals with help aid in your digestion.

Hydrochloric Acid:
Healthy stomach acid is needed for a healthy digestive tract. If you have low stomach acid, even the best food cannot be properly digested. If you are unable to absorb nutrients properly, this can lead to many different health problems. Healthy stomach acid helps kill disease-causing microbes and parasites routinely found in the food you eat. If you have low stomach acid, these infecting invaders may not be destroyed by your stomach's acid bath. They can then cause many types of infections. The power and importance of hydrochloric acid is demonstrated by the example of a dog. They have incredibly strong hydrochloric acid which can turn a rancid piece of old meat into something non-septic! Now you can see why low stomach acid (hypochlorhydria) is associated with so many common health problems. If these infections are not cleared, over time they can cause many symptoms, paving the way for full-blown disease. Low stomach acid can also cause indigestion. Believe it or not, too little stomach acid is the most common cause of an acid stomach, not excess acid. The HCL, Quantum 90Vcaps and the HCL Activator, Quantum 90Vcaps, when taken together,  will help your intestines produce more hydrochloric acid.

Healthy Intestines Mean a Healthy Body:
The intestines can easily be congested by toxic build up and sluggish movement, causing the digestion and elimination process to slow down.  When build up occurs, it makes it harder to pass food through which starts to rot or putrefy in the gut and create problems like infection, bad bacteria build up and gas.   Water is an important factor to intestine function, drinking half of your body’s weight in ounces gives an abundant amount of water throughout the day.  A major player in the intestine tract is the liver and gallbladder.  The gallbladder stores stomach bile and when it’s clogged with stones, the flow is slowed down and the amount of stomach acid that’s secreted into the stomach is less than desired.

The body functions as a complex bacterial ecosystem. Maintaining beneficial microbial balance throughout the gastrointestinal tract is vital to the stability of this ecosystem and essential to optimal health. 
The colon contains from 3 to 4 pounds of bacteria. Over 700 types of intestinal bacteria are harmful while only 20 types are beneficial. To maintain good health, the colon needs a ratio of 85% health-promoting “good” bacteria to 15% or less harmful bacteria. 
Probiotic Complex, Quantum 30 Vcaps contains the most effective lactic acid bacteria as found in the gastrointestinal tract that can inhibit the activity of harmful bacteria. Over time, using QPC can help increase a favorable ratio of beneficial bacteria over harmful ones. It is the world’s premier probiotic able to rapidly help bring about favorable intestinal microbial balance.

Colon:
According to naturopaths, proper bowel elimination is considered to be once after each full meal. So if you had a healthy colon, you would have 2 to 3 bowel movements a day. A healthy bowel elimination is one that is firm, light to medium brown in color and does not stink. Drinking sufficient amounts of water throughout the day increases regular bowel movements and aids in the adrenal gland function. 

Good Quality Salt:
It’s a necessity to have good quality salt in the system to have a balanced bowel movement, salt helps hydrate our bodies.  Salt that is filled with trace minerals like our Pink Salt, Quantum 12 oz Granules is used to balance out the hydration in the colon.  Without good quality salts in our food, our body’s ability to turn that food into stool and release it with proper hydration is limited.  Good quality salt also helps preserve the food you ingest so there is less putrefaction which decreases issues like gas and bloating.  Salt also aids in adrenal function, the main gland that regulates hydration.

Adrenals:
Lifelong colon problems and irregular elimination may be linked to adrenal insufficiency. The adrenal glands are responsible for fluid balance in the colon, if your adrenal glands are weak and need extra support you may want to look into taking the Adrenal Complex Q, 60Vcap.  Ways that you might know this is if you feel fatigue, if your sleep is disrupted (if you don’t get at least one session of 5 consecutive uninterrupted hours of sleep.), or if your stool becomes very hard looking like small hard balls.

Gallbladder Cleansing:
The Gallbladder is organ that aids in the digestive process and stores bile produced in the liver. The adult human gallbladder stores about 50 millilitres (1.7 US fl oz) of bile, which is released when food containing fat enters the intestines from the stomach.  After being stored in the gallbladder, the bile becomes more concentrated than when it left the liver, increasing its potency and intensifying its effect on fats. Gallstones can form over long periods of time due to hydrogenated oils, refined sugars, meat and other processed foods.  When the gallbladder is congested, one might be quick to anger or irritability, have weight gain issues, fatigue, bloating, headaches, and restless sleep among many other issues.  Cleaning out the gallbladder is similar to changing the oil in your car, if it’s not done periodically major problems can occur.  More than 300,000 gallbladders are surgically removed each year in the United States due to gallstones. Don’t let this be you! Gall Bladder Flush Kit: Flush out gall stones!

*Disclaimer:  The FDA has not evaluated any of these statements.  Practice at your own risk and gain.  Please seek immediate medical care for any urgent trauma. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.