Not exact matches
We want the body's energy to go into detoxing
toxic chemicals rather than being spent on
digesting food.
Aside from helping
digest our
food, they protect us from disease, neutralize some of the
toxic by - products of the digestive process, and make it harder for bad bacteria to set up shop.
Hepatitis, steroids, birth control pills, alcohol, cancer, even gallstones can interfere with bile secretion, causing the fluid, which is made by the liver to help
digest food, to stay in the liver, where it's
toxic to cells, said Dr. Yisang Yoon, cell physiologist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University.
It's a long list, to be sure, but according to the program, «Clean excludes certain
foods from the Clean Program because some may cause
food sensitivities and / or allergic reactions, some contain
toxic chemicals or are laden with pesticides (even organics), some have an acidifying effect on the body, some are mucus - forming, some are pro-inflammatory, and some are simply difficult to
digest.»
Dietary fibre, however, is not
digested and it helps to keep
food remains and waste products moving through the rest of the small intestine and then into the large intestine (bowel) for excretion, preventing the build - up of
toxic waste.
Other excluded
food items include processed and preserved
foods and those that are difficult to
digest and increase intestinal permeability of
toxic substances.
According to the study, «High doses of free fructose have been proven to literally punch holes in the intestinal lining allowing nasty byproducts of
toxic gut bacteria and partially
digested food proteins to enter your bloodstream and trigger the inflammation that we know is at the root of obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dementia, and accelerated aging.»
Lo and behold I discovered I have quite a few
food allergies and now that I have eliminated those
foods I don't get the reaction from greens (they were stirring the pot of
toxic build up from years of eating
food I can't
digest) It took about a year to fully figure out the
food allergy thing and it took just as long to want to drink anything green after such negative side effects for so long.
When the
food we eat is not fully
digested, what should be a clear extraction supplying the organs and tissues with high quality nutrition becomes instead a
toxic substance that clogs the channels and tissues.
When
food is not properly
digested, it passes through the gut where
foods can ferment and rot, and become
toxic to the body.