Your small intestine is where the majority of nutrient absorption
happens during the digestion process so if you have a long history of eating poor quality foods, cooked animal products, refined salts and sugars (and let's not forget the alcohol, pharmaceuticals, recreational drugs and cigarettes along the way) then it is very likely you have an impacted intestine.
There are some chemicals in foods which are known to be beneficial, but whether these foods are actually of benefit depends on what
happens during the digestion process.
Not exact matches
If you're using something like a digestive enzyme
during a long, long day where you're eating fuels and moving at kind of a slow pace and you're having difficulty with
digestion and absorption which doesn't
happen to everybody but in the folks that it does
happen to, enzymes can be helpful.
Constipation interrupts the detoxification process that naturally
happens during normal
digestion.
During digestion, which
happens almost 24/7 energy is diverted away from cleaning the body.