By Dr. Hyun Okay. Lee
Contributing Author
So, what’s so particular about your digestive system? Every little thing!
Let’s begin originally. In keeping with Oriental medication, when infants are born, they’re born with power that we time period “authentic power,” which is inherited from each of its dad and mom. If the dad and mom donated robust power to their baby, it lasts for a while and that individual feels as if they all the time have power to spare.
As time marches on, the kid grows into an grownup, and ultimately it begins to note a little bit of a slowing down. That is when the secondary, or “assist power” turns into extra worthwhile. Help power is obtained by your digestive system and created by the meals you eat. The higher the meals, the higher power you’ve gotten. This assist power “fees” your authentic power and retains you going all through the years.
Utilizing a automobile as an analogy, your authentic power can be the battery and your assist power, the alternator. The battery itself has power, however solely a specific amount, and whether it is drained it is going to not perform. The alternator then serves as its charging system, producing electrical energy that’s used each to make the automobile run and feed the battery energy. It converts mechanical power (meals) into alternating present (power). Ideally, the higher meals you eat, the higher your “automobile” will run.
In case you exist, as most individuals, senseless to their physique’s features and desires, and feed your self poorly with diets low in vitamins and wealthy in chemical substances and different man-made components, anticipate your physique to run at far much less capability, with numerous issues, and restricted longevity.
Like every systematic perform, issues can happen. The digestive system steadily sees blockages and a usually weak perform. When one has a blockage, the world down the center of the chest hurts when pressed on firmly.
Acupuncture and herbs serve to remove the blockage and return the system to its correct state. These individuals who’ve a usually weak digestive system really feel weak and as if they will’t eat lots. These folks can’t take in the right essence from the meals they do eat. Issues like these are handled with acupuncture and herbs by serving to assist the perform.
To take care of good digestion, there are some easy issues to bear in mind. Consuming the right constitutional meals is essential. Give your physique the meals it must run optimally. Chewing what you eat completely is necessary, too — every chunk 100 instances. Thorough chewing is the start of the digestive course of. It not solely breaks down the meals, however it additionally sends messages to your mind and thusly to different organs telling them “Hey, meals’s coming! Put together!” and informing them how a lot bile, insulin and enzymes it must output to course of and distribute the vitamins of that exact meals you’re consuming.
Once we go many years not chewing our meals correctly, the organs don’t know the precise quantities they should produce, so they may over or beneath produce, finally making them careworn. Over time, this will result in issues like diabetes and gallstones. Consuming on a day by day schedule can also be helpful to easing the stress of your organs. In case your physique is aware of when to anticipate meals and all the time receives it at that anticipated time, your organs work at a gentle, stress-free tempo. The final key to good digestion is paying consideration. Be taught which meals make you are feeling nice, which make you are feeling sluggish, and in what portions your physique features greatest.
Your authentic power is made to final roughly 100 years. The higher you cost that battery through the years, the higher and longer it is going to run. Bear in mind, good digestion and a correct weight loss plan is not only key in sustaining good power, but in addition necessary to preserving you freed from illness and different medical issues. Being aware of what your physique wants will hold you on the trail to well being, happiness, and longevity.
Dr. Lee’s workplace is positioned within the Viborg Medical Heart, 2030 Viborg Highway, Suite #107, Solvang. The clinic is held each Wednesday solely. Dr. Lee additionally has workplaces in Los Angeles, and Atascadero. To make an appointment within the Solvang workplace, name 805-693-5162.