It all starts in your gut.
Both Ayurvedic (Indian) medicine and Chinese medicine see the digestive process as the key to health and disease, respectively. Your healing begins with restoring harmony in the gut.
Foods that you eat often must be of good quality and easy for YOU to digest. In our nutritional counseling, we distinguish between three main types of digestion, which digest quite differently. This will create the best conditions to have a trouble-free, low-energy digestion process and to get the maximum amount of good vitamins etc. into your system. This is the surest way to a long and healthy life.
Good digestion does not mean that you visit the toilet once a day. While it's a good indication for it, good digestion means that food breakdown, absorption, and excretion work optimally. We can eat very healthy food and still get sick. When your body doesn't process these foods well, toxins and free radicals are created that make us sick. So it is not enough to eat healthy foods, it is also important to constantly improve the internal bodily digestive processes.
We are what we eat.
It is not for nothing that they say "We are what we eat". Every food we consume contains different substances, minerals and vitamins that we need to build the different cells of the body.
Our bodies are made of the same materials as the food you consume.
The egg protein is used, among other things, to build muscles. The iron in legumes is necessary to build blood cells, and without vitamin C from fruits and vegetables, we cannot absorb iron.
When we eat an organic goat cheese natural yogurt, it contains calcium. The yoghurt first reaches the stomach and is broken down there. The body watches and says, "Ah, calcium, I recognize that!" so the calcium is sent to the bones, where it is absorbed to build bone cells. If the calcium cannot be absorbed by the bones, for example due to a lack of vitamin D, osteoporosis develops over a longer period of time.
Osteoporosis patients are often advised to take calcium. A possible problem with this is that calcium is supplied, but is not absorbed. Therefore, you have to fight the cause, in this case the absorption, not just the deficiency.
Where do toxins and free radicals come from?
What happens when we eat foods that contain substances that the body cannot recognize? Such as dyes or chemicals? After the breakdown of food, these substances are sent for excretion. If the body does not manage to excrete them, they are stored in cells, organs or empty spaces. They remain in your body as toxins or free radicals.
These toxins and free radicals especially like empty spaces, like your joints. This first causes dry joints, which then become inflexible and stiff and over time manifest themselves as joint inflammation, gout and rheumatism.
Other reasons for toxins and free radicals include weak absorption or weak digestion. In TCM (Chinese medicine) and Ayurveda, one speaks of the weak digestive fire. All three processes, splitting, absorption and excretion, are closely linked. If your digestive power is too weak, or one of the three processes does not work properly, toxins and free radicals accumulate in you and form deposits.
If we eat more sugar than the body needs or is able to absorb or excrete, the body begins to collect sugar. This happens the same way with any other substance. This leads to deposits in the joints, in the spine. This can lead to massive problems, pain especially in the spinal canals.
This is what I call the "too many" diseases, such as high blood sugar, cholesterol, high blood pressure and calcifications.
If the digestive power is too weak or we have a deficiency of substances, what I call the "too few" diseases develops. With a deficiency of vitamin C, the body can no longer absorb iron. Anemia develops. If there is not enough vitamin D, the bones cannot absorb the calcium. Osteoporosis develops.
Western medicine is excellent at repairing but extremely weak at prevention. Food can and should also be medicine!
The quality of cells and organs depends directly on your digestion.
If your digestive process doesn't work properly and your cells don't get enough or only poor quality of substances/food, the quality of the cells will also get worse.
Old cells die daily, and new cells are created daily. The fact is, within a year we literally have a new body.
However, new cells are copied from old cells. If your old cell is of poor quality, your new cells are just as bad. Worse still, they are getting worse and worse. The copy of the copy is always slightly worse than the original. Over the years, the bad cells accumulate and eventually form poorly functioning organs. This in turn leads to weak organ functions and eventually to diseases.
The path to miraculous healing.
If we eat good quality food, ensure optimal digestion and detoxify the body regularly, almost any disease can heal naturally. Even the ancient Chinese coined the phrase "food is medicine".
What is healthy as food does not always have to be good for you. We believe that a muesli in the morning with nuts, yoghurt and fruit is particularly good. But with weak digestive fire, let's stay in the picture, the "fire" is weakened. The same applies to raw food fans. Raw food needs a lot of energy to digest the food. If there is too little of this energy, the digestive process suffers. We are not really all the same. What is good for one type is rather harmful for another. And yet we keep reading about ideal diets that should apply to everyone. As already mentioned, the latest nutritional research shows that this is not the case.
It's much easier for the body to digest healthy, pure foods that don't contain chemicals, preservatives, dyes, or flavor enhancers. Deepak Chopra once said: "Eighty percent of your food should be bought unpackaged. So as little packaging and ready meals as possible.
The health/harmony of your gut is more important than you think.
For optimal digestion, we need sun and oxygen. Vitamin D from the sun and oxygen are vital for your breakdown, absorption, excretion and the building of new cells. Good sleep and enough relaxation are essential. In relaxed sleep, many digestive processes take place that do not take place in our waking phases. The body automatically produces digestive hormones. He is detoxified and not only on the physical, but also on the mental and emotional level.
Regular exercise is another important part of detoxifying the body. When we rotate the joints, we not only improve suppleness, but we also release toxins and air, which then make it to the intestines and are excreted.
When you practice, the flow of blood and juices is strengthened and thus absorption. When we sweat, toxins are excreted. In the various Dao Yoga positions, the internal organs are stimulated and toxins are released. This stimulation accelerates the generation of new cells and the renewal of our body.
Many of our Dao Yoga exercises help you to achieve a very deep relaxation and often work to the deepest places in the body. This practice helps to regenerate and heal your whole body.
The most important information you can take away here:
Digestion is a cycle and acts like a snowball rolling down, in the worst case. In the long term, indigestion leaves behind toxins that lead to deposition or deficiency and eventually lead to minor to serious illnesses.
You can stop this snowball right at the beginning by making sure to establish good habits (food, exercise, stress level, good thoughts) and not let bad habits become habits in the first place.
Eighty percent of your food
should be purchased unpackaged. So you're on the healthy, safe side. The rest, yes you can sin sometimes, that has to be sometimes. Nothing is too healthy in the long run.
Sport is not only for the "balance"
The right exercise not only gets the body and digestion going, but also the microcirculation that pushes blood and juices through the body.
Digestion is a process
the chain starts with good food for your type, goes through the breakdown and absorption to excretion. The easier the food can be processed, the healthier it is for you.
Yoga & Ayurveda Expert
Noa is a teacher of Yoga, QiGong, TaiChi and Ayurveda Nutrition / Health Consultant (BYCG).
Noa began practicing yoga as a teenager. It was her way to live better with genetic diseases. Years of study and practice of TaiChi and Qigong in the Wudang Mountains (China) with Master Yuan Xiu Gang (monk in the Monastery of the Purple Cloud Sky) and of Ayurveda with "Janavallabha Das, Jürgen Wloka" (top expert for Ayurveda in Germany) have helped her to create the perfect recipe for a life in a healthy, strong and vital body without pills, To discover surgeries or doctors and share them with their students.
