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When you eat, your intestine is secreting digestive enzymes and sloshing the food around to break down the nutrients into their digestible form. When you are not eating, your intestine will initiate a repetitive and important housecleaning wave, called the migrating motor complex, to clean up the small bowel and to get it prepared for the next meal.
— Feb 02, 2019 12:20PM
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It is important to leave three to four hours between eating, to allow this cleansing wave to take place; otherwise your small intestine can become a petri dish as microbes, food, and debris can accumulate. For this reason, we recommend eating three meals and one snack per day rather than several small meals or a grazing-style eating pattern.
— Feb 02, 2019 12:21PM
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Wolfing down food and rushing while eating incorporates more air into your digestive tract, setting yourself up for faulty digestion and intestinal distress. Try your best to set aside time to eat and relax setting.
— Feb 02, 2019 12:16PM
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Too much methane gas in the intestine is associated with constipation, whereas elevation and hydrogen gas is associated with diarrhea.
— Feb 02, 2019 12:15PM
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The colon is one of the most diverse ecosystems on earth! And we all have our very own “fingerprint” of microbes that resides there.
— Feb 02, 2019 12:03PM
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When FODMAP carbohydrates are malabsorbed in the intestine, they drag water into the gut, stretching it. Furthermore, the residential gut microbes feast off the poorly digested FODMAPs, creating gas.
— Feb 02, 2019 09:36AM
