Assimilation of products. A person is nourished not by what he eats, but by what he absorbs from what he eats. What the human stomach does not digest
The body of an omnivore assimilates only 5% of what is eaten, and 95% is not absorbed. The body only takes grains. Hungry body cells demand more and more.
Why do we absorb 5% and not everything?
Some people eat everything in a row, turning their stomach and body into a trash can. Many foods do not match with each other in terms of digestion. Some foods require acidic enzymes to break down, while others require alkaline ones. In addition, the products contain individual enzymes. In this case, enzymes. The so-called programs, thanks to which the body determines what kind of product it is and what to do with it.
Separation of products according to the digestion environment lays the foundation for the so-called separate nutrition.
1. Protein products include mushrooms, legumes (peas, beans, lentils, chickpeas, MASH), eggplants, nuts, seeds. Protein products require acidic enzymes for breakdown.
2. Carbohydrates / starch products include bread, cereals, sugar, jam, honey, potatoes. Requires alkaline enzymes for digestion.
Milk doesn't go well with anything. Fruits, berries do not combine with anything, but do not combine with themselves. It is advisable to eat one type of fruit or berries at a time. Vegetables and greens are combined with both protein and carbohydrates.
The result of a mixed diet.
Let's say you mixed potatoes with mushrooms. Mushrooms require acidic enzymes to break down, potatoes are alkaline. Having met, acidic and alkaline enzymes are neutralized! The food was not digested. Mushrooms continue to require acid, potatoes - alkali. For the re-synthesis of enzymes, all organs of internal secretion begin to work with the maximum possible (~ 100-fold) overload! In this case, the energy potential of the body is depleted. An indicator of this phenomenon is the desire to sleep after eating and a sleepy state. Then acid and alkali again enter, and again a chemical reaction of mutual neutralization occurs. Products as much as they had time to "fermented" and then push through without being digested into the duodenum. And there they need to be broken down into nutrients. And what is there to split, they are not digested to the end. The body squeezed out what it could and then pushed the food into the small intestine. There, nutrients are absorbed into the blood. And there is nothing to absorb. Products are not digested and not split! And there moisture is removed from these products. They dehydrate and turn into fecal stones. Further, these fecal stones enter the large intestine and remain there for an indefinite time, maybe for years. And we constantly clog the intestines with new deposits, poisoning our body with slag emissions. So from day to day our body becomes a resistance to energy flows. It passes less and less vital energy. As a result, concentration of attention and activity of brain activity decreases.
“Separate nutrition is more justified than mixed nutrition. When the body is contaminated with toxins, this also happens at the cell level. And when a cell is in a dirty environment, it cannot develop normally. In a dirty environment, cells are forced to become selfish cells in order to survive. an egoist is, in fact, a cancer cell that begins to multiply intensively. And a person, without suspecting it, feeds and grows such a tumor in himself with malnutrition." (V. nicheporuk, head of the Department of Rehabilitation of the Ukrainian Center for Sports Medicine.
This is where those same 5% of the assimilation of nutrients arise from their total amount. As a result, a sufficient amount of nutrients does not enter the blood, the body is hyper-weared and polluted! With separate meals, the assimilation of food increases.
All sorts of diseases, fatigue, laziness, weakness, short life, mental disorders, excess weight, the need for long sleep, vitamins and nutrients arise from a mixed diet. A person uses various cleansing for his body. Herbs, diets, enemas, fasting. Trying to regain the figure, youth and health. But it’s not clean where they clean it, but where they don’t litter!
As Professor Zhdanov said in. G., mixed nutrition is work for diseases and the toilet.
As a result of separate nutrition, the digestibility of food increases. The body begins to assimilate not 5%, but 30 percent. As a result, the mass of food necessary for saturation decreases. And a person, for example, no longer needs 500 grams of food, but 150 grams. However, such a result can be achieved only after cleansing and restructuring the body.
Why is food not absorbed completely with separate meals? What criteria must the food meet?
Living food.
To understand the issues raised, let's start with the structure of the digestive system. Most people think of the digestive system as a tube filled with gastric juice, and the process of digestion as the dissolution of food by this juice. The notion that gastric juice dissolves any food that a person throws into it is very far from what actually happens! The secretion of juice is not yet digestion, it is a protective function of the digestive system. The stomach is not a digestion plant, but a research laboratory. He must determine what is included in the product and provide the environment necessary for food (acidic or alkaline. Digestion occurs in two stages:
1. autolysis - self-dissolution of food in the stomach.
2. and symbiotic digestion - the dissolution of food by intestinal microflora. From the word symbiosis. In this case, it is a symbiosis of microorganisms that make up the microflora of our body.
After we have consumed food, chewed it and swallowed it, it enters the stomach. Where self-dissolution of food occurs - autolysis. For a visual understanding of this phenomenon of digestion, consider an example that was demonstrated by the Soviet Academician Ugol A. M.
Pour the predator's gastric juice into two vessels and place a live frog in one vessel, and a boiled frog in the other.
The result was unexpected. The first frog (alive) dissolved and disappeared without a trace, along with the bones. And the second (boiled) only superficially changed.
If the food was dissolved by stomach acid, then the result would be the same in both cases. However, this did not happen! Under the action of gastric juice in food, the mechanism of self-dissolution is activated. Why did the living frog completely dissolve? What is in it that is not in boiled? The body of a living frog is dissolved by its own enzymes! Live food itself dissolves in the stomach and in the small intestine the body can only absorb the decomposed nutrients. Like a boa constrictor that, having swallowed a rabbit, does not digest it, but waits for it to dissolve itself and then absorbs nutrients, practically without spending its own vital energy.
The same thing happens with plant foods. All plant foods are filled with enzymes for their self-dissolution. In any seed, nut, fruit, nature provides a mechanism for processing complex substances into simple ones for the nutrition of the sprout. As soon as the seed gets into suitable conditions (temperature and humidity), enzymes come into play. And the fruit dissolves itself, giving life to a new plant. Our stomach is the most suitable place for this dissolution. And if in nature this happens rather slowly, then food dissolves quickly in the gastrointestinal tract. This is the first criterion for evaluating the food that a person needs. Food must contain enzymes, be raw! Then she dissolves herself. Enzymes are destroyed by heat treatment (boiling, steaming, frying, stewing, baking. Everything that heats food above 43 degrees Celsius destroys enzymes.
When we eat a raw apple, it stays in the stomach for 30 minutes. Only if this apple is baked, it will stay in the stomach for 4 hours.
The food then passes from the stomach into the small intestine. Where the process of self-dissolution continues and processed nutrients are absorbed into the blood. All that remains after self-dissolution and absorption enters the large intestine.
The microorganisms that inhabit our intestines weigh about 2.5 kg and can be called an independent brain. These microorganisms are vegetarians. They eat only plant fiber. Any other food suppresses them. Microbes are simple, their number doubles every 20 minutes. And whoever has food, he multiplies. In the event that non-vegetarian food predominates, then microbes - grave diggers multiply. The products of their vital activity are toxins and are not suitable for humans. And if vegetable fiber prevails, then our relatives flourish! Their excretion products are vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids. Those same essential amino acids that, as previously thought, can only be obtained from meat! The beneficial activity of our internal (probiotic) microflora has been proven by many scientists from different countries.
Huge herbivores gain weight and height, eating exclusively plant foods. Our microflora uses plant fiber as a building element, bricks for the entire table of chemical elements - the building.
This is the second criterion that our food must meet. It must contain vegetable fiber.
1. criterion - the food must be raw! 2. criterion - food should be vegetable and rich in fiber! Putting the two criteria together - our body needs raw plant foods.
Learn more about the basics of healthy eating
What to do if after eating the stomach stands and does not digest food?
- Try to eat more of the so-called roughage containing fiber. Fiber not only improves digestion, but also helps prevent constipation. The recommended dose is up to 30 grams per day. Moreover, for the normal functioning of the intestines, it is desirable to receive it from various sources - from bread and wholemeal flour, from brown rice, from fruits and vegetables, from legumes.
- Do not forget about water, it helps not only in the digestion of food, but also softens the stool. Nutritionists advise drinking a glass of water before every meal.
- Reduce the consumption of fatty, and especially fried foods, this will reduce the burden on the stomach.
- Avoid fizzy drinks and caffeinated drinks.
- It is recommended to introduce kefir and yogurt enriched with live bacteria into your diet.
If the stomach stands and does not digest food, then this is some kind of terrible disease, God forbid, of course. Maybe you put it wrong and you still have constipation? Please clarify. Otherwise, urgently run to the doctor
There are times when you overeat. In such cases, it can help Mezim. It contains enzymes that help the stomach digest food. If this happens all the time, regardless of the amount of food, then you should probably consult a doctor, it is possible that your stomach is sick, gastritis or an ulcer is possible. An ulcer is a very serious disease. If left untreated, the ulcer may become perforated. Then you can't do without surgery. And if you don’t operate, then you won’t live long, a couple of days, no more, or even a few hours.
In such cases, either Motilium or other drugs based on domperidone or enzymes (Creon, Festal) are prescribed. The latter must be taken carefully, carefully - if you get hooked on them for a constant reception, then the pancreas will stop working and will be lazy. In this case, you need to monitor the stool, if it becomes liquid, then the food is poorly digested and the pancreas is relaxed. Motilium is simpler in this regard, it simply stimulates the digestion process.
In general, in such a situation, when food is in the stomach, it is not recommended to immediately drink tea or compote, coffee - you need to wait. Small portions, skip some time between meals.
In terms of nutrition - you need to choose food that improves motor skills: cereals from cereals, vegetables and fruits, etc.
I can assume that you have gastritis or simply indigestion. Try brewing 1 tbsp. a spoonful of plantain leaves in 1 cup of boiling water and let it brew for 15-20 minutes. Strain. In general, it is recommended to drink this infusion an hour before meals, but your situation is different. Then just drink 1st. a spoonful of infusion and see if there is relief or not. I took this infusion with heaviness in the stomach. Health to you!
In the case when the stomach is standing after eating and does not digest food, the first thing you can try is to drink two tablets of Mezim. You can also try Motilium or Pancreatin. And after that, it is advisable to follow a light diet without fried, spicy, salty foods for a couple of days. If Mezim does not help and the discomfort does not go away for a long time, you should go to the doctor.
If the stomach does not digest food and you constantly feel heaviness in the stomach, then try drinking 2 tablets while eating Mezim or its analogue Pancreatin. These are enzymes, they will help digest food. If it does not help, we go to the hospital, in no case should we pull.
Perhaps you eat some kind of heavy food, such as a lot of meat. It takes a long time to digest and there may be a feeling of heaviness. It is useful to eat vegetables with meat for better absorption. Mushrooms are also heavy for the stomach. There are such pills called pancreatin, this is an enzyme that helps the stomach digest food, it helps a lot, but in any case, you need to contact a gastroenterologist.
As an option, you have low acidity, a glass of sour kefir helps me, after a couple of minutes the stomach starts to work, as evidenced by active belching (not vomiting, but normal belching). The second option - you need to actively move - a quick step for 10-15 minutes, an easy jog, etc. but in no case do not allow the load on the stomach (for example, swinging the press, etc.) as this can only aggravate the situation
First, eat more sparing, diet food - at least temporarily. Take pancreatin before or during meals (well, or mezim - the same substance, only several times more expensive). Drink table mineral water. And of course, consult a doctor - all the same, the stomach should not stand and press, and digest.
If the stomach does not cope well with the digestion of food, try to help it.
Gone are the hungry times when people earned their living by hard work, but the habit of people to eat up for future use remained. The need for knowledge about how to quickly digest food in the stomach becomes important for the prevention and treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Slow digestion contributes to the occurrence of constipation, which provokes inflammatory processes in the intestines, and can serve as a manifestation of serious diseases of the internal organs. Food that is in the intestines for a long time rots, poisoning the body.
It is difficult to answer definitely the question of how long the stomach digests food. Nutritionists have compiled an extensive table of the dependence of the length of the process on the predominance of vital nutrients. However, the table overlooks many related factors: diet, cooking method, metabolism, occupation, mental state, age and gender of a person.
For example, if you swallow a fatty piece of fried meat on the go with a glass of orange juice, the gastrointestinal tract will not digest the food received, but will send it straight to the caecum. Boiled meat breaks down faster than fried, fatty meat slower than lean. Meat eaten at breakfast is digested more slowly than lunch meat.
Taking certain medications, the presence of pathologies or diseases of the internal organs significantly affect the speed of food processing, accelerating or slowing down the effect of gastric juice, the overall performance of the gastrointestinal tract.
Types of help
There are many ways to help quickly digest what you eat at the table:
- changing diet and eating habits
- lifestyle change
- drug
We chew correctly
Diligent chewing significantly helps to digest food. Prolonged stay of food in the oral cavity saturates it with saliva enzymes, which have a beneficial effect on digestibility. Grinding food into small pieces greatly increases the contact surface of the consumed product with gastric juice, the rate of splitting and assimilation increases. The loss of teeth, especially indigenous ones, leads to the fact that the gastrointestinal tract does not digest food well.
More on the topic: Why does colitis in the stomach area after eating?
Water is life
Sufficient moisture intake reduces the likelihood of constipation. How does the chair soften?
A glass of water taken before dinner stimulates digestion, saliva production, and stabilizes the body's water balance. However, fluid intake during administration should be kept to a minimum. The liquid drunk during meals dilutes the gastric juice, worsening the properties of splitting.
Water is of paramount importance for the normal functioning of the body and the digestive organs in particular. When eating dry foods, an increased amount of acid is released. The sodium bicarbonate produced in the stomach protects the organ by neutralizing the acid in the mucous membrane. Excess salt, obtained during a chemical reaction, changes the structure of the mucus during dehydration. It becomes heterogeneous, acid gets on the walls, causing pain. A constant lack of fluid leads to erosion of the walls, turning into an ulcer.
Not all milk is healthy
After forty years, the stomach does not digest milk well. Characteristic manifestations are bloating, diarrhea, or vice versa, difficult defecation. You should limit the consumption of the product, replacing it with fermented milk derivatives - kefir, cottage cheese (preferably low-fat), yogurt, etc. Lactic acid bacteria stimulate the production of saliva and gastric juice, normalize bowel function.
Acting as antagonists of putrefactive bacteria, they suppress their reproduction. It is necessary to know that the use of fermented milk products is contraindicated in patients with pancreatitis, ulcers due to the additional load due to the production of lactic acid by lactic acid bacteria.
We crush and recover
To answer the question of how to make the stomach serve a person for a long time, without causing trouble, the fragmentation of nutrition will help - reducing portions with increasing approaches. The volume of food eaten remains the same, the digestive system is not overloaded and functions without failures. The likelihood of constipation with this diet is small. It is recommended to eat at least 4-5 times a day in reduced portions. Eaten is digested faster, while the weight stabilizes.
Fractional nutrition has a beneficial effect on the fulfillment of its duties by the transition of the esophagus to the stomach. The task of the indicated place is to prevent the exit eaten back. Stomach acid, which, along with the remnants of the food eaten, rushes back, corrodes the walls of the esophagus, causing pain. Constant exposure to the transition of an acidic environment causes erosion of the mucosal surface, which, without the necessary treatment, develops into stenosis or into a chronic ulcer of the esophagus.
Physical education for health
Regular exercise and sports contribute to the normalization of the digestive system. Especially useful are not fast walks, jogging, skiing and skating. It is recommended to conduct training 2-3 hours after lunch or breakfast, when the initial processing of consumed products takes place.
More on the topic: Functional dyspepsia of the stomach
By accelerating the breakdown of food in the stomach, exercise reduces its presence in the colon. The water of the fecal masses is less absorbed by the body, the feces acquire a plastic consistency, and bowel movements are less painful.
We rest properly
Organized rest is essential for the gastrointestinal tract. Sleeping immediately after a heavy meal prevents the digestive organs from restoring. It is recommended to lie on the left side. Processes in the stomach occur more efficiently as the pressure on the organ decreases. You should go to bed after a pause of 2-3 hours. In this case, the body gets a good rest.
Enzymes are essential
The gastrointestinal tract processes kilograms of food daily. The problem of how to make the stomach act for the benefit of the whole organism is solved by digestive enzymes. The lack of enzymes leads to functional malfunctions of the gastrointestinal tract, an upset of the digestive system.
For normalization, medicine offers a diverse range of drugs (Pancreatin, Abomin, Mezim, Somilase, Acidine-pepsin, Nigedase), etc. Long-term use of enzymes is possible only under the guidance of a qualified specialist. It is desirable to take drugs in capsules that deliver the active substance to the destination.
Such different problems
The activity of the gastrointestinal tract of people of different age categories has its own characteristics and differences.
Special attention to children
The gastrointestinal tract of infants is sensitive to changes in diet. Loose stools, belching of the part eaten is a frequent occurrence in the life of a baby. Parents should pay special attention if the child does not digest food for a long time. Manifested by a bad mood and part of the undigested food in the feces. A sure sign that the baby needs to see a doctor. A knowledgeable specialist will be able to determine the cause of the indigestion of the baby.
Old age is not joy
A characteristic feature of old age is the deterioration of the body. The overall performance decreases, the stomach in the elderly, due to a decrease in the metabolic rate, functions more slowly. Despite the decrease in the volume of food eaten, constipation and intestinal blockage are common, requiring enemas at least 1 time per week.
