If you find yourself suffering from constipation, gas, bloating, diarrhea - try a few simple changes in your habits and you may find a remarkable difference. Limit drinking with meals: drinking dilutes stomach acid and stomach acid helps digest your food. Best not to drink during meals at all - drink 30 minutes before and 1 hour after.
Chew well: the more you chew, the more stomach acid and digestive enzymes are released
Relax: being relaxed puts you in a parasympathetic mode which opens the digestive gland ports allowing the digestive enzymes to flow. The sympathetic stress mode closes all these ports and no enzymes are released. Plays a major role.
Don't overeat: eat until you are full and stop. An overfull and stretched stomach causes weakness in the stomach ligaments which cause reflux of food back up into your esophagus - and this leads to heartburn.
Chew gum after meals: this will help produce more stomach acid and help you relax thereby opening the digestive sphin...Read More
