What To Do If You Do Not Feel Good With Clean Eating?

Have you ever heard it from your parents saying that you become what you eat? However, there is a twist to that. You become what you absorb and digest. Many people these days complain of anxiety, brain fog, depression, and fatigue. It is not necessary that they eat bad stuff. Many of them do eat clean food, still they do not see any positive changes in their body because they are not able to absorb and digest the minerals vitamins of the food they eat.

Why does this problem occur?
There are many factors which contribute to absorption and digestion of food. However, the major factors are mentioned below:

Eating gluten. One of the major reasons for leaky gut is eating gluten. Gluten is found in some grains like barley, wheat, rye and also in a cross between rye and wheat called triticale. Gluten causes inflammation in the small intestines if one has celiac disease. It also makes it difficult to absorb fats along with fat soluble vitamins like Vitamin D, E, A, and K, as well as some other nutrients. That is why; your body is not able to reap the benefits of a clean diet.

Gut infections do not let the body absorb nutrients. If you have excluded toxic and inflammatory foods from your diet; but still you are not relieved of symptoms, chances are that you have a gut infection underlying in your body. Some examples of these infections are Candida, SIBO, parasites. These infections affect your ability of nutrient absorption and hence, digestion.

Nutrients are not getting absorbed in your body due to HCL or enzymes. You might have healed your gut for infections or got rid of gluten from your foods. However, if you still notice symptoms that do not make you feel good; you may need to reinstate factors which are crucial for digestion. Like HCL (stomach acid) or enzymes. Digestive enzymes help you decompose fats and proteins in order to let the body absorb them properly. HCL break down proteins into some amino acids to allow their absorption in the small intestine. The latter element acts as building blocks for neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are the chemicals in the brain that play an important role in controlling your mood.

10 amino acids are considered essential for your body. It means that if they are not provided to the body from diet, the human body is not capable of making them. Thus, even after taking all precautions for food, if you feel anxiety, irritability, depression or mood imbalance; it means that your body lacks amino acids. You need to provide the benefit by replacing the stores of HCL or digestive enzymes.

Things you need to do:

Do away with gluten. In case you experience mood swings, anxiety, brain fog or fatigue; first of all, you need to get rid of gluten from your diet. As you have read above, gluten does not let your body absorb amino acids and essential fats from your diet. This may likewise bring about numerous other problems related to the digestion of fats and fat-soluble vitamins like Vitamin D, E, A, and K.

Heal the gut. Eliminate the foods from your body which harm your gut, like inflammatory foods (gluten, dairy, soy, eggs, corn, and sugar) and irritants (drugs, caffeine, alcohol).   Replace the bad with the good like digestive enzymes, bile acids, and hydrochloric acid. They are essential for good digestion. You can also take probiotic supplements. Consume food that contains zinc, Vitamin A, C, E; and omega-3 fish oils. Herbs like Aloe Vera and slippery elm are also very beneficial for the gut.

Try digestive enzymes and HCL. Do this test with baking soda to check if you benefit from an additional dose of HCL. Combine baking soda (1 teaspoon) with water (4 ounces) and drink. As it goes down the body, there will be two scenarios. If you experience burp, you do not require HCL; if you do not experience burp, you do require HCL. In order to check if you require digestive enzymes, take a little with the meals and observe if the symptoms get better.