Incorporate a healthy mix of raw and cooked foods - raw foods have their own enzymes which are especially important when your body is healing and may be low on enzymes in general. and have 80% of your plate full of healing vegetables.
-Digestion of carbohydrates (starches, sugars) starts in your mouth with saliva and enzymes. The enzymes not only help break down your food, they also attack bacteria. Most people don't chew thoroughly, which makes digestion of food much harder when it reaches your stomach. Chewing is stage one of proper digestion.
- Stage two of good digestion happens in stomach and it is your stomach's job is to temporarily hold food and begin to break it down. Stomach acid is important for in this stage of digestion and while it does not actually digest the food, it triggers the enzyme to break down proteins. The stomach acid also destroys pathogenic bacteria and parasites, eggs and larvae. of the blood. If your blood is acidic, your stomach thinks it doesn't need to secrete stomach acid..
Aging, poor diet and lifestyle habits can cause an acidic condition
The food stagnates and ferments (the wrong kind of fermentation), setting you up for illness.. If you have these symptoms, you could be missing HCl or digestive enzymes.
