Ploop Ploop Poopie POP

This hit me straight in the gut. Let's talk poopie time. It is something that everyone does...it is something that makes some uncomfortable but it is essentially essential for good health. How you poopie your dookie and create the symphony of magic music, Ploop Ploop Ploop can determine how healthy your life is.

I know that my acne reacts, allergies develop and all other annoying bloatedness etc. when I dont go enough. I reckon it's time to clean up my life, it is time for me to make commitments to clean up my guts. It is a bit strange to declare it and announce my gut cleasning activites but this might make you think twice about your own before kicking back 2 large lagers.

So like the rest of the world, I had enough of being told to eat your greens and fruits as it is good for you and exercise... blah blah.. I was looking for something that was not the old cliche thoughtless blabbering to sound the preacher's wife. I was inspired by this article and it made think.. or made my gut think.

Here's an excerpt from an article on The Huffington Post.

How Your Gut Keeps You Healthy or Makes You Ill

The health of your gut determines what nutrients are absorbed and what toxins, allergens, and microbes are kept out. First, there are bugs in your gut that form a diverse and interdependent ecosystem like a rainforest. In fact, there are 500 species and 3 pounds of bacteria in your gut which form a HUGE chemical factory that helps you digest your food, regulate hormones, excrete toxins, and produce vitamins and other healing compounds that keep your gut and your body healthy.

This ecosystem of friendly bacteria must be in balance for you to be healthy.

Too many of the wrong bacteria, like parasites and yeasts, or not enough of the good ones, like Lactobacillus or Bifidobacteria, can seriously damage your health.

Second, there is your gut-immune system. Your entire immune system -- and the rest of your body -- is protected from the toxic environment in your gut by a lining that is only ONE cell-thick layer. If spread out, this lining would take up a surface area the size of a tennis court, and the entire thing is covered by a sewer!

If that barrier is damaged, you can become allergic to foods you may normally be able to digest perfectly well, you will get sick, your immune system will become overactive, and it will begin producing inflammation throughout your body.

Third, there is your second brain -- your gut's nervous system. Did you know your gut, actually contains MORE neurotransmitters than your brain? In fact, the gut has a brain of its own. Messages constantly travel back and forth between your gut-brain and your head-brain, and when those messages are interfered with in any way your health will suffer.

Fourth, your gut also has to get rid of all the toxins produced as byproducts of your metabolism, which your liver dumps into bile. If things get backed up when you are constipated, you will become toxic and your health will suffer.

And last but not least, your gut must break down all the food you eat into its individual components, separate out the vitamins and minerals, and shuttle everything across the one cell-thick layer mentioned above so it can get into your bloodstream and nourish your body and brain.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/is-your-digestive-system_b_313247.html