Millions of people suffer the consequences of digestive disorders. It's estimated that the treatment of chronic constipation, bloating, irritable bowel, colitis, and Crohn's directly cost over 95 billion a year.
All the while the majority of these treatments only address the symptoms of the problem. While providing some relief, very few common treatments lead to a more complete resolution.
People are told to simply live with it which means they never fully find freedom from the disorder.
Anixiety is a big part of digestive disorders. Patients commonly feel nervous walking into a building for the first time. Not know where the nearest bathroom is can create a certain degree of anxiety since they do not know when digestive issues will call for a quick bathroom run.
That life effect can really become a significant problem for quality of life and freedom.
In terms of the body's energy, the digestive system is expensive. A good part of 15% of your body's energy is devoted to your digestive system.
It takes a tremendous amount of mechanical and chemical energy to breakdown, integrate, and assimilate all the nutrients from food.
That energy intensive process is modulated by the nervous system primarily through direct nerve connections and chemical (neuroendocrine) messengers.
During stress our nervous system relays messages through brain/gut pathways to signal the digestive system to conserve energy and down regulate the digestive processes.
The down regulation leads to modulation of gut motility, changes in pain perception, changes in gut permeability, inflammatory processes, micro biome compositional changes, and many more.
The stress response over a short time period is beneficial since the energy from the digestive system is diverted to adapt to the current stress.
Over the long term this same stress response can lead to pathology that directly affects your freedom. It is this chronic nervous system response that the chiropractic adjustment can reverse.
A cornerstone in our natural digestive strategy for digestive disorder patients is to restore healthy function of the brain/ gut pathways.
A complete strategy also includes improving sleep habits, improving fitness, improving stress coping mechanisms and adaptive methods, and nutritional support for proper healing.
Assessement of allostatic load(physical, emotional, chemical stress load) is very useful to help determine what parts of your health are being overburdened.
We also find that the simplest of nutrients like Vitaman D, Vitamin C, Magnesium, Zinc, and others are tremendously supportive to the healing of damaged and inflamed tissue of the digestive system.
Once you know where you truly stand you can begin to make the changes that make the biggest difference.
There are many strategies to find freedom from your digestive problems without drugs or surgery. The first step is to take time to identify your foundation.
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