Are you wondering if developing food sensitivities is inevitable? Even though you may have noticed many of your friends and family members explaining how they can’t eat this or that anymore, it isn’t inevitable. Food sensitivities are now extremely common in our society, but they don’t have to be! Read on if you want to learn how to prevent them.
In order for food sensitivities to develop, conditions have to be right in the gut. It usually starts with poor digestion. Many people rush around all day putting their bodies in “fight or flight” mode (or sympathetic mode). When your body is in “fight/flight”, it manages its resources differently than when it is in “rest and digest” mode (or parasympathetic mode).
First of all, if you are just trying to survive a situation (such as being chased by a wildcat), your body is not too concerned with digesting the meal you just ate. Instead, it shunts the blood to your extremities to make you faster and stronger temporarily. This leaves the meal you ate to sit in your stomach. The fats rancidify, the proteins putrify, and the carbohydrates ferment. Sounds delightful, doesn’t it?
Next, this mass of maldigested food inflames your intestines and allows pathogenic bacteria (bad guys) to flourish in your gut. These pathogenic bacteria eat away at the mucosal layer that protects your intestinal lining, making little spots of “leakiness”. Over time, more and more “holes” develop and the maldigested food is allowed to leak out.
Once it leaks out into the bloodstream, the immune system gets called in. It sees invaders (antigens) and attacks. So, if you have toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and a biscuit with your dinner, eventually your immune system tags gluten or one of the other proteins in wheat as an offender and you develop vague symptoms every time you eat it.
Symptoms are your body’s way of communicating with you, but most of us have lost the ability to hear what our bodies are saying (or we never learned to listen in the first place). If we listen early on when the body is whispering, it will save us from the experience of having our body have to yell at us.
If you are wondering what to do if you already have food sensitivities, check out my posts, Food Sensitivities, Intolerance, and Allergies: What’s the Difference?
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These are great ideas and very doable. I like the variety of options here - if someone ins't ready for all the things, they can pick one and star there. I'm sharing with my group!
Thank you!
I love how you explain this! It's so important to listen to our bodies when they tell us something and to eat a healthy, varied diet! My psoriatic arthritis has been so bad this winter and I've been trying to figure out why. Then I finally connected the dots that it flared up so badly a few weeks after going through an extremely stressful time of selling our house and moving to a new state. When you say to take care of your body and try not to put it into fight or flight mode, you are 100% correct! Thanks for this applicable info!
So, this is great. I've heard of leaky gut and I get the gist of it but never really understood exactly why/how it happened because everything was so science driven and my brain doesn't do science. My functional doctor told me to start taking a high dose of Omegas b/c blood work showed I was deficient and I have noticed a difference in my overall feeling. I probably never would have connected the two.
I agree with all you said, our health is in our hands. What we eat, how we coop with stress and how much we listen to our bodies. I am going to share this valuable info in my FB page and group. Thanks