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What is the metaphysical meaning behind digestive disorders and digestive health?
If you are willing to consider that your body is saying to you, through your digestion, about your whole life style, this article can help you turn digestive issues into digestive health.
Let’s define digestion
Let’s define the physical function of the digestive system. Here is one of the simplest definitions I’ve found from Medicine.net (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2994):
The system of organs responsible for getting food into and out of the body and for making use of food to keep the body healthy.
Here, Dr Ananya Mandal, MD helps us define digestion by looking at two occurrences of digestion at news-medical.net (http://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Digestion.aspx):
Digestion refers to the breakdown of food into smaller components that can be absorbed into the bloodstream. This digestion or catabolism is divided into two types – the mechanical digestion of food that occurs in the mouth when it is physically broken up into smaller pieces and the chemical digestion that occurs in the gastrointestinal tract when the food is broken down into small molecules by digestive enzymes.
Your immune system and digestion
Your immune system’s strength is directly affected by what you put in your gut. In the article below, I love the explanation about the work of your digestive system in determining what is good and what is bad for you. There are ways you can help out your digestive system, so be sure to check out their recommendations on “What is Good Digestion?” (Yes, the site is about Irritable Bowel Syndrome, but it has some simple and clear explanations about your digestive system).
In order to maintain a good digestive system, and prevent digestive disorders, you need to develop good habits that will sustain you. If you want a strong immune system, and you are willing to support your digestive system, this article at Collective Evolution offers some tips for maintaining healthy digestion in relationship to your immune system.
Here’s the metaphysical perspective I received in meditation
Digestive health is about what you digest in life. It is about receiving the gift of life, and being able to break it down into its component parts for better acceptance, or to eliminate it. It is about becoming aware of what you are asking your body, emotions and spirit to take in. This process teaches you to pay attention to what you are taking into your lives physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Digestive disorders are about a refusal to process what is coming in. Your system is responding to what you are receiving as a toxin.
With healthy digestion you are receiving the nourishment of life, in accordance with the design of your body. You are taking in ideas and being present to emotions in such a way that ideas that do not align with you pass through and difficult emotions are met with such love that they release.
Ideally, you spend the majority of your life digesting food, ideas and emotions that are pleasing to you and fill you with love. The natural outcome is radiant vigor for life.
Your digestion, your empathy, and your feelings about life are integrally linked
You digest more than your food. You digest ideas, energy you’ve pick up empathically, how you feel about your life and the lives of others, the state of the world, and more. I’ve met empathic people who weren’t aware of how much they were actually attempting to digest.
If you are taking in a lot of worry, fear, and doubt, you are going to have a difficult time, because those are uncomfortable energies to take in. However, if you are able to hold those energies in compassion so they can transform, and you free yourself to ingest more delightful energy, you’ll have a much easier time digesting.
Of course, you want to be on a diet that is good for your particular body, and building your immune system, but if you are looking after your physical needs and still finding it difficult to digest, you might want to take a look at what else you are trying to digest.
If you would like to explore a your own relationship with your digestion, your immune system, and your feelings about your life take a look at my Breakthrough Healing System video course, where you will learn some methods for tuning into your body and emotions, so that you can understand what your body is telling you.
Your digestion, from a metaphysical perspective, is an opportunity to commit to ingesting the physical, emotional, spiritual and mental nourishment that fills your life with love and joy.
https://snooze2awaken.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/healthy-gut-found-to-reduce-effects-of-trauma-study-explains-link-between-microbiome-ptsd/
Healthy Gut Found to Reduce Effects of Trauma: Study Explains Link between Microbiome & PTSD
Michelle Simmons, Natural News
A new study found that a healthy gut can lessen the effects of trauma, as reported by SCIENCE DAILY. Researchers from Stellenbosch University analyzed the relationship of gut microbiome and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They compared the gut microbiomes of 18 individuals with PTSD to 12 people who also experienced trauma, but did not develop PSTD. They found a combination of three bacteria that were different in people who suffered from PTSD. These were Actinobacteria, Lentisphaerae, and Verrucomicrobia. (Related: Gut Health Linked to Anxiety, Depression & Autism.)
Results showed that the participants with PTSD had smaller numbers of the three bacteria in contrast to the trauma-exposed participants. In addition, those who experienced trauma when they were a child had lesser levels of two out of the three bacteria, namely Actinobacteria and Verrucomicrobia. These bacteria are known to regulate the immune system.
“What makes this finding interesting, is that individuals who experience childhood trauma are at higher risk of developing PTSD later in life, and these changes in the gut microbiome possibly occurred early in life in response to childhood trauma,” said Stefanie Malan-Muller, lead author of the study.
The researchers also observed that the inflammation and changed immune regulation in participants with PTSD increased. They explained that these conditions could also affect the brain, brain functioning, and behavior. On the other hand, levels of inflammatory markers observed in individuals right after a traumatic event were found to be a sign of PTSD development.
The researchers hypothesized that immune deregulation and increased levels of inflammation among those who have PTSD may have led to the decrease of the three bacteria and may have played a role in the symptoms of their disease.
Still, the researchers were not able to identify if the decrease of gut bacteria was a factor in PTSD susceptibility or if it happened as a result of PTSD. However, the researchers believe that the study contributed to a better understanding of the factors that might take part in PTSD. Although, factors that influence PTSD susceptibility and resilience needs further research.
“[I]dentifying and understanding all these contributing factors could, in future, contribute to better treatments, especially since the microbiome can easily be altered with the use of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics, or dietary interventions,” the researchers noted.
The study was published in the journal PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE.
More on Microbiome & Stress Resilience
A study from the University of Colorado Boulder discovered that beneficial bacteria can help relieve stress and anxiety, according to a report by SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. The researchers found that injecting beneficial bacteria into mice helped them become more resistant to the stress of living with bigger and more aggressive rats. They injected the mice with Mycobacterium vaccae, which acts like a drug that modulates the immune system of the mouse. Results showed that the injected rats showed less signs of anxiety or fear. Moreover, the injected rats acted more active around the bigger rats compared to those rats that were not injected with the bacteria.
“There is a growing recognition that the microbiome can impact health in general and more specifically, mental health,” said clinician Jeffrey Borenstein, president of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
“Our study in PNAS [PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES] showed we can prevent a PTSD-like syndrome in mice,” said Christopher Lowry, lead researcher of the mice study.
More on PTSD
The National Institute of Mental Health defines PTSD as a disorder that occurs in some people who previously experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event. Anyone can develop PTSD at any age, including war veterans, children, and people who went through a physical or sexual assault, abuse, accident, disaster, or other serious events. In the United States, there are about 7.7 million adults living with PTSD, and 67 percent of people exposed to mass violence have been shown to develop PTSD.
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Michelle Simmons is a writer for NaturalNews.com, where this article originally appeared.
https://snooze2awaken.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/how-the-microbiome-will-destroy-the-ego-vaccine-policy-patriarchy/
How the Microbiome Will Destroy the Ego, Vaccine Policy & Patriarchy
Sayer Ji
The relatively recent discovery of the microbiome is not only completely redefining what it means to be human, to have a body, to live on this earth, but it is overturning belief systems and institutions that have enjoyed global dominance for centuries.
A paradigm shift has occurred so immense in implication that the entire frame of reference for our species’ self-definition, as well as how we relate fundamentally to concepts like “germs,” has been transformed beyond recognition. This shift is underway and yet, despite popular interest in our gut ecology, the true implications remain unacknowledged.
It started with the discovery of the microbiome, a deceptively diminutive term, referring to an unfathomably complex array of microscopic microorganisms together weighing only 3-4 lbs. in the average human. This discovery represents a Copernican revolution when it comes to forming the new center, genetically and epigenetically, of what it means in biological terms to be human.
Considering the sheer density of genetic information contained within these commensals, as well as their immense contribution to sustaining basic functions like digestion, immunity, and brain function, the microbiome could just as well be relabeled the “macrobiome”—that is, if we are focusing on the size of its importance rather than physical dimensions.
For instance, if you take away the trillions of viruses, bacteria and fungi that coexist with our human cells (the so-called holobiont), only 1% of the genetic material that keeps us ticking, and has for hundreds of millions of years, remains. One percent isn’t that much for the ego to work with, especially considering it now has to thank what were formerly believed to be mostly “infectious agents” for the fact that it exists. Even more perplexing, the remaining 1% of our DNA contributed to the collective gene pool of the holobiont is at least 8% retroviral (yes, the same category as HIV) in origin!
Us against Them?
Once the object of modern medicine’s fundamental responsibility—the human body—is redefined and/or perceived with greater veracity, and “germs” become less other and more self, a challenge occurs for germ theory which seeks to differentiate between the “good” germs we are versus the “bad” ones out there that we must fight with antibiotics and vaccines.
As many readers are already poignantly aware, today’s political climate and agenda are unilaterally pro-vaccination on both sides of the aisle (conveniently funded by the same industry lobbyists), with a tidal wave of bills across the U.S. set to eliminate exemptions against mandatory vaccination. The rationale, of course, is that deadly germs can only be prevented from killing the presumably germ-free host through injecting dead, weakened or genetically modified germ components to “prevent” theoretical future exposures and infection. Obviously, this concept is intellectually infantile, and if you do some investigating you’ll find it was never quite grounded in compelling evidence or science.
But the intellectual implications of the microbiome go even deeper than undermining germ theory, vaccine policy, and the culture of medical monotheism that upholds these constructs.
Maternal Origins of Health & Ultimately Our Species Identity
Deep within the substratum of humanity’s largely unquestioned assumptions of what it means to be human, the microbiome has also fundamentally displaced a latent patriarchal prejudice concerning the relative importance and contribution of man and woman to the health and ultimately continuation of our species.
It has been known for some time that only women pass down mitochondrial DNA, already tipping the scales in favor of her dominant position in contributing genetic information (the seat of our humanity or species identity) to offspring. The microbiome, however, changes everything in favor of amplifying this asymmetry of hereditary influence.
Since we are all designed to gestate in the womb and come through the birth canal, and since the neonate’s microbiome is therein derived and established thereof, it follows that most of our genetic information as holobionts is maternal in origin. Even when the original colonization eventually changes and is displaced through environmentally-acquired microbial strains as the infant develops into a child, adolescent, and then adult, the original terrain and subsequent trajectory of changes were established through the mother (unless the newborn was C-sectioned into the world).
Put in simpler terms: if 99% of what it means to be human is microbiome-based, and if the mother contributes most, if not all, of the original starting material, or at least the baseline and trajectory of future changes in the inner terrain, then her contribution becomes vastly more important than that of the father.
Moreover, the conditions surrounding gestation (important because of maternal-to-fetal microbiome trafficking in utero), her general health, and the way in which she gives birth (home, birth center, or hospital) now take on vastly greater importance than previously imagined. In other words, being born in a hospital via C-section followed by vaccination will produce, genetically and epigenetically, a human that is so different—qualitatively—from one born at home, naturally, that the two babies could almost be classified as different species, despite sharing nearly identical eukaryotic DNA (which contstitutes only 1% of the holobiont’s total).
Scientific Inevitability of Birth Feminism
Given this perspective, obstetric interventions are the archetypal expression of a male-dominated paradigm that seeks to manage a woman’s birth experience with largely unacknowledged consequences for the health of our species. Protecting health and preventing disease have now been traced back to the origins of the microbiome, best expressed through natural birth in the home, which has been estimated to be as much as 1,000 times safer than hospital birth despite propaganda to the contrary.
In light of the new, microbiome-based view, the male role in protecting the health of women and children will be irrevocably downgraded in importance, not just professionally and medically, but biologically. First, it is interesting to look at the ancient roots of the biology-based psychospiritual disparities that exist between men and women, and which still influence today’s practice of medicine.
It would appear that men have from the beginning of time envied the creative role of women in conception, pregnancy, birth and caretaking. Erich Fromm described the pyschospiritual implications for men of this biologically-based existential disparity in terms of the phenomenon of womb-envy, exemplified by the biblical passage where God takes a rib from Adam to “create” Eve—an obvious reversal of the natural order of things, reflecting the inherent impotence men feel knowing their creative potency is of secondary importance.
It has been said, rightly, that the most powerful thing in the universe is to create life (normally attributed to “god”), and the second most powerful thing is to take it. It is no coincidence that recorded history is largely a documentation of the history of wars, of men “creating meaning” by killing men, and establishing symbol systems intended to capture by proxy the creative power latent within every woman’s body and experience.
And so, 10,000 years later, in a world ruled by monotheistic, male-principled religious and cultural systems, both in secular and religious form, it seems that the facts of our biology are now intervening to shake up these largely subconscious belief systems in favor of an ancient truth: women are superior to men, fundamentally. (This is not a type of superiority to be used against the “weaker sex,” men, but rather one that denote a higher responsibility, and perhaps greater need to be supported by men to get the job done, together, as inscribed in the natural order of things and nature’s inherent design.)
The birth process, also, has been described as the closest thing to death without dying. It is ironic that anesthesiology, which could also be described in the same way, makes obstetrical interventions like C-section and epidural possible, at the same moment that it negates the spiritual experience of natural birth/women’s empowerment we are describing. Birth offers women a window into the “in-between” and a direct experience of Source that men, less likely to experience this phenomenon naturally, would later emulate and access through the various technologies of shamanism.
Clearly, protecting the microbiome is of utmost importance if we are making the health of our future generations a priority. Indeed, ensuring the health of our offspring is perhaps the most fundamental evolutionary imperative we have.
How do we accomplish this? What is the microbiome but ultimately a selective array of commensal microorganisms that originated from the environment: in the air we breath, the soil we interact with, and the water and food we ingest. This means we can’t simply live in a hermetically sealed bubble of shopping for organic, non-GMO certified foods at Whole Foods, while the entire planet continues to go to post-industrial hell in a hand basket.
Our responsibility becomes distributed across everything in the world, and every impactful choice then becomes relevant to the fundamental issue and imperative at hand. With the microbial biodiversity in Big Ag, GM-based agricultural zones fire-bombed with biocides, by the very same corporations that either own or distribute the “organic brands” we all love to think will save our bodies, if not the planet, we need to step deeper into our activism by stepping out of the diversions and palliative measures that don’t result in lasting change.
When we work with the natural world, when we honor and acknowledge what is unknown about the complex web that we all share, we will bring back a vital health that now seems far out of reach. When we engage technologies positioned in the war against germs and organisms, however, we are doomed to fail and cripple not only our species but our home.
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Sayer Ji is founder of Greenmedinfo.com, the world’s most widely referenced evidence-based natural health resource, with a free newsletter with over 100k subscribers. You can sign up here: www.greenmedinfo.com/greenmed/newsletter.
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Microbiome Boost
Microbiome Boost at a Glance ...
Focus: microbiome (includes intestinal flora & Candida albicans)
Minimum Eligibility: five-month mark following the Potentiation session
Duration: 42 weeks (9+ months)
Some Reported Benefits: better digestion; increased food tolerance; fewer problems with Candida; deeper sleep; improved mood; stronger immunity; weight loss; reduced inflammation
We at the Phoenix Center for Regenetics are thrilled to introduce a brand-new DNA activation: Microbiome Boost.
This powerful “ener-genetic” activation is designed to foster wellness by enhancing the harmony—the functional synergy—between the recipient’s bioenergy blueprint and microbiome.
It has long been known that a harmonious bioenergy blueprint (also known as the aura) is foundational to good health, as explained on our website and in our two books on the “revolutionary healing science” (Nexus) of the Regenetics Method, Conscious Healing and Potentiate Your DNA.
Today, scientists are discovering that our microbiome also plays a critical role in our ability to sustain homeostasis and wellbeing.
The microbiome is the sum of microorganisms, including their DNA, found in the human body. Amazingly, our microbiome—which consists of bacteria, yeasts, Candida albicans, and many other organisms—contains far more DNA than our own cells and tissues!
A balanced microbiome performs a myriad of vital functions—promoting good digestion and elimination, modulating immune and stress responses, helping control body weight and blood sugar levels, and maintaining proper communication pathways between the gut and brain.
The microbiome can become imbalanced as a result of trauma, chronic stress, pathogens such as those found in vaccines, or toxicity induced by such factors as heavy metals in dental work, vaccine adjuvants, pesticides, and other harmful chemicals.
When this occurs, a virtually limitless number of physical problems can result—from relatively minor inconveniences such as skin rashes and toenail fungus to life-altering issues in the form of Leaky Gut, Chron’s disease, and other autoimmune conditions.
Additionally, it is thought by more and more researchers that a damaged microbiome is the most likely cause of mental illness, including depression, anxiety, and even psychosis. Others have gone so far as to claim that microbiome problems underwrite ADD, ADHD, and autism.
Obviously, in the interest of personal and public health, it behooves us to learn how to strengthen and restore our microbiome. But how do we do this?
Focus: microbiome (includes intestinal flora & Candida albicans)
Minimum Eligibility: five-month mark following the Potentiation session
Duration: 42 weeks (9+ months)
Some Reported Benefits: better digestion; increased food tolerance; fewer problems with Candida; deeper sleep; improved mood; stronger immunity; weight loss; reduced inflammation
We at the Phoenix Center for Regenetics are thrilled to introduce a brand-new DNA activation: Microbiome Boost.
This powerful “ener-genetic” activation is designed to foster wellness by enhancing the harmony—the functional synergy—between the recipient’s bioenergy blueprint and microbiome.
It has long been known that a harmonious bioenergy blueprint (also known as the aura) is foundational to good health, as explained on our website and in our two books on the “revolutionary healing science” (Nexus) of the Regenetics Method, Conscious Healing and Potentiate Your DNA.
Today, scientists are discovering that our microbiome also plays a critical role in our ability to sustain homeostasis and wellbeing.
The microbiome is the sum of microorganisms, including their DNA, found in the human body. Amazingly, our microbiome—which consists of bacteria, yeasts, Candida albicans, and many other organisms—contains far more DNA than our own cells and tissues!
A balanced microbiome performs a myriad of vital functions—promoting good digestion and elimination, modulating immune and stress responses, helping control body weight and blood sugar levels, and maintaining proper communication pathways between the gut and brain.
The microbiome can become imbalanced as a result of trauma, chronic stress, pathogens such as those found in vaccines, or toxicity induced by such factors as heavy metals in dental work, vaccine adjuvants, pesticides, and other harmful chemicals.When this occurs, a virtually limitless number of physical problems can result—from relatively minor inconveniences such as skin rashes and toenail fungus to life-altering issues in the form of Leaky Gut, Chron’s disease, and other autoimmune conditions.
Additionally, it is thought by more and more researchers that a damaged microbiome is the most likely cause of mental illness, including depression, anxiety, and even psychosis. Others have gone so far as to claim that microbiome problems underwrite ADD, ADHD, and autism.
Obviously, in the interest of personal and public health, it behooves us to learn how to strengthen and restore our microbiome. But how do we do this?
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