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No matter how much you love digestive enzymes for saving you from embarrassing gas or tummy discomfort, digestive enzymes could magnify the real root of your belly problems. The truth is that gas, pain, and bloating are important indicators that your stomach does not like what you are putting in it. Digestive enzymes let poor food choices slide by silencing your belly's warning signs. Suddenly, with the aid of enzymes, you can digest a late night pizza binge, ice cream and other foods one shouldn't otherwise eat. Since food becomes blood, the suppression of digestive disorders often leads to a blood disorder like high cholesterol and blood pressure.
Digestive enzymes become addictive because they replace the function of your stomach. The process is much the same way our muscles atrophy when we stop exercising them. By relying on digestive enzymes, slowly your stomach loses its ability to produce enzymes on its own. Without a change in diet, this will increase your need for digestive help, furthering your dependence on those not-so-innocent supplements.
Although they sound the same, digestives and digestive enzymes work in very different ways. Digestives promote and strengthen stomach function instead of replacing it. Examples of digestives include spices like black pepper and ginger as well as herbal formulas like Digestive Bitters. These spices and formulas improve circulation to the stomach, break up mucus, and stimulate good muscle tone, which all help to keep your stomach strong.
Sometimes, a digestive enzyme supplement can help you recover from an acute bout of digestive distress. Or, temporary use the first few days of travel, when your system is compromised. As long as you discontinue use after 2-3 days, dependency won't develop. Otherwise, you will have to wean yourself from digestive enzymes more slowly.
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DIET FOR IMBALANCES RELATED TO 'TAKING ENZYME SUPPLEMENTS'
Augment your diet with these specially chosen ingredients below which may be useful for 'Taking Enzyme Supplements'.
Individual results vary depending the cause of your imbalance and by constitution.
Please research the ingredients below to find which are most helpful for you, and check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.
PRODUCTS FOR IMBALANCES RELATED TO 'TAKING ENZYME SUPPLEMENTS'
HERBAL TEAS FOR TAKING ENZYME SUPPLEMENTS
Ajwain, Bitter Orange Peel, Fennel Seed
TINCTURE FOR 'TAKING ENZYME SUPPLEMENTS'
Kutki Tincture
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DIGESTION PRODUCTSCLEANSE AND DETOX PRODUCTS
DISCLAIMER: The pathogenesis of each person's condition is unique, and so the diet must be
fit to the individual and the unique root causes of the condition in your body.
AGGRAVATES THESE DOSHAS & QUALITIES 
Imbalance Accumulates
Improper food and lifestyle causes balances to accumulate.
Ayurveda shows you exactly which doshas and qualities will accumulate in your body.
Once these doshas and qualities accumulate too much, they will begin to cause disease.
You can reduce an imbalanced dosha or quality by removing things that aggravate it
from your diet and lifestyle.
'Taking Enzyme Supplements' is likely to aggravate the following doshas and qualities. If you have a systemic imbalance of one of these doshas or qualities,
Ayurveda would generally recommend removing, substitute or lessen the frequency of 'Taking Enzyme Supplements'.
V = VATA, P = PITTA, K = KAPHA
DRY ![Dry]( "Dry") ABOUT DRY GUNA
Dry is identified by lack of moisture, lack of fat, or anything that causes diuresis.
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MODERATE THESE DRY FOODS IF TAKING ENZYME SUPPLEMENTS IS CAUSING A PROBLEM |
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COLD ![Cold]( "Cold") ABOUT COLD GUNA
Cold refers to anything that reduces body temperature, metabolism, and blood flow.
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MODERATE THESE COLD FOODS IF TAKING ENZYME SUPPLEMENTS IS CAUSING A PROBLEM |
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SEE A DIET WHICH REMOVES THESE QUALITIES
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FAVOR DIETS, LIFESTYLES & HERBS WITH THESE MEDICINAL EFFECTS
Everything you eat has an effect on your body, which Ayurveda categorizes in a simple and easy way, using gunas.
Gunas are qualities (like cold and hot) that describe the effect a food or herb has on your body.
Cooling foods like cucumber, decrease metabolism.
Heating foods like chili pepper, stimulate your body and increase metabolism.
For 'Taking Enzyme Supplements', you should select foods with the following qualities (gunas).
Individual results will vary, based on your body type and the root cause of your imbalance.
To learn more about the symbols above, click on them.
Digestion:
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Sialogogue SIALOGOGUE
A sialogogue increases saliva. Sour foods are often great sialogogues, and increase output of all exocrine glands. Salty taste is very moistening as well. Bitter, pungent and sweettastes also increase salivary output but to a
lesser degree. Astringents
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Heart & Circulation:
Blood Tonic BLOOD-TONIC
An herb that produces more blood cells in the body or otherwise strengthens blood. Helpful for anemia and other types of deficiency.
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Rebuild Electrolytes REBUILD-ELECTROLYTES
Substances that increase your electrolyte balance. Electrolytes help you retain water, keep your palate moist, and truly quench your thirst.
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ADDRESS ISSUES IN STAGE OF DISEASE 0
TAKING ENZYME SUPPLEMENTS IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE 0 - POTENTIAL CAUSEPotential causes increase and disturb your imbalanced doshas and qualities,
causing them to accumulate and spiral out of control.
For example, if you're overheated and eat a chili pepper, heat may become excessive and cause disease.
As a dosha or quality accumulates in your body according to your dietary and lifestyle habits,
it is more and more likely to cause disease.
You can reduce an imbalanced dosha or quality in two ways, by removing, or lessening the frequency of aggravating causes from your diet and lifestyle,
as well as by favoring balancing diet and lifestyle practices.
For example, try eating something as cool as a cucumber when you're overheated, instead of a chili pepper.
REDUCE THESE RELATED SYMPTOMS & HABITS
The following symptoms & habits may be related to 'Taking Enzyme Supplements'.
See your quiz results for a computerized assessment of your body type.
Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them.
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Ayurveda strengthens the body, in addition to addressing the disorder. It take a holistic,
systemic approach, instead of myopically focusing on the disorder in question. Ayurveda
shows a person how to interpret signs and symptoms of imbalance, and how to address them
using materials from home, so they can optimize their health on a continual basis. You can't
take the doctor home with you, but you can take Ayurveda home with you.
Ayurveda is the most advanced and easy to use home system for self healing with an
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HOW DOES AYURVEDA WORK?
Ayurveda starts by identifying your
body type,
which identifies certain tendencies in your body to get sick (as well as identifying your strengths).
It uses body type to determine the likely root causes of your disorders.
Next, Ayurveda analyzes the nature of your disorder.
It fits all your signs and symptoms into a pattern, expressed as a combination of
gunas / qualities.
For example, you may have a heat disorder, a cold disorder, or an oily disorder, etc.
This simple categorical approach shows you how to correct systemic imbalances and strengthen your body as a whole.
On Joyful Belly, we've created an extensive categorization of food so you can easily match food to your imbalances (gunas).
By eating an optimal diet that balances your gunas, your whole body is strengthened
and the conditions that created the disorder are removed. Once the root causes of the disease
are removed, the disease lessens in strength or disappears altogether. Additional remedies -
such as herbs and lifestyle practices - focused on the specific disorder, can greatly enhance
your healing.
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About the Author
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda.
His approach to Ayurveda exudes a certain ease, which many find enjoyable and insightful.
His online course
Balance Your Ayurvedic Diet in a Week provides tools for gracefully healing with Ayurveda to thousands.
John also directs Joyful Belly's
School of Ayurveda
, which specializes in digestive tract pathology & Ayurvedic nutrition.
John and his wife Natalie recently published
Explore Your Hunger: A Guide to Hunger, Appetite & Food.
John's interest in Ayurveda and digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel, including his public service work in South Asia.
John's commitment to the detailed study of digestive disorders reflects his zeal to get down to the roots of the problem. His hope and belief in the capacity of each & every client to improve their quality of life is nothing short of a personal passion.
John's creativity in the kitchen and delight in cooking for others comes from his family oriented upbringing.
In addition to his certification in Ayurveda, John holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John enjoys sharing Ayurveda within the context of his Catholic roots,
and finds Ayurveda gives him an opportunity to participate in the healing mission of the Church.
Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
That kindness is the fundamental ministry of Ayurveda as well.
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