Think about the word indigestion for a minute. It means "not digesting." And that's a clue.
The fact that acidophilus seems to help you in all cases suggests that you may have too small a colony of friendly bacteria in your digestive tract (which might also explain why the indigestion was there before you went to raw food as well). Here's a page about how it works:
http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/7/main.html
Some of the things that can affect our level of acidophilous are stress, nicotine, aging, narcotics, medications, deficiencies in our diets, alcohol and the use of antibiotics. Do you have a naturopathic physician that might help you figure out what's causing this and how to get the proper amounts of friendly bacteria back in your system naturally?
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Elizabeth,
Think about the word indigestion for a minute. It means "not digesting." And that's a clue.
The fact that acidophilus seems to help you in all cases suggests that you may have too small a colony of friendly bacteria in your digestive tract (which might also explain why the indigestion was there before you went to raw food as well). Here's a page about how it works:
http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/7/main.html
Some of the things that can affect our level of acidophilous are stress, nicotine, aging, narcotics, medications, deficiencies in our diets, alcohol and the use of antibiotics. Do you have a naturopathic physician that might help you figure out what's causing this and how to get the proper amounts of friendly bacteria back in your system naturally?
March 12, 2010 - 9:15amThis Comment
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