The BIG IDEAS for DIGESTION for Nutritional Therapy:
- Digestion is a NORTH to SOUTH process.
- The big three organs for digestion from a Nutritional Therapy standpoint:
- Gallbladder: releases bile to emulsify fats (ideally good fats – not the processed damaged fats)
- Pancreas: release pancreatic enzymes lipase, protase and lactase to digest foods
- Stomach: digests proteins, absorbs calcium, B vitamins (intrinsic factor) and more.
3. Digestion is fundamental to Nutritional Therapy: every cell the makes up every tissue, that makes up every organ depends on the body’s digestion system to provide the nutrients it needs to keep on functioning.
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