One of the best encapsulations of gastrointestinal symptoms, this sensitive gut, if you will,

what we sometimes call a bacterial type gut, we'll be looking at the model of IBS,

irritable bowel syndrome. So people have food sensitivities, they have bloating, pain,

constipation, or diarrhea. Looking at curcumin in a clinical trial, they found that after two months of curcumin,

60% of people no longer had IBS.

That's pretty remarkable for an inexpensive and very safe supplement.

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Let's start with a little overview of digestive physiology.

Digestion doesn't technically start in your gut, even in your mouth.

It actually starts when you first see or even smell

food, what's known as the cephalic phase of digestion. But then we quickly go into the stomach,

and this is where things start to get pretty interesting. Stomach acid does a number of things.

This HCL hydrochloric acid that your stomach makes, you can also supplement

with this as betane HCL, but the acidic nature of the stomach will actually ionize minerals.

So this is where calcium, magnesium, iron, start to get a charge in ionization, allowing them to

later be absorbed. Also, vitamin B12

is typically attached or bound to animal protein, and the acid is needed to decouple or cleave

the B12 off of the protein so you can later absorb it. In addition to that, we oftentimes think that

it's the acid that helps us digest food, including protein, almost like it melted it. But that's not

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