Your digestion impacts your body in so many ways. Starting with the intake and absorption of nutrients and water,

the digestive process provides the building blocks the body needs to live, to function, and to stay healthy.

And today we're going to be exploring how you can support your digestive system.

Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Notara, the podcast where you'll hear exciting,

useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field. If you like what you hear today, rate, review,

and subscribe wherever you listen. We always appreciate hearing from you. Today we're excited to talk

to Jenny Weigand about supporting your digestive health every day. Jenny, thank you so much for joining us here today.

Thanks for having me.

This is a topic that is important to everyone who eats because your digestive health is

directly affected by your eating. Can you tell us a little bit about why our digestive health

is so important?

Digestive health is key to so many parts of our overall health.

If we think about that, the digestive tract influences not only how we process our food and

get nutrition, but it also affects our immunity, our mood, and our hormone balance.

In addition to cardiovascular health, which is key through the way foods are processed in our

body and how our cholesterol may react, gut health stems to everything.

Absolutely. And with something that can affect such a large part of

our body, what are some things that a lot of us are probably doing every day that might be having

a negative impact on our digestive health? I think whether we knowingly or unknowingly make choices

every day about what we put into our

body, I think we also don't always think about the condition of what we put into our body.

So when farmers used to farm 40 years ago, our soil was much richer.

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