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So I'm always reading your comments, getting ideas for videos, and someone mentioned what

to do with an inflamed digestive tract.

That's what I'm going to talk about.

The first thing I'm going to bring up is what is the function of your digestive tract?

I'm mainly talking about your stomach, your small intestine, and the large intestine.

The main function is to break down your food, the macronutrients, carbs, proteins, and fats.

And then absorb the micro-nutrients, okay?

Pull it in through the digestive tract at its smallest level.

In other words, you're eating protein, but we're absorbing amino acids.

You're eating fat and you're absorbing essential fatty acids.

You're eating carbohydrates and you're extracting the vitamins and minerals.

And then part of the undigested fiber is taken care of from your own microbes.

If you have any inflammation in any part of your digestive tract, you're going to have

a very difficult time absorbing, okay?

There's a condition called malabsorption.

That means you're just not getting the absorption of the nutrients into the body, and that

could occur from inflammation in the lining of your colon or scotch tissue that was created

from the inflammation.

So now we have a situation because we're not going to get the full absorption of vitamins,

minerals, essential fatty acids.

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