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Aloe Vera and IBS
What is Aloe Vera?
Aloe Vera is a plant that evolved from the lilac family, on which garlic is also a member. Both possess great curative and nutritive properties.
How Does it Work?
Aloe contains a number of enzymes - those that aid in digestion (amylase and lipase) and those that are anti-inflammatory in nature.
One component of Aloe, aloin, is used as a laxative.
- It speeds up the transit time of the gut contents, as a result the stool becomes softer as it contains more water
- Protein absorption is increased
- Gut flora is regulated, especially where there is an overgrowth of the yeast Candida.
Aloe Improves the Quality of life!
What this means for IBS sufferers, is a new lease of life.
Aloe Vera - Forever Living Products: Top 10 Reasons To Drink Aloe Vera Gel
1. A General Tonic For Good Health!!!
- By drinking the Gel with all its important ingredients (often now deficient in our food) including 19 of the 20 amino acids needed by the human body, and seven of the eight essential ones that just cannot be made, the body is able to get enough to allow complex enzyme systems to work really well. This means the body can function at 100%. The net result to the individual is a wonderful feeling of wellbeing which leads to go with an improved ability to withstand and even fight illness.
Conquer IBS - Changing Your Mind Will Change What You Eat By Annetta Holmes
You all have all been at the receiving end of advertising that tells you how easy it is to lose weight. Glowing women with tight waists and slender legs beam at us from the TV screen while enthusiastically chattering about the product that so miraculously altered their body. Chunky men, their muscles gleaming in the overhead camera lights, say much the same as their lady counterparts.
Many of you have believed the words coming from those beautiful bodies that you can just take the tablet or drink the shake or stick on the patch and voilà. Fat exit stage right! If this were true then selling weight reducing products would cease to be a billion dollar global industry and we’d all be swanning around in those little black numbers the movies are so fond of portraying their sexiest stars in.
IBS is dealt with in a similar fashion. There’s a pill or powder or drink to treat and suppress almost any digestive disturbance you care to mention. The over prescription of laxatives and anti-diarrhoea medication sends the IBS suffers see-sawing between the two. Medication is a temporary solution and cannot be relied on long term. Inevitably the side effects and actions of the drugs will interfere with your body’s ability to manage its waste.
Dietary Fibre: Definition and Potential Health Benefit
This review looks at the current recommendations of fibre supplements, different sources of fibre and guidelines on fibre intake .
We’ll all benefit from an increase fibre intake. Reduces constipation and bloating.
Read the full article……
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