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 What is
a Gastrointestinal Disorders? |
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Gastrointestinal Disorders, is
a digestive disorder that interferes with the workings of
the intestine. GI generally falls into two categories,
functional and inflammatory.
Functional GI disorders, such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome
(IBS), chronic diarrhea, constipation and intestinal pain,
are characterized by symptoms and not by a visible sign of
disease or injury. Inflammatory GI disorders include
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Crohn’s Disease and
ulcerative colitis. |
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What
Causes a GI Disorders? |
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Poor diet and nutrition is a
common cause of GI System problems. A prime culprit is the
Western diet, which is heavy in meat, starch, processed
foods, preservatives, chemicals and other unhealthy
additives.
Diets should be altered to
include more fiber, enzymes including digestive enzymes,
appropriate oils like essential fatty acids and complex
carbohydrates, and to exclude or minimize intake of
consumables that can compromise health (sugars,
preservatives). |
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Underlying causes of GI disturbance include microbes (
bacterial, viral, parasites), toxins, (e.g. toxins in foods
and heavy metal toxicity in the nervous system) poor
nutrient levels, physical damage to tissues, congestion,
overuse, or dysfunction of the accessory organs, or
compromised energy flow in the system. Any one or any
combination of these leads to irritation, inflammation.
Other contributing factors to
GI disorders include infections, inadequate or excessive
levels of digestive acids and enzymes, stress, poor levels
of helpful bacteria, and a poorly functioning liver,
pancreas or gallbladder all of which aid in the digestive
process. |
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Immune incompetence or dysfunction, along the
gastrointestinal tract can leave the GI system and body
poorly protected against parasites, toxins and a host of
offending antigens from the outside world. Immune
incompetence has been shown to be part of the inflammatory
diseases known as Chron's and Colitis. |
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