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In this article we will be sharing with you some life changing case studies–stories, and information about:

  • Importance of healthy digestion and its impact on overall health
  • Key dietary and lifestyle changes to support optimal digestion
  • Success stories of individuals who improved their digestion through targeted methods and supplements

Optimize Your Digestion and Prevent Indigestion

 

It is just as crucial to properly digest your food as it is to select healthy foods to eat. Good digestion allows the food you consume to break down so your body can absorb nutrients, nourish your microbiome (the gut’s microorganisms), separate out wastes and toxins for elimination, produce certain enzymes and nutrients, and fuel your body for biochemical balance. Your gut contains both beneficial and harmful bacteria, and when you’re healthy, the beneficial bacteria dominate. However, when you’re unwell, harmful bacteria take over. It’s like two opposing armies constantly at battle. Without proper digestion, even the healthiest diet can fail to improve your health. Poor digestion, inefficient nutrient absorption, and imbalances in gut bacteria can lead to inflammation, which often underlies common gastrointestinal (GI) issues. In fact, inflammation is a well-established and widely studied root cause of autoimmune diseases.

 

When your digestive process is out of balance, incomplete, or inefficient, it will eventually harm your overall health because your body won’t receive the essential nutrients it requires. For many common digestive problems, adjusting your diet, improving your lifestyle, and using the right supplements can make a significant difference. The Skolnikoff Method provides a wide range of therapies to support your digestion. Instead of merely addressing the symptoms, our approach focuses on tackling the root causes of digestive issues. Like many people, you may have emotional stress, infections, poor dietary habits, or toxic overloads that negatively impact your digestion.

Although individual nutrient needs vary, everyone benefits from real, natural, whole foods. Minimally processed foods tend to be digested more slowly than highly processed ones, which affects the rate of nutrient absorption. Consuming a lot of refined carbohydrates (like sugars and flours) and altered fats (such as refined oils and trans fats like canola or peanut oil) causes your body to rapidly absorb glucose and fatty acids, placing extra strain on your hormonal and nutrient regulation systems, including enzymes like insulin and cortisol. Different macronutrients—proteins, carbohydrates, and fats—are digested at varying rates, with fats taking longer to break down than carbohydrates or proteins. High-fiber foods also digest more slowly, while cooking some foods can make them easier to process.

Even if you’re eating a healthy diet, if you have digestive issues, it’s important to monitor foods that consistently cause discomfort. You and your healthcare provider should maintain a food diary, noting what you eat, when you eat it, and any symptoms that arise. Suspect foods should be avoided for three to four weeks and reintroduced gradually. Or better yet, use The Skolnikoff Method for more targeted and personalized digestive solutions. With this approach, there’s no guessing—you’ll know exactly which foods benefit your health and which do not.

 

Four Harmful Eating Habits to Avoid

  1. Overeating during meals can overwhelm your digestive system.
  2. Eating too quickly prevents proper chewing, increasing the workload on your digestion and reducing its efficiency.
  3. Skipping meals disrupts your blood sugar and hormone levels, making you more likely to overeat later. Grazing throughout the day or having multiple meals can help maintain balance. Many of our clients benefit from having up to five protein-rich meals daily for a few months to optimize their results and regulate blood sugar levels. Want to eat more, lose weight, and feel fantastic? Explore The Skolnikoff Method: New Medicine for a New You.
  4. Eating while stressed can negatively impact your digestive system, leading to reduced stomach acid production, increased gas and constipation, and disturbances in stress hormones affecting bowel movements. Stress eating can even trigger allergies and irritable bowel syndrome.

Your gastrointestinal tract is expansive, equivalent to over two tennis courts in size. Throughout your life, you’ll consume 30 to 60 tons of food. Digestive issues such as stomach pain, heartburn, indigestion, constipation, and diarrhea are frequent reasons people consult us. Digestive imbalances not only affect GI symptoms but can also lead to various other health problems. Your digestive health is crucial to your overall well-being.

Let’s listen to a few people who have optimized their digestion and prevented indigestion. Having a great diet is only winning the battle. Understanding your digestive system will win you the war. THE SKOLNIKOFF METHOD will be your guide in winning this war against indigestion.

 

Relief at Last: Anne-Frans’ Detailed Journey to

Finding an Effective Indigestion Solution

 

To help Anne-Frans with her digestion we gave her several key nutrients. Zymex Capsules from Standard Process were given to help her microbiome to have the right “soil” for growing the “seeds” to allow her health to flourish. We gave her Okra-Pepsin E3 from Standard Process to help her intestines to start to get out the larger macro toxins that needed to be detoxified. We also gave her GI Adsorb to help get the smaller toxins that needed to be released from her system. GI Adsorb contains a Zeolite clay which really helps with pulling the poisons and toxins out of the gut. It is not really a clay… it is more of a mineral compound but I want you to think of it as a clay for explanation purposes. This product can even help with eliminating heavy metals as the Zeolite can bind to the heavy metals. We are living in a toxic world as Britney Spears has shared with us in her music. Getting these poisons and toxins out of our bodies and out of our environment is crucial.

There is another product that we gave to Anne-Frans called Ligaplex II from Standard Process. This product was designed to help her keep her energy up while her body was detoxifying.

Zymex Capsules – her dosage was to chew 11 upon waking and 11 before bed.

Okra Pepsin E3 – her dosage was to take 6 with breakfast and 6 with lunch and 6 with dinner.

GI Adsorb – We had her take 3 pills 15 minutes before breakfast and 3 pills 15 minutes before lunch and 3 pills 15 minutes before dinner.

 

Watch Cathy Transform Her Digestive Health and Achieve Proper Bowel Movements with Dr. Ilya

 

For Cathy we really made a big difference for her with the nutritional supplements we gave her. We gave her Thytrophin PMG from Standard Process to help her thyroid to function better. We also gave her Milk Thistle Forte and Globe Artichoke 1:2 from MediHerb.

Thytrophin PMG – We had her chew 4 upon waking and 3 with lunch. Thytrophin PMG is the mineral extract from thyroid glandular substance. The protomorphogen extracts are perfect for a chronically stressed organ and/or gland. They really help the organ or gland to rebuild itself with all of the mineral co-factors needed to rebuild that organ or gland. Standard Process is the only company that makes protomorphogen products.

Milk Thistle Forte – Cathy took 6 with breakfast, 3 with lunch, and 6 with dinner. Milk Thistle Forte helps to detoxify the blood and it helps with a healthy liver and gallbladder. It is great for people who experience regular headaches.

Globe Artichoke 1:2 – Cathy took 5 mL with breakfast, 5 mL with lunch, and 5 mL with dinner. She was told to put the Globe Artichoke 1:2 in hot boiling water in a coffee mug and to drink it as a tea. This product helps with healthy bowel movements and with gallbladder and liver health.

Globe Artichoke 1:2 can only be obtained through Patient Direct. Once you are in Patient Direct you will need to click on the green button that says REGISTER. When you are registering yourself you will need a code known as the Health Care Professional’s Patient Direct Code. You will need to contact our office to get that code number. Then you will click on the green button that says VERIFY AND AGREE.

There are 4 main ways you can get in touch with our office to get the Patient Direct Code:

Triad Of Health Family Healing Center and the office of Dr. Ilya Skolnikoff:
(866) 849-5752 Toll Free number
(415) 707-5865 Text / Phone
(415) 459-4313 Office Phone
chiro@triadofhealth.net is our email

 

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  • Dr. Ilya Skolnikoff

    Dr. Ilya Skolnikoff is one of the foremost Functional Medicine experts. He is the Clinical Director of Triad Of Health Family Healing Center and the International Award Winning Speaker, creator and Amazon best- selling author of The Skolnikoff Method New Medicine for a New You: Inflammation Solutions Handbook.

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