Eating healthy is important for metabolic energy of digestion. Dr Deepika Malik brings in the connection between the gut and your health.
Eating healthy is very important, but it’s equally important that your food is digested properly. Ayurveda believes that a healthy digestive system is very important for well-being and that every disease is believed to arise from poor digestion.
The metabolic energy of digestion, known as agni, allows us to assimilate food while ridding the body of wastes and toxins (ama). It transforms dense physical matter into the subtler forms of energy the body needs. When agni is weak, there is not enough digestive power to metabolize food into energy. At the same time if Agni is very strong your food is metabolised very fast and nutrients will not get absorbed for a healthy body and mind we need balanced agni that is neither too weak nor too excessive.
The quality of agni varies depending upon one’s dosha: vata, pitta, or kapha. In vata and kapha types, agni tends to be weak and the digestive system “cold,” sluggish, or irregular, which can result in malabsorption disorders, chronic constipation, loose stools, and gas. In pittas, the fires of agni can become excessive and cause heartburn, acid reflux, colitis, and other burning sensations.
Here are few general tips to follow for your good health:
Author: Dr Deepika Malik
The Author is a CEO and Director of Life Century Blog.
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