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Digestion Rediscovered. - Read 0 Min.

Meet Your Essential Organ, the Bioreactor.

Meet Your Essential Organ, the Bioreactor.

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The digestive system is thought of as a waste system where nutrients soak into the body. NOT!

Nutrition's Galileo Moment.

Digestive System Overview.

The Grinder, Mixer, and Lookout.

The Transit Tube.

The Super Mixer.

Waste Management.

The Bioreactor.

Food Bolus and Fluids.

Surface of the Mucus.

Embedded in the Mucus.

Surface of the Wall Membrane.

Embedded in the Wall Membrane.

Wrap Up.

Actionable Knowledge.

  • If you treat food as ready-to-burn energy and shovel it like coal into a boiler, you will significantly change the nutrient stream entering the bioreactor. These changes can have significant impacts on the bioreactor's processes.
  • First, the urge to drink to help swallow is itself significant. This urge indicates you need to give the mouth the time to process the food slowly and thoroughly. A brief chew and quick swallow often lead to washing the food down with a drink. When these happen together, as they typically do, it significantly undermines the beginning of the hydrolysis process. There is no harm in drinking while eating; just don't drink immediately after swallowing to wash it down.
  • Dr. Michael Gershon's book, The Second Brain, details that 95% of nutrition happens in the bioreactor. Up to this point, everything in the digestive tract functions to prepare the optimal food bolus and move it along to feed the ecosystem of microbes in the bioreactor. Everything after the bioreactor is to manage the waste products of nutrition. The bioreactor truly is the center of the nutrition universe.
  • The sheer scale of the bioreactor ecosystem is staggering. Between twenty-five and fifty thousand distinct environmental spaces serve as critical habitats for metabolically active microbe species, each creating an essential nutrient or biochemical. This multitude of environments underscores the complexity and diversity of the bioreactor's microbial community. Instead of trying to micromanage the bioreactor ecosystem, Nutrimatters focuses on ending actions that harm the bioreactor and beginning actions that support the bioreactor's natural healing.
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