The acid in your stomach and the probiotic microbes in your digestive tract play an important role in breaking down and absorbing the nutrients in your food. If you eat beets or drink beet juice, and your urine turns pink, you may have low stomach acid. This discoloration of your urine, to red or pink, after […]
Enzymes in your body use many of the minerals, vitamins, and other phytochemicals to catalyze chemical reactions inside your cells. In interdependent series of such reactions, called metabolic pathways, particular chemicals are modified, either by breaking them down or synthesizing them into new molecules. Your body uses metabolic pathways to maintain homeostatic balance. Toxins are […]
After you eat, you must digest the food: you break the food apart and reduce it to a state from which you can absorb the nutrients into your blood stream, which transports the nutrients to all parts of your body. Each nutrient combines and interacts with other nutrients and chemicals to create still other chemicals […]
Where do you get your protein if you don’t eat meat? How do you get enough calcium without drinking milk? Most people, even otherwise educated people, don’t seem to know very much about nutrition. Sadly, that situation won’t change anytime soon unless you educate yourself and the people you care about. Why did most of […]
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