The Fuel Supply Line to Your Body! Let Us Introduce You to Your Digestive System!

WHAT IS IT?

Your digestive system handles the complex process of separating useful nutrients in food from waste–delivering the nutrients the body uses for energy, growth, and cell repair needed to survive. The process of digestion is also how toxins are eliminated from your body.

The collection of bacteria lining the stomach and intestines operates independently to digest food and is sometimes called the second brain. This is why gut health can have a profound effect on mood and mental well-being.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

The digestive system plays a role in just about every function of your body because it is responsible for absorbing the critical vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients required for life.

Within the digestive system, these nutrients are extracted and synthesised by tiny living organism known as probiotics, or good bacteria, which must be taken care of to help regulate digestion and metabolism and support your immune system.

You Need to
Trust Your Gut!

How Your Gut Fuels Your Life!

Digestion is the complex process of turning the food you eat into nutrients your body uses for the energy, growth, and cell repair needed to survive. The process of digestion is a primary way toxins are eliminated from your body.

Your Gut Microbiome Is Well Connected

Helps Control Your Immune System

70% of your immune system resides in your gut! Thanks to its constant interaction with immune cells, your gut microbiome helps determine how your body responds to infection. Some probiotics can also prevent disease-causing bacteria from sticking to intestinal walls.

Digests Fibre for Your Body

Fibre may help prevent weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, and other serious ailments.

Helps Control Brain Health

New research shows that the gut microbiome can directly affect the central nervous system.

Lifestyle Digestive

Your Digestive Tract

Mouth: Digestion starts here—where digestive enzymes in your saliva start to break down the food you're eating into a form your body can absorb.
Throat (pharynx and oesophagus): Carries the food to the stomach.
Stomach:Mixes and grinds the food you've swallowed, secreting acid and powerful enzymes in the process to break down the food into a liquid or paste.
Pancreas: Factory for digestive enzymes that break down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
Liver: Secretes bile and processes the blood that carries the nutrients absorbed from the small intestine. Cleanses the blood of many impurities.
Small Intestine: Almost 6 metres, your small intestine continues to break down food as it passes through, using enzymes from the pancreas and bile from the liver. Nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal walls and into the bloodstream. Everything else passes into the large intestine.
Large Intestine: It’s a muscular tube, almost 2 metres long, that connects the small intestine to the rectum. This highly specialised organ is responsible for absorbing water and salts and processing waste and toxins in the form of stool. Stool passes through the colon, where any remaining water is absorbed. It ideally takes 24 hours for stool to move through the large intestine.
Bile: Serves two main purposes: 1) helps absorb fats and 2) carries waste from the liver that cannot go through the kidneys.
Rectum: Chamber at the end of the large intestine that receives the stool and notifies the brain when the stool is ready to be released.