Code Delicious With Dr. Mike

Find out what may be causing your digestive issues with grains and how to improve your nutrition.Digestive problems are rampant. This has spurned a multi-billion dollar gluten-free industry.There are two reasons we have trouble digesting hard-to-digest foods: Processed foods designed to replace cholesterol in the 1960s are indigestible fats. They congest the liver and gallbladder, our kingpins of digestion. 400 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are dumped into the American environment every year. Toxins and pesticides are designed to kill bacteria. This is eliminating necessary participants in the gut microbiome and reducing the ability to digest wheat and other foods. If you can't digest well, you can't detoxify very well either. Grains and nuts require specific microbes to be broken down. These foods stimulate and irritate the intestinal tract to trigger an immune response. Eliminating hard-to-digest wheat and nuts can compromise the immune system.Are we sterilizing our environment by removing these compone