Digestion is unbelievably complicate process, and I doubt that anybody understands it perfectly. However there are few simple basic truths that help us.
First of all, complete digestion requires the help of multiple enzymes. Some of these enzymes are manufactured in your body, some we have to get from the food we eat.
Secondly these enzymes are very delicate and are completely destroyed by processing and/or cooking.Thirdly these enzymes are activated only under certain conditions (in most cases they require certain pH-value).
Finally your body can not use food that is not completely digested. Partially digested food passed through your GI track but it can't be utilised by your body.
Undigested food passes through your stomach and small intestine to your colon. Your colon is like a waste management station. Whatever food has not been digested in your stomach and small intestine is handled in your colon. Your colon absorbs what nutrients it can from food passing through. Rest gets dehydrated, compressed to faeces and expelled through rectum.
Now your colon walls are lined with protective mucus that prevents harmful bacteria and toxins in your colon from entering your blood stream. In healthy colon this mucus is mainly colonised by beneficial bacteria, but it also contains harmful bacteria.
Harmful bacteria feast on undigested food in your colon. Undigested food putrefies and ferments in your colon. This putrefaction creates many toxins as by product.
It’s much like what happens in the garbage bin in your kitchen. Leftover food and trash starts to rot and before you know it stinks like hell.
The only difference is that your colon has much more bacteria than your garbage bin has. Your colon is also warm and humid, which makes it an ideal environment for bacteria to strive.
If this would happen only once in a while the beneficial bacteria in your colon would be able to keep the harmful bacteria at bay and repair the damage toxins have caused.
However, if this onslaught is an everyday event continuing week, months and even years it has dangerous consequences.With abundant food and fertile environment harmful bacteria in your gut multiplies in number and gain larger and larger foothold in your colon.
The toxic by products of putrefaction and fermentation of undigested food create an environment that is lethal to beneficial bacteria. Toxins also destroy the protective mucus your colon walls are lined with.
As more and more undigested food enters your colon, some of it gets stuck to the mucus on your colon walls. Little by little the diameter of your colon is reduced and it takes longer for food and faeces to pass through. This gives more time for harmful bacteria to create havoc.
Underneath the protective mucus your colon walls are lined with blood and lymphatic vessels. In healthy colon these vessels pick up nutrients that are passed through by beneficial bacteria.
Toxins, harmful bacteria and parasites in your colon damage the protective layer of mucus. Before long they destroy this protective wall exposing the blood and lymph vessels underneath it.
Now you have what is called the leaky gut syndrome. Pathological bacteria and toxins can enter your body through the exposed blood and lymph vessels.
Blood and lymph carries these toxins to your liver and kidneys to neutralise. Unfortunately your liver and kidneys can only handle so many toxins. If this toxic cycle is allowed to continue their capacity will be reached.
Your body does everything it can to protect itself from these toxins. If your body would allow these toxins to roam freely they would cause serious damage to your organs and eventually kill you.
Since your body’s primary elimination mechanisms (liver and kidneys) are fully utilised it has to turn to secondary elimination mechanism (skin and lungs). Now all those toxins that your liver and kidneys can't neutralise are pushed through your skin and lungs.
Your body also stores these toxins into your fat cells, joints, muscles and bones. By capturing the toxins into these cells your body ensures that those toxins can't harm you.
Good analogy would be nuclear waste. We bury nuclear waste deep into mountains until we figure out a better way to deal with it. Burying nuclear waste deep into mountains ensures that it can't harm us, but it does nothing to neutralise that nuclear waste.
These are few possibilities of how this toxic condition in your body results to acne. One explanation is, that toxins that are pushed through your skin, create a fertile environment for acne causing bacteria to settle in. Another explanation is that toxins disrupt hormone production. Many people claim that acne is due to overproduction of certain hormones that causes your body to produce more sebum and shed skin cells.
The exact mechanism is unknown and probably varies from person to person. However, it all stems from the same basic cause: toxic colon that leaks poisons into your body.
These toxins have a tendency of attacking the weakest link in your body. As that varies from person to person it explains why some people get acne and others don't under same conditions.
Instead of acne, other people get different symptoms (weight gain, yeast infections, bad breath, frequent headaches, infections, rash, allergies, chronic fatigue, etc).
The main reason why I believe that toxins in your body are the root cause of acne is that treatments that address this condition work amazingly fast. Under proper detoxification treatment you can literally get rid of pimples in 3 to 5 days – compare that to the ‘miracle drug’ Accutane, which takes months to work and is not even nearly so effective. These treatments also work on all types of acne.
Another reason is that should you continue with the diet and lifestyle, which caused this toxic condition, your acne will come back.Recap
Let’s recap a bit.
So far we discovered the following (simplified) chain:
Indigestion growth of unfriendly bacteria in your digestive track increase in toxicity that overloads your liver and kidneys acne
Now let’s take a brief look on the causes of indigestion.
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