Gut Repair and Alkalizing Nutrition for Digestion

Part 1: Digestion Basics – How it All Works

This is a broad overview of how your digestive system – also known as “the second brain” — works. Once you gain an understanding of how everything fits together, you can begin to put a healing regimen in place.

You’ll learn:

• How to assess the function of your digestive tract, and why it’s critical to do so even if you don’t think you’re experiencing any digestive issues.
• The 4R process for healing your digestion: what it is and how to use it.
• The simple, at-home method to measure how effective your digestive system is… without drawing blood, enduring a colonoscopy, or sending in a poop sample!
• And more.

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Action Plan

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 1

Assess your digestion and nutrient absorption.

Digestive Function Assessment: This assessment reviews several areas of your digestion including upper gastrointestinal conditions, liver, gallbladder, small intestine, pancreas, and large intestine.

 

Digestive Assessment Score Protocol Tracker: After you have completed the Digestive Function Assessment, you will find a grid where you can put your scores, as well as an accompanying Gut Healing Protocols Table. You can use this table to give you further direction and focus as you move through the GRAND program.

 

Nutrient Assessments:

Complete the nutrient assessments to determine if your digestion is impacting your nutrient absorption.

General Nutrient Balance Assessment: This health assessment will examine your general nutritional needs, essential fatty acid needs, and potential levels of amino acids.

 

Mineral Balance Assessment: This health assessment will examine your potential levels of minerals including calcium, chromium, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.

 

Vitamin Balance Assessment: This health assessment will examine your potential levels of vitamins including vitamins A, B, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12, and C.

Step 2

Do a bowel transit time test.

Do the transit time test and if your transit time is not between 18 and 24 hours, consider activities to slow or speed up your transit time.

Bowel Transit Time Tracker: This charcoal test is used to determine how long it takes food to travel through your digestive tract, from mouth to anus.  Ideally, it should take between 18 and 24 hours for food to completely be moved through your digestive tract and undigested fiber to be eliminated.

Step 3

Drink the AM Gut Rejuvenator drink upon rising (before food).

Daily AM Gut Rejuvenator Recipe: Drink this combination of water, lemon, and essential oils to wake up your gut each morning before you eat.

Step 4

Add green drinks or green soups to your diet each day.

Use your favorite green drink or green soup recipes, check out recipes on the Dr. Ritamarie blog or on YouTube, or use the recipes that are available in our GRAND Recipe Collection.

GRAND Recipe Collection: Here you’ll find a selection of nutritious and healing recipes that will repair and optimize your digestion; keep your blood sugar nice and steady; help reduce inflammation; and nourish your glands, organs, and immune system.

 

GRAND Menu Guidelines: Access helpful strategies for making meal-planning a breeze.  Know how to plan your breakfast, lunch, and dinner and use a helpful template you can personalize to create gut healing and soothing meals.

 

Creating a Healing Kitchen – Resource Guide: This BONUS document contains some of the recommended brands, products, and equipment you’ll find named or suggested in my various programs and recipe collections. I look for high quality foods and supplements that will support the healing process while satisfying tastes and nutrition. It also contains a shopping list.

Step 5

Follow Dr. Ritamarie’s pre-meal ritual before each meal.

You need to DO these steps EVERY time you put food into your body: Stop — Look — Tune into your heart — Breathe fully and deeply — Feel sincere appreciation.

Step 6

Begin to remove the foods that harm your gut and digestion.

Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal Your Gut: Optimize your digestion by removing the foods that hurt and increasing the foods that heal. Here’s a cheat sheet you can print and refer back to when you shop and prepare meals.

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