The digestive system (DS) plays a fundamental role for the immune system.

After the skin, the (DS) is the principal contact of our body with the external world. It is responsible for many structural functions essentials for life.  The DS contains a huge number of immune cells. About 70% of them are located in the DS to protect us from external pathogens.

The knowledge of this reality brings us a simple truth: a healthy digestive system means a strong immune system. The opposite is also true, i.e, a weak DS debilitates or leads to the weakening of the immune system.

Our society, unfortunately fruit of the huge alteration of its traditional diet for diets high in calories and deprived of nutrients, has proportionated pathologies that I call “eating pathologies”.  And why? because we (I would say nearly all of us, or us as a society) inebriated by the “sweetness” of the “new foods”, have been paying the hard price for these mistakes. And if our DS suffers, our immune system goes down, in other words we have opened the door to all kinds of bacteria and viruses, giving the opportunity for autoimmune diseases to appear.

It is so easy to improve your gut flora. You just need to follow simple rules and you will feel instant improvements! It is preferable to act preventively than in a reactive and desperate mode, resorting for instance to antibiotics, which paradoxically cure but worsen the DS and the immune system (There is no point in discussing this topic here as most of the people reading this article are well aware of antibiotics consequences.)

To improve our digestive system and consequently our immune system we need to consider the following (simple guide that will probably immensely improve your energy levels and wellbeing):

1. Wake up in the morning and think: this is going to be a good day. Positive thinking right in the morning helps to inspire our day.
2. Take on an empty stomach Turmeric with black pepper, ad a tea spoon of mono saturated fat (such as coconut oil) and mix with your favourite milk, with a tea spoon of maple syrup ( in the event that you would wanted  something sweeter you have an excellent healthy option with our coconut sugar).
3. Ingest simple foods, unprocessed and natural, preferably gluten, soya and lectins free.
4. Don’t forget a golden rule: 200g of green leafy vegetables a day. You can do it in a very simple way, consume it in the morning with your green juice, eat a salad at lunch time and soup with green leafy vegetables at night. Add spirulina or chlorella to your soup and your green juice multiplying massively your levels of chlorophyll on your body.
5. Consume meat/ fish with moderation. Avoid consuming meat and fish at dinner time, and if you do never more than 150g. Remember that your DS needs to rest at night. From 6 pm your body enters the “resting” and detoxification phase of the day. Give the opportunity to your body to “clean the temple”, by consuming healthy foods easy to digest.
6. Do this simple exercise everyday: laying down for 5 minutes, place your hands on the belly button, breath in and out pressing down (push back your hills and feel your lower back contracting, while breathing in and out).

Take care of your gut, take care of yourself.