Stomach pulling
The diaphragm is a big flat muscle that separates your chest from your abdomen and regulates breathing. It is designed to hang underneath the diaphragm, but after years of stress, shallow breathing through the mouth, lack of exercise and indigestion, the diaphragm can tighten and pull the stomach upwards.
If it does this over time it will create a hiatial hernia, which is the stomach pushing up on the diaphragm and eventually through. Over the years the stomach will get stuck to the wall of the diaphragm rendering the stomach unable to contract and digest efficiently. If half of the stomach is bound to the diaphragm, it will not produce the acid it needs to digest hard to digest foods such as wheat, gluten, dairy, soy, corn and nuts. The stomach acid production process sends critical messages to the pancreas, liver and gallbladder to secrete enzymes and bile to get ready to digest. Bile neutralizes the acids getting ready to be dumped into the small intestine by the stomach. If there is insufficient acid production in the stomach, there will not be sufficient bile and pancreatic enzymes secreted into the small intestine, which are required for digestion, assimilation and detox. This will further dial down digestive strength to the point where a host of digestive concerns will eventually ensue.
So with half of the stomach stuck to the diaphragm wall, the stomach cannot contract to move the food through the stomach and out into the small intestine for the next phase of digestion. This can result in foods, fats and acids lingering in the stomach, causing irritation to the stomach wall and further signaling the stomach not to produce the needed amount of acid to digest food efficiently.
How you can stop stomach adhesion before it happens.
Nasal breathing
Relaxing when eating
Eating with the seasons
Daily movement practice
Daily stress modification techniques
Watch the stomach pulling video below
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