Is inflammation the cause of your weight gain?
Today let’s discuss a very common dynamic that we see with women who are looking to release weight and who have underlying levels of inflammation in their bodies.
When I say inflammation, think of anything that ends with itis at the end - Arthritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, tendonitis, etc.
One of the really common root cause dynamics that many women don't necessarily realize is underlying food sensitivities, especially if we have suboptimal or lower than optimal levels of stomach acid.
As I shared above, stomach acid is necessary to help digest our food fully and break it down into proteins and molecules and vitamins and minerals that our cells can recognize.
When you have sub-optimal levels of stomach acid, your body is not able to effectively break apart all of your food and bring key nutrients on board. Once your food passes from the small intestine into the bloodstream, there may be some unrecognizable pieces and this will cause a reaction in your immune system, which is located primarily in the gut.
If you have low levels of stomach acid creating unrecognizable, partially digested food, then the immune system has a field day and becomes hypervigilant, creating underlying systemic inflammation.
Your body is not going to want to release weight when it has some simmering underlying inflammation happening because weight is considered a surplus supply of extra fuel and extra resources that it would want to hold on to.
Fortunately, here's a very simple, easy way that you can test your stomach acid levels at home:
Take a few ounces of warm water. First thing in the morning, before you eat or drink anything, even water.
Mix it with a tablespoon of baking soda (1 tablespoon of baking soda to about 4 ounces of warm water) and drink that first thing in the morning.
The bicarbonate combination should make you burp if you have adequate levels of stomach acid.
If you find that you don't burp after one or even three minutes, then that's an indication that perhaps your stomach acid levels are impacting the overall inflammation in your body and making it hard to release weight.
That's our health tip for today, as always, we are here at Hinman Holistic to support you, to really become empowered and take control of your health and find out what is the root cause so that you can massively create a shift in your energy and your vitality.
If you're looking for additional support and you'd like to connect with me or my team to investigate further and take those next steps - book a balance call with me!