Digestion is the one of the most important function of a human body. Not only in humans, digestion plays an important role in plants as well as animals. You must have heard, people says that they are suffering from weak digestion or indigestion. Then, you should know what is digestion and when it is referred as weak digestion?
Mainly two age groups that are children of age 2-5 years and senior citizens of age more than 60 years suffers from digestive problems. Because they are unable to digest heavy, oily, junk food and in case of senior citizens especially with increasing age their body starts deteriorate, as a result of which they are unable to digest a few types of food. But if you are a younger one and suffering from digestive problems then it is not natural and there maybe any reason of that.
What Is Digestion?
Digestion is a process to breakdown large insoluble food molecules into small water soluble food molecules, so that they will be absorbed into the blood plasma. In some organisms, these smaller water soluble food molecules are absorbed through the small intestine in the body. In digestion process, digestive system plays most important role. Now we will talk about, what is digestive system? what parts of the body are included in it? How it works?
Digestive System
The system of organs responsible for getting food in and out of the body and for making use of that food by absorbing its nutrients to keep the body healthy is known a digestive system.
The Human Digestive System
The human digestive system is consists of the gastrointestinal tract plus the accessory glands of digestive system which includes mouth, esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, large intestine, colon, rectum. The digestive system is also known as gastrointestinal (GI) system.
The digestion process starts from the first part of the digestive system that is mouth. When a person eats something the food particle is mixed with the saliva then enters to esophagus through mouth. And then to stomach through esophagus. The function of liver and gallbladder is to secrete digestive juices thus they then release digestive juices which helps in the breakdown of food particle. Then the digested food enter to small intestine where nutrients, minerals, vitamins present in the food are absorbed and the remaining waste enters the colon through large intestine and removed from the body through rectum. This is the whole process of the human digestion.
Weak Digestion
We had talked about the digestion, digestive system now the next thing, today, we are going to talk about is when and why the digestion is weaken?
Weak digestion is also known as indigestion. Indigestion is natural in case of senior citizens, but should not taken lightly in case of younger ones.
1.Causes Of Indigestion
- Over eating
- Eating too quickly
- Eating fatty, greasy and spicy food
- Smoking
- Too much intake of caffeine, alcohol, chocolate and carbonated beverages
- Anxiety
- Certain antibiotics, pain reliever and iron supplements
- Early fullness during a meal
- Uncomfortable fullness after eating
- Discomfort in upper abdomen
- Burning sensation in the upper abdomen
- Nausea
- Inflammation of the stomach
- Peptic ulcers
- Celiac disease
- Gall stones
- Constipation
- Intestinal blockage
- Avoid over eating
- Use baking soda, fennel seeds in food
- Know what to eat and when
- Stop taking excessive caffeine, alcohol etc.
- Fatty, greasy and spicy food should be avoided.