A doctor has named 14 signs that it’s time for you to change your diet

certified clinical geneticist, nutritionist, expert of UniProf Academy of Physicians

What are the body’s signals that tell you it’s time to change your diet?

Digestive disorders have many symptoms: heartburn, belching, abdominal bloating, cramps, pain around the navel, rumbling in the stomach, bitterness in the mouth and much, much more. And often we do not pay attention to the violations themselves, we live with them for years, trying to treat (sometimes even successfully) the external result of internal imbalances, usually related to the gastrointestinal tract and digestion.

How to properly recognize the symptoms and understand when nutrition is really not beneficial, and perhaps even harmful to the body? We tell you about the main points that you should pay attention to.

Heaviness

Symptomatic heaviness in the stomach after overeating and heavy feasting indicates a lack of digestive enzymes. They are not enough to break down an excessive amount of a variety of products. But if this condition becomes systemic, it is important to understand exactly what types of food cause the symptoms to worsen.

Irritable bowel syndrome

If there is a lack of protein-digesting enzymes, the need for protein foods (especially meat) will first become acute, and muscle mass gain will be extremely slow or even begin to deplete. Over time, a condition similar to irritable bowel syndrome will also occur. This is due to the depletion of the muscular function of the gastrointestinal tract.

This can provoke and rumbling in the abdomen. About other causes of such a symptom, read in the material at the link.

Headache and arrhythmia

Then there may appear a condition similar to heart failure (after all, the heart is also a muscle). As a rule, the acute phase is accompanied by a headache of unclear origin, sensations like poisoning, impaired kidney function, arrhythmia when eating protein products.

In this case, it is necessary to reduce the intake of animal protein, but be sure to compensate with amino acid complexes or functional nutrition (hydrolyzed protein). And if the phase is not acute, it is worth reducing the use of meat and simplify its composition: give preference not to lump meat, but meatballs, cutlets, minced meat, meat mousse, cooked in a gentle way (for example, steamed).

A few more signs

With a lack of enzymes that break down fats or bile, it is important to pay attention to such implicit symptoms as:

• fatty spots on the body, especially on the back, chest, and face;
• oily facial skin;
• dry joint creases;
• allergic reactions, especially when the allergen has not been identified;
• presence of parasites;
• dry hair;
• rapid emotional and physical exhaustion;
• inability to skip meals (acute hunger);
• frequent respiratory diseases;
• endocrine disorders.

The situation, unfortunately, will not change only with a change in diet. And in this case, it is not enough to remove fats from the diet. It is necessary to help the body to digest them, under the supervision of a gastroenterologist to establish the flow of bile, check and correct the sufficiency of enzymes.

With a lack of enzymes that break down carbohydrates, among the symptoms are frequent fungal diseases, bloating, a sense of schedule when eating carbohydrate products, skin inflammation and others. In this case, it is important to understand exactly what type of carbohydrate the body is reacting to. Most often the culprit turns out to be lactose. More about it told in the material at the link.

If you exclude from the diet carbohydrates, with the assimilation of which the body can not cope, in most cases the problem will be solved.

Digestive disorders – this is a very important sign of imbalance in the body, which should not be missed. The sooner you realize what becomes the trigger for unpleasant symptoms, the sooner it will be possible to correct this condition, and therefore correct it.