Health Related: Digestive Health

A healthy gut improves nutrient absorption and decreases sickness

Whether you’re on the Medifast diet, about to start it or transitioning off it, your long-term weight loss depends a lot on your body’s ability to digest food. The better your digestion, the more your body can absorb nutrients from the food. Since the Medifast diet restricts your caloric intake, it is even more important that your body takes advantage of all the available nutrients.

Your digestive system also accounts for over 70% of your immune system. Sickness is one bad germ away.

There are some specific, easy steps you can take to care for this vital part of your body. By taking the Medifast Essential1: Digestive Health supplements, you help restore the imbalances in your gut.

Insufficient good bacteria and insufficient enzymes are the two major obstacles to a fully-functional digestive system.

The benefits of good bacteria include:

• Improves digestion, especially of milk products
• Lessens discomfort of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease
• Reduces the factors that lead to stomach irritation and ulcers
• Strengthens your immune system by improving production of antibodies to certain viruses
• Helps your body produce B vitamins and absorb them more efficiently

Low fiber intake, being overweight, medications, environmental toxins and aging all take a toll on the good bacteria. The imbalance between good bacteria and bad bacteria leads to sickness and increased medical complications.

Furthermore, eating greens, beans, broccoli, whole grains and other complex carbohydrates become more difficult for the body to break down, leading to more gas, bloating and misery. Some people stop eating these healthy foods because of this! But if you are eating lean and green meals, you need to consume some of these greens on a regular basis.

Medifast has developed a probiotic capsule that contains good live bacteria and food for the bacteria to help them grow strong, thrive and multiply. A healthy gut ensures a healthy body.

Enzymes help break down food in the digestive tract. Its benefits include:

• Aids in the absorption of nutrients such as calcium
• Boosts your immune system
• Improves your digestive tract health
• Primes your body for fast efficient weight loss

Aging decreases your body’s enzyme production; so while you’re eating the same amount of food as before, your body is utilizing less of it, leading to a decline in physical well-being, which in turn leads to depressed moods.

Medifast’s enzyme blend brings your enzymes back to healthy levels to help break down essential nutrients associated with gas and bloating for a more comfortable digestion and a feeling of a flatter stomach.

As you transition off the Medifast diet you will need your digestion to be able to handle the reintroduction of the various vegetables, fruits, dairy products and whole grains into your diet.

The Essential1: Digestive Health package contains two easy-to-swallow pills that you take once a day. The probiotic contains three good bacteria and the digestive enzyme tablet contains 14 natural digestive enzymes.