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Digestive
Health
Do you know what happens to your food?
After you eat, digestion turns your food into fuel for every cell in your body, keeping your organs and systems working. Healthy digestion helps you get the most of this fuel,
but there’s more! It can also affect your weight, energy, skin, and immune function!
3 Things You Need
for Digestive Health
Different Types
of Fiber
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1. Food enters the mouth
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2. Inside the mouth
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Fun Fact
Drinking water and other fluids stimulates the production of saliva, which moistens our food and makes it easier to swallow.
Before entering the depths of our digestive track, our teeth and saliva team up to crush our food and turn it into mush.
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Fun Fact
3. Inside the esophagus
After swallowing the food mush, the muscles in the esophagus push it down into the stomach.
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4. Inside the stomach
These impressive stomach muscles massage the food with water, stomach acid and enzymes to continue breaking it down.
Why is hydration crucial
for our digestive health?
About 60 to 70% of our weight is water. Proper hydration affects all of our body functions, and it has a big role in every step of our digestion, including the breakdown and absorption of nutrients, delivering them to all of our body's cells and helping us eliminate waste products.
Most people need between 8 and 12 cups of water a day. This can include plain water and water in beverages such as Herbal Aloe, coffee, tea, mineral water, fruit or vegetable juice, broth and milk. Herbal Aloe is also a great option for soothing your hard-working stomach!
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Why is hydration crucial
for our digestive health?
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Why is it important to include probiotics in our diet?
Why is it important to include probiotics in our diet?
5. Inside the small intestine
This intestine may be small (1 inch in diameter) but it sure is mighty! Probiotics and our digestive juices break down most of the nutrients from our food here. These nutrients are then absorbed and delivered into the bloodstream.
Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that live mainly in our guts, and that help us break down and synthesize nutrients.
Everyday things like stress, a poor diet, lack of exercise and other environmental factors can affect the balance within your microbiome, resulting in bloating, discomfort and other symptoms. Eating probiotic foods like fermented vegetables or yogurt, and taking supplements, can help us restore this balance and further benefit our overall health.
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Did you know that the small intestine is about 20 feet long while the large intestine is only about 5 feet long?
Why is it important to include fiber in our diet?
Why is it important to include fiber in our diet?
6. Inside the large intestine
The fiber we eat helps our food move down the digestive tract and into the large intestine, where probiotics aid in the breakdown of the remaining nutrients. These nutrients are also delivered into the bloodstream, and the waste is pushed out.
Fiber comes from plant foods and it plays a key role in our digestive health. There are two types:
• Soluble fiber traps water and helps us feel full. It is also a prebiotic (food for probiotics).
• Insoluble fiber cannot be broken down, so it provides bulk that helps transport material along the digestive tract and push out the waste
The recommended fiber intake is 38 g for men under 50 and 25 g for women under 50. The average adult only consumes about 14 g a day!
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Some people make the best of constipation by catching up on their reading! But being irregular can result in bloating, discomfort and health complications. Fluids, fiber and exercise can help us get back on track.
What can we do about irregularity?
What can we do about irregularity?
Active Fiber Complex is an easy way to add both types of fiber to your daily routine.
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7. Conclusion
Now you know what happens to your food!
We are what we eat, so pick nutrient-rich foods and aid your healthy digestion with fluids, probiotics and fiber to keep it working smoothly and as regular as clockwork.
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Conclusion
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Inside the large intestine
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Inside the small intestine
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Inside the stomach
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Inside the esophagus
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Inside the mouth
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Food enters the mouth
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• Science-backed probiotic that
provides 1 billion active
probiotic culture
• Promotes digestive health
• Helps provide balance between
good and bad bacteria
• Made with non-GMO
ingredients
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• 0 calories, 0 g sugar
• Soothes the stomach
• Supports healthy digestion
• Relieves occasional indigestion
• Supports nutrient absorption and intestinal health
Herbal Aloe
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• 5–6 g of balanced soluble and
insoluble fiber
• 10–15 calories
• Promotes regularity and minimizes
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• Supports growth of friendly
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• Begin and maintain your
digestive health regimen
• AM Renew Formula – A morning
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thistle, traditionally used for liver
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• PM Reset Formula – An evening
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1. Food enters the mouth
Follow this delicious bite
through its digestive journey!
Follow this delicious bite
through its digestive journey!
Follow this delicious bite
through its digestive journey!
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Follow this delicious bite
through its digestive journey!
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Follow this delicious bite
through its digestive journey!
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Follow this delicious bite
through its digestive journey!
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Everyday things like stress, a poor diet, lack of exercise and other environmental factors can affect the balance within your microbiome, resulting in bloating, discomfort and other symptoms. Eating probiotic foods like fermented vegetables or yogurt, and taking supplements, can help us restore this balance and further benefit our overall health.
Fiber comes from plant foods and it plays a key role in our digestive health. There are two types:
• Soluble fiber traps water and helps us feel full. It is also a prebiotic (food for probiotics)
• Insoluble fiber cannot be broken down, so it provides bulk that helps transport material along the digestive tract and push out the waste.
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Product
Herbal Aloe
Herbal Aloe
Simply Probiotic
Simply Probiotic
Active Fiber Complex
Active FIber Complex
Digestive Health
Digestive Health
© 2020 Herbalife Nutrition. All Rights Reserved.
Additional products
Click to see product information.
Simply Probiotic
• Science-backed probiotic that provides 1 billion active probiotic cultures
• Promotes digestive health
• Helps provide balance between good and bad bacteria
• Made with non-GMO ingredients
LEARN MORE
Herbal Aloe
• 0 calories, 0 g sugar
• Soothes the stomach
• Supports healthy digestion
• Relieves occasional indigestion
• Supports nutrient absorption and intestinal health
LEARN MORE
Active Fiber Complex
• 5–6 g of balanced soluble and insoluble fiber
• 10–15 calories
• Promotes regularity and minimizes bloating
• Supports growth of friendly intestinal bacteria
LEARN MORE
21-Day Herbal Balancing Program
• Begin and maintain your digestive health regimen
• AM Renew Formula – A morning tablet formulated with milk thistle, traditionally used for liver support
• PM Reset Formula – An evening tablet formulated with dandelion, traditionally used for healthy fluid balance
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These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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21 Day Herbal Balancing Program
21 Day Herbal Balancing Program
