Improving Digestion

In order to strengthen your blood, build your energy, improve your egg quality and help you avoid miscarriage, it is necessary to strengthen your body’s ability to break down food and convert it into the building blocks for energy and blood. This is done by strengthening digestion. Taking care of your digestion is one of the most important aspects of the treatment process. Once you are able to make good energy and blood, your treatment progress will move forward much more quickly. The common
symptoms of weak digestion are poor appetite, overall fatigue, loose stools, gas and bloating, a feeling of weakness in the muscles, retention of excess water or edema, and difficulty gaining or losing weight.

Foods to avoid: Weaken Digestion

1) Raw foods (even fruits), Food and drinks that are cold or iced, Alcohol, and Caffeine.

2) Anything white such as sugar, white rice, white flour, and pasta. These foods quickly convert to sugar in the bloodstream and act like sugar in the body. This inhibits the conversion from testosterone to progesterone. This is important because it is almost impossible to maintain a healthy, viable pregnancy if progesterone levels are deficient.

3) Dairy Products. Dairy is mucus forming, which prevents proper absorption of nutrients in your digestive tract and inhibits proper cervical discharge formation. Avoid excess consumption of dairy products. If you struggle with or have a history of excess mucus, allergies, asthma, digestive tract disorders, or vaginal discharge, avoid dairy products altogether.

Foods that strengthen your digestive system: Metabolism Improving

1) Congee. See the recipe for more info. This is one of the most important things you can eat while preparing for conception and pregnancy. Congee is the original “Power Breakfast.” It has been revered for centuries as a simple, yet powerful way to strengthen the body’s metabolism, and promote healthy conversion of food into Qi and Blood.

2) Eat Breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Every morning you start the day with a Zero Balance.

3) Eat warming foods and cooked foods. Keep meals simple whenever possible, avoiding meals that are overly complex or greasy.

Get plenty of Millet, Barley, Rice, Warm cereals, Toasted whole grain breads, Beef, Lamb, White fish, Baked potatoes, Cabbage, Kale, Yellow and Orange vegetables, Ginger, Onion, Leek, Chives, Garlic, Pine nuts, Walnuts, Sunflower seeds, Cherries and Dates.