Difficult digestion: our advice for regaining intestinal comfort

What are the signs of poor digestion?

Having difficult digestion results in more or less intense and localized effects in the stomach, belly or colon:

• Constant feeling of full stomach
• Feeling bloated or stuck in air
• Irregular transit (faster or slower)
• Colon swollen and tender to the touch
• Fatigue
• …

So many different manifestations that can be regulated by implementing a health and diet routine, simple tips and well-being treatments.

Tips to combat poor digestion

Simple actions that promote digestion on a daily basis

In case of difficult digestion and abdominal discomfort, here are 6 tips that can help you naturally relieve your stomach:

• Eat and chew slowly

Helps initiate, facilitate digestion and prevent bloating and gas.

• Eat in reasonable quantities

And avoiding foods that are difficult to digest, such as fatty, spicy, or high-sugar foods, can help relieve discomfort related to difficult digestion.

• Drink enough and only water

Throughout the day facilitates digestion and can help prevent a slowdown in transit. Avoid sodas, alcohol, coffee, etc. at least until your transit returns to normal, then reduce your consumption in the long term. Prefer to drink regularly rather than infrequently but in large quantities.

• Gradually add fiber to your diet

They can help maintain the balance of intestinal flora and facilitate digestion. Ideally in the form of fresh, dried fruit or vegetables.

• Exercise regularly:

Physical activity can help stimulate digestion and prevent slowed transit. Swimming is an ideal sport as is walking.

• Give your body a boost by taking food supplements

They act on the regularity of the rhythm of transit but also on daily discomforts by significantly reducing them.

Plants and ingredients that help alleviate the signs of digestive discomfort:

In the form of herbal teas, essential oils, or food supplements, find below the ingredients to integrate into your routine to act easily and naturally on the uncomfortable effects of poor digestion.

• Pepper mint
• Fennel
• Mauve
• Matricaria
• Black radish
• Caraway
• Chlorella
• Marshmallow

Be careful with the use of charcoal or green clay which can interact with certain active ingredients contained in medications and/or treatments.

Plants that can affect the regularity of transit:

• Terminalia bellerica & Terminalia chebula (Ayurvedic plants)
• Certain strains of probiotics or prebiotics

Food supplements for digestion and transit

However, a single ingredient, even in an effective dose, cannot resolve all digestive discomforts. For total effectiveness (reduction of signs of digestive discomfort + improvement of the rhythm of transit), it is then necessary to opt for a relevant combination of active ingredients and in the quantity worked.

If it is not easy to compose your own “potion” for a comfortable stomach, experts have done it for you!

The Poméol teams have imagined the TransitPulse treatment as a unique concentration of plant extracts for progressive and lasting digestive comfort.

Menu for digestive disorders

Our founder, Doctor Laurent Didden, shares with you his tip to combat digestive discomfort: resting your digestive system with vegetable broth!

To regulate the rhythm of a disturbed transit and act on discomfort, it is necessary to rest your digestive system . To do this, only consume vegetable broth at dinner for 2 consecutive evenings.

Between these 2 meals, you can eat white rice, chicken or ham, accompanied by applesauce or yogurt.

Vegetable broth recipe:

Ingredients: 2 leeks, 2 carrots, 1 onion, 1 clove of garlic, 1/2 celeriac, salt, pepper, aromatic herbs (parsley, thyme, bay leaf, chervil, basil, etc.).

1. Wash and cut all the vegetables into pieces
2. Put everything in the pot
3. Cover with water, salt and pepper
4. Bring to a boil then reduce the heat and cook for 45 minutes
5. After 50 minutes, add the aromatics (thyme, bay leaf, etc.)
6. Leave to infuse for another 10 to 15 minutes
7. Filter the preparation to recover the juice (do not throw away the remaining vegetables!)
8. Save the vegetables to eat the following days.

This recipe is ideal for rapid, short-term action or before starting a treatment for example.

In order to achieve longer-term results, we recommend that you adopt all the good daily practices mentioned above as well as turning to our targeted food supplement TransitPulse. The TransitPulse food supplement de Poméol is an effective and lasting response to concerns about digestive discomfort, bloating, irregular transits and elimination.