Your tiny mood elevator: Microbiome

 

What is our gut health?

Let’s start with acceptance today. All of us have to accept the fact that due to our busy schedules we do not really get enough time to look after our digestive health. Though several people identify and know that their digestive health is one of the most advanced yet an essential deciding factor to the longevity of their life.  The problems related to our digestive system like heartburn, bloating, constipation, gas reflect  something fallacious happening inside our body. It is adequate to have a healthy gut which represents that there are more good bacteria than harmful bacteria and ensures that the harmful bacteria do not overtake the good. This balance and imbalance in the gut flora leads to various health advantages, disadvantages. This includes increasing or reducing inflammation, a leading factor to heart diseases and lowering or increasing the chances of obesity. 

Have you heard of Microbiome?

They consist of trillions of living microbes inside your gut. Microbiomes are our tiny mood elevators. Do you know why we react indecisively many times or don't feel like doing the work we really need to get done? Well it can be due to the low functioning of your microbiomes. Since microbiomes work around the clock producing chemicals like serotonin and dopamine also addressed as happy chemicals. These chemicals reflect and have an impact on our mental health and regulates our digestive system. 

Various factors such as making sure to include vegetables in our daily diet, taking probiotics following an appropriate consultation from your doctor, avoiding antibiotics as they are the worst enemy of our gut, fermented food, and avoiding an erratic sleep schedule influence our daily life. Apart from these, there are various yoga poses to be inculcated in order to have a healthy gut. They are as follows: 

1. Boat Pose: 

This pose majorly focuses on our abdominal muscles, helping to strengthen our intestine and aid our digestion process. It helps relieve stomach and liver pressure as well as increases the release of our digestive enzymes. 

2. Seated Forward Bend Pose 

While performing this our body moves forward, and pressure is elevated to our digestive and pelvic organs.  It is preferable to perform seated forward bend poses before bedtime in order to help our body relax. 

3. Wind- relieving pose 

It helps remove gas and relieves stomach ailments. This pose can be extremely helpful to relax your bowels and intestines. 

4. Triangle pose 

A triangle pose stimulates blood flow, kidneys and abdominal organs by massaging our abdominal region. 

The foremost leading part to consider is that these poses require lesser effort as compared to several other poses. So, starting with these yoga poses can be helpful as they are easier and stimulate motivation to perform. In order to have a detailed way in which these poses are performed it's preferable to take the help of professional yoga trainers. This is all for today, we hope that this blog helped you to consider the importance of your digestive system and made you aware about the yoga poses in order to benefit the same. 

Thank you.

Pratiksha Sapkale 

Team SYNC