07/12/2025
📌 Barramundi, rice, kimchi & spring onion 📌
IMPORTANT RANT 👇
You don’t absorb what you eat.
You absorb what you digest — and when you digest it.
Absorption isn’t a calorie problem.
It’s a timing + signalling problem.
Digestion is not “on” all day.
It follows a sequence:
• safety →
• parasympathetic tone →
• stomach acid →
• enzyme release →
• bile flow →
• intestinal motility →
• microbial processing →
• nutrient transport
Miss one step and nutrients pass through unclaimed.
This is why:
• eating while stressed ≠ nourishment
• snacking all day ≠ better absorption
• “clean” food + poor digestion = deficiency
• supplements don’t fix missing digestive signals
When you digest matters as much as what you eat.
If cortisol is high, blood flow is pulled away from the gut.
If motility is poor, nutrients arrive at the wrong location, at the wrong time.
If bile is sluggish, fats and fat-soluble vitamins remain inaccessible.
If microbes are dysregulated, minerals are competed for — not absorbed.
Your body isn’t broken.
It’s responding appropriately to conditions.
Digestion is a process, not an ingredient list.
This is why we focus on:
• meal timing
• nervous system safety
• stomach acid integrity
• bile flow
• microbial terrain
• and post-meal physiology
✨ Food is information ✨
Digestion determines whether that information is received, delayed, or discarded.
Eat less urgently.
Digest more completely.
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