05/19/2026
How to optimize digestive health like a TCM baddie🙌🏽
Literally, you are what you eat. According to TCM and Ayurveda, all disease start in the gut.
Our metabolic capacity and digestive strength is essential in order to properly breakdown and assimilate food into a usable substance. According to Ayurveda, when this process is disturbed, undigested material from poor digestion produces Ama, buildup that can lead to inflammation fatigue and other diseases.
Your body may be telling you that your digestion is off.
The spleen can easily weaken from eating too much cold raw foods, leftovers, from overworking, overthinking, chronic stress, this can all weaken digestion.
🕊️Signs of poor digestion:
Belching, gas, loose stool, fatigue, constipation, acid reflux, all signs your digestive capacities are impaired.
Our gut is our 2nd brain.
A large portion of serotonin is produced in the gut, which is why what we eat can directly affect mood, energy, and mental health. Healthy digestion helps support nervous system regulation and emotional balance.
In TCM, emotions are closely connected to the organ systems, and both our diet and thought patterns influence our overall health. For example, spleen deficiency is often associated with excessive worry or overthinking.
🕊️Simple tips to Strengthen Digestion:
✔️Focus on warm cooked foods.
✔️Avoid cold excessive fluids with meals.
✔️Eat in a calm environment without distractions.
✔️Chew your food properly and thoroughly.
✔️Focus on whole foods, less processed the better.
✔️Add warming spices/herbs to stoke digestive fire.
✔️Only small amounts of liquid with food.
✔️Follow a food combining diet and simplify meals.
eat until you are 75% full.
✔️Reduce or cut out inflammatory inducing foods such as dairy, sugar, gluten, alcohol, sugar, and caffeine.
Small steps create lasting change.
Whats one simple step you can take today to support digestive health?
