All nutrition, both foods and beverages, are external stimuli affecting the body’s physiological balance. Therefore, the body must react to food intake by releasing hormones and triggering processes to digest the food and to ensure none of the digestive substances disrupt any of the ongoing processes inside the body for longer than necessary. The proper handling of all processes following food intake is only possible with the help of the sensory nervous system, especially its visceral part.
Digestion is complex and relevant
Everything about digestion is intrinsically connected to the sensory nervous system: The release of the right amount of insulin and gastric acid by the pancreas, as well as the release of bile acid to digest fat by the liver, and of course the transport of the digested food through the colon, during which various nutrients are absorbed by the body during the different stages, while the food is slowly but steadily transported to the body’s rear exit.
Noticeable digestive issues
With the signal noise prevalent in the sensory nervous system, much can go wrong during the digestive process and lead to various dysfunctional states. The result are food intolerances, which depend in what way and to which extend specifically the signal noise superimposes the sensory signals. On a conscious level and depending on the food, we become sleepy, suffer of acid reflux, feel bloated, get diarrhea or maybe even suffer of rashes when the signal noise interferes with our digestion.
Intuitive digestion issues
In most cases, the reaction consists of avoiding the foods or sometimes mere ingredients in order to feel better. With the signal noise distorting the sensory nervous system, though, there are additional factors in play, which often aren’t noticeable consciously. The physiological reaction in these cases can only occur on an intuitive level by developing preferences or avoid specific foods, which we feel intuitively are good or bad for us. But since this is only a weak method of controlling symptoms, in many cases the problems persist.
Delayed Digestive Hazards
The most hazardous sources for dysfunctions in connection with diet are delayed digestive intolerances. Given the insufficient response via the sensory nervous system, SPD patients are prone to be affected by these delayed side-effects. One major hidden effect is the effect of food and metabolism products on the blood’s ph-value. While the re-balancing of the ph-value in healthy individuals occurs automatically, an acidic or alkaline milieu in SPD patients can occur and persist at every stage of the digestion.
Long-term organ problems
During this time and in absense of hormone-based reactions triggered by sensory input, especially a low ph-value will lead to an insufficient heart function leading to the feeling of exhaustion, which is exaggerated by physical activity. On top comes the strain especially on the liver, which can lead to additional fatigue in the short-term and to chronic health problems in the long-run. Accordingly both, ADHD and CFS patients which are subsumized as phenomena of SPD, have an overproportional risk of suffering from liver problems.
How to detect ph-value drops
The most reliable method to detect ph-value problems is by using a health watch, which continuously tracks both heart rate and blood pressure. As soon as the ph-values leaves its optimum, the correlation between heart rate and systolic blood pressure, which is normally close to 1 starts dropping. Unfortunately, this statistical analysis only works after it happened and it won’t tell you what it exactly was. But it will give you the information that there was a drop in the correlation. This can help finding out the source, which can be certain foods, beverages, physical exercise or even the weather.