If you live outside of Metro Detroit or were just *way too busy* to come to one my my book signings, you're in luck. We captured the last (and clearly best) talk on video. Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

So, where were we? Ah yes, the small intestine.

Once the chyme has gotten past the door of the pyloric sphincter it finds itself in the first section of the small intestine, the duodenum. Here’s where it’s very important that things have gone well so far in the digestive process. The chyme is supposed to be acidic enough at this point that it will trigger certain reactions.

In an earlier post, I mentioned that it’s not so much “You Are What You Eat” as it is “You Are What You Digest”. Put it this way: you could be eating the most nutrient-dense, organic, grass-fed, properly prepared and super-awesome diet, but if your digestion isn’t working well most of it is going to pass out of your body without doing you any good, and probably cause you a bunch of problems along the way. Yikes! Digestion is a complicated and finely-tuned system and the world we live in and the food we eat has a tendency to make it worse rather than better. We'll start with how it's supposed to work and then what can go wrong. Mmmmm-kay?