Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101 | Why Sitting All Day Is Wrecking Your Gut Health

21 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD explains how sitting all day disrupts your gut's natural cleaning cycle. Movement and eating windows activate what he calls the minderic motor complex, a muscle contraction that clears dead cells and bad bacteria from your GI tract. It works best when your gut is empty and you're physically active.

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We need movement for our bowels to work appropriately. And so if you're sitting all day long and not moving, you know it's going to affect how things go through your bowels. And interesting thing is that actually this is thing called the minderic motor complex, which is a muscle contraction that goes all the way down your GI tract. That works best and actually clears out dead cells. It actually removes bad bacteria. It moves the best and swiftest on times when your gut's not full of food and with movement, physical activity. So all of a sudden physical activity and having times when you're not eating, which goes to like interval fasting stuff, those small things can massive impact on maintaining the gains you've gotten with this whole five hour program.