Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Stress Messes Up Digestion | Create a Peaceful Mealtime

9 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Mona Sharma explains that stress completely disables the body's ability to digest food, emphasizing that a restorative, calm state is essential for proper nutrient assimilation and metabolism. She advises creating a peaceful mealtime by turning off phones, minimizing distractions, and suggests taking a walk after eating to further support digestion and nutrient absorption.

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We now know that stress completely shuts off your body's ability to digest food. You have to be in a restorative state for your body to assimilate and metabolize the nutrients from the foods that you're eating. So the state that you eat should be peaceful, it should be relaxing. You should turn your phone over. I typically like, if I'm. If I were to meet you for lunch, our phones typically go away. We know this. Put your phones away, look at your environment, and maybe go out for a walk after you eat to really allow your body to metabolize the nutrients that you've just taken in.