When it comes to stomach care, let's get to know our stomach first
Our stomachs are not as fragile as we think. It has to accept and digest all kinds of food every day, which can be described as accommodating bitter, spicy, sour and sweet and other human flavors.
It can work silently for our bodies for decades or even hundreds of years without problems.
All kinds of food, especially irritating foods, will cause certain damage to the stomach itself, but the stomach itself has the ability to resist various injuries, and it will repair itself after being injured.
Gastric mucosal epithelial cells are metabolically vigorous, and can be replaced about every 2 to 3 days, and as the cells are renewed, the damaged gastric mucosal epithelial cells can be repaired.
The stomach can also secrete some defensive factors and stomach acid. Defense factors promote damage repair, and stomach acid kills most foreign bacteria.
In addition, the blood supply to the stomach is the basis for ensuring the proper functioning of the stomach.
The stomach's defenses are powerful
But there are too many damaging factors that can injure the stomach!
Eating too much irritating food, food is too rough, eating too cold and too hot food, eating unclean food, gobbling up eating habits, taking some drugs that damage the stomach, bad mood, etc. can affect the stomach.
Irregular life makes stomach function disorders, Helicobacter pylori infection and other long-term damage to the stomach.
In addition, with the increase of age, the blood supply to the stomach caused by arteriosclerosis decreases, which also leads to a gradual decrease in the stomach repair ability of the elderly.
In short, the stomach's defensive function protects itself at every moment. If the defense function is weakened or the injury factor is too strong, that is, the balance of the defense factor and the injury factor, once it is broken, the stomach disease comes!
Source: Xuanwu Puwai