When you have digestive issues, you may want to find relief fast.
There’s growing interest in finding natural relief for digestive issues through yoga and gentle movement. Many people tout the benefits of yoga for digestive relief, so you may be wondering whether you should try it.
This article investigates how yoga might aid digestion and lists several poses you can try.
How yoga may help digestion
The term “digestion” typically refers to the breakdown of food to provide your body with nutrients and expel waste products.
However, many people also use the term to refer to any symptoms that arise from digestion, such as gas, bloating, discomfort, and stool type and frequency.
The gut-brain axis is a communication system of nerves and biochemical signals that travel in the blood, connecting the digestive system to the brain.
Through this system, your gut can directly react to psychological and physical stress with symptoms such as stomach aches, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, and changes in appetite and digestion.
People believe yoga aids in digestive health by reducing stress, increasing circulation, and promoting physical movement, or motility, of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
In particular, those with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may find relief from yoga. Scientists think IBS results from overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system, the stress system of your body.
The condition has an array of symptoms, such as gas, bloating, diarrhea, and constipation.
In a 2018 study, 208 participants with IBS followed either a low-FODMAP diet or did yoga for 12 weeks. By the end, both groups showed improvements in IBS symptoms, suggesting yoga may play a complementary role in IBS treatment
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