Digestion

Teacher

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

This topic highlights on the physiology of digestion.

Many people have digestive problems and the common complaint is that after eating, there is indigestion, bloating in their abdomen and sometimes food intolerances, which can present as eczema, wheals or tightness of certain muscles in the body.

This topic seeks to explain the structure and function of the digestive system. It outlines the principles of eating and how we can effectively help the digestive system to breakdown the complex food into simple nutrients so that they can be absorbed into the body for the body’s various functions.

There are some common habits from our culture that affect the digestive process that will be covered as well in this topic.

Course Features

Lectures 1
Quizzes 0
Duration 38 minutes
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 3
Assessments Yes

Lee Yew Hoong

MBBS (Vellore) | Post Grad Dip Occupational Med Health & Safety (Aust) | Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician (IBLM, ASLM, FASLM)

Dr. Lee Yew Hoong is the medical director and co-founder of Aenon Health Care. As a medical doctor, he practices evidence-based lifestyle medicine interventions together with natural remedies since 1998.

He believes in wholistic healing and is passionate in training both the general community and health professionals in the healing of the whole men during the last two decades. He and his wife, Soot Mei, have counseled and encouraged many a health guests of Aenon to daily practice the principles of a “Lifestyle to Health that Works”, a training and teaching module in Lifestyle Medicine for the care of the whole man.

He is a Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician from the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine and the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. He also holds a Fellowship from the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.