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Lots of people suffer in one way or another from an upset stomach from time to time. Most people really on medications or remedies to resolve the problem, but this is only a temporary cure, there must be a better, more natural and sustainable approach?

Exercise is the answer according to Yale University, who say that those people who engage in regular exercise will not only have more efficient food transit through the body but also have less stomach upsets. James Kernel from the Universities Sports Sciences Department suggests a number of reasons for their findings. Firstly, when people move around they are generally upright which helps food and liquids move down through the body, also when you move muscles in a repetitive motion, like when paddling on surfboards for example, this helps pump blood all around the body and help distribute nutrients that were absorbed in the stomach and intestines. Stomachs tend to have a problem when you are in a sitting position or are inactive for a while as the food cannot move through the body as smoothly.

Reason number two is the effect of the glucose-regulating chemicals that circulate around the body before, during and after exercise. The key hormones involved with the process of storing and releasing glucose into the blood stream and insulin and glucagon, but their are more involved. There are lots of muscles around the digestive tract area that contract in peristaltic waves to move solids and liquids along through the body. If glucose is not fed to these muscles in regulated amounts, their efficiency of their work can slow down quite dramatically and cause problems.

So rather than wait until you actually get indigestion or stomach ache before take action, why not buy one of the plentiful second hand bikes around or consider second hand kayaks if you like the water, and try prevention instead of cure