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title: "Video of How Your Stomach Digests (or doesn't) Processed Foods"
date: 2012-02-09T23:19:02Z
modified: 2012-02-09T23:19:02Z
permalink: "https://elizabethyarnell.com/video-of-how-your-stomach-digests-or-doesnt-processed-foods/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 1968
categories:
  - Living Naturally
  - Nutrition in the News
tags:
  - digestion
  - M2A
  - processed foods
  - Stephani Bardin
  - whole food digestion
author: Elizabeth
---

It seems so much of what I do these days as a [Naturopath](http://elizabethyarnell.com/Nutrition/Nutrition.htm "holistic nutritionist") practicing holistic nutrition for people in chronic physical distress is focused around digestion. Digestive issues go hand-in-hand with most chronic ailments as either the root cause or an unfortunate side effect of inflammation. But have you ever wondered what digestion actually looks like?

For over a decade I’ve been a vocal evangelist for the benefits of eating whole foods rather than processed foods. Finally, there is a video that graphically shows exactly what happens to processed foods during digestion and why we might want to avoid them.

Using a patented Mouth-to-Anus (M2A) camera and sensors loaded into capsules and taken orally, TEDxManhattan 2011 Fellow [Stephani Bardin](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/ramen-digestion_n_1263825.html?icid=maing-grid10|legacy|dl6|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D134120 "Stephani Bardin") shows us exactly how differently our bodies handle processed foods than they handle whole foods.

Be warned: you might not want to watch this while you are eating!

http://youtu.be/zi\_DaJKsCLo

[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zi_DaJKsCLo)