Open or Closed Digestion in Human Design

In Human Design, there are twelve different types of digestion. Your Human Design digestion type will tell you how you're designed to consume. The types of food that are best for you and the setting in which you eat. You can locate your digestion in the chart properties under the section that says ‘Digestion’.

Is your digestion type in Human Design open or closed taste? This means that you are designed to eat locally and seasonally. Your digestive system remembers and seeks out the same foods over and over again during different seasons of your life. With such a propensity for gravitating to the same foods over and over again, you may begin to think that you need to add more variety into your diet. But truly living according to your design means that you are consuming local foods for the entire season.

Open taste digestion

With open taste digestion in your Human Design chart, you need to try at least one bite before incorporating something new into your diet in order to know if it's right for you.

Try at least one bite to know if it’s right for you.

Someone with open taste digestion in Human Design, needs to try at least one bite of a new type of food before they can know if it’s right for them.

Closed taste digestion

With closed taste in your Human Design chart, you can just look at food and know if it's worth incorporating into your diet for a season. Remember, it's totally okay for you to keep eating the same thing over and over again for days,weeks, months, even years, because eating according to your design helps you to optimize brain function.

Simply look at food and know if you’re going to eat it over and over again.

Somone with closed taste digestion in Human Design, can tell with one look at a new food and know if they’re going to eat this over and over again. For them it’s okay to keep eating the same thing over and over again for a long(er) period, because they are designed that way.