Need Constipation Relief?
You may if straining is a part of your bowel movements.
Or if you have fewer than 1 bowel movement per meal.
You may, if you sit on the commode long enough, decide to read.
Constipation Remedies: Understanding Constipation
Constipation relief starts with understanding constipation. Clinical constipation refers to going three or more days without having a bowel movement. However, at Optimum Health, anything less than one bowel movement per day is considered constipation. Why? Well, first consider what happens when there is less than one bowel movement per meal. Anything less than one bowel movement per meal eaten means that your bowel contents may be sitting in the colon too long, where the bowel contents may end up too dry when they are passed. When too dry, the bowel contents can scrape the lining of your intestines and cause major problems such as hemorrhoids. Fewer than one bowel movement per meal can also give toxins dumped into your intestines a chance to be reabsorbed into your bloodstream, where they can cause problems. Having fewer than one bowel movement each DAY drastically increases the likelihood and severity of all of these problems.
Constipation can be caused by not giving your body what it needs to create regular bowel movements. Your body needs fiber and intestinal microbes for regular bowel movements.
Bowel Movement = 4 Parts Fiber + 6 Parts Intestinal Microbes
Constipation Remedies: Replacing Your Intestinal Flora?
The intestinal flora can be found all along the wall of your colon. The intestinal flora consists of a city of microbes that can be replaced very easily and quickly. Originally, breast milk supported the development of the city of microbes called the intestinal flora. Yogurt not only has the microbes (live active cultures), but it also has the substances needed to nurture the microbes as they develop into the colony of intestinal flora much the way breast milk does.
Therefore, eating yogurt rich in live cultures every day for a few years can help restore your intestinal flora to function. If you want to replace your intestinal flora much faster, you can take a good probiotic capsule (capsule of intestinal microbes) with your yogurt each day until your stool becomes loose. Initially, the probiotic capsule will give you all the microbes you need for the day. Once your intestinal flora is established, it will also give you all the microbes you need for the day. This will lead to too many beneficial microbes each day, resulting in loose stool. Therefore, this loose stool indicates that your intestinal flora is thriving and producing ample microbes and lactase. That will be a time to celebrate as you will have succeeded in reestablishing your intestinal flora.
Constipation Remedies: How can I protect my intestinal flora?
Protecting your intestinal flora is essential. A high-fiber diet is really helpful since good microbes feast on fiber while the bad microbes love refined sugar and animal fat. Garlic, green tea, and ginseng also help foster friendly microbes, as they contain polyphenols that good bacteria love. Garlic is especially good as it also helps prevent the growth of bad bacteria. Eating fermented food such as miso, tempeh and yogurt is a wonderful way to support your intestinal flora. Bananas, chicory root, onions, leeks, soybeans, sweet potatoes, asparagus, and some whole grains help support the colony of good microbes by providing natural sugars (fructooligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin) that the good microbes thrive on.
Again, chemotherapy and antibiotics have the unfortunate side effect of destroying the intestinal flora. Maintaining a high-fiber diet with plenty of miso, tempeh, and yogurt, while exposing your body to these, can help tremendously. Taking our Probiotic capsule with the miso, tempeh, or yogurt 2 hours after chemotherapy and/or antibiotics can be extremely helpful. Just as the mother’s breast milk will nurture this dynamic city, yogurt is especially good at supporting and nurturing it also.
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When will I notice relief from my constipation?
Though each person is different, most of our clients notice relief of nearly all problems within one week of beginning our program. They can enjoy some of their favorite foods again!
What if I don’t get relief from my constipation?
You may have something such as an impacted colon, which will prevent the probiotic bacteria from reaching your intestinal lining where it would be able to recolonize.
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