food, beverages, supplements, etc. Today, let’s alter gears a chip together with beak nigh what comes out of our bodies. Or, rather, what doesn’t come upwards out. Yes, that’s right: we’re talkin’ chronic constipation. It’s the poop post!
Well, non really all the poop. Just constipation. It is beyond the orbit of ane lil’ post to encompass all the details of what does or does non fall out inward the small together with large intestines (and the gallbladder!) that could outcome inward diarrhea, gas together with bloating, steatorrhea (“fatty stools,” a.k.a. science-speak for oily poop), dark or tar-colored stool, or fifty-fifty clay-colored/whitish stool. (Yikes!) If y'all desire to larn to a greater extent than nigh dissimilar kinds of stool together with what they mean, start alongside the Bristol stool chart. You tin can notice modified versions of it inward ii of my favorite wellness books: Paul Chek’s How to Eat, Move together with Be Healthy, together with Diane Sanfilippo’s Practical Paleo, inward which she paid homage to Chek’s version, which was the inspiration for her own.
We’re going to travel out all the other poop materials aside together with just beak constipation. I remove hold to assume that if you’re reading this, y'all experience chronic constipation or desire to assist someone who does. So there’s no dot inward me going on nigh diarrhea or “ideal stools” anyway. If y'all had either of those, y'all wouldn’t live wasting your fourth dimension alongside this spider web log post. Unless, of course, y'all just relish my writing together with would read anything I write (in which case, thanks! [And y'all land remove hold goodness taste]), OR, y'all remove hold an strange fascination alongside hard defecation, fifty-fifty when you, yourself, don’t experience it (in which case…well, perhaps I’m non the blogger for you; at that spot are lots of other people who specialize inward freaky fetishes, hehheh).
I was hesitant to write this post, hence I did what whatsoever self-doubting blogger would do inward social club to approximate the score of involvement for such a topic: I asked on Twitter:
Would it live off-putting & TMI if I wrote a spider web log post nigh chronic constipation together with what I remove hold institute to live a miracle solution for myself? — Amy Berger (@TuitNutrition) December 17, 2015 Based on the overwhelmingly positive together with supportive responses to this tweet, this topic is inward high demand. I wasn’t for sure why at first. But later on giving it some thought, I realized that many people remove hold this problem, but non many are talking nigh it. Gluten? Check. Leaky gut? Check. Safe starches? Check. FODMAPS? Check. Constipation? … Crickets …
And that is a shame, because if y'all do suffer from chronic constipation (CC), together with hence y'all know it is awful. It tin can foul y'all upwards inward to a greater extent than ways than one. Physically, mentally, emotionally, you’re just non going to live your best if it’s been several days since you’ve “dropped off the kids.”
The enquiry is, why do hence many people experience CC? I suspect the argue is that at that spot are many possible causes. You could remove hold whatsoever number of things going on, diet together with health-wise, that mightiness contribute to CC. And the only means to fix CC is to notice out which of the many potential causes is behind your CC. (Get it? Behind!) And maybe there’s really to a greater extent than than ane thing contributing. My dot is, unless y'all position together with address the underlying cause(s), many of the “off the shelf” constipation remedies are non going to piece of work for you. I am speaking from experience here. In fact, the whole argue I wanted to write this post is to beak nigh my experience together with portion what worked for me—after lots of fourth dimension together with money spent trial-and-erroring my means through several things that didn’t work.
We’ll start alongside the failed approaches. Just because they weren’t right for me doesn’t hateful they won’t live right for you. (Y’all yell back the Diff’rent Strokes theme song, right? Those of y'all inward the U.S. together with around my age, anyway.)
Before nosotros acquire to that, though, allow me explicate what I hateful past times “chronic constipation.” According to the National Institutes of Health (even though nosotros do not at all implicitly trust the authorities when it comes to health), constipation implies fewer than 3 bowel movements per week. If y'all travel one or ii days without a BM, intelligence flash: y'all are non constipated. You just went a picayune piece without pooping. Healthy colon business office isn’t defined past times daily bowel movements that occur similar clockwork. In fact, according to the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons (bet their annual coming together is a hoot!), “The belief that ane must remove hold a bowel motion every 24-hour interval only is non accurate together with tin can atomic number 82 to unnecessary describe of piece of work concern together with fifty-fifty abuse of laxatives. In fact, if one’s daily bowel motion is hard, requires non bad endeavor to expel, or does non satisfactorily empty, the private would soundless live considered to remove hold constipation inward spite of having a ‘normal frequency.’ On the other hand, if ane has a motion every tertiary 24-hour interval but it is non hard, does non require straining together with completely evacuates, together with hence ane may really good consider this normal bowel movement, inward spite of the fact it is non a daily event.” So it’s okay if y'all don’t travel every day. It’s okay if y'all do, but y'all don’t demand to live popping Ex-Lax or chugging milk of magnesia if y'all skip a day.
And remember, if you’re non consuming massive amounts of vegetables (and/or grain-based dietary fiber), you’ll in all likelihood “need” to remove hold fewer BMs anyway. The whole argue the “experts” recommend tons together with tons of vegetables together with whole grains is exactly because of their fiber content: i.e., the materials that passes right through us, undigested. If y'all are non consuming a whole lot of this indigestible flora thing to commence with, together with hence at that spot won’t live a whole lot of it coming out the other end, right? (Protein together with obese are a dissimilar story. Our bodies are really made of those things, hence we’re retaining together with using to a greater extent than of those.) I’m non advocating for “zero-carb” or 100% carnivore diets. I’m only pointing out that if you’ve cutting means dorsum on the amount of indigestible flora textile inward your diet, together with hence it makes perfect sense that you’ll remove hold fewer BMs—and this does non necessarily dot constipation.
Constipation is almost to a greater extent than subjective than objective. If y'all haven’t had a BM inward ii days, but y'all feel fine, you’re in all likelihood non constipated—particularly if y'all haven’t fifty-fifty had the urge to go. On the other hand, if y'all have had the urge, but zilch comes out, or your BMs are incomplete—meaning, a picayune chip came out, but y'all experience similar there’s a lot to a greater extent than within y'all that didn’t come upwards out, together with hence yeah, you’re in all likelihood constipated. If this happens ane time inward a while, that’s NORMAL. All kinds of things tin can motion this, together with if it’s non chronic, well, then, it’s non chronic, together with y'all don’t demand to worry yourself over a work that is non really a work at all.
On the other hand, fifty-fifty though y'all don’t remove hold to “go” every 24-hour interval to remove hold a salubrious transit time, if it’s been, like, a calendar week (or more!), together with y'all haven’t gone at all, together with hence yeah, maybe you’re constipated. This is especially truthful if y'all haven’t fifty-fifty felt the urge to go. I mean, think nigh it: if a whole calendar week passes together with nothing…passes…then the remnants together with waste product products of all the nutrient you’ve consumed during the calendar week are still within you. This is bad, bad physical together with psychological wellness juju. I wrote nigh this inward particular dorsum inward the serial I did on digestion. If y'all just can’t acquire plenty of my encyclopedic-length posts together with are a relative newcomer to the blog, the digestion serial volition maintain y'all entertained together with off the streets for a while. It starts here. I covered the effects of constipation on physical together with mental wellness inward the first together with second posts nigh the large intestine. To give y'all the nutshell version: bowel movements acquire rid of bodily waste. We also acquire rid of wastes through urination, sweating, together with exhaling, but BMs land assist us acquire rid of lots of “stuff” that doesn’t come upwards out inward urine, sweat, or exhaled breath. The materials nosotros acquire rid of when nosotros poop includes all kinds of things: intestinal bacteria; undigested food; the remains of what nosotros did digest; together with also “waste products” together with “toxins” produced past times perfectly normal, salubrious metabolic processes.
Having a BM is similar taking out the garbage. It needs to live done on a somewhat regular ground hence waste product doesn’t create upwards together with brand a position uninhabitable. There’s a argue nosotros accept the trash out—because it’s trash. We don’t want to maintain it within our homes. It’s the same alongside a BM. So if y'all travel many days without a BM, those waste product products create upwards within you, together with non only do they create up, but they tin can really acquire re-absorbed into your body! The bad materials that was supposed to acquire taken out together with hence comes dorsum in! This is a pretty large deal. I covered it inward particular inward part 2 of the large intestine post. I do recommend giving that ane a read. Today’s post is going to live long plenty without me reiterating what I already explained fairly good dorsum then. (Since for sure issues are nigh together with dearest to my heart, however, I volition accept a 2nd to tell that if y'all are chronically constipated and suffer from depression, THAT IS NOT H5N1 COINCIDENCE. THERE IS LIKELY H5N1 CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP THERE. If y'all are literally reabsorbing wastes into your bloodstream because they’ve been sitting inward your colon for several days together with aren’t beingness excreted, it is no surprise that, psychologically together with emotionally, y'all experience like…well, sh*t [no pun intended].) Yes, dearest readers, I speak from experience. :-/ Depression together with constipation are also ii large symptoms of depression thyroid function. More on this inward a bit.
Ooooo-kay! Now that we’ve got all the preliminary junk out of the way, let’s beak nigh what mightiness really help those of us who travel a few days, a week, two weeks, alongside nary an urge to remove hold a BM, or if nosotros do have a BM, it’s hard equally a rock, hard to pass, together with incomplete. (I’ve never given birth, but from personal experience equally good equally my cognition of the human body, I volition tell this: inward price of size together with difficulty passing, what comes out of the bum sometimes is just equally shocking equally what tin can emerge from a vagina.)
I remove hold spent time, aggravation, together with a non pocket-size amount of money trying to acquire to the bottom of my chronic constipation. (Bottom! I’m going to halt maxim “no pun intended.” You tin can just assume it from hither on out. It seems at that spot is so much poop together with colon-related double entendre that it’s virtually impossible to write a post together with not step in stumble upon a bunch of it.)
When people are constipated, we’re typically told nosotros demand more of something. More water, to a greater extent than vegetables, to a greater extent than fiber, to a greater extent than fat, to a greater extent than exercise: more, MORE, MOAR!
But y'all know what? If you’re already getting plenty of whatever “it” is, together with hence to a greater extent than in all likelihood isn’t going to help. (Kind of similar how giving insulin to people who already make sky-high amounts of insulin doesn’t attain much. [Aside from making them even sicker, that is.])
So, inward the involvement of helping a few of y'all to not throw fuel on the fire, hither are a few of the things I tried that either didn’t work, or that I didn’t bother trying, because I knew they weren’t my issue:
More Water
If y'all already imbibe plenty of H2O together with are already well-hydrated, together with hence dehydration is non causing your CC. Even if your stools are hard equally rocks together with dry out equally a cracked, caked desert floor, if you’re already drinking lots of water, together with hence MOAR WATER isn’t the answer. If y'all don’t imbibe a decent amount of H2O most days, together with hence sure, arrive your priority to increase your H2O intake for a few weeks together with reckon if that helps.
More Fat
Um, the lastly mortal on ground who needs to eat to a greater extent than obese is me. I’m pretty for sure insufficient dietary obese was non the motion of my CC. The argue increasing obese intake is recommended is because too picayune fat could live the culprit behind the aforementioned hard together with bone-dry stools. But again, if you’re on a LCHF, Paleo, or Primal diet, together with hence you’re in all likelihood consuming adequate obese to “grease the skids,” equally it were.
More gut bacteria (
Probiotics remove hold been life-changing for some people. I am non ane of them. It’s possible I didn’t accept them for long enough, but frankly, I didn’t want to. I honestly felt similar they were making me gain a picayune weight. I didn’t similar the means they made me feel. (Maybe I needed higher amounts or dissimilar strains. That's possible, but I just don't think my CC is a gut flora issue.) I know of at to the lowest degree ane other mortal who’s written nigh this effect, hence at to the lowest degree I know I’m non the only one. On the other hand, I don’t desire to dissuade anyone from trying a goodness probiotic. Like I said, they’ve been hugely helpful for many people. All I tin can tell is, things similar this really shine a lite on the concept of biochemical individuality, together with how there really, truly, is no one-size-fits all advice when it comes to health.
More vegetables, beans, whole grains & bran cereal: to a greater extent than fiber, More Fiber, MOAR FIBER!
If y'all already eat lots of vegetables, together with hence lack of vegetables isn’t the problem. Maybe y'all could do goodness from some whole grains or fiber supplements, but if those brand y'all travel easily, it’s in all likelihood because your torso is rejecting them, together with trying to acquire rid of them quickly. (Celiac or IBS-D, anyone?) I patently turn down to believe the human torso cannot operate properly—that is, cannot remove hold effective together with efficient elimination/excretion—without massive amounts of dietary fiber. The jury is out on the “essentiality” of flora thing inward the human diet (post on that coming someday), but it’s prophylactic to tell nosotros ought to live able to “go” without ingesting copious amounts of what looks together with tastes similar cardboard and/or sawdust. Corn bran, wheat bran, oat bran, psyllium husk, high-fiber cereal, bran muffins…seriously? How did mankind ever successfully defecate prior to the modern fortification of everything alongside “dietary fiber?” I would similar to tell that nosotros demand no dietary fiber at all. Remember: fiber is a type of carbohydrate, together with the human requirement for dietary refined saccharify is zero. Moreover, animals that are obligate carnivores eat picayune to no flora thing whatsoever together with seem to remove hold no work dropping a deuce inward the wild. We could dot to this equally proof that, at to the lowest degree somewhere inward the beast kingdom, at that spot be mechanisms for pooping successfully without piles together with piles of light-green leafy things, nor of bran cereal nor Metamucil.
Unfortunately, fifty-fifty though this is a pretty attractive argument, nosotros can’t utilization it. Extrapolating from other animals to humans is a low-carb logical fallacy, together with it leads us to wrong conclusions. (To assume humans absolutely don’t/can’t do goodness from at to the lowest degree some plant textile inward their diet because other animals do fine without it is just equally irrational equally assuming humans tin can thrive on a diet of raw grass together with zilch but raw grass, because cows together with sheep do.)
In the involvement of total disclosure, I must acknowledge that, on the rare occasion that I do remove hold some wheat breadstuff or low-carb bran crackers, I do seem to remove hold a pretty prissy BM the side past times side 24-hour interval or the 24-hour interval later on that. But inward the cost/benefit analysis of the torso weight together with blood refined saccharify issues from eating to a greater extent than grain versus having comfy BMs, I’ve chosen to err on the side of controlling my weight together with blood sugar. (The bran crackers are fine on occasion; it’s the breadstuff together with other materials that would trip me up.)
If a lack of fiber isn't your issue, them MOAR FIBER could really live the worst thing to do. Yes, fiber “adds bulk,” but if portion of what's causing your constipation is irksome peristalsis (the muscular contractions that displace nutrient through the lower GI tract), together with hence guess what? You volition remove hold even larger, bulkier stools sitting inward your colon for several days (or weeks). If what's already stagnating in your colon is not moving through inward a timely manner, why would y'all desire at that spot to be more of it? Ultimately, y'all volition live more constipated together with more physically uncomfortable.
For to a greater extent than on the bad aspects of besides much fiber, banking concern check out the volume The Fiber Menace. I haven't read it yet, myself, but it's nigh the top of my list, together with I remove hold it on goodness say-so that it's quite the eye-opening read.
If a lack of fiber isn't your issue, them MOAR FIBER could really live the worst thing to do. Yes, fiber “adds bulk,” but if portion of what's causing your constipation is irksome peristalsis (the muscular contractions that displace nutrient through the lower GI tract), together with hence guess what? You volition remove hold even larger, bulkier stools sitting inward your colon for several days (or weeks). If what's already stagnating in your colon is not moving through inward a timely manner, why would y'all desire at that spot to be more of it? Ultimately, y'all volition live more constipated together with more physically uncomfortable.
For to a greater extent than on the bad aspects of besides much fiber, banking concern check out the volume The Fiber Menace. I haven't read it yet, myself, but it's nigh the top of my list, together with I remove hold it on goodness say-so that it's quite the eye-opening read.
On a side note: nosotros typically associate celiac disease, gluten sensitivity together with “leaky gut” alongside diarrhea, rather than constipation. If someone’s torso doesn’t similar wheat, together with their pocket-size intestine is to a greater extent than permeable than it should be, nutrient transits rapidly because the torso is unable to absorb it. However, there’s an interesting subset of celiac patients who experience constipation. I’ve said it before, together with this won’t live the lastly fourth dimension I tell it: Oh, the kooky human body; gets me every time! ;-)
Less dairy
We’ve talked nigh things people who are constipated are advised to eat or imbibe more of. But what nigh less? Dairy is ane type of nutrient where eating less could assist alleviate constipation. Plenty of people eat dairy alongside no issues whatsoever. In some people, however, dairy is a contributor to CC. (Obviously, these people don’t remove hold the lactose intolerance that tin can outcome inward gas, bloating, together with diarrhea, but there’s something else inward dairy—I’m non for sure what—that affects them inward the opposite way, together with stops them up.)
Ayurvedic medicine (the Indian counterpart to traditional Chinese medicine) holds that dairy aggravates the Kapha torso together with personality type (called a “dosha” inward Ayurveda). Sadly, I remove hold institute this to live true. I tell “sadly” because I am kapha out the wazoo (we’re all made of all 3 types, but ane dominates, together with my kapha is really dominant), together with I looove dairy, but dairy doesn’t love me back. I tin can eat some (and lord knows I do!), but if I overdo it, it’s bad physical and emotional juju. I acquire constipated together with depressed, and, equally I mentioned inward one of the obese loss posts, I acquire pudgy, too. Butter together with heavy cream seem okay; it’s the cold, creamy materials that really messes alongside kapha: sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.
If dairy is a important portion of your diet together with y'all experience chronic constipation, it’s worth cutting dorsum for a piece to reckon what happens. I’ve done this, together with it didn’t assist me. More dairy makes me more constipated, but no dairy doesn’t seem to acquire me less constipated.
Aaaaand, straight off that I’ve lost a bunch of readers because of the tangent nigh the Ayurvedic doshas, let’s acquire to the origin motion of my constipation, together with what IS working for me. (And no, I don’t pose a whole lot of stock inward the dosha thing, but I do notice it fascinating. Much of what is said nigh the kapha-dominant mortal is spot-on for me. Kind of similar what’s said nigh my astrological sign. I’m a cancer/“moon child,” together with the traits they supposedly possess—good ones together with bad ones—are dead-on for me. But no, I don’t computer programme my life around this sort of stuff. It’s just fun, together with a girl’s brain’s gotta remove hold a ease straight off together with then. Hopefully my readers realize that my spider web log is soundless rooted inward actual science, for the most part.)
Low Thyroid --> Chronic Constipation
I mentioned before that chronic constipation together with depression travel hand-in-hand. You won’t always be constipated if you’re depressed, but if you’re chronically constipated, there’s a goodness jeopardy you’ll live depressed, equally well. I explained the potential causation beingness that CC tin can outcome inward “toxins” together with metabolic waste product products beingness reabsorbed into the body. With all that icky materials circulating dorsum into your blood, it’s no wonder y'all mightiness live depressed.
One of the things that gets reabsorbed inward this scenario is excess estrogen. And guess what, ladies? Depression is a symptom of estrogen dominance. Constipation is also a symptom of estrogen dominance, together with based on what we’ve just said here, non only is it a symptom, but it may, inward fact, live a cause. But if constipation causes depression together with the reabsorption of estrogen, what’s causing the constipation? We ever desire to acquire dorsum to the underlying cause. If it’s non insufficient hydration, it’s non inadequate dietary obese or fiber, together with it’s non besides much dairy, together with hence what is it?
How nigh depression thyroid? thyroid & stubborn obese loss, a irksome thyroid makes everything in the torso run colder together with slower: torso temperature, release energy generation, basal metabolic rate, and the motion of waste product through the colon.
Ding, ding, ding!! We remove hold a winner!
In MY case, my low-ish thyroid is (in my belief, anyway), the major—and quite perchance the only—cause of my chronic constipation. And when I tell chronic constipation, allow me tell you, people, it was bad. B-A-D. It was nothing for me to travel more than a calendar week without a unmarried BM, together with without fifty-fifty the urge to remove hold one. Not good! I’ve taken my portion of Ex-Lax, Smooth Move, together with Get Regular laxative teas. I’ve fifty-fifty had a couplet of colonics! (Also called “colon hydrotherapy.”) Yes, that’s how “stopped up” I’ve been inward the past. Believe me, a colonic is non something ane subjects oneself to “for fun.” Desperate times called for desperate measures.
(God, I wishing the universe would halt letting me larn all these things the hard way! But hey, it’s a pocket-size toll to pay to live able to assist other people alongside the same issues, right? I remove hold taken many for the collective team. You’re welcome.) ;D
So here’s the deal: to a greater extent than oftentimes than non speaking, I back upwards getting to the origin causes of whatever one’s wellness issues are. You tin can encompass upwards symptoms alongside all the band-aids y'all want, but unless y'all address those origin causes, things volition proceed to acquire worse together with eventually spread to other parts of the body. BUT: when the origin causes of your issues show evasive to identify, hard to correct, or both, SOMETIMES YOU DO NEED THOSE BAND-AIDS. There’s zilch wrong alongside taking payoff of a short-term ready that gives y'all relief while y'all proceed to piece of work on the underlying causes.
Thyroid dysfunction tin can live terribly hard to correct, because it’s oftentimes impossible to position what’s causing the dysfunction. So, y'all tin can pass years—decades, even—trying to notice out why your thyroid hormones aren’t optimal on their own, but during that time, you’re going to live chronically constipated. And since it is a BAD IDEA to remain chronically constipated for decades, I fully encourage the utilization of laxatives, enemas, colonics, or whatever else y'all notice gets things moving. Because, at some point, they do remove hold to move. This is sort of where I’m at now. I remove hold finally, finally landed on a supplement regimen that I think is hugely helping my thyroid issues, but it’s non perfect. I soundless demand some assist inward the “number 2” department. Hopefully, inward time, my novel regimen volition negate the demand for this, but until then, I’ve at to the lowest degree institute a means to “go” regularly. One that does non require enemas or colonics (THANK GOD), together with ane that is in all likelihood correcting nutrient deficiencies I didn’t fifty-fifty realize I had.
Here’s my one-two punch for going regularly:
MAGNESIUM CITRATE: It is pretty well-known that high doses of magnesium tin can alleviate constipation. In fact, many over-the-counter laxatives incorporate magnesium inward ane cast or another, oftentimes citrate. I can’t comment on other forms used equally remedies for constipation, because I remove hold only ever tried the citrate, myself. But boy, has it been a godsend for me. I started alongside Natural Calm, which many of y'all are in all likelihood familiar with. I took it for a while, alongside no existent noticeable effect. I decided ane 24-hour interval to increase my dose together with non dilute it alongside equally much H2O equally I had been using. BAM! Worked similar a charm. I guess I just wasn’t taking plenty when I get-go started, or was diluting it besides much.
Now, I utilization a production from Designs for Health (DFH), which is the companionship I write for inward social club to pay my rent, pose gas inward the car, together with maintain the java shunt inward my arm. DFH has a Mag Citrate powder that I love. (1 teaspoon has 300mg or 80% of the DV for Mg.)
Why does magnesium assist alongside constipation? Well, ii things: first, it helps depict H2O into the colon. (Again, it’s non that to a greater extent than H2O volition ever help. If you’re already drinking sufficient water, it’s a thing of getting that H2O to the right position at the right time.) Second, magnesium balances calcium intake. If y'all notice yourself constipated from dairy, together with y'all don’t desire to cutting dorsum on dairy, together with hence it’s especially of import to acquire adequate magnesium. You may remove hold heard nigh the importance of the balancing acts betwixt sodium & potassium, together with copper, Fe & zinc. Well, the same holds for calcium & magnesium. Too much of ane tin can stimulate a functional deficiency of the other. In today's nutrient supply, it's almost never besides much magnesium, but it's easy to acquire means besides much calcium inward relation to mag.
Bottom line: Magnesium has been really helpful for me.
HIGH-DOSE VITAMIN C: I accept this inward the cast of a buffered ascorbate powder. Since it’s a powder, I accept it along alongside the magnesium, at night, before bed. The magazine citrate was already helping, but it wasn’t a silverish bullet for me. It worked most of the time, but non always. And I institute that if I took a lot of it, I had the paradoxical reaction of beingness awake one-half the night, instead of falling asleep easily. (Natural Calm is supposedly really goodness for sleep. And it is, unless you’re me, together with y'all accept besides much.) Why did I start taking vitamin C? Well, at first, it had zilch to do alongside constipation. I lately read Perfect Health Diet, together with it opened my eyes to some nutrients I was in all likelihood pretty depression inward upon evaluating my habitual diet. I’m non ashamed to tell that my gums were haemorrhage when I flossed, together with I’d also started to develop some pretty gnarly-looking veins inward my lower legs. I do a ton of walking, together with ane time a calendar week I’m on my feet all 24-hour interval at the farm, but other than that, I’m fairly sedentary, hence the veins were sort of a mystery. I realized that my diet was severely lacking inward vitamin C, together with it was worth a trial of taking some to reckon if the teeth & veins thing got whatsoever better. (Yet again, hold off at me learning things the hard way, hence y'all don’t remove hold to!)
Well, lo together with behold, non only remove hold the teeth & veins gotten better, but the CC has much improved equally well. (I’m non nigh to start eating lots of starchy vegetables together with white rice, but never allow it live said I haven’t benefited from a volume written past times a guy who advocates for a slightly higher carb intake.) The combination of the vitamin C together with magnesium seem to remove hold a sort of one-two punch upshot for me. They don’t motion diarrhea or loose stools. What they do—at to the lowest degree for me—is brand me remove hold the urge to remove hold a BM the side past times side day. Not equally shortly equally I wake up, but commonly within 3 hours of beingness upwards together with about, it’ll kicking in. And non to give y'all TMI here, but when I do go, it’s great. Stools are well-formed, piece of cake to pass, together with the BM is complete. I don’t hateful to live gross or anything, but if you’ve never been chronically constipated equally badly equally I’ve been inward the past, y'all cannot sympathize what a huge bargain this is.
It wouldn’t remove hold occurred to me to add together vitamin C only equally a constipation remedy. It was pure serendipity that I added it for other reasons, together with it ended upwards helping the CC. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me, though. There’s something called an “ascorbate flush” or a “vitamin C flush,” which is intended to give y'all loose stools. Basically, it’s a means of determining your demand for vitamin C, together with what your optimal dose is. You accept a pocket-size amount of the pulverisation every xv minutes until…well, until y'all run to the bathroom. (And your optimal dose would live slightly less than that, together with less together with less over time, equally your torso becomes replete.) So piece a very high dose mightiness motion diarrhea, a lower dose only loosens things upwards just enough to acquire them moving. Again: GODSEND.
If it sounds similar I’m exaggerating alongside all this “godsend” talk, it’s only because regular BMs remove hold been just shy of life-changing for me. I soundless lean toward depression, but it has been much better lately. I’m non for sure how much of that has to do alongside my novel thyroid supplementation regimen or having regular BMs. I suspect it’s both, but I tin can tell y'all for certain: if I remove hold ii or 3 days straight off where I don’t remove hold a BM (and they do soundless fall out hither together with there), my mood is darker together with gloomier than when I do go early on inward the day.
Ultimately, I desire my thyroid to piece of work good on its own, because that, presumably, volition assist me remove hold normal BMs fifty-fifty without the vitamin C together with the magnesium. Mag citrate together with vitamin C aren’t pharmaceutical drugs, but I soundless prefer non to acquire dependent on anything inward social club to brand bodily processes fall out that should fall out just fine on their own. But similar I said: sometimes, nosotros demand the short-term fix. We demand the band-aid. Especially when the band-aid tin can remove hold such a powerful impact on our mood together with overall enjoyment of life.
The DFH production I utilization is C+ Bio Fizz™. (1 teaspoon has 2569mg or 4280% of the DV, summation pocket-size amounts of quercetin, hesperidin together with rutin, which are citrus bioflavonoids, together with may assist the vitamin C live to a greater extent than effective.)
You cannot acquire DFH products at the corner drugstore. You remove hold to social club them through a practitioner, such equally yours truly. If y'all desire to experiment alongside whatsoever of this stuff, experience gratis to rails downward comparable products at Whole Foods or a local wellness nutrient store. But if you’d similar to attempt the ones I’ve mentioned here, shipping me an e-mail together with we’ll reckon what nosotros tin can arrange. (Keep inward mind, though, that I remove hold emphasized hither that this is what works for ME. I do non at all guarantee it’ll piece of work for you.)
I’ve shared a lot nigh myself inward this one. I’m non for sure how I experience nigh that. It in all likelihood makes me to a greater extent than “real” to all of y'all out there. And the conversational tone of my spider web log mightiness fifty-fifty brand y'all experience similar we’ve met, together with are having a chat inward your living room. (If I had to guess, I would tell this is the number ane argue why people similar my blog.) And I similar that. I similar that I in all likelihood seem to a greater extent than down-to-earth than some other bloggers out there, only because I never cover my ain struggles, together with I’m happy to portion my personal experiences inward illustration they assist someone who mightiness non read this materials anywhere else. (And you’ll never reckon anything hither nigh “dropping 10 pounds inward 10 days,” or “the ultimate fat-melting smoothie.”) But I don’t desire to travel on too much nigh myself. I remove hold no intention of turning this spider web log into a personal diary. It’s just piece of cake to frame some of my advice inward price of how I institute it together with why I know it works. Plus, talking nigh things I am going through, myself, seems to accept my spider web log inward random (and interesting?) directions that don’t commonly coincide alongside the topic du jour inward the ease of the “blogosphere.” (Yuck; I loathe that word.) I write nigh what happens to live on my mind, together with thankfully, some of y'all come upwards along for the ride. :)
So, hopefully all this materials nigh my BMs together with my experience alongside constipation hasn’t been besides much! Don’t know if I’ll write nigh what I’m doing for thyroid, but I’m willing to if there’s an involvement out there. (I had a poesy professor inward college who said, “The to a greater extent than personal y'all brand something, the to a greater extent than people volition relate to it.” Go figure…)
P.S. Many of y'all remove hold in all likelihood heard nigh Squatty Potty past times now. I just bought one, but haven’t used it yet. I’ll study dorsum if anyone wants to remove heed if it’s equally life-changing equally Vinnie Tortorich makes it sound. All I know is, I tin can reckon it making it easier to go, but I don’t reckon it beingness a “cure” for chronic constipation. Squatty Potty looks similar a non bad assist for when y'all are already nigh to remove hold a BM. It volition “come out” to a greater extent than easily together with to a greater extent than completely. If something physiological is causing CC, however—such equally a irksome thyroid or besides much dairy—then I neglect to reckon how Squatty Potty volition alleviate that. Still, potentially a helpful production for what it does do.
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