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What is a Normal Bowel Movement? Causes of Constipation, Frequency, and Transit Time

What is a Normal Bowel Movement? Causes of Constipation, Frequency, and Transit Time http://drchristianson.com/blog What is potty talk? Plain and simple, it’s talking about bowel movements. As a doctor, I encounter many questions regarding regularity, constipation, strain, and hemorrhoids. What is The Difference Between Bowel Frequency and Bowel Transit? Bowel frequency is how often you’re eliminating. Bowel Transit is how long it takes your food to travel through your system and be eliminated. More important than how often you have a bowel movement is how long it takes the food to go through your body. Ideally, you want it to be about 18-24 hours. Data shows this lowers your risk of colon cancer. If food goes through your system too quickly, you won’t get all the essential nutrients your body needs. You may not be absorbing some of them. If food takes way too long to travel through your system, it means you’re reabsorbing waste. You’re forming harmful toxins that can weaken your immune system and hinder your body from detoxifying properly. This can also affect your brain chemicals, causing mood symptoms. How Can I Test Bowel Transit Time? It’s really easy! Some evening, eat beets or four charcoal capsules. Make a note at what time you eat them and wait. Beets will cause your stool to be reddish in color. Charcoal will make them pretty black. Ideally, you won’t see the color in your stool the next morning, but you will the morning after. If it shows up quicker, your bowel transit time is too short. If it is much longer, there is delayed bowel transit time. What Stool Consistency is Best? A banana-like consistency is healthy. Unformed stool is bad, as well as watery diarrhea. Soft-serve consistencies also indicate varying degrees of malabsorption. On the extreme end, stool that looks like little rabbit droppings means you’re probably under-hydrated, so your body is pulling too much out of the stool, reabsorbing some of the waste. Here is how your body’s cycle works: The body pushes the waste to your liver, then to your small intestine and then, your colon. Ideally, at that point, the waste should leave the body, but in this case, some starts to reabsorb. It’s Difficult to Have a Bowel Movement. What Should I Do? There are many causes of constipation. One of the biggest factors is hydration. I mentioned how your colon absorbs water. Before the stool reaches your colon, it is the consistency of milk. By the time it leaves your colon, it’s getting formed. If you don’t have a lot of spare water in your body, your colon pulls all that liquid out of the stool. Consequently, the stool gets gummed up and doesn’t come out very well. Most adults need upwards of 3-4 quarts of water a day. If you’re not drinking this much, start doing it, and see if you start eliminating regularly. You’ll also probably feel thirstier by drinking more. Consider the time you spend on the toilet. I recommend getting rid of magazine racks in the bathroom. If you think of the bathroom as a place to lounge, read, and relax, you’re going to spend way too long and end up straining your rectal tissue. This plays a part in hemorrhoids, weakened bowels, and constipation. So, avoid reading, writing, video games, or phone time. Just get in there, do your business and get out! Consider the toilet paper you use. Our rectum has delicate tissue, and we use dry toilet paper to clean it. Is this logical? Think about it: If you have a kitchen pot that needs cleaning, do you use a dry paper towel? No. You use water. You use moist things to clean things. All the more with delicate parts of your body. You need to be gentle with them. Instead of toilet paper, use hypoallergenic wet wipes. Another plus to using hypoallergenic wipes is they do a good job of cutting the risk for recurring bladder infections. Toilet paper doesn’t clean well enough. Tiny amounts of E.coli from the stool can work its way into the urethra. Subscribe to Reset Me With Dr. C for more healthy habits. Subscribe at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/r... http://www.integrativehealthcare.com/ ingoodhealthresetyourhealthresetyourlife