Ha. Not surprised to see there are no comments so far LOL I saw how constipation affected my elderly father, especially given his pharma protocols that were constantly both causing and trying to fix the problem, he ended up in the ER in the worst pain of his life (worse than his bone cancer) It left a mark and I take this very seriously. One of my personal recommendations : keep a jar of broccoli sprouts growing in your kitchen and consume about one cup per day (I make a little sweet ginger dressing to make it more palatable). Keeps things moving!
Stewed prunes , warm , early morning cup of tea, warm creamy cooked pure rolled oats ,with banana and kiwi fruit , for breakfast , and AVOID dehydration. Also, do not eat a big meal before bedtime , keep it light , a soup , steamed fish and steamed green vegetables at most , also a stewed apple with cinnamon, all helpful.
I accidentally found my cure. I’m 83 and it was becoming a more frequent problem. Earlier this year I was remembering how I liked my grandmothers stewed prunes and raisins when I was a kid so I looked up a recipe and made a batch. I added an apple and some dates, a little vanilla and cinnamon. It was delicious in my morning cereal, over ice cream, whatever. So I made a second batch. And then I started to notice changes to my digestion. First of all my acid reflux stopped! Then I started to feel different. Then I realized I was having bowel movements with no trouble. I now eat it everyday. I asked my doctor and his reaction was that it was a reasonable reaction. Whatever works. It was like, if I can’t sell you a drug it’s not worth talking about! I have no idea if this will work for anyone else but it costs only Pennies.
When I worked in Long term care (nursing home), they called it power pudding!
Also, I am a “believer” in vitamin C, and have found when I haven’t had enough for the day (supplements), things don’t come out as smoothly!
Vitamin C is water soluble, so you’ll know you reached your tolerance if you have diarrhea. I always tried to help my care receivers by sharing this, but as I am not licensed, had to do on the sly. And M.D.s are typically not trained in nutrition!
I personally believe there’s a pandemic of vitamin C deficiency, (along with Vitamin D). The body needs more when under stress.
Humans are frugivores. That's why apple and dates work. You'd have been better eating the apples and dates alone making a meal of it rather than mixing it with the other garbage.
To each his own. Apples and dates alone didn’t do the job. Your characterization of prunes and raisins as junk is nasty uncalled for and unkind. Makes you out to be a jerk
Yes Sis, Yes Sir: The Seventh Day folks encourage a quart of room temp. H2O first thing, and it is a great way to learn to hydrate.. get something good in you.
Old people cannot bend low and people with hip problems must be 90degrees between thigh and spine , for hip safety especially for people who have had hip surgery.
I didn't take the shot, but I had prostate cancer, and months after I finished hormone and radiation therapy, I became somewhat incontinent (the opposite of constipation). It has almost ended my social life because I can't go anywhere where a toilet is not close by. I've had a few 'accidents'. Thankfully, the accidents all happened in my home. I'm terrified to think that I could have an accident at my gym. I've been to a gastroenterologist twice, and she didn't do anything. Just asked me questions. The only relief I've gotten is by stopping my morning fruit intake (Honeycrisp apple slices!), and that helped. And a friend recommended that I try probiotics. And amazingly, that helped immensely. But taking them every day, my progress toward gastric health has taken a step back. So, I'm today trying a new approach: only take the probiotic twice a week instead of daily. Wish me luck!
It wiped out the bifida bacteria. There was a special doctor they interviewed on the Highwire who looks at gut bacteria and she was looking at before and after vax stool samples and she said it totally wiped out the bifida bacteria. You definitely should get probiotics.(don’t just rely on yogurt as I read that “natural flavour” might be messing up our yogurts :( - u could go for plain and add strawberry jam or blueberries or siggi’s brand doesn’t add it.)
Yes, she was a character... fascinating inquisitive mind... and she was unintimidated by the forbidden-ness of those bifida... Her contributions led straight into my interest in hot composting... ttyl
YES.. People could think of the lower bowel's work as nature preparing your contribution to composting and nutrients returning to nature...
Composters know that MOST of what comes out is the probiotics and their output, so to keep all those special probiotics happy takes WARMTH --they're heat-loving microbes-- plus adequate hydration for their thriving...
I started keeping an ordinary sunbeam heating pad on my belly at sleep time, and that was getting my gut ready to empty naturally
Then I read about how all the enzymes in your body need good body temp for boosting your chemistry processes....Then I saw that old people get cold a lot and especially peripherals [hands and feet]... Their heat system was only managing to get vitals warm enough... warm-bloodedness was dwindling...
Then came the Japanese with data showing that cancer patients [''old people diseases''] all had low body temps.... SO damn it, time to get a far-infrared mat for sleep time b/c my own body temp [80yo] was below normal by a whole degreeF... cancer comes a degree lower still....
So I learned a lot from those heat-lovin microbes..
BTW...
You can incorporate more yogurt into your diet by considering the salty-oily food path..
Think mayo is almost yogurt + ev olive oil + sea salt... be creative with that angle...
and enjoy salty snacks, besides the fruit-sweet snacks.... TTYL
Salt RAISES blood pressure, stay warm in bed with European doona a warm shower before bed , keeping warm and good hydration. AVOID sweet snacks they are the cause of DIABETES US OF A, obesity , diabetes , heart disease through the roof. Sugar also DRIVES CANCER in case you don't know.
By the time you need to worry about sugar-driving cancer, you've let your body temp stay low too long disenabling the body's natural repair enzymes.. Be proactive by keeping warm while your chemistry works on repair [at night while enzymes aren't working on digesting food]...
Cancel the hysteria about salt... Union of Concerned Scientists resolved that long ago.. The problem was too much sodium RELATIVE to the REST of the MINERALS NEEDED... it was imbalance that was the problem..
Definitely enjoy a doona OR TWO [I do] while you sleep over your infra red mat...TTYL
Wow, thank you MJ, this confirms my experience, about keeping warm, and intermittant fasting with some nights with very little food at night , to let the body heal, another essential , good mouth hygiene , there is a link between oral hygiene and heart disease , i advocate high vitamin C and D3 levels as well , many cancer patients are low in D3, i tend to run on high, must have a very effective liver , never have cold hands or feet, always advocate a hot bath before bed , have done for years , also get up in the night and top up with a HOT cup of tea, look much younger than my peers, don't believe in Ageing either.Being a Welch celt helps too.
Cheese causes a big problem. I love the cheese, but it simply wasn't digestible and caused a really serious problem with passing stools. Sadly, I had to stop eating cheese and now the only dairy I eat is A2 raw milk (delicious with fruit). Also increased fruit and fish consumption and sprouted grain bread.
If my knees could cooperate, I never would have stopped running. I miss it. My big gut also misses it. I stopped drinking beer, and do 75 stomach crunches daily. And after 6 months, the gut is still there. It's now being pushed further out because of all the new muscle underneath it. Sigh...
I found lecithin supplements helped dissolve some of the fat that had accumulated in my lower back, after starting chiropractic adjustments. Be sure to drink plenty of water for flushing.
People don't know how to eat. The diet is wrong. Humans are frugivores by nature. Eat a diet of fruit and tender leaves and you will never be constipated.
APRIL 4, 2023 I did a substack entitled "What's the Scoop on Your Poop?" I covered pertinent information, which people should know. However, one keeps on learning...and I share information. I came across a natural colon cleanse supplement, which appeared to have natural ingredients...without psyllium seed, etc. It is called EXPEL It was created by Dr. Tim O'Shea, the author of Vaccination is NOT Immunization. His website is: www.the doctorwithin.com. Check it out to look at the ingredients. I have a problem. For my first eight years, I hardly had any food. If you don't have food, the food you eat remains in the intestines. I really did not know how to eat for the first 38 years of my life. There were not any valid nutrition books. As a child, I was always 10 pounds lighter than other children. The school nurse who weighed us once a month...made this comment. As a little girl, my stomach stuck out. I could not pull my stomach in. Years Later, i read about kwashiorkor...where the little African children had big stomachs. I believe it's because they have little to eat..Food remains in the intestines, because there is not another meal to push it forward. Many people with big stomachs have no idea that the foods they are eating are not exiting the body. Some people are carrying 30 or more pounds of waste in their bodies. People don't take the time to make sure they have complete eliminations. I have a scale...and weigh myself before and after I have an elimination...just to make sure that i am not gaining from trapped food. I am 5'3' and weigh 110 pounds...and I eat a lot of natural food...and not processed. Processed food has no fiber...and the body needs bulk and fiber to keep the intestinal tract open and the waste exiting..
The Save Your Life Diet Cookbook by Dr. David Reuben, M.D. can save your life.
Previously, I met a mom from Rangely, Maine who taught me everything in the book within two weeks, without trying. Learn the three parts of a grain of wheat, then figure out why the flour you buy only has one part of the grain and you’re on the path to victory. It is similar to the parable of the mustard seed.
Ha. Not surprised to see there are no comments so far LOL I saw how constipation affected my elderly father, especially given his pharma protocols that were constantly both causing and trying to fix the problem, he ended up in the ER in the worst pain of his life (worse than his bone cancer) It left a mark and I take this very seriously. One of my personal recommendations : keep a jar of broccoli sprouts growing in your kitchen and consume about one cup per day (I make a little sweet ginger dressing to make it more palatable). Keeps things moving!
Stewed prunes , warm , early morning cup of tea, warm creamy cooked pure rolled oats ,with banana and kiwi fruit , for breakfast , and AVOID dehydration. Also, do not eat a big meal before bedtime , keep it light , a soup , steamed fish and steamed green vegetables at most , also a stewed apple with cinnamon, all helpful.
I accidentally found my cure. I’m 83 and it was becoming a more frequent problem. Earlier this year I was remembering how I liked my grandmothers stewed prunes and raisins when I was a kid so I looked up a recipe and made a batch. I added an apple and some dates, a little vanilla and cinnamon. It was delicious in my morning cereal, over ice cream, whatever. So I made a second batch. And then I started to notice changes to my digestion. First of all my acid reflux stopped! Then I started to feel different. Then I realized I was having bowel movements with no trouble. I now eat it everyday. I asked my doctor and his reaction was that it was a reasonable reaction. Whatever works. It was like, if I can’t sell you a drug it’s not worth talking about! I have no idea if this will work for anyone else but it costs only Pennies.
When I worked in Long term care (nursing home), they called it power pudding!
Also, I am a “believer” in vitamin C, and have found when I haven’t had enough for the day (supplements), things don’t come out as smoothly!
Vitamin C is water soluble, so you’ll know you reached your tolerance if you have diarrhea. I always tried to help my care receivers by sharing this, but as I am not licensed, had to do on the sly. And M.D.s are typically not trained in nutrition!
I personally believe there’s a pandemic of vitamin C deficiency, (along with Vitamin D). The body needs more when under stress.
Dr. Suzanne Humphries states that most people are low in vitamin c in this podcast.
Joe Rogan and Dr. Suzanne Humphries
https://youtu.be/207W1A_bJqI?si=QO96n4d4xeUIlyOP
Old fashioned remedies are the best
GO natural keep away from the drugs, they cause more bowel problems.
Humans are frugivores. That's why apple and dates work. You'd have been better eating the apples and dates alone making a meal of it rather than mixing it with the other garbage.
To each his own. Apples and dates alone didn’t do the job. Your characterization of prunes and raisins as junk is nasty uncalled for and unkind. Makes you out to be a jerk
Prunes and raisins are fine.
Stewed prunes are excellent , also they contain copper , very important.
If you look at American hotel breakfast menus of the 1920s, they are very heavy on prune dishes!
FIBER IS A MENACE👿. As soon as my digestive patients stop the fiber they heal
Rubbish. Humans need insoluble fiber from fruits and the fiber from tender greens.
That is a load of poop.
Pro tip: as soon as you get up, down 500ml (a small water bottle) of water. Before you have a coffee, eat or get dressed.
That'll do wonders for your digestive system.
Yes Sis, Yes Sir: The Seventh Day folks encourage a quart of room temp. H2O first thing, and it is a great way to learn to hydrate.. get something good in you.
Warm water not cold.
Nothing that a few pints of a good old English stout, and a couple of cans of stag chilli can’t solve
Yikes!!
If you need quick release a special form of vitamin C can help better than most things.
Effervescent Vitamin C & Magnesium Crystals
Magnesium Citrate.if things move too quickly magnesium Glycinate.
Magnesium and pure non gmo ascorbic acid will keep ya moving and energetic
The squatty potty is life-changing!! Affordable, and works like a charm!
Imagine the feeble seniors who would likely injure themselves just trying to get on the toilet. Great idea though. But an accident waiting to happen.
Old people cannot bend low and people with hip problems must be 90degrees between thigh and spine , for hip safety especially for people who have had hip surgery.
I’ve heard a lot of people becoming constipated after the shot. My problem is the opposite. After the shot I have constant diarrhea.
I didn't take the shot, but I had prostate cancer, and months after I finished hormone and radiation therapy, I became somewhat incontinent (the opposite of constipation). It has almost ended my social life because I can't go anywhere where a toilet is not close by. I've had a few 'accidents'. Thankfully, the accidents all happened in my home. I'm terrified to think that I could have an accident at my gym. I've been to a gastroenterologist twice, and she didn't do anything. Just asked me questions. The only relief I've gotten is by stopping my morning fruit intake (Honeycrisp apple slices!), and that helped. And a friend recommended that I try probiotics. And amazingly, that helped immensely. But taking them every day, my progress toward gastric health has taken a step back. So, I'm today trying a new approach: only take the probiotic twice a week instead of daily. Wish me luck!
I think they “colonise” so your needs might change. I sympathize and wish you the best
It wiped out the bifida bacteria. There was a special doctor they interviewed on the Highwire who looks at gut bacteria and she was looking at before and after vax stool samples and she said it totally wiped out the bifida bacteria. You definitely should get probiotics.(don’t just rely on yogurt as I read that “natural flavour” might be messing up our yogurts :( - u could go for plain and add strawberry jam or blueberries or siggi’s brand doesn’t add it.)
I do Greek plain yogurt and kefir. I also take ground flax seed and ground chia.
https://x.com/SabinehazanMD
Yes, she was a character... fascinating inquisitive mind... and she was unintimidated by the forbidden-ness of those bifida... Her contributions led straight into my interest in hot composting... ttyl
YES.. People could think of the lower bowel's work as nature preparing your contribution to composting and nutrients returning to nature...
Composters know that MOST of what comes out is the probiotics and their output, so to keep all those special probiotics happy takes WARMTH --they're heat-loving microbes-- plus adequate hydration for their thriving...
I started keeping an ordinary sunbeam heating pad on my belly at sleep time, and that was getting my gut ready to empty naturally
Then I read about how all the enzymes in your body need good body temp for boosting your chemistry processes....Then I saw that old people get cold a lot and especially peripherals [hands and feet]... Their heat system was only managing to get vitals warm enough... warm-bloodedness was dwindling...
Then came the Japanese with data showing that cancer patients [''old people diseases''] all had low body temps.... SO damn it, time to get a far-infrared mat for sleep time b/c my own body temp [80yo] was below normal by a whole degreeF... cancer comes a degree lower still....
So I learned a lot from those heat-lovin microbes..
BTW...
You can incorporate more yogurt into your diet by considering the salty-oily food path..
Think mayo is almost yogurt + ev olive oil + sea salt... be creative with that angle...
and enjoy salty snacks, besides the fruit-sweet snacks.... TTYL
Salt RAISES blood pressure, stay warm in bed with European doona a warm shower before bed , keeping warm and good hydration. AVOID sweet snacks they are the cause of DIABETES US OF A, obesity , diabetes , heart disease through the roof. Sugar also DRIVES CANCER in case you don't know.
By the time you need to worry about sugar-driving cancer, you've let your body temp stay low too long disenabling the body's natural repair enzymes.. Be proactive by keeping warm while your chemistry works on repair [at night while enzymes aren't working on digesting food]...
Cancel the hysteria about salt... Union of Concerned Scientists resolved that long ago.. The problem was too much sodium RELATIVE to the REST of the MINERALS NEEDED... it was imbalance that was the problem..
Definitely enjoy a doona OR TWO [I do] while you sleep over your infra red mat...TTYL
Wow, thank you MJ, this confirms my experience, about keeping warm, and intermittant fasting with some nights with very little food at night , to let the body heal, another essential , good mouth hygiene , there is a link between oral hygiene and heart disease , i advocate high vitamin C and D3 levels as well , many cancer patients are low in D3, i tend to run on high, must have a very effective liver , never have cold hands or feet, always advocate a hot bath before bed , have done for years , also get up in the night and top up with a HOT cup of tea, look much younger than my peers, don't believe in Ageing either.Being a Welch celt helps too.
Cheese causes a big problem. I love the cheese, but it simply wasn't digestible and caused a really serious problem with passing stools. Sadly, I had to stop eating cheese and now the only dairy I eat is A2 raw milk (delicious with fruit). Also increased fruit and fish consumption and sprouted grain bread.
Cheese is highly constipating.
Well written, stress is another factor, remember to run 5 k per day ...
Deep breathing and mindful meditation , and a warm swim pool for oldies, ever see an oldy on a walking frame running 5 km.
If my knees could cooperate, I never would have stopped running. I miss it. My big gut also misses it. I stopped drinking beer, and do 75 stomach crunches daily. And after 6 months, the gut is still there. It's now being pushed further out because of all the new muscle underneath it. Sigh...
I found lecithin supplements helped dissolve some of the fat that had accumulated in my lower back, after starting chiropractic adjustments. Be sure to drink plenty of water for flushing.
Constipation is a breakdown in mitochondrial metabolism. At the root is often heavy metals, mold and nervous system over arousal.
Childhood trauma plays a significant role and heavy metals often accompany along with other co-infections.
Trace minerals used to provide protection against these things now they are scarce in foods.
People don't know how to eat. The diet is wrong. Humans are frugivores by nature. Eat a diet of fruit and tender leaves and you will never be constipated.
APRIL 4, 2023 I did a substack entitled "What's the Scoop on Your Poop?" I covered pertinent information, which people should know. However, one keeps on learning...and I share information. I came across a natural colon cleanse supplement, which appeared to have natural ingredients...without psyllium seed, etc. It is called EXPEL It was created by Dr. Tim O'Shea, the author of Vaccination is NOT Immunization. His website is: www.the doctorwithin.com. Check it out to look at the ingredients. I have a problem. For my first eight years, I hardly had any food. If you don't have food, the food you eat remains in the intestines. I really did not know how to eat for the first 38 years of my life. There were not any valid nutrition books. As a child, I was always 10 pounds lighter than other children. The school nurse who weighed us once a month...made this comment. As a little girl, my stomach stuck out. I could not pull my stomach in. Years Later, i read about kwashiorkor...where the little African children had big stomachs. I believe it's because they have little to eat..Food remains in the intestines, because there is not another meal to push it forward. Many people with big stomachs have no idea that the foods they are eating are not exiting the body. Some people are carrying 30 or more pounds of waste in their bodies. People don't take the time to make sure they have complete eliminations. I have a scale...and weigh myself before and after I have an elimination...just to make sure that i am not gaining from trapped food. I am 5'3' and weigh 110 pounds...and I eat a lot of natural food...and not processed. Processed food has no fiber...and the body needs bulk and fiber to keep the intestinal tract open and the waste exiting..
The Save Your Life Diet Cookbook by Dr. David Reuben, M.D. can save your life.
Previously, I met a mom from Rangely, Maine who taught me everything in the book within two weeks, without trying. Learn the three parts of a grain of wheat, then figure out why the flour you buy only has one part of the grain and you’re on the path to victory. It is similar to the parable of the mustard seed.
Read FIBER MENACE, by forensic nutritionist Konstantin Monastyrsky. Lifechanging!