Two Essentials Required For Regular Bowel Movements
These two essential ingredients are not only necessary to ensure you regularly have 2 - 3 bowel movements every day, but they are critical to the overall health of your body. Without them, symptoms crop up quickly. Though most conventional doctors don't trace cancer, heart disease, kidney failure, etc. back to a lack of these two nutrients, it's hard to deny.
So what two "nutrients" am I talking about? Here we go...
Nutrient #1: Water
And when I say many women don't get any water for days on end, I'm not exaggerating. At least they don't get PURE water (which is what your body needs).
By pure water, I don't mean spring water or filtered water (though those are good choices).
I just mean water: Undiluted H2O.
Instead, most people get their water in beverages like pop, coffee, tea, juice and milk.
Yes, you are getting water by drinking these beverages, but it doesn't absorb properly or completely. In fact, caffeine present in coffee, pop and tea actually causes you to lose an abnormal amount of water (as well as calcium) in your urine.
I won't go into all the physiological reasons why water just doesn't absorb properly when mixed with sugar, caffeine and other ingredients. Instead, I'll prove it to you...
Starting today, you need to start drinking 6 - 8 cups of water daily – every day! Preferably 30 minutes before or after a meal. Don't mix anything with it. JUST WATER. Make sure you drink filtered water or spring water from a good source. But tap water is better than nothing – so drink it if you must.
As it directly relates to constipation, your bowels need water to keep your stools soft and easy to push through. If your body is being denied water, it will suck it out of your food, turning your stools into hard pellets that are painful and slow moving.
If you want to count a few cups of water in the form of HERBAL teas, that's fine. But no black tea. Nothing with caffeine.
Start doing this immediately. If it sounds like a lot, break it down...
Upon arising, drink 2 cups of water all at once. You're usually dehydrated in the morning, so this will help flush out your system.
Then you need to consume two more cups between breakfast and lunch. Fill a bottle with two cups and sip on it throughout the morning. If you just drink a little at a time, it will absorb better and not result in frequent trips to the restroom.
Fill the bottle up again after lunch. Then after dinner pour yourself a glass of herbal tea.
I don't know how much water you're drinking right now. But if, like some of my patients, it's about 1 or 2 cups, then this is most definitely affecting your constipation.
I'm not saying drinking 8 cups will necessarily stop your constipation, but it will definitely reduce it. In my collection of 37 Constipation Home Remedies For Women, I look at other less obvious causes of constipation and how to eliminate them. But drinking water is a foundation. I doubt anything else will help you much if you are not first drinking at least 6 cups of water a day – 8 is better.
All right, let's move on to the second part of this lesson...
The 2nd Nutrient Lacking in Most Women's Diet: Fiber
Fiber is the indigestible part of plant food. Because you can't absorb it, it gives volume to your stools and soaks up water making them soft.
Without fiber your stool becomes small and tough. You probably know exactly what I mean.
It's easy enough to add fiber to your diet. You don't need to start taking special fiber drinks or anything like that. Instead, you need to start eating plenty of:
1. Fruits (preferably raw).
2. Vegetables (raw or lightly steamed and/or baked)
3. Nuts and seeds.
4. Whole grains (e.g. brown rice bread, brown bread... not WHITE).
Dairy and meat do not contain fiber. That's fine; just don't make a meal of dairy and meat, that's all.
Most processed foods contain little or no fiber (e.g., cookies, bread, pasta and pizza). This doesn't mean you need to give up these foods. In fact, your supermarket should carry whole grain varieties of these foods. If not, go to a health food store.
But just because they say "whole grain" doesn't mean it is. Look on the list of ingredients. Often it will INCLUDE wholegrain flour, listed after "wheat flour" or "enriched wheat flour." Wheat flour is just a new name for white flour. White flour and whole wheat flour are both WHEAT.
With most of the "whole wheat" breads/pastas, the grain is crushed, stripping it of its fibrous bran hull and oil-rich germ to create a form that's rapidly digested. It doesn't matter whether the pulverized starch is wheat or white since both rapidly convert to blood sugar due to its lack of fiber.
So only trust the label when the ingredients say WHOLEGRAIN first and you see visible pieces of grain.
Most people eat far too much starch. Eat less starch and fill your plate up with vegetables instead – both raw and cooked. And instead of relying on whole grain bread and pasta, start cooking grains, like brown rice, spelt, bulgur, barley and quinoa. Overall, you're better off eating the grain in its natural state versus something with whole grain flour.
Now some women run into trouble adding grains, vegetables and fruits to their diet. They complain of stomach bloating and gas. Sometimes they even find they become MORE constipated. This can be very discouraging. This may happen to you if you've been stuck on a low-fiber diet for a long time.
In my collection of 37 Constipation Home Remedies For Women on page 11, I show you exactly how to switch to a high-fiber diet with little or no problems...
• Sweet Conversion: Read how to start your conversion to a high-fiber diet with a sweet snack in between meals.
• Get Slimmer as a Side-Effect: High fiber foods cause sugar to absorb slower into your bloodstream, so it doesn't get stored easily as fat. Plus, they add bulk to your diet, curbing your appetite.
• Step-by-Step:Even if the closest you currently come to "fiber" is the relish on your hot dog, discover how to make the switch over. My short, yet effective, step-by-step plan not only gets rid of negative physical reactions, but it's also gradual enough that your mind doesn't resist either.
• Reduce Bloating: Fiber also "scrubs" the side of your colon, getting rid of hardened fecal matter that is making your abdomen bulge and blocks waste from passing through. The same scrubbing action stimulates the peristalsis (pumping movements) of your colon.
This section also helps prevent and treat many other diseases. Fiber has the added benefit of pushing carcinogenic toxins out of your digestive tract.
That's not all fiber does for you... it also slows the absorption of food, stopping sudden rises in blood sugar which can lead to diabetes. Plus, high-fiber diets have also been proven to lower and prevent high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
There are just so many reasons – other than reducing your time in the washroom – that you should get on a high-fiber diet. But you need to know how to make the transition. In less than a page, in my collection of 37 Constipation Home Remedies For Women I've simplified a safe "conversion program."
Yours in Natural Health,
Dr. Karlo Mauro, BSc, BA, MSEd, ND
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
Constipation Home Remedies For Women
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Most people believe they are getting one of these nutrients all the time. That's true. But because they aren't taking it in its pure, free form, it doesn't absorb properly. And without this most basic of foods your stools become dry and painful. |
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If your stools are small and tough, it's likely because you are missing the second basic "nutrient" for healthy bowel movements. Strangely, this "nutrient" is readily available in most foods, yet people are missing out. |
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Not only do these two essentials help with your digestive tract, they also help you stay slim, keep cholesterol down, lower blood pressure and regulate your insulin levels... |
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Over the last 13 years Dr. Karlo Mauro has helped thousands of patients with their gastro-intestinal issues. He works out of his clinic near Windsor, Ontario on the border to Detroit. For more information on his naturopathic practice, go to www.theNaturopath.ca.
In 1992 Dr. Mauro began training in the martial art of Aikido Yoshinkai. In 2003, he earned a 3rd degree black belt. It was Aikido that originally opened his eyes to living a more natural lifestyle -- staying more balanced physically and mentally.
In 1995, he began receiving help from a Naturopathic Doctor for some digestive trouble he was experiencing. This first introduction to natural medicine resulted in him meeting other Naturopathic Doctors and finally making a life-changing decision.
Despite the fact he had just completed 6 years of university, including a Masters degree in Education, Dr. Mauro abandoned his teaching career, entered Naturopathic College, emerging four years later an ND.
Dr. Mauro lives in Windsor, Ontario with his wife Natalia, son Alek and daughter Ella. When he's not at the clinic, he's either watching Alek play golf, watching Ella in gymnastics class or coaching Alek's soccer team.Though he's helped patients with a wide variety of disorders, he's found the most success helping people with gut trouble. "I like the fact it's so easy to see an improvement," he says. "If you're constipated, only going once a week, and you start going everyday, you KNOW you're getting better."
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Many fertility specialists have seen a definite link between constipation and the inability to conceive or carry a baby to full-term. It makes perfect sense... "If your colon is overloaded with toxins," explains Dr. Mauro, "those toxins will back up into your liver and then into your bloodstream. It's less than ideal circumstances for balancing hormones and bearing a healthy child." Though Dr. Mauro makes no guarantees that having one bowel movement a day will ensure fertility, it should nonetheless help make getting pregnant much easier. You should consider regularity a natural component of any fertility program. |
Dr. Mauro's credentials and experience back up his expertise. He has successfully completed TEN years of university studies...
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Sometimes, even if you are going once a day, it's difficult because your stools are too hard and dry.
Ideally you want your stools to be about the consistency of a ripe banana. Anything looser or thinner is undesirable.
One of the problems with laxatives is that they don't produce this banana-like quality. Instead they bring on diarrhea. Diarrhea is dehydrating and depleting of valuable nutrients (such as potassium and sodium).
Dr. Mauro's 7-part series and his collection of 37 Constipation Home Remedies For Women help produce this ideal consistency because they help you retrain your bowels to work properly. When your colon is in good health, it will naturally make sure your stools are neither too dry nor too hard.
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Are you confused about how much you should be eating? Do you feel like you're already full after your first bite of food?
It's no wonder," says Dr. Mauro, "that so many women suffer eating disorders. If you're not evacuating, it's hard to make room for more food. If waste can't find its way down and out, it's going to make your stomach bulge outward and upward.
In fact, your colon can expand three times its regular size (along with your stomach). The secret to a normal appetite is making sure you are emptying your bowels every 24 hours."
You should have no problem achieving one or two bowel movements a day, if you make the simple changes outlined in 37 Constipation Home Remedies For Women. This should happen in less than 30 days of using these strategies.
Some medical doctors will prescribe birth control drugs to help with constipation. They believe this will help balance the hormones. Like most synthetic hormones, birth control pills come with complications.
Many women experience breakthrough bleeding, decreased appetite, depression, headaches, low libido, urinary tract infection, skin problems, gum inflammation. They also have an increased risk of contracting viral diseases.
Considering all the risks, is this really a good way to "balance your hormones?" Especially when natural methods may produce far superior (and economical) results...
Oftentimes hormonal imbalance is caused by a high consumption of white flour and sugary foods. These same foods turn into a glue-like substance that further clogs up your bowels.
By following the natural remedies and lifestyle changes in 37 Constipation Home Remedies For Women, you'll be helping to bring your hormones into balance, naturally. Likewise, getting your bowels moving will stop toxins from backing up into your bloodstream, which will further knock your hormones out of whack.
"Many medical experts today agree that most illness begins in the colon and that the colon may be the single most critical organ in the body. As the colon becomes a stagnant cesspool, failing to move the poisons from food waste out of the body on a regular basis, the toxins back up.
"It is estimated that there are 36 different poisons that come from the colon, and as these accumulate in the bowel over a period of weeks, months or often years, they spread into your liver, gallbladder and other organs; into your blood; into your tissues and finally into your cells."
-- Women's Menopause Health Newsletter, October 2007
"A lot of elderly people are taking senna," explains Dr. Mauro. "It's an herb that causes your colon to flush itself out. Many people must drink it as a tea everyday in order to keep on going. The nerves and muscles in their colon are totally zapped and dependent on the stuff. It's a nightmare trying to get them off it."
Senna is one of the few herbs medical doctors prescribe. Unfortunately, it's harmful to use on a daily basis. Once a week as part of a colon cleanse is okay, but more frequently is impairing.
The effects of senna can be fairly drastic," explains Dr. Mauro. "They tend to flush out too much of the healthy bacteria. It's like having diarrhea. It's dehydrating and depleting of your electrolytes (potassium and sodium)."
I don't know about you but I don't want to be dependent on an herb to make me go. Worse still, you have little control over your bowel movements. You go when the herb is ready to make you go. There's not much warning.
That's fine if you're 80 and don't leave home. That's not great when you're on your way to soccer practice to pick up the kids.
Senna is also dangerous for people with high blood pressure, kidney problems or edema.
Healing and strengthening your colon so it can function on its own, as described in 37 Constipation Home Remedies For Women, is the way to go.
Over 4 million Americans, each year, are affected by constipation, according to the The National Institute of Health. That works out to about 2.5 million doctor visits and $725 million in over-the-counter laxatives. The majority of those visits and purchases are by women.
As you can see, there's a lot of money in keeping people constipated and reliant on laxatives. No wonder Dr. Mauro's 37 Constipation Home Remedies are not more well known.
Digestive disorders account for the largest amount of lost time from work; they are the number one cause of disability absence; they comprise one-sixth of all hospital admissions. It is acknowledged by conventional medicine that at least 40 percent of all cancers originate in the gastrointestinal tract. Many alternative practitioners would say the number is much higher."
— Women's Menopause Health Center Newsletter , October 2007
"And yet, as the old expression goes, death begins in the colon. Don't believe it? Ask any coroner. Autopsies often reveal colons that are plugged up to 80 percent with waste material."
— Martin Zucker,
Vegetarian Times,
March, 1998
"[Toxic waste that built up in the colon turns into] a sinister world of monstrous creatures that feed on living flesh: parasites..."
"In fact, parasites have killed more humans than all the wars in history."
Find out how to kick parasites out of your colon in Strategy 33, on page 35, of 37 Constipation Home Remedies For Women.
Investigators in the United Kingdom conducted a study on 34 women with chronic constipation. The investigators found a direct demonstrable link between certain aspects of central brain activity -- anxiety, depression, feeling 'unfeminine' -- and gut dysfunction. —Gut, August 2001 |
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