Do You Want Your Constipation To Go Away? Here Is How To Fix It Now!

Learn 5 natural remedies you can use to prevent constipation. Discover 12 things that destroy your digestion and why you need to fix them. Never feel bloated again after reading this blog post.

About 20% of the population in the US suffers from constipation. Constipation is a problematic or infrequent passage of feces or hardness of stool. It can also be a feeling of incomplete evacuation. 

It's a familiar source of worry for most people. We buy laxatives, stimulants, and antidiarrheal remedies to address this problem. 

Some symptoms of constipation include:

So what causes constipation?

There are multiple reasons why we may become bloated. Our diet is one primary suspect.

1. Meat

All cars need to run on fuel designed for them. Electronic gadgets only work if you use the correct electric current.

Our bodies are the same. We need to eat food designed for our bodies. All humans are herbivores. Animal products like beef, fish, or eggs create a host of problems for our bodies.

Here are some key differences between humans and carnivores like lions and tigers.

Meat contains too much fat or protein than our bodies can handle. They provide almost no vital vitamins to us. There is no fiber like in vegetables to create healthy stool. Instead, there is cholesterol, growth hormones and other junk.

Our bodies can’t digest meat that well and the food will get stuck in the gut and rot.

Meat is acidic. When we eat acidic food, we become sicker and can manifest diseases. Animal flesh contains cholesterol and saturated fat, which was never intended for us.

Our evolution and anatomy are herbivorous. When we eat meat, we get decreased energy and need more sleep.

Dairy is also another source of constipation.

2. Dairy Products

Dairy protein is the number one cause of food allergies. It can cause more severe forms of autoimmune diseases. Dairy products are also known to contain life-threatening microbes.

Dairy protein paralyzes the bowel and causes severe constipation in many people.

Milk is food for calves, not humans. Humans are the only mammal that drinks another animal's milk. Cow’s milk contains almost three times more protein and four times more calcium than human milk. It is an ideal food to grow a calf from its birth weight to a 600-pound(272 kg) young cow.

Cows like any creature can only produce milk while they are pregnant. So they are inseminated on a regular basis.

The milk production is an unnatural process that is cruel to animals. Milk contains both antibiotics and hormones from the cows. Dairy is also mucus-forming.

One obvious consequence of people eating dairy is a rapid fat gain. Milk products are high in calories, fat, and cholesterol.

Your body uses fats to store energy when there is a famine. When fats get into the cells, your body turns down the production of mitochondria to keep the fat. A consequence of this process is a slow down of your metabolism.

When you keep up this for years, you can’t digest food properly. Other products to look out for are wheat products.

3. Wheat

Wheat is hard to digest for most people. It contains gluten which many people have a hard time ingesting. Gluten tolerance varies from person to person. Some have no visible issues digesting gluten. But in other people, it causes stomach pain or bloating.

Of all plant foods, wheat is the most common cause of food allergies. The nutrition in the grain gets lost when turning the whole wheat berry into a flour. This grinding process changes the physical properties of the grain.

Sourdough is one of the oldest forms of grain fermentation. It's believed to have originated in ancient Egypt around 1,500 BC. We used it to make bread until baker's yeast replaced it a few centuries ago.

Most leavened bread uses commercial baker's yeast to help the dough rise. Traditional sourdough fermentation relies on wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria.

Wild yeast is more resistant to acidic conditions than baker's yeast. Sourdough bread takes much longer to ferment and rise than other types of bread.

It is often easier to digest than bread that's fermented with brewer's yeast. Sourdough fermentation degrades gluten to a greater extent than baker’s yeast.

If you suffer from celiac or cancer, then it is better not to eat gluten.

You might try spaghetti noodles made from rice, corn, quinoa, or buckwheat. Use corn tortillas instead of wheat flour wraps.

Processed food can also cause bloating.

4. Processed Food

The more we modify our food, the worse our bodies are at digesting it. Processed foods contain almost no nutrients and make your body more acidic and toxic.

Treated food often go through a chemical process that removes the nutrients from the food. In some cases, manufacturers compensate by adding vitamins and minerals to the products.

Artificial foods often contain sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and synthetic ingredients. Highly processed foods often carry preservatives, colorants, flavors, and texturants. Soda is one of the most acidic things you can use.

Do yourself a favor and remove all junk foods and eat things in their whole form.

If you like alcohol, then you should read the next section.

5. Alcohol

Too much alcohol can destroy your stomach lining and make it harder to digest your food. Alcohol can irritate your gastrointestinal tract, which can cause bloating. This inflammation can lead to heartburn, pain in the stomach, and even ulcers and bleeding.

Alcohol also dehydrates the body and makes it harder for it to digest the food. Drinking too much alcohol can cause brain and liver damage.

If you drink most nights, your stomach lining doesn’t get a chance to recover. Alcohol is a pure toxin and is nothing you need. You may develop irritable bowel syndrome if you consume too much alcohol.

Cancer can also cause bloating.

6. Cancer

Stomach- and colon cancer can cause bloating. To learn more about colon cancer and how to fix it read this blog post.

Stress is another reason you can become bloated.

7. Stress

Even if you eat a perfect diet, you can still manifest diseases in the stomach if you're anxious. Your body releases stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline when you worry. As a consequence, it will make it harder to digest food.

Stomach disorders manifest when we fail or refuse to deal with a person or situation. For example, when you resist new ideas that contradict your plans or habits.

To fix this problem, you need to let go and allow things to unfold as they should.

If you use antibiotics often then you should stop it if you're bloated.

8. Antibiotics

Constant use of antibiotics can cause stomach problems. Antibiotics kill off bacteria in the stomach.

This process can disturb the bacteria flora in the stomach. Too much fat in your diet can also cause stomach problems.

9. Oils And Fatty Foods

All vegetable oils are processed foods and contain almost no nutrients. Oils are 100% fat and nothing else. They don’t provide any protein or nutrients.

They can increase your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Vegetable oils come from whole food. The producers separate the oil from vegetables, nuts or seeds. They do it in two ways. Either by heating up the produce and then squeezing out the oil. Or by using a mechanical process.

Oils are excessive fats that your body doesn't need. Most popular oils, like canola, olive, and flaxseed oil, have low burning points. When you cook with these oils, you're damaging the oils and create free radicals.

Free radicals destroy your health and weaken your body. The extraction of oils remove all the other ingredients of the whole food.

Oils supply concentrated calories but nothing else from the plants. They are the most calorie dense substance you can eat. Oils can destroy your digestion and cause bloating.

Remove any oils from your diet. Avoid any foods that use oils like French fries, potato chips or junk foods.

Gallstones are another way you can get digestion problems.

10. Gallstones 

Gallstones are the silent killer that causes many diseases. These stones block the liver from fulfilling hundreds of different functions.

One of the liver’s primary functions is to produce bile. The food must first combine with bile. Without enough bile, the small intestine can't digest fat and calcium.

Poor bile secretion leaves food undigested and subjects them to bacteria.

80% of gallstones are cholesterol. The other 20% consists of calcium salts and bilirubin. Gallstones may contain bile salts, water, mucus, toxins, bacteria, and sometimes, dead parasites.

Gallstones form in both the liver’s bile ducts and the gallbladder. Stones in the liver are rare. Most gallstones start in the liver, and few occur in the gallbladder.

Many people never experience discomfort and don’t even know they have gallstones. But sometimes, the stones can trigger severe pain and other symptoms.

There are many different reasons why gallstones form in the body. The most common cause of it is food high in cholesterol. These foods include animal products like red meats, poultry, fish, and dairy products.

Vegetable oils can also cause the liver to secrete larger quantities of cholesterol.

Traditional gallbladder treatments cause unnecessary suffering and complications in patients.

The Liver And Gallbladder Cleanse is a natural method of removing these stones from the liver.

Pathogens can cause constipation too. Learn more about them in the next section.

11. Pathogens

Most people think of bacteria as dangerous and dirty. Our intestinal tracts contain both pathogenic and friendly bacteria.

Calling some bacteria bad is not that fair. These bacteria help the body when you overeat animal products. The problem is not the pathogens but our diet that forces the body to utilize them.

So you have come to the last reason why you might become bloated.

12. Dehydration

Drinking enough is important in keeping your body healthy. Water is part of many of your body's fluids. The functions of these fluids include digestion, absorption, circulation, and saliva.

Water is essential for the transportation of nutrients. Healthy digestion makes minerals and nutrients more accessible to the body.

Furthermore, water is crucial in digesting food and maintaining a regular bowel movement. Proper hydration keeps things flowing in your gastrointestinal tract and prevents constipation.

So at this point, I’ve talked about the reasons why we get bloated. But how do you prevent constipation in the first place?

Before I explain how to heal the gut, let's learn what a normal and healthy bowel movement is.

5 Ways You Can Prevent Constipation

What Is A Healthy Bowel Movement?

Most of us don’t know what a healthy bowel movement is.In Western societies, normal stool frequency ranges from 2 to 3 times a day to 2 to 3 times a week. Sometimes it is even less than that.

For those on the American diet the urge to go to the toilet range from mild discomfort to distressing pain. The bowel movement may cause rectal pain or rectal bleeding. The stool formed on the typical American diet requires lots of effort to excrete.  

After all that effort, some may have the feeling of incomplete emptying. The stool itself varies from tiny rock-hard fecal marbles to tubular play dough.  The more meat consumed, the darker the stool color.

When you eat a whole food plant-based diet, your bloating disappears.

Before I went plant-based, I went to the toilet every second or third day. After eating more vegetables and eliminating most animal products my bowel movement improved. I went from going to the bathroom every other day to every day.

Ideally, the abdomen will be comfortable until the time to eliminate waste. The urge to go to the toilet will cause no pain or distress. There is also a pleasant feeling of relief during the discharge.

One to three bowel movements per day is not unusual. The first bowel movement often happens in the morning, shortly after rising. The stool is large, unformed and with different shades depending upon foods consumed. The clean up afterward is effortless.

By now you should know what a healthy bowel movement looks like. So let’s learn some tips on how to heal your gut.

1. Eat A Whole-Food Low Fat Plant-Based Diet

Fibers are the prime requirement for healthy bowel function. Without it, constipation can become a chronic problem. Your body extracts the proteins, carbs, vitamins, and minerals in the small intestine. Left is non-digestible fibers along with friendly microorganisms.

These fibers form the bulk of the residual stool. Therefore it is vital that we eat a lot of fiber. A starch-based diet along with vegetables and fruits is the best cure for constipation. Grains contain many kinds of fibers, such as cellulose and hemicellulose.  

The healthiest diet to eat is a whole food high carb low-fat diet. A whole food, plant-based diet consists of whole, unrefined plants. It’s a diet based on fruits, vegetables, tubers, whole grains, legumes and little fat.

Glucose comes from carbs and is the body’s preferred and the brain’s only energy source.

Center your diet around starch and vegetables. Starchy vegetables contain a lot of fiber and keep you full during the day. And they have another benefit in that they stop you from overeating.

Don't forget to eliminate all animal products, oils, or processed food from your diet.

Here are some good foods for constipation.

Fruits

Some fruits like prunes and kiwifruit have mild stimulatory effects on the bowel. Thus they promote bowel movements.

Fiber Supplements

Fiber supplements like hydrolyzed guar gum (PHGG) may improve digestion problems.

Flaxseeds

Flaxseeds may improve your bowel movements. You can add them to your cereal or oatmeal. Or you can add it to grains before cooking. Add 2 to 4 tablespoons of flaxseed to each cup(2.4 dl) of grain, such as rice.  

Wheat Bran

Wheat bran can add bulk to the stool and encourage smooth bowel movements.  

Probiotics

Another way to improve your digestion is to strengthen the good bacteria flora in your gut. Our bodies need a healthy dose of good bacteria such as lactobacillus. One way to increase our good gut flora is to eat food with probiotics. Probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts that are good for your health.

Many people associate probiotics like lactobacillus with milk products. But you don't need to consume dairy to digest it. It exists in nature and the digestive tract, even in those who do not eat dairy.

There are vegan versions of probiotics. You can get it from fermented plant foods such as:

Be aware that some kimchi can contain fish sauce. To be on the safe side make your own kimchi or fermented vegetables.

Fermented foods are cheaper than supplements, tastier, and more efficient.

Another way to improve your digestion is to follow these eating habits.

2. Good Eating Habits

Our eating habits can influence our digestion. Here are some quick tips on how to eat healthier.

Staying hydrated is another way to help your digestion.

3. Drink Enough Water

It is important to drink about 8 cups(2 liters) of water every day. Water is part of many bodily functions. Your body uses water to digest the food and eliminate it through the colon.

Drink filtered water. If you drink contaminated water, then that can hurt your digestion.

Doing a colon cleanse can also help your absorption.

4. Cleanse Your Colon

Cleansing your colon is crucial for good digestion. If you eat a plant-based diet, then your colon should clear up by itself. But if you eat a diet full of animal products and junk foods, then you can get constipated.

Colon cleansing is also known as colonic irrigation or colonic hydrotherapy. It involves flushing the colon with fluids to remove waste.

The ultimate goal of a colon irrigation is to help the digestive organs do their job in the best way possible. It does that by removing things that get in the way and interfere with normal bowel functions.

A sluggish bowel can retain pounds of old toxic and poisonous fecal matter.

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