Methods To Encourage Good Bowel Movement

You see women on Instagram. They're all done up with their hair and makeup, and they’re marketing #ad #detox #tea. They have these ridiculous products that they’re remarketing and they’re not talking about poop. The best way to detox is getting poop out. I’m not going to buy detox tea. I'll get a bit of dandelion or some milk thistle blended in and that’s part of it but unfortunately, detox is co-opted by the marketing industry. Most people don't even focus on that. They’ll poop once a week but then they take a detox tea and they think they're doing it correctly.

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My whole take on detoxification out of the gates is very simple.

1. 1. Get enough good clean water in your system.
   2. Make sure you're digesting your amino acids and all your nutrients well.
      Remember: Sulfur-based amino acids run the majority of your detoxification pathways, along with B vitamins. We need good B vitamins, good antioxidants, and good sulfur amino acids. For breaking down those nutrients well, there's not a bottleneck with ACL levels or enzyme levels. We’re getting enough to clean water.
   3. Not overly stressing our sympathetic nervous system.
      Remember: The more we overly stress the adrenals, the sympathetic nervous system decreases that migrating motor complex which are the wavelike contractions that move stool through your intestinal tract, just like you roll up the toothpaste roll at night to get that toothpaste moving through to get your toothpaste out to brush your teeth. Your intestines are the same things.

   If you can do those top three things right, you're on the right track. There may be extra things where we need extra sulfur or extra antioxidants or compounds or binders to help with mold or heavy metal. That's true and that would be addressed down the road but a lot of detoxification happens hepatobiliary, liver, gallbladder, back into the intestines, and then out the intestinal tract. So, we need to have really good motility and really good absorption of nutrients, and a lot of good clean water to help fuel.

   

   
   Supplement Suggestion:

   Use one for liver support that has some gallbladder nutrients built into it. That can be really helpful because with sluggish bowels because a lot of times there's also sluggish bile production. So, just helping thin the bile whether it's using supplemental ox bile or methionine, taurine, B powder, whatever else we can do to increase bile flow. That's going to be helping.

   

   Detox and Diet

   This is a low-hanging fruit that your average American is still really, really blowing it on which is just the fact that they're not doing enough good meats, good fats, and good veggies. Your average American might wake up and do a piece of toast and maybe in 2020 or 2021, it's an avocado toast but still that's not the optimal thing for good poop.

   Inflammation in the diet can easily mess up the intestinal tract and can easily create inflammation in the gut. That could either move the body more to diarrhea or more to constipation. If we start moving more to constipation, that's not good. Of course, these foods can stress out the intestinal tract and then when we start creating inflammation in the intestinal tract, then we already have indigestion meaning we don't have adequate enzymes and acids. So, we’re burping a lot after our meals, food sits longer in our tummy, and a lot of gases are produced because the foods are not being broken down properly. That's a problem.

   We’ve got to really make sure we’re masticating and chewing our food very, very, very well. We’ve got to make sure to increase the surface area for enzymes and acids to work. We also have to make sure not overly hydrating with our meals. So, hydrate 10 minutes or more before meal, and then if you're consuming a little bit of liquid with a meal, just do it to help with swallowing pills. Don't do it for hydration purposes. Because water has a pH of 7 and your intestinal tract has a pH of 1.5 to 2. So, if you start adding a whole bunch of pH 7 to up to a pH of 2, you're going to move that pH more in the alkaline direction away from the acid direction. We need good acidity to help activate her enzymes in our acid levels. That’s very important.

   If you have any issues with detoxification, please reach out to a functional medicine doctor.

   Remember:

   1. 1. 1. Chew your food up well.
         2. Make sure you're not overly hydrating with the food. Do all your hydration 2 minutes before.