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One or two bowel movements a day keeps the doc away: Study
Medical Xpress / AFP / Cell Reports Medicine ^ | July 20, 2024 | Sean Gibbons et al

Posted on 07/27/2024 9:57:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

A study reveals that bowel movement frequency significantly influences physiology and long-term health, with the best outcomes linked with passing stools once or twice a day.

Previous research has suggested associations between constipation and diarrhea with higher risks of infections and neurodegenerative conditions, respectively.

Gibbons and his team collected clinical, lifestyle, and biological data—including blood chemistry, gut microbiome, genetics and more—from over 1,400 healthy adult volunteers with no signs of active disease.

When stools linger too long in the gut, microbes exhaust the available fiber—which they ferment into beneficial short-chain fatty acids—and instead ferment proteins, producing toxins like p-cresol sulfate and indoxyl sulfate.

"What we found is that even in healthy people who are constipated, there is a rise in these toxins in the bloodstream," said Gibbons, noting that these toxins are particularly burdensome to the kidneys.

In cases of diarrhea, the team found clinical chemistries indicative of inflammation and liver damage. Gibbons explained that during diarrhea, the body excretes excessive bile acid, which the liver would otherwise recycle to dissolve and absorb dietary fats.

Fiber-fermenting gut bacteria known as "strict anaerobes," associated with good health thrived in the "Goldilocks zone" of one or two poops a day.

"It was eating more fruit and vegetables, that was the biggest signal we saw," said Gibbons, along with drinking plenty of water, regular physical activity, and eating a more plant-dominant diet.

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Shoot for one or two poops a day.

Psyllium, followed by other soluble and insoluble fibers, will help, but try to get more exercise, too.

1 posted on 07/27/2024 9:57:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 07/27/2024 9:58:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

No sh!t? :-)

(You knew that was coming, eventually. I am blessed with a healthy colon. I agree it’s important.)


3 posted on 07/27/2024 10:01:11 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Twice a day? Sounds like the toilet industrial complex at work.


4 posted on 07/27/2024 10:03:19 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Dayum. I usually go twice a week.

Which means I guess... that I’m usually full of ...it.

Which many of my fine FReeper friends can attest.


5 posted on 07/27/2024 10:17:56 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Wait, I thought this was a thread about that BLM thing....

Never mind........


6 posted on 07/27/2024 10:22:19 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Eat beans everyday and your problem will resolve..😉


7 posted on 07/27/2024 10:22:27 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Which means I guess... that I’m usually full of ...it.

Well, there's no doubt about that.../s

Drink coffee?   I'm on the throne like clockwork about two hours after a couple of cups in the morning.

8 posted on 07/27/2024 10:23:07 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: ConservativeMind

“eating a more plant-dominant diet”

Somehow, I knew they would get around to this.

So, vegans fart and poop a lot, so are better off?


9 posted on 07/27/2024 10:25:06 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: ConservativeMind

If I have a relapse from my Colitis, I would be going to the bathroom every 30 minutes.


10 posted on 07/27/2024 10:52:27 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: roving

The doc put me on Entyvio infusions. Thank the lord for insurance and Medicare.


11 posted on 07/27/2024 11:19:44 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: ConservativeMind

I think most everyone should take a fiber supplement, almost no one eats enough fiber, it’s almost impossible to eat as much as we need daily. I pop a few of the off brand Metamucil psyillium pills almost everyday. Works like a charm. As a bonus it also reduces cholesterol.


12 posted on 07/27/2024 11:21:12 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: ConservativeMind
Should we post "selfies" here?

13 posted on 07/28/2024 12:04:11 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: roving

Some days I go every two hours and sometimes have to run to the bowl. I don’t know why.


14 posted on 07/28/2024 12:19:38 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Gotta dump the trash to keep the kitchen fresh and ready.


15 posted on 07/28/2024 1:25:02 AM PDT by Boomer (The dems and rinos have pegged the evil needle so hard, Satan now answers to them.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Fine article!

My 2 cents?

Don't sit on the toilet to poop.

In other words: Men should never sit, and women should sit only when peeing.

Regards,

16 posted on 07/28/2024 1:27:37 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I tend towards constipation, so take psyllium and also have some kimchi in the morning.

You can still eat meat, but go for veggies as your side dish instead of rice, potatoes, or pasta.


17 posted on 07/28/2024 1:31:21 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Take an Obama and a Biden a day, helps keep the doctor away!


18 posted on 07/28/2024 1:32:52 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: ConservativeMind

I take psyllium pills 4-5 days a week and it seems to firm up my stool. I was having trouble, frankly, with real loose stools. They seem to help and I’m on the throne usually twice a day or even more depending.


19 posted on 07/28/2024 1:33:55 AM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: ConservativeMind

Related but not completely on topic, I’ll put in an endorsement here for the bidet toilet seats. I bought one at Costco early in Covid and was an instant convert. I now cannot imagine living without one, and find it mildly annoying living without when we go on vacation.


20 posted on 07/28/2024 2:03:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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