Study finds constipation is a significant risk factor for major cardiac events

Medical Xpress / Monash University / American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology ^ | Aug. 19, 2024 | Silvia Dropulich / Tenghao Zheng et al

[ConservativeMind]

Both environmental / lifestyle and genetic ties were found between constipation and cardio issues.

You can prevent your environmental / lifestyle issues, even if your genetic concerns can’t be reversed. Do what you can.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Levy78]

Elvis.

[Biblebelter]

Gigi Cestone

[Beowulf9]

You know that is a good point. Drug addicts. I was thinking constipation, lots of remedies but when you are a drug addict it’s a big problem.

[Levy78]

Especially opioid addicts, which Elvis was. He had severe constipation and a massively enlarged colon.

“According to Dr. Nick, the autopsy revealed that Presley’s colon was 5 to 6 inches in diameter (whereas the normal width is 2 to 3 inches) and instead of being the standard 4 to 5 feet long, his colon was 8 to 9 feet in length”

[Vermont Lt]

My daughter is a paramedic. Finding a large man on the toilet with a heart attack is a one or two times a month thing. They are usually dead on the scene.

[mass55th]

My father had a simple way of putting it: “If you don’t eat, you don’t shit, and if you don’t shit, you die.”

[rexthecat]

I buy prunes at Costco. Three every morning at breakfast. No problem! Ever!

[Az Joe]

Thx for the tip.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Straining on the stool.

[Beowulf9]

Yike!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

One of the treatments for diarrhea was opiates because they will plug you up. So if someone abuses opiates they are liable to get constipated.

[know.your.why]

I read something about the vagus(sp) nerve that gets triggered when bowels are in movement and it causes a major drop in blood pressure or some dang weird thing like that. People found dead on the toilet is actually a thing. How friggn weird is that!

[sten]

how are they just figuring this out??

[Mark17]

how are they just figuring this out??

Good question. Are they going into people’s bathrooms?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

In the parlance of Tony Soprano’s crew: “He blew a gasket on the crapper!”

[Secret Agent Man]

I understand why. Constipation, people strain to push. Your blood pressure goes up the harder you strain. Stresses your system. You have any problem thats near a critical issue, could be enough to make it happen.

[Chickensoup]

This was certainly known 50 years ago when I was at school

[Does so]

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