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Self-Educate Yourself With Constipation Home Remedies

What causes constipation?

Many factors are involved. I found this article by Elena Klimenko MD which focuses on low stomach acid, covering the importance, the causes and a self-exam for low stomach acid. I tried the self-exam and found it to be 100% accurate. I definitely had low stomach acid. I already knew I had, but my daughter wasn’t convinced, although she had the symptoms, the self-exam showed her also to be low in stomach acid.

From there we were able to resolve the issue by taking Apple Cider Vinegar, fermented foods, reducing processed foods, increasing zinc, reducing chronic stress especially while eating meals and seeing a functional medicine doctor to discover the underlying root cause.

Dr Elena Klimenko also has an article on the importance of bile flow. Acid reflux occurs during low bile flow, GERD (Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease), fatigue and more. The article also talks about the causes of low bile flow including gallstones, diabetes, and obesity.

Home Remedies include a warm lemon juice first thing in the morning, activating the liver. Remember “Lemon for Liver.” Apple Cider Vinegar for Stomach Acid or “ACV for Acid.”

Constipation can also be a result of dysbiosis (aka microbial imbalance in the body) For constipation the imbalance is in the gut, the good bacteria verses the bad bacteria and which one is dominating.

SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacteria Overgrowth) and SIFO (Small Intestinal Fungal Overgrowth) have been accounted for the dysbiosis (the bad guys taking over.) Learn about the importance of your gut microbiota here.

Food digestion, breaking down the food preparing to pass from the stomach to the small intestine. If you get this wrong all havoc begins including “leaky gut syndrome” where undigested food particles enter the blood stream causing food intolerance.

Hormone imbalance is also a result of gut dysbiosis.

Two home remedies are to reduce sugar as bacteria thrives on it and avoid fluoride/chlorinated drinking water as it damages the good microbes. Try a quality water filter instead.

A rather interesting factor to constipation is pelvic floor dysfunction. This was new to me, but this article tells a compelling story. It turns out it is a leading cause of constipation!

The causes include recurrent UTI’s (Urinary Track Infections), if you have IBS and even pain during intercourse.

Pelvic Floor Exercises are found here but I also have found another solution that is very effective, the Yoni Egg. It has a long history. I was introduced to it by Christiane Northrup MD.

Last but not least Gut Nourishing Foods to help ease or reverse your constipation. I had chronic constipation and found these nourishing foods very helpful. I am now in remission! The foods include sauerkraut, yogurt, onions, garlic and more. Bone Broth is essential.

Homework: Self-Educate yourself and surprise yourself with self-healing!

Bonus Links:

https://humanlongevityfilm.com/rtt-gut-kiran-share/ From the round table discussion