If you eat late at night, you’ll mess up your bowel movement cycle. When you wake up, some foods will still be undigested, leaving you feeling unsatisfied after your poop. Then your body may move that food along at a weird time of day, later, when you’re not in the position to go sit on a toilet for 15 minutes. So eat your last food early enough in the evening to give your body plenty of time to digest it by the next morning.goin
Hot water can loosen up the stool and cayenne pepper irritates the intestines (in a good way) and can induce a bowel movement. It’s actually one of the reasons pregnant women who are overdue sometimes eat spicy food—the intestines and uterus sit so close together that activating one activates the other and can induce labor.
Oral laxatives can speed up the breaking down of food to a dangerous degree, almost making it so that your body absorbs no nutrients. To put it in simple terms: oral laxatives turn food into feces quicker than that should typically happen. Suppositories only extract feces that already exist, but that are stuck in the lower intestine.
Nobody wants to talk about it, but like with any health topic, talking about it can help you learn what’s normal and what’s abnormal—what’s a cause for concern and what’s a little common flare up. We’re talking about dropping the kids off at school. Having a meeting with a man about a horse. Going number […]
As long as my parents have been married, my mother told me that there are just some things they like to keep the mystery about when it comes to their relationship. My parents don’t leave doors open when they urinate, and my mother hasn’t sat around unphased in a bathroom she’s shared with my father […]
