Are
you constipated or regular?
The
digestive system can only handle 3 to 4 meals at a time. This means one
meal in and one meal out. Two or more bowel movements a day is
considered "regular". Less than one bowel movement per day (i.e. once a
day or every 2nd or 3rd day) is considered "constipation". Anything
more severe is "chronic constipation". Constipation is a clogging up of
the large intestine.
Diarrhea
may be an indication of constipation. There's a strong possibility that
a restriction exists in your colon that forces the stool to be reduced
to a liquid in order to eliminate undigested food.
Being
"regular" does not necessarily mean you are free of fecal matter. Your
colon could be lined with fecal matter which is undigested food that
had fermented and putrefied. The average
healthy person has between 7 and 25 pounds of fecal matter in their
system. This accumulation can
have the consistency of truck tire rubber.
The
collection of fecal matter
contributes to toxic overload in the body.
Intestinal constipation causes cellular constipation and forces the
other excretory organs to work harder. Eventually all these systems
become overwhelmed and unable to eliminate all the waste. The excess
remains in our systems to poison us. This is called auto-intoxication.
Proper oxidation in the tissues is lessened, we lack energy and
eventually may become ill. Auto-intoxication
is the root cause of many of today's diseases and illnesses.
Over
45,000 laxative remedies are manufactured and used by Americans alone.
They work by irritating the colon which then tries to eliminate the
offending substance as quickly as possible, expelling compacted fecal
matter in the process. They do nothing to restore the normal
functioning of your system and may contribute to autointoxication if
they are absorbed into the blood or lymph systems to circulate to other
parts of the body.
