How to Love Your Colon
As an adjunct to herbal laxatives, enemas and colonics, there are a few nutritional and lifestyle choices you can induce to stimulate your colon regularity.
Hydration. For long term regularity, you simply have to drink more water! The colon necessitates water to form and push waste through the large intestine to the rectum. Broadly speaking, we are chronically dehydrated. This is, doctors agree, the essential cause of constipation in most of us. If there is nothing else you do for improved regularity and colon health, drink more water.
Fiber. Dietary fiber is the other main nutritional ingredient that affects regular bowel movements. Do you need more fiber? Well, if about half of your diet does not consist of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, you would do well to increase your dietary habits to include more fiber. If you focus on increasing your intake of each of these, and drink plenty of water, your bowels will move with greater regularity.
Increased exercise. The amount of exercise you get does indeed have a great affect on the correct function of the bowel. The colon is one long muscle, and if we don’t exercise enough, our bowel has to do a lot more work to generate satisfactory peristalsis (especially if it doesn’t have adequate water and fiber). Physical activity aids the muscles in the large intestine and quickens transit time of waste moving through the bowel.
Bowel detox. An occasional bowel detox is a fantastic means to keep bowel regularity. Like a colonic, a bowel detox assists the evacuation of excess fecal waste from the colon walls.