Disclaimer: Not to be taken as medical advice. This is my story. See a physician if you have health problems.
I am, or I was, one of America’s constipated, and have had chronic fatigue as a result, which returns if constipation returns. I accidentally ate some salad in a cafeteria out of boredom and found out how cleansing it was to my digestive system. I say, accidentally, because I had no intention of eating anything in a cafeteria that I could get at home in a health nut household.
According to National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC) website , as many as 4 million Americans suffer from constipation. Americans spend $725 million on laxatives every year, states WrongDiagnosis.com.
According to Access Natural Healing Health Center, constipation is a North American epidemic. Many people wonder why their digestive systems are so out of whack and they consume other products to make their digestive systems work correctly. What people need is to observe what upsets their pooping. What did they eat? What poop resulted afterward?
Here is my synopsis of what my digestive system does – the question is – do you know what habits make you feel best? If you were constipated or had diarrhea, would you be able to pin it down to what food or food combinations you ate or what beverages you drank?
My body’s digestive system vastly improves on two meals per day. It does not like 4 or 5 meals a day to balance blood sugar, a recommendation once made. Three meals work if overeating is not practiced, but best digestion is obtained on two meals per day. If my stomach starts growling, that’s a sign that it wants food. *** Caution: Some people have blood sugar problems. BE CAREFUL and consult a doctor and your own body.
With two meals per day, all of a sudden I start dreaming at night when I wasn’t before – sleep being a dull seemingly unconscious void. Dreaming, and its senses and qualities of sight, motion, dialog, color, vividness, emotion, reading words in dreamins, hearing, hearing words in dreams, and flying in dreams return. I dream effectively when I wait until I get hungry to eat, even if it isn’t by the clock. If I eat when my stomach hasn’t growled first and if it doesn’t feel quite empty, then my sleep quality declines and I do not dream, or dream vaguely. According to www.dreammoods.com, “a lack of dream activity can mean a protein deficiency or a personality disorder.” What they did not add, is that the digestive system has to work in order for protein to be digested and that everyone knows that protein boosts brain function which, stands to reason, brain is primary in personality.
Many particular foods enhance my dreaming, but if my digestive system has clogged up, as evidenced by constipation, or skinny stools, then I do not dream. When I do not dream, I become upset and emotional easily, have trouble thinking, and other people criticize me for mental health and insult me over intelligence and memory. Emotional upsets can also cause my food to sour in my stomach. I have always practiced limitation of fluids at meals because it dilutes digestive juices. When I eat too much at one meal, it overrides digestive mechanisms and it either sours or stagnates until forceably removed by a colon cleanse, available in health food stores.
Foods determine intestinal health. Foods that most hamper my colon peristalsis are: bread and cheese. Foods that clean out my colon are: greens, green or red cabbage, snap peas, carrots.
What upsets my poop – making it look strange or hard to excrete or too easy to excrete will upset my health. If you are in poor health, start making records of how you poop, for yourself, and for your doctor. You can get free medical forms from www.freeprintablemedicalforms.com/.
Digestion is a core root to health. Without proper digestion, health goes missing. It may take awhile, but it happens. Blood feeds the entire body with nutrition, and digestive system is responsible for the quality of blood.
