Lots of people have problems with constipation. You just know when you've got it: you feel bloated, full, sluggish, toxic, and most important,
you haven't pooped in a while.
Here are the indicators for constipation:
- abdominal pain
- feeling of incomplete evacuation after defecation
- urgency
- loose or runny stools (believe it or not, this occurs when you're constipated and wastes can't get through
- mucus in stool
- hard fecal matter
- straining to eliminate
- bloating
- heartburn
The 20th century’s most recognized colon expert, the legendary Dr. Norman Walker, D. Sc., Ph.D. writes the following:
"The elimination of undigested food and other waste products is equally as important as the proper digestion and
assimilation of food. In fact, I can think of nothing more significant and vital than preventing the danger of inevitable
effects of toxemia and toxic poisons that are a result of the neglect and failure to expel feces, debris, and waste matter
from the body. Few of us realize that failure to effectively eliminate waste products from the body causes so much
fermentation and putrefaction in the colon that the neglected accumulation of such waste can, and frequently does,
result in a lingering demise!"
How does constipation affect you?
Common health problems are connected with constipation, including:
- Allergy or intolerance to certain foods
- Bad breath and foul-smelling gas and stools
- Constipation, diarrhea, sluggish elimination, irregular bowel movements
- Frequent congestion, colds, viruses
- Flatulence or gas and frequent intestinal disorders
- Frequent headaches for no apparent reason
- General aches and pains that migrate from one place to another
- Intolerance to fatty foods
- Low energy; loss of vitality for no apparent reason
- Lower back pain
- Lowered resistance to infections
- Needing to sleep a long time
- Pain in your liver or gall bladder
- Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), breast soreness, vaginal infections
- Skin problems, rashes, boils, pimples, acne
What happens in your colon when you're constipated?
The old, hardened feces stick to the walls of the colon, so it is forced to absorb the toxins from the build-up and fight the
parasites that make this debris their breeding ground. The passage through which the feces are forced to travel is also
greatly reduced in diameter so the stools become much narrower, even as thin as a pencil sometimes. This in turn makes it more
and more difficult to pass your bowel movements, an ever-increasing problem.
Dr. Norman Walker, author of Colon Health: the Key to a Vibrant Life, notes that in addition to forming these peristaltic waves,
the first half of the colon performs two other vital functions. First, blood vessels lining the colon extract from the waste
any available nutrients the small intestine did not pick up. Dr. Walker writes: "Obviously, if the feces in the colon have
putrefied and fermented, any nutritional elements present in it would pass into the blood steam as polluted products.
What would otherwise be nutritional becomes, in fact, the generation of toxemia ..., a condition in which the blood contains
poisonous products which are produced by the growth of pathogenic, or disease-producing, bacteria."
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