oxidation_is_normal
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My experience with digestion has been pretty consistent with the following ideas:
1) the intestines need something to push on (i.e. "fiber) for regular bowl movements and in order to push out old material
2) we can become dependent on coffee and similar substances for peristalsis and regularity
I never had problems with regularity before starting coffee for a year. I dealt OK when I went off of it as well. However, recently I thought I had a fecal impaction (days of constipation). I don't know what caused it besides traveling (and I might have been exposed to eggs, which I'm allergic to). I tried all the tricks to get rid of it:
lots of magnesium citrate, fiber (several carrots each morning), eating coconut oil several times per day, eating yogurt and probiotics, drinking extra water, pushing lots on the harder parts of my intestine (I know some shiatsu), running a few miles, jumping up-and-down. I did not try the drinking a bottle of salt water oral enema technique because I would worried if the impaction was too solid it could cause a serious build-up.
Otherwise, I'm in seemingly perfect health. I do not want to be dependent on coffee to eliminate. I think I'm mildly allergic to it. Furthermore, I wake up earlier and feel way better rested when I go off coffee. Note: coffee doesn't make it hard for me to sleep at night - it actually makes me more sleepy. My body temp is always pretty high. In fact, the only time I get cold is if I drink coffee for too many days in a row. I'm one of those people folks say is blessed with a good metabolism and health and wahtnot... But I still want to figure out my gut sensitivity and related issues.
Note: I do not eat gluten due to brain-fog, or eggs due to an allergy I developed 6 years ago (which results in weird sensations of tightness in the esophagus, and hives if I eat lots of them for several days in a row).
Ideas?
1) the intestines need something to push on (i.e. "fiber) for regular bowl movements and in order to push out old material
2) we can become dependent on coffee and similar substances for peristalsis and regularity
I never had problems with regularity before starting coffee for a year. I dealt OK when I went off of it as well. However, recently I thought I had a fecal impaction (days of constipation). I don't know what caused it besides traveling (and I might have been exposed to eggs, which I'm allergic to). I tried all the tricks to get rid of it:
lots of magnesium citrate, fiber (several carrots each morning), eating coconut oil several times per day, eating yogurt and probiotics, drinking extra water, pushing lots on the harder parts of my intestine (I know some shiatsu), running a few miles, jumping up-and-down. I did not try the drinking a bottle of salt water oral enema technique because I would worried if the impaction was too solid it could cause a serious build-up.
Otherwise, I'm in seemingly perfect health. I do not want to be dependent on coffee to eliminate. I think I'm mildly allergic to it. Furthermore, I wake up earlier and feel way better rested when I go off coffee. Note: coffee doesn't make it hard for me to sleep at night - it actually makes me more sleepy. My body temp is always pretty high. In fact, the only time I get cold is if I drink coffee for too many days in a row. I'm one of those people folks say is blessed with a good metabolism and health and wahtnot... But I still want to figure out my gut sensitivity and related issues.
Note: I do not eat gluten due to brain-fog, or eggs due to an allergy I developed 6 years ago (which results in weird sensations of tightness in the esophagus, and hives if I eat lots of them for several days in a row).
Ideas?
