Part Six: A Boot Camp for Number Twos

Contents
  • The rules of the game
  • Constipation Diarrhoea Gas, flatulence and belching
  • Bloating and IBS
  • Candida albicans
  • Parasites
  • Recipes for the Beauty Breakfast and the Green Smoothie

You may have just opened the book at this page because you want to go straight to the heart of your problems (if you did, you may still go back to the start of the book at some point, and this will help you to get to the start of your problems too), or you may have started at the beginning and have now almost reached the end. Either way, welcome to the Boot Camp for Number Twos!

Very few people go through life without digestive concerns or complaints. Although the gut is pretty good at self-regulating, sometimes it needs a bit of help from you, its owner.

As you already know, the gut loves the stuff that we, people, don't find particularly exciting: discipline, regular exercise, hydration, predictability, routine and repetition.

To bring the bowel back into balance, we have to enforce these very same rules, whatever undesirable bowel condition we are trying to improve.

Constipation

Most people know when they are constipated. Constipation is usually defined as persistent symptoms of difficult evacuation, including straining, excessively hard stools, unproductive urges or a general lack of urges, and a feeling of incomplete evacuation.

Constipation cartoon - you can ignore the urge to go to the loo as much as you like but ignore me again and you'll have more to worry about than constipation

Constipation is often one of the symptoms of IBS.

Seven Boot Camp Adjustments for Constipation

  1. Drink a glass of ice-cold water on rising to stimulate the bowel (drink slowly though).
  2. Use a stool to raise your feet when sitting on the toilet.
  3. Alternate the Beauty Breakfast and the Green Smoothie for breakfast.
  4. Eat 20-35 g of fibre per day to help the body form soft, bulky stools - beans, whole grains, fresh fruit, asparagus, Brussel sprouts, cabbage and carrots are Number Two's favourites and allow for additional water to help process the fibre.
  5. Have a series of 3 or 4 colon hydrotherapy treatments.
  6. Include into your routine inversion exercises (such as sit-ups while lying on a reclining bench or hanging off an inversion board).
  7. Include into your diet natural laxative foods such as linseeds, prunes, boiled beetroot (not in vinegar), soaked apricots etc.

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