Bowel Movements: Sh*tmaxxing Strategies
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@Skysnek Magnesium (several forms), cascara, carrot salad, well cooked white button mushrooms, bamboo shoots, psyllium husk, carbonated water, aspirin, coffee, T3, sugar, B1, B3, potassium, vitamin C, vitamin K, pau d'arco, methylene blue, ginger, digestive bitters, rhubarb, senna, aloe vera, wheat bran is my general list of laxatives, along with an overall Peaty diet.
I also talked about improving digestion here:
https://youtu.be/N4J6K4vfZoQ?si=NNwlMGHmBgsLp_bt -
Big cascara fan
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I drink milk often in the morning and I notice it helps with ease of bowel movements. Other common things to improve bowels would be tea/soda/coffee (caffiene in general), orange-type fruit, saturated fat. The last item I note tends to solidify bowels into a more stable consistency.
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@Skysnek 90/10 Liquid diet.
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I shit like a king if I just avoid irritating my gut and eat a carrot every day. The salad is slightly more useful when SIBO-y. When things are really bad a carrot salad and 2-3g charcoal, spaced evenly throughout the day, keeps things clean enough to keep the bar high enough for irritation so that I don't easily grind everything to a halt with something benign like a little starch for dinner. When things are great a raw carrot a day is all I need to have 2-3 wonderful dumps.
When in an absolute pinch aspirin, coffee and a liquid diet for half a day or so work well. Drinking milk to "bowel tolerance" works probably like big doses of magnesium or vitamin C.
T3 is a given.
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@Skysnek Walking 10,000 steps has been essential for me to stimulate daily evacuation, i would add it as another basic item
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@lucasmenem yes just moving around upright regularly helps a lot.
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@lucasmenem do you do this in one session or spread out
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@charliebrown In a session, if you ask about compatibility with productivity, I say that it is excellent, because the best reasoning flourishes, even more so if at least part of it is done barefoot on living soil, and if the sun radiates your chest even more wonderful, the brain comes alive
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@lucasmenem I see, thanks
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I find that cellular dehydration is the limiting factor of feeling poopy
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I have had success with coffee. Also, taking gelatin dissolved in warm water with added salt always makes me shit. Carrot salad only works for me if eaten regularly. White button mushrooms calms my gut.
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Psyllium husks are goated. Once you experience the ghost wipe (tp remains clean) it's hard to go back. 2 tablespoons seems to be the sweet spot but it's best to start with one and work your way up. Yet to see a peaty argument against them other than the fact that it's soluble fiber. Psyllium husks + carrots/mushrooms + good exercise routine = 1-3 easy bowel movements a day.
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@Nik psyillium husks are carcinogenic
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@Nik oat bran and even some of the semi-synthetic things, Metamucil, agar and psyllium, all have been identified as carcinogens for the intestine and possibly other organs and getting those out quickly before they support bacterial growth
quoted from
Ray Peat John Barkhausen Politics and Science: 1-02-01 Supression of Cancer interview
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Who would've thought that peating is more about shitting than eating. I'm just starting, coffee helps me, not sure about carrot salad, but it's certainly making me feel lighter. I'm taking cascara 450 mg before the sleep also. Is this the right way to take it, or am I better off taking it during the day?
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An all liquid diet, like coffee w/ sugar, OJ, and milk, with carrots, makes me feel like poops are at their most effective. As if each poop actually finishes the job. Throwing a laxative like cascara on this strengthens the effect. I find if I do something like this even just once or twice a week it greatly improves bloating and any motility related issues.
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@SUSYbaka double your dose if you're using the now foods cascara
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@bruh Got it. When will be noticeable results? In a week?
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@Skysnek One of the most important thing is to have a high intestinal pressure. This helps stimulate peristalsis and increase transit time. You can do this by keeping your abdomen fully relaxed most of the time and by strengthening the shitting muscles through defecating in a fully squatted position. Diaphragmatic breathing and eating high volume foods like mushrooms, fruits, tubers and milk also helps by increasing the pressure inside your guts.
