If you stretched your intestines out you would find them to be the length of your average garden hose, about 26 feet. This is where the serious plumbing is handled.
The small intestine is directly after your stomach and is the place where your system absorbs most of the nutrients from food.
The large intestine or commonly know as the colon is wider , shorter and absorbs water in order to form feces.
Your intestines shuttle food in and around your system. The decide what will stay and what gets tossed out.
Each person responds to food differently. What is great for your friend and gives them tons of energy may just bog you down and make you feel tired and depressed.
It’s your small intestine that screams out the clues to you. The lining of your small intestine has unique immune cells that guard your system and recognize foods that you cannot tolerate.
When you ignore your small intestines signals it will send you out smelly loud signals, or painful gas and spasms.
Once the small intestine has decided what nutrients it is keeping the rest is sent packing off to the cecum which is a reservoir at the beginning of the large intestine that holds fluids from your small bowel.
The remnants of your meals go from the cecum through the colon. The colons major goal is to put fluid back into your body. As the liquid gets drained out the solid mass of waste remains, your feces. As the feces gets harder it move down to your muscular rectum at the bottom of the digestive tract. If you eat something bad then instead you get diarrhea.
The intestine has three layers of walls. When there is a little break between muscles then feces can squeeze into the gas and become hard like clay. If that happens then small pouches poking out the sides of the colon can get inflamed and cause diverticulitis. This can occur if the colon is having to squeeze to hard to move the feces along. This can happen if there is too little fibre in your diet.
Your feces when it leaves your body should really be in an s shape and should hit the water before it disconnects from you. If you have little pellets dropping into the owater then you have work to do.
If there is blood in your stool don’t panic it could just be hemorrhoids, but don’t leave it either. Check in with your doctor.
Fiber and liquids will keep your system moving. Your intestines need bulk that way your intestines can squeeze on the bulk and push it toward the anus. They also need lots of water to move the traffic through. As the fluid is sucked out of the stool it becomes harder and harder making it more difficult for your body to expel. Physical activity including sit ups will help push it through.
Best way to get things moving,
• lots of water so the bowel can suck out the fluid,
• physical activity including situps,
• plenty of fibre including fruit, prunes especially , high quality breads and psyllium if necessary. These will add the necessary bulk and get you moving. This will also help clear up any cases of halitosis ( bad breathe)
Halitosis comes from gasses sneaking up from your bodies basement. The average person passes gas at least a dozen times a day so don’t be embarrassed it’s natural.
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