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Helpful Information And Remedies For The Constipated.
A bowel movement, properly considered, actually starts with your first bite. When you swallow your food, it goes down the esophagus and into your stomach. Here your food churns around for two to four hours until it is broken down into a soupy mush called chyme. The chyme is then gradually squeezed out of the stomach and through a long, coiled tube—the small intestine. Here the mashed food that you’ve eaten gets absorbed into the bloodstream. The leftover waste (remnants of the food that your body can’t use) goes on to the large intestine (colon).
There are about 500 different species of bacteria. And between them, they either produce or help to produce neurotransmitters in our body, such as Serotonin and GABA, which calm and relax us, de-stress us, allow us to fall asleep, and help to keep our hormones in balance so we can lose weight and add muscle.
Some of these bacteria eat the foods coming in such as amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients, and some produce amino acids, vitamins, or other nutrients that the body can use or that other bacteria feed off of.
As we gracefully advance in years, our bodies tend to play some sneaky tricks on us, making it harder to maintain our ideal weight.
Here are a few suggestions to help out.
