How many times a day should you have a bowel movement?

Remember that old Tootsie Roll Pop commercial?

“Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?”
“A – Three” answers the owl.

According to many health and fitness experts, the answer to the question:
“How many bowel movements should a person have a day?” is the same – “Three”

Many people consider it “normal” to have a bowel movement once a day, and some people consider it “normal” and think they do well with a bowel movement every other day. Still others I have seen in my practice “normally” only have one bowel movement per week. This is one of those situations where I consider “normal” to be pathological. One should not strive for “normal” when it comes to health. Especially considering that most people suffer from some type of chronic degenerative disease and take medication. One must strive for the optimum.

Let’s consider this:

– How many decent sized meals does a person usually eat in a day?
– The usual answer is “3”

Now think about what must happen to all that food. It doesn’t just go away, it soon changes, it’s gone, I have nothing up my sleeve.

No, food doesn’t disappear: it makes that incredible journey through the tube, from our stomach, churned into a paste and mixed with acid, then into the small intestine where it meets enzymes from the pancreas and liver that get to work. to break down food into primary nutrients. The small intestine is where the absorption of nutrients takes place. According to Bruce H. Robinson in Biomedicine, there are 21 feet of absorption tubing in the small intestine, with an astonishing 2 million cubic centimeters of absorption surface area. Of course, not all of that material will be absorbed and transformed into your human being. Much of what is absorbed into the bloodstream is taken to the liver for processing and packaging. What is not absorbed will pass into the colon for elimination.

And this is where the problems can get serious. What if that food is not being eliminated?

Here’s a simple word problem you never got in third grade:

Jane eats 3 plates of food a day. Every day she throws away a plate’s worth, how many plates of food are left in Jane’s tube after one day? After a week? After a year? *

Judy eats 3 plates of food a day. Every two days she gets rid of a plate’s worth, how many plates of food are left in Judy’s tube after one day? After a week? After a year? **

Many people would consider Jane’s case as “normal”. With 728 plates of food on the body, guess what, Jane? You are probably fat. And, in fact, we’re seeing an obesity epidemic in America. If that food doesn’t leave the body, it stays in the body. The colon is full of bacteria that work to break down that garbage, creating sewage-like toxins and gases in the process. The body does its best to save what it can. It will transform as much as it can into fat. It will send the toxins to the lymph and then to the liver for reprocessing. The toxins will accumulate in the lymph nodes, the liver and lymph will want a place to store these toxins and if they are fat soluble toxins they will be stored in fat. If they are water-soluble toxins, the body will retain more liquid.

This is a simple case of accumulated dirt inside the human being. It becomes a breeding ground for disease. It places an enormous demand on the cleansing systems of the liver and kidneys and the lymphatic and immune systems. This requires a large amount of energy just to survive in such a state. And it gets worse…

What happens when the Liver is overloaded?

The blood becomes more acidic and toxic. The acidity of the blood causes the red blood cells to clump together and the blood to become more viscous. The viscous blood does not flow as quickly to the brain and muscles, which creates muscle tension and fatigue and leads to poor decision-making. Toxic blood generates more free radicals that damage vessels, put pressure on the heart, and require increased cholesterol levels to repair holes in the vessels.

What happens when power generators are overloaded?

The energy investment in the functioning of an inefficient metabolism generates energy deficits. Less energy available for tissue repair, less energy available for defenses. Less energy available for movement and creative thought. This also creates a hunger craving for sweet foods. Sweet foods are known to cheer me up quickly. The body knows it. This then creates a more acidic situation as the sugar oxidizes (burns). Over time, this leads to an overload of the insulin system. The cells swell so much because there is less room to put the cellular waste products due to the overloaded sewage system (the lymph) that they don’t want to accept more sugar, so you get insulin resistant cells.

So you can see that a real key to a healthy system is making sure the garbage gets out. So that means, “Three stools per day.” If you don’t have that magic number, you’ll need to do something different. To do? – I will be discussing in my next article.

* After a day? 2 plates are worth.
After a week? There are 14 dishes that are worth.
After a year? There are 728 plates of food.

**After a day? They are worth 3 plates.
After a week? There are 18 dishes that are worth.
After a year? There are 936 plates of food.

Bruce H. Robinson, Biomedicine: A Textbook for Practitioners of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, p309.