HOW’S YOUR POO?
“How’s your poo?”
This was a question I asked the members in the 6 AM Friday morning after talking about inflammation and bloating.
If you were a mother of either a child or a dog/animal, I guarantee you’ve checked their stool to see about any irregularities.
Is it normal color?
How’s the consistency?
Whats the frequency?
How’s the smell?
Have you done the same with yours? Our stool is an indicator of any issues that our body may be experiencing. Whether that’s inflammation or nutritional deficiencies the stool is the best opportunity to see if the food we intake is causing harm or processing properly and digesting with the nutrients.
Your poop is a direct byproduct of a massive community of bacteria from your body, mainly from living bacteria, indigestible food, protein, fats, salts and other substances released from intestines and liver.
What we eat and digest will massively affect how our body breaks down. Your water consumption affects your digestion, your microbiome in your gut affects your digestion, any inflammations affect your digestion.
It may also be an indicator for gut issues like leaky gut, crohns, celiac, ibs, short bowl syndrome, intolerance to certain foods.
Movement also assists with the organs and food digestion to get things “moving”.
If you’ve found your stool to be less than stellar Something to consider is marking down foods and then seeing how long or how fast those potential foods that may be causing the disruption.
Check out this chart and compare your own poo to it.
Not only is the look important but the feel and the smell of your poop should be noted and paid attention to. (You can’t really feel yours though). Consistency (how often) and regularity is also something to pay attention to.
If you haven’t ever paid attention start looking at your daily 💩. Did you eat anything irregular? Did you consume enough water and electrolytes? Did I have something that also made me bloated and stomach upset? Pay attention to how your body responds to certain foods and if it’s causing irritation then the best way is to try to eliminate it all together for at least 2 weeks. Then you can re-introduce it and see how it makes you feel.
