How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Every Day?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2015-07-03

Most people have between 3 bowel movements a day and 3 a week, but normal doesn’t necessarily mean optimal.

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I know people are suckers for poop videos—I’m so excited to finally be getting these up! There actually was a recent one though--Diet and Hiatal Hernia (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-and-hiatal-hernia) --that talks about the consequences of straining on stool. Hernias are better than Bed Pan Death Syndrome, though—that’s what I talk about in in my next video, Should You Sit, Squat, or Lean During a Bowel Movement? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-you-sit-squat-or-lean-during a-bowel-movement)

I do have some older videos on bowel health: 
• Stool Size Matters (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stool-size-matters/)
• Food Mass Transit (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-mass-transit/)
• Bulking Up on Antioxidants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bulking-up-on-antioxidants/)
• Prunes vs. Metamucil vs. Vegan Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prunes-vs-metamucil-vs-vegan-diet/)
• Breast Cancer and Constipation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Breast-Cancer-and-Constipation)

For more on this concept of how having “normal” health parameters in a society where it’s normal to drop dead of heart attacks and other such preventable fates, see my video When Low Risk Means High Risk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/when-low-risk-means-high-risk/). 

Update: I also have some newer videos. See Prunes: A Natural Remedy for Constipation and The Best Poop Position for Constipation.

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