We now know that our diet not only fuels our body but also greatly impacts on how our skin looks . The things we put in our mouths are just as important as the products we apply on our skin. Beyond the advice of drinking a ton of water and getting plenty of organic fresh fruits and vegetables,you should also be having regular bowel movements for healthy skin.
Digestion is a seriously important part of clearing our skin.All the foods we eat go through our digestive tracts and are broken down into various vitamins, minerals and amino acids that the body can use to build healthy skin, strong muscles, and bones. If you aren’t digesting your food properly, it slows down your bowel movements causing a build up of toxins which ultimately turns into allergies, constipation, and malnutrition-And your poo is a good indicator of how well or how badly your digestive system is doing .
Regular bowel movements are one of the keys to beautiful skin as this helps to eliminate toxins from the body.– but since it’s a topic no one wants to talk about, people don’t tend to know what is “normal” when it comes to doing a number two.
So what is a normal or a healthy poo? Below is a Bristol tool which is a medical aid that was designed to help identify poop types easily.
Number 1-2 indicates constipation.
Numbers 2-3 are normal stool that are easy to pass.
Number 5-7 may indicate diarrhoea or urgency to pass stool.
Now, what constitutes a healthy poo?
- Frequency.
How often should you be a going? Well, this depends on what you eat… if you’re a vegan who eats abundant whole grains, you should be going at least a couple times a day. If you are a low carb paleo eater, you will just have less poop in general, so once a day or every other day is more normal.For a normal diet, once a day is okay for most peolple. But if you’re not pooing frequently enough for your diet, it means you are a bit constipated. And constipation is bad because it means that your body has more time to reabsorb toxins from the poo as it sits in your gut.
- Consistency.
The poo should be soft, yet in a nice formed log with a decent width. It’s okay if the log breaks apart, but It shouldn’t be watery, loose, or unformed. If it is, it means that it went through your digestive system too fast before enough water could be absorbed from it to make it solid. That also means the body probably didn’t have enough time to absorb all the vitamins and minerals from your food either.
On the other end, if the poo is hard and has a lot of cracks in it (or it’s small, pellety, and hard to pass) it means that it moved too slow through your body and too much water was absorbed – and like I said before, slow poo means lots of toxins have been reabsorbed into the body.
- Colour
The colour of cardboard – that nice light brown colour is the ideal.Very dark poo usually indicates a bad choice in food. If it’s really unusually dark and tarry, it could mean you have intestinal bleeding and should see a doctor. If it’s yellowy and pale or weirdly grey, that can also indicate serious medical problems. However it’s perfectly normal if you eat some beet roots and it turns red – or if you’ve eaten lots of greens and your poo turns green.
- Experience
It should be easy. A delightful experience – in and out of there. The poo should slide out of you quickly within a minute or so of sitting on the toilet, and there really shouldn’t be any straining. The widespread practice of keeping magazines next to the can is an indication of how poor our health really is!
Lastly, are there any other signs of a bad poo? Yes, if your poo is greasy, sticky and hard to flush away (ruling out a weak toilet), it can indicate a fat malabsorption issue. Pencil thin poo isn’t too great either. Nor if it’s really, really stinky. Healthy poo shouldn’t smell like rotten garbage.