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How to Reverse and Prevent Constipation and Irregularity in
Children and Adults
Release
pending; Language: English
ISBN: 0-9706796-5-3
Gut Sense represents the first substantial revision of
mainstream recommendations for prevention and treatment of
constipation and colorectal disorders connected to fiber, laxatives, antibiotics, heavy metals, food poisoning, travelers' diarrhea,
colonoscopies, common drugs, medical errors, and similar factors. This book will help you to undo and prevent further
damage without resorting to more of the same.
Since it takes considerable time to conceive,
plan, research, write, and publish a book,
I decided to 'publish'
already completed chapters here rather than 'marinate' them on
my hard disk until Gut Sense is ready for print.
Please note that all chapter names, sequence,
and content are tentative, and the final book may differ
substantially from the manuscript in development. Although some
of the chapter names are jocular, the puns, humor, and irony are
intended to pique your attention and shake you into action. Rest
assured, that what follows is “deadly” serious.
Introduction
Bulls' S..t in the China Shop
Bulls feast on grass and hay — as fibrous a diet
as it gets. Not surprisingly, bulls’
droppings are large, and somewhat similar to the fiber-laden
stools of humans. This 'in-your-face' title is
wordplay on three concurrent ironies — health-conscious
Americans falling for popular 'bull' about fiber, eating a
bull-like diet, and suffering from bull-like stools, — the
'genesis' of practically all colorectal disorders.
This section also identifies fiber as the key
driving force behind the epidemics of
autism, juvenile
diabetes, and
the omnipresent
PMS.
Read...
The Stools Stop Here
Dietary fiber, eight glasses of water, and a low-fat diet —
the sacred cows of American nutritional dogma — break natural
bowel movements, and cause hard stools, irregularity,
constipation, or constipation-predominant IBS. When patients
seek medical help, they are routinely recommended to add more
fiber, drink more water, and reduce fat even further.
This misguided and harmful advice guarantees hemorrhoids and
diverticulosis to virtually anyone, and it is behind the
epidemics of inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer. This
chapter condemns this pig-headed practice and teaches you how to
restore natural bowel movements without resorting to fiber and
laxatives.
Read...
Healthy, intestinal bacteria are vital for forming stools,
maintaining immunity, synthesizing essential vitamins, and
protecting the colon from cancer.
After the bacteria get damaged by antibiotics, laxatives,
heavy metals, surgeries, or colonoscopies, fiber is broadly
recommended to form stools instead.
But unlike live bacteria, fiber can't perform any of the
bacterial functions which are absolutely essential for humans
other than bulking-up stools and stimulating defecation. The
loss of these functions contributes to impaired immunity,
diabetes, obesity, hair loss, eczema, seborrhea, anemia,
internal bleeding, ulcers, strokes, cancers, and common
gastrointestinal, respiratory, and autoimmune disorders.
Despite all of these well known and thoroughly studied
facts, the American medical establishment adamantly refuses to
recognize the role of intestinal flora in health and longevity,
and does everything possible to obliterate bacteria with the
indiscriminate use of antibiotics starting literally at birth.
Then, it profits enormously from treating the resulting
diseases. This chapter outlines the role of intestinal flora in
human health and explains how to restore it.
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To preserve life-long colorectal health and prevent
colon cancer, a healthy person should move the bowels after each
major meal, or at least twice daily. Because circumstances are
rarely ideal, many people tend to suppress urges and skip stools.
This leads to hardening of stools, straining, enlarged hemorrhoids,
and anorectal nerve damage — the primary conditions behind irritable
bowel syndrome and chronic constipation. Finally, one day, fiber or
laxatives are needed to initiate a bowel movement because the urge
sensation has gone for good. This chapter will help you to restore
anorectal sensitivity without resorting to fiber and/or laxatives.
Read...
Fiber bulks up stools. Enlarged stools transform colorectal
organs and cause a physical dependence on fiber to move the
bowels. This dependence is similar to drugs, tobacco, or alcohol
addiction: no fiber — no stools, no stools — no go... This
outcome is well familiar to anyone who has failed a low-carb
diet because of severe constipation or rock-hard, small stools.
This chapter explains how to overcome this unhealthy
dependence on fiber without resorting to laxatives. It is
essential for anyone who wants to reduce fiber consumption, and
especially useful for people who wish to lose weight by
following the popular low-carbs diets.
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About Front Cover
After I conceived the Gut Sense
series, I have been thinking about its cover design quite
obsessively but couldn't come up with anything not looking like a
worn out cliché. Then, one day, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration, a vision of this exact
cover, down to the color, fonts, and iconography. Besides being
catchy, memorable, and entertaining, I believe it also reflects quite well
the essence of this book.
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