Thoughts on Bowel Intelligance
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These are some ideas I have come up with and I would like to here what you think.
I think a bowel is an intelligent organ. It seems to behave as if it is part of our brain.
Normally it sets up a rythmic action to pass waste from the small intestine but it can also increase the force of contractions if required. If it needs more assistance it sends a signal to the brain for more water and we are made to feel thirsty.
However, as with all complex intelligent devices the bowel programming can go wrong. It can become over sensitived and can over react to a situation. As with a hysterical child it needs to be calmed down gently and when better, needs re-educating on how to cope with a particular situation in the future.
To re-educate your bowel you must treat it with care and consideration for a long period of time so it has a chance to forget learnt bad behaviour of the past.
Your bowel has full communication with your brain.
1) It experiences shock and pain if you have a bad experience.
2) It can sense acidic or spicy food long before it has to actually deal with it.
3) It reacts aggressively, if given too much fat or oil to deal with, causing it to contract violently.
4) Some chemicals irritate the lining of the bowel causing the rythmic contractions to go out of sequence.
(antibiotics can cause problems by actually changing the bowel live chemistry.)
5) Even if you get depressed about something your bowel can become disfunctional and respond to negative signals from the brain.
6) The worst thing for us is the bowel has a memory.
It is for these reasons that medical examinations show there is nothing physically wrong with us when you have IBS.
To get better we need to change our habits, break the psychological cycle and de-stress ourselves.
Take life at an easier pace. Chill out and spend more time caring for ourselves. Eat little and often. Don't eat food which is to acid or contains too much spice. Alcohol is also bad news for your bowel.
Could you take it easy or are you a stress monster like me? If you completely de-stressed your life could you cope with the change.
Please give me you thoughts, you can say what you like as I will learn from it.
Best wishes
Robert
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joan51826 bobcrachet
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I am dreading Christmas and visiting family. Its just not something you can talk about..
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junieju bobcrachet
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bobcrachet
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I am exactly like you, I was really suprised when you came back with this information as you could be talking about me. However, as I feel like this every morning I never go anywhere until the afternoon. I don't take imodium because I have taken so many medicines for diabetes I am begining to wonder whether these substances aggravate the IBS condition. I just relax and watch a bit of morning television with a cup of slippery elm from the health shop.
The IBS is worst after I eat as if my bowel is complaining about the prospect of dealing with food again.
Lets home we all feel better for Christmas.
Robert
marlene21102 bobcrachet
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Hardest thing ever. Is getting stress free life today ,it's not a new thing though .Keep a diary ,write it down see if a pattern emerges ,female menopausal women get IBS probs at this time ,so I believe hormones play a part in its behavior also ,let's face it both men and women have hormones ,born with them .Good write up Robert .
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bobcrachet
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I feel very concerned for you, its not just what you cannot eat but the state of mind that this condition is putting you in, I was like this a few months back.
Remember, I have no medical training and you need to check this out with your GP before you try it. We are all different and so we respond differently to medication.
I decided to really look into this and improve my condition no matter what. Obviously I spend many hours on the internet exploring possibilities.
I decided on porridge and milled linseed four breakfast, salad for lunch and a vegetable stew for evening meal. If I want to I can add a little meat to the vegetable stew but I have to cook it for several hours to make it more digestable.
Now comes the bit I do not fully understand. I bought some tablets from the health food shop.
1) Advanced Acidophilus plus which is a probiotic capsule to ensure there is enough good bacteria in my gut in case my problem is just some biological imbalance in my gut.
2) L-Glutamine which is an amino acid which I have been told may repair the lining of my gut.
Any way, I have taken these capsules for 2 weeks and I do feel a lot better. It seems to be calming everything down slowly and therefore I can say it's working for me.
Please be careful if you make changes to your diet as I would hate to tell you about something which makes you feel even worse.
I also have some slippery elm before I go to bed which is supposed to coat the gut lining and improve the passing of stools in the morning.
First of all read up about these substances on the internet and see what the experts say about it.
I wish you a very happy Christmas and hope you feel better soon.
robert.
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