There intestinal regularity It is a factor that significantly affects the quality of life; when altered, it very often creates conditions of discomfort and annoyance capable of compromising many daily activities.
How can bowel regularity improve quality of life?
There intestinal regularity It is a condition that can improve the quality of our life for a number of reasons:
- The intestine represents the "frontier or customs" that allows nutrients useful for health and well-being to be absorbed, "rejecting" useless and/or harmful substances. An intestine in disorder will have greater difficulty in allowing the absorption of everything needed to "function correctly".
- The intestine is a real ecosystem populated by numerous bacteria (the famous intestinal microbiota), when there is no physiological turnover due to the bowel movement, the populations of resident bacteria tend to become unbalanced, favoring the growth of some and hindering that of others with potentially negative effects on health.
- The bulk created by a bowel that does not empty properly also hinders a physiological ability to ventilate (commonly breathe) further contributing to the creation of a non-functional condition.
Causes of bowel irregularity
The causes of intestinal irregularity can be really many, but first of all we find poor nutrition, poor hydration and reduced levels of movement, especially when combined with high levels of stress.
A common mistake is to confuse motivations with causes, perhaps focusing on the "why" (for example timing and dynamics imposed by work) and not on the "what" (i.e. incorrect diet and reduced levels of movement) thus too often diverting attention from what is really urgent to correct.
Bowel regularity: how to improve it?
Once the causes are understood, to improve your intestinal regularity, it is useful to change some of your habits, intervening on:
- Regularity of meals
- Amount of food consumed for each single meal
- Food quality: understanding, for example, whether products like fruits and vegetables help or hinder us (both possibilities exist), whether we tolerate dairy products or not, and so on (this can be done simply by testing the effect that foods have on our digestion and regularity, or by trying products containing specific digestive enzymes for a short period of time).
- Proper hydration: make sure you drink at least 8 glasses of water a day (the classic 1.5-2 liters), also making sure you replace the fluids lost during physical activity (it will be sufficient to weigh yourself before and after the activity)
- Adequate level of physical activity: it is not necessary to become an athlete, but dedicating those 30 minutes a day to movement is really very useful for intestinal regularity.
But what if even this isn't enough?
Before talking about drugs There are several nutraceutical substances that can prove very usefulThe first thing to say is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution, but there are a number of solutions that can be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. To simplify things, we could think of solutions for sporadic problems and for constant problems.. In the case of a sporadic problem the classic solution based on "irritating" laxative substances can be very good, precisely because the intake is sporadic. When the the problem was constant and therefore "chronic" It may not be a good idea to proceed daily by irritating the mucous membranes.
So how can we proceed?
Using prokinetic substances, that is, substances capable of support the intestinal muscles in its physiological and natural process of contraction. They perform this function taurine, That supports the functionality of the intestinal nervous system and the mauve which in addition to having similar effects also shows important antioxidant and soothing effects on the intestinal mucosa.
In combination with the mauve The anti-inflammatory effect exerted by Gelidium Amansii is very interesting, creating an interesting synergy between antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.
Their action can be complemented by melatonin which has been shown to be capable of acting as a true "neurotransmitter" for the intestinal nervous system, promoting a physiological movement dynamic, especially in the upper tracts.
There lifestyle correction in the causes (and not in the motivations) with the possible nutraceutical support correctly chosen and used, can significantly contribute to better intestinal well-being and functionality.
