Healthy Bowels
Keeping your bowels in a healthy condition is important for the state of your liver for many reasons. One of these reasons is that there is normally a re-circulation or re-absorption of fluid from the bowels back to the liver and this is carried to the liver by a network of veins – this is known as the entero-hepatic circulation. If your bowel wall is inflamed it becomes damaged and fragile and the “leaky bowel syndrome” develops. This means that the bowel lining leaks excess fluid which can be carried back to the liver via the entero-hepatic circulation. If the contents of your large bowel are unhealthy then the fluid traveling back to the liver via this route is unhealthy. For example of you are constipated or eat unhealthy food the contents inside your bowel will become more toxic. Some folks who are chronically constipated have up to 6 meals within their bowel and the waste products of this digested food will build up and become loaded with unfavorable bacteria and cancer causing chemicals; these can be re-circulated back to your liver.
The lining of the intestines can be damaged by:
- Lack of raw foods in the diet
- Certain drugs such as pain killers, cortisone, antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs
- Unfriendly bacteria
- Food allergies or intolerances – gluten intolerance is a common problem that damages the bowel in this way
- Consumption of excess meat or preserved foods
- Lack of fiber
- Processed vegetable fats – called trans fats or hydrogenated vegetable oils
- Stress and anxiety
- Auto-immune disease
What can be done in cases of redundant bowel?
- Change the diet to include more raw foods and fiber.
- Drink more water and raw vegetable juices.
- Have a regular weekly colonic irrigation or lavage – this is like a giant water enema and works very well.
- Take fiber supplements such as Fibertone powder and a mixture of ground nuts and seeds – in a coffee grinder or blender place equal parts of flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, psyllium husks, almonds, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds and grind into a fine powder. The ground mixture is added to the Fibertone (use 3 parts of the ground mixture to one part of the Fibertone) and stirred into freshly made orange and lime juice. Take 3 to 4 tablespoons of this mixture daily. Some folks find that if they add one tablespoon of olive oil or coconut oil to the juice that the mixture works even better as a natural laxative.
- The Livatone Plus powder is also high in fiber so it’s good for the bowels as well as the liver.
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