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Let's talk about foods that make you go to the toilet, that make you poop, okay. Foods that
help regulate bowel motions. So as you can imagine, after practicing for so many years,
how many people I've seen that had problems doing number two. They just couldn't go to the toilet.
You know, I've seen this with so many people over the years. I've helped a tremendous amount of
people having a bowel motion. That's a great thing to do. It really is. Now I don't care what job you
got. You could drive a truck or fly a plane, but a lot of people over the years have said to me, you
got a weird job talking about bowel motions all day. Well, not really. I mean, I could be talking
about trimming aircraft wings or shooting missiles out of planes, whatever, but I don't. I talk about
bowel motions. That's what I do. I love it. It doesn't worry me, okay. We all have bowel motions,
and we all need to have good bowel motions. So listen up because what I'm going to tell
you is stuff that I've learned over many years from different people.
My favorite patients have always been the elderly, particularly people close to 100, and I've had
lots of them over the years. I've kept a lot of files of very old people. Now we're talking
between 95 to 105. I think 103 was my oldest patient. And I've found a pattern runs through
a lot of the older people in terms of what works and what doesn't work. This is sort of my own
personal studies I did with old people. And I made a lot of mental notes. I think the chief food I've
found that many elderly people eat that probably a lot of you young guys and girls don't eat
anymore is actually called oats or rolled oats. Now, many people don't eat this anymore. And if
they do, it's in the form of a cookie, probably with some corn syrup in there or something, but
that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about steel-cut oats or whole rolled oats. Like,
whole, not that fine chaff powder they sweep off the floor and put in little packets that you
can rip open and put in your microwave in a cup. That's... Throw that away, give that to the guinea
pigs, but don't eat that, all right? But we're talking whole rolled oats, whole, unprocessed.
So these are flattened. I've got a tiny little mill myself that I put groats through like whole
oats and flatten them. So, unless you've tried whole oats fresh that have just been milled,
cooked, you've got no idea how nice oats can taste. So this has been my breakfast now,
probably since I was breastfeeding, I'd say, or way back. I've always eaten oats every morning.
And I will continue to do that. Old people eat oats
and a lot of them. They have oats in the morning. Now that could be in the form of a muesli
with yogurt or with oat milk or goat milk, or cow milk or whatever milk you want, dolphin milk. I
don't care what milk you use, but some milk. I don't have any milk in my diet. I just have plain
pure water. So I cook oats in pure water, usually a bit of cinnamon in there. And then I'll put,
probably, a good tablespoon of honey on that, and that's my breakfast, usually with a big handful
of raspberries or blueberries on top. So when you eat like that every day, you don't have a problem
with pooping. You're pooping every day. In fact, you're pooping two or three times a day, because
then at lunch I'll have a salad or vegetables or a soup, and I'll repeat the same thing at night.
And so pooping for me, it's as easy as ABC, and it should be for you too. So oats is a good one.
I'll tell you another one. Try and get into the habit of every single day for the rest of
your life, every day, seven days a week, to eat at least one piece of fruit every single day.
Now, when I say a piece of fruit, we're talking maybe a small kiwi fruit.
We're talking maybe a small banana. We're talking, maybe, an apple or a pear. Pears or
apples are some of the best foods you can eat for the gut. So just cut that apple or pear up into
pieces and eat it with peel and everything. I eat the core, the seeds, the whole lot.
The only thing I throw away is the stalk. So I've always encouraged people to eat the core.
Oh my God, it's got cyanide in it. You're telling them to eat the seeds. They'll die.
Someone's saying as they're drinking their Coca-Cola with a cigarette with their cell
phone in their hand. Go away. I get tired of these people who tell me all this,
creates holes in your intestines and nitrates kill you, and gluten makes you homosexual and
all this stuff. I'm so sick, up to my back teeth, of all this stuff I'm reading online.
All these people come up with these weird theories and what you should and shouldn't be doing.
It's up to you to decide what you want to eat. Rolled oats may contain gluten because it's packed
on the same machine. Oh, I can't eat oats. I'll wake up weird. I'll have three ears when I wake
up or something. People go all weird when they think there's gluten in something. You know?
And then next thing they think, oh, I better go and get my chicken nuggets. I'm hungry. So there's
a lot of weird stuff going on out there. Rolled oats, fruit, fruit's one of the best. Fruit makes
you toot. Yes, it does. You will find if you eat several pieces of fruit a day. But if you eat as
much vegetables and fruit as I do, you hardly pass any wind at all because your gut is used to that
level of fiber and fruit sugar. It's not a problem. It's whatever your gut is used to. So,
the fruits we talked about, the porridge we talked about, but the key one is water. You're not really
going to get far without liquid in your gut, so you really need to become a water drinker,
not just in the hot months, but in the cooler months too.
I've got a dear friend who did a Ph.D. in agriculture, specializing in
irrigation. And he said to me something very interesting. He said, "Eric." He said,
"Everyone waters their garden in summer, but no one waters their garden in winter.
They all think that the rain's going to come down to water everything." He said, "But
you go outside, poke around in the soil, see how dry it is when it's not raining, and your plants
are still growing." I said, "Man, that's the same as humans. No one drinks water in winter.
Everyone drinks water in summer. They think, oh man, I'm sweating. I need a drink. I'm thirsty."
But you know what? Your body's thirsty in winter too. Your body's thirsty every day.
So start the day with a nice big glass of tepid water, warm, room temperature water with a bit of
lemon juice in it. That's a fantastic way to get the bowel working, lemon juice in water,
grapefruit juice in water. Now we're not talking the bottled stuff with sugar in
it. We're talking fresh. Get a lemon, actually physically cut it in half, and squeeze the juice
into the glass of water. Very good. The more you drink water, the more you'll want to drink
water because you'll get used to what it feels like to be hydrated. It's a fantastic feeling.
So porridge, fruit, water. What about legumes, lentils, chickpeas? Just one small serving of
lentils is over a third of your daily fiber need. When you get used to eating lentils, you'll start
to realize just how delicious lentils really can be. I make up all kinds of dal dishes. Dal
is an Indian lentil dish. Dal makhani's one of my favorites. So the black dal, so the black lentil,
red kidney bean, and then we use a chana dal, the yellow dal. They're all soaked.
I soak them usually for about 36 hours, chuck out the water once or twice, and then I simmer them
for about a good hour. And I cook it with tomatoes and different spices, and it's a fantastic meal.
You would swear it tastes like a beef casserole, but it's not. It's actually a vegan dish.
This is how you're not going to get constipation. So there are so many foods I could talk about,
lentils, seeds, nuts. Chewing, chewing, chewing is the big thing. Don't eat too much.
And when you do eat, chew the hell out of it and drink water, and you'll find
you're not going to have a pooping problem. The key thing to look at, also, with constipation
is the personality. What type of person are you? Because your nervous system has a very big effect
on the gut as well. So if you're a highly stressed person, if you worry all the time,
constantly worry, constantly stress, that usually means that drinking water is few and far between.
You're going to grab whatever food you can get because you're more worried about problems than
actually about eating. And then you go to the doctor because you're all backed up.
So, you see what I mean? It's not just the food. It's also the person. You have to think
about that. All right? Thanks for tuning in.
It's Eric Bakker, again, the naturopath. I hope you enjoyed that video. Remember, go to
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