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Eric Bakkar with the Naturopath. Thanks for coming back. Let's talk about constipation but
particularly impacted stool. Impacted stool is when a stool is so hard,
and you're trying to force it out. It impacts. It becomes hard down there, and you can't really
push it out or anything like that. Probably the most common cause of impacted stools
apart from pharmaceutical medications long-term like lots of different types of drugs
is often highly processed or refined foods. This is the most common cause. Lack of water. Too
many sodas or fizzy drinks, or alcohol. Eating the wrong kind of food, not chewing properly.
Long periods of sitting like I am now, called the sitting disease,
sitting on your butt, click-click, you know what it's like. Computer, computer all day, and they're
watching TV with remote control, high-stress environments, shift workers, pilots, truck
drivers. I've seen all these kinds of people. I think one of the worst cases I saw was a guy
who operated the train, like a long-distance train driver when I was in Australia. He
had the worst bowel motions of anything. Impacted stools can be extremely painful
and very distressing for the person to deal with. Sometimes they'll go to the doctor,
they'll look at different types of things they can insert or enemas, or these are all last resort
kind of things. lastresort.com really is an enema or suppository, so you shouldn't have to resort
to that point. If we look at this anal sphincter, you're internal sphincter, which is involuntary,
so it's not really under your control. Then you're an external sphincter or actually where the butt
is itself, the external, which is under your voluntary control, so you can open and close that.
In the past, when I had a patient with an impacted stool, I'd just show them
some breathing exercises, some nice relaxing breathing exercises, not deep breathing. It's
not about deep breathing. It's about trying to... You've probably heard of a guy called Wim Hof,
the crazy Dutchman who likes to take baths in the ice. Wim Hof's views are the same as mine.
Very deep, get your air right down to the bottom of the lungs.
This is a very powerful parasympathetic stimulus. It reduces your heart rate. It relaxes the body
Breathing 10 times in and out, very slowly through the nose,
and just push that tummy right out, and then exhale as well. That's going to really help
your nervous system, particularly the autonomic nervous system. You've got to get into a nice
relaxed state to have a bowel motion if you've got impacted stool. Sitting there
and going through your messages on your iPhone on the toilet is not really relaxing. Is it?
Squatting for some people can really help, getting in a squatty potty position, or squatting down,
and sometimes applying nice warm compressed to the anal region can really relax that muscle as well.
Taking nice deep breaths in and just taking your time on the lavatory. Don't force it. Don't force
it. I find some types of patients get on there and they just. They got to get out in three seconds.
They just got to quickly force it all out. Then they're off. Bowel motion is something we all do.
Every day, we have bowel motions. Is that mike on? Yep. Every day, we have bowel motions, and
you need to relax in the toilet. You need to really relax. Take a few breaths, relax,
let that sphincter really relax. A bit of warmth sometimes, and then that motion should come out.
Sometimes on rare occasions, you might actually have to. I usually say to people,
if you've got impacted stool or bad bowel, get yourself some nitrile gloves or something those
little finger gloves. Sometimes you actually have to work a bit of stool out if it's really hard.
You can put your finger up there. Don't worry. It's not a disgusting part of your body. I mean,
it's your body. Sometimes a bit of coconut oil for lube around that whole area, when you're going in
there can really help that bit of hard still to pop out. But the relaxation, the coconut oil,
and sometimes essential oils on you will relax you as you're breathing. Making sure there's no noise
around you like people yelling or door slamming or stuff that could all of a sudden create the
sympathetic response. Which is the stress that the tightening up of the butt, the heart rate going
up, the anxiety getting more freaked out about things. This is going to create the sphincter
to contract. We are looking at relaxation here. Relaxing, drinking the water, eating the fruit,
which I've spoken about in previous videos like pears and apples, Kiwi fruit. Eating oats in the
morning, drinking water, all these things are going to help constipation. The key thing is,
try and get rid of the refined stuff out of your diet. Refined foods,
soda drinks, Kentucky Fried Chicken, all this deep-fried stuff. Just get that out. You don't
need that stuff in your diet. Fresh will always make you poop better, and you should
be like me pooping at least two if not three times a day when you're eating enough fiber.
You feel a lot better when you're pooping a lot better. Thanks for tuning in.
It's Eric Becker again. The naturopath. I hope you enjoyed that video. Remember
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