remember that there is a gut brain connection and there is a brain gut connection and it connects
through the vagus nerve one of the reasons that stressed out people are constipated
is because their vagus nerve which controls parasympathetic activity gets shut down
Dr. Mindy here and on this video we're going to address constipation
you guys have talked about this you've asked us what to do when you get constipated
when you fast and so on this video I'm giving you my favorite hacks and if you're new to my channel
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okay let's talk about this constipation
why does this happen I want you to understand the why first before I give you the application
I by the way never think the hero of the day is the supplement you're the hero of the day
so I want to make sure that you understand why constipation is happening and the same by the
way goes for diarrhea these big gut changes when you fast have very much the same root
causes and very much the same therapies so I want to talk about why it goes on I want to talk about
what you can do that's on a fasting level to facilitate the process make it easier and then
I'll go into some of my favorite hacks so first why are you getting constipated when you fast well
the first one and I think we don't talk about this enough and I think it's really important
that we have this conversation you're not eating so the digestive system is going to slow down
now it may not do that in a 13-hour fast but as sure as heck is going to do it in a three-day fast
you're not putting food in there and so everything just slows down now when you are fasting you're
also stimulating your parasympathetic nervous system and that is your relaxing nervous system so
I've heard incredible stories of people who go on 21-day fasts and they still have bowel movements
all 21 days and a lot of that is because there's stools it is stuck on the side
walls of the digestive system so I want you to know is that when you're not putting food in
there may still be food in there and it just needs to come out and everything starts to slow down
including your digestion okay the second thing we talked about this on the video prior to this
is it could be die-off of bad bacteria the whole microbiome starts to shift with fasting
and so the old bacteria will die off if there's a lot of old bacteria in your gut
it's going to stay stuck there and the peristaltic waves that are supposed to get that stuff out will
struggle to get it out because there's too much of this bad bacteria that's in there so it could be
a sign you got a lot of bad bacteria could also be a sign you have a lot of too many toxins the
body starts detoxing in a big way when you start fasting so maybe there are too many toxins and then
as always remember that when you go into a fast you actually are pushing that hormetic stressor
button and the body's forcing itself to repair and so it could be that there's just think of
it like your trash can in your driveway like your liver your gallbladder your common bile duct your
small intestine is all just dumping all of these toxins into your large intestine and it's just too
much of a traffic jam so it gets stuck so it's a sign of too many toxins too many bad bacteria
we gotta work on the gut so it's not just because of the fast it means hey hello let's start working
on the gut when we come out of this fast okay so what fast could you do if you go into these fasts
and you start noticing that you are getting a lot of constipation or diarrhea well my favorite fast
for gut repair is the 24 hour fast there's great research showing that intestinal stem cells will
get rebooted at 24 hours and so you start to repair the gut like nothing I've ever seen i
think a 24 hour fast is better than any supplement I've ever seen for the gut so more 24-hour fasts
now if you're doing that if you know you have some gut problems what are some of my favorite hacks
and this really works specifically for constipation okay best hack ever MCT oil
so you could put mct oil in a spoon you could have it a couple times a day if you're doing
coffee while you're fasting put it in your coffee, I like the bulletproof one Dave did
an amazing job with his C8 brain octane oil the biggest complaint we hear from our academy members
is that when you put this in your coffee in the morning that you have your bowels start going
too much so up your MCT oil this would be my first go-to it works amazing okay second one is remember
I've talked a lot about how we're already mineral deficient our soils are mineral deficient so when
you come to building a fasting lifestyle you should just assume you're mineral deficient and
when we're lacking minerals especially minerals like magnesium we can go constipated so add some
minerals back in I have several favorites element is great I like it because you can do it I put
it in my water and you can do it while you're fasting E-Lyte by Bodybio is a liquid
another liquid mineral supplement you can use or min by systemic formulas so I rotate through
those supplements a lot you'll see a lot of my advice on supplements is in this form of rotation
so that your body never gets used to one so add some minerals back in especially magnesium
third tip that I would give you is Bind so if you have access to bind you can find it on revelation
health it is a beautiful combination of activated charcoal and magnesium it will relax the bowels
the magnesium relaxes the bowels and the activated charcoal will bind to the toxins so that you can
get it out so if you don't have access to Bind then I would use just activated charcoal wherever
wherever you are there's it's pretty easy to find activated charcoal okay fourth thing smooth move
tea you guys can find this anywhere it actually works really well so there's a lot of different
teas out there that have like licorice and ginger and other herbs that will relax the digestive
system and you're fasting so tea is a great thing this is why I like the element minerals you can
be in your fasting window doing minerals and tea and that will relax everything to come out
okay another thought this one's really cool those of you who have a chiropractor know that when you
get a lumbar spine adjustment it opens the nerve supply to the digestive system and will start
to cause the digestive system to relax and can absolutely be a key to helping constipation so go
see your chiropractor castor oil packs hopefully you guys know I'm a huge fan of castor oil packs
we have an incredible team member that makes them she did a really good job with it we do
it for liver health but you can also put it over your abdomen with some organic castor oil in it
and castor oil gets into the digestive system gets under the skin and it dilates it opens
things up so try castor oil pack she has a unique link we'll put it in the notes but if you want to
know more about castor oil pack just put castor oil in the comments and we'll send you that link
high doses of vitamin c so whatever your favorite vitamin c
product is take it but mega dose it so what you do is a thousand milligrams and then
every day you up it by a thousand milligrams so you do it until you hit bowel tolerance
I promise you there will be a point at which when you're doing enough vitamin c those bowels
are going to open up so try adding a thousand every day within a week you should be at about 7
000 milligrams of vitamin c and that should do the trick we've seen people have to go up to 15 000
but you want to take it to bowel tolerance and that will open up your bowels as well
soma breathing I love this one this is like a new finding for me last year I interviewed Niraj
Naik on the Resetter podcast it's called SOMA breathing it's a little bit like Wim Hof if you
guys like Wim Hof breathing that's another great option but what you're going to do is take inhale
through your nose and out through your mouth in a repetitive fashion he has a great link if you go
to soma breathing on Spotify you can find his link and many times this is part of my morning ritual i
will notice I start the SOMA breathing process and like almost halfway through his 20-minute
Spotify session I have to get up and go the bathroom because it moves the energy through you
and a lot of constipation is stagnant stagnant energy so something as simple as soma
breathing and then the last one this is not talked about enough remember that there is a gut-brain
connection and there is a brain gut connection and it connects through the vagus nerve one of the
reasons that stressed-out people are constipated is because their vagus nerve which controls
parasympathetic activity gets shut down so when they relax then all of a sudden the brain and the
gut will start to communicate via the vagus nerve so instead of trying to address your constipation
from the gut could you address it from the brain a couple of my favorite techniques for that or
supplements this is my favorite supplement it's called Neurosyn and it helps with the brain as
far as getting the brain to organize itself and work properly this is a phenomenal product to do
when you're stimulating the vagus nerve to enter to get the brain
into a more parasympathetic state you could do things like chanting gargling eye movement
looking up to the left and up to the right those kind of things will help to stimulate the vagus
nerve and get the brain and the body working better together so if you've done everything
and it's not working go to the brain think about the vagus nerve and see if that works
and remember that you might have to do more than one of these things so you might have to stack
them all together but there you go constipation that is a good list give me your feedback let me
know what's worked best for you and as always do not give up on fasting, fasting is healing you
these symptoms are telling you what you need to work on as always I hope that
helps