Most people who suffer from constipation are content with just taking a laxative. They don’t change their diet. I hope you take this common problem a bit more seriously after reading the reference below.
Constipation is a sign that your microbiome is not in optimal balance due to your diet high in meat and sugar, and low in vegetables and fruit. Simple as that. A laxative only treats the symptoms mechanically. Best to re-balance your microbiome. If not, you have a higher risk of cancer, auto-immune, metabolic AND neurological disorders. The latter are due to the Brain-Gut connection.
The corollary to Metabolism of nutrients is Detoxification: the more constipated you are, the less you can eliminate toxins. Many of them have been linked to Parkinson’s. The worst are pesticides and solvents.
References
Four gut conditions could be early indicator of Parkinson’s disease
“According to HealthDay (8/252003, Murez), four “gut conditions” could “be an early indicator of Parkinson’s disease,” investigators concluded in findings published online in the journal Gut. The study “used data from a U.S. nationwide medical record network (TriNetX) to compare more than 24,000 people who had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease of unknown cause with those who had been diagnosed with other neurological conditions,” including “more than 19,000 with Alzheimer’s disease, more than 23,000 with cerebrovascular disease and more than 24,000 with none of these conditions.” Gastroparesis, dysphagia, and “constipation were all associated with a more than doubled risk of Parkinson’s disease in the five years before the diagnosis.” Iirritable bowel syndrome…without diarrhea was associated with a 17% higher risk.”
Solvent exposure strongly linked to Parkinson’s
J. Science 18 MAY 2023, page 683
“A groundbreaking epidemiological study has produced the most compelling evidence yet that exposure to the chemical solvent trichloroethylene (TCE)—common in soil and groundwater—increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. The movement disorder afflicts about 1 million Americans, and is likely the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease in the world; its global prevalence has doubled in the past 25 years. The report, published today in JAMA Neurology, involved examining the medical records of tens of thousands of Marine Corps and Navy veterans who trained at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from 1975 to 1985. Those exposed there to water heavily contaminated with TCE had a 70% higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease decades later compared with similar veterans who trained elsewhere. The Camp Lejeune contingent also had higher rates of symptoms such as erectile dysfunction and loss of smell that are early harbingers of Parkinson’s, which causes tremors; problems with moving, speaking, and balance; and in many cases dementia. Swallowing difficulties often lead to death from pneumonia.
About 90% of Parkinson’s cases can’t be explained by genetics, but there have been hints that exposure to TCE may trigger it. The new study, led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), represents by far the strongest environmental link between TCE and the disease. Until now, the entire epidemiological literature included fewer than 20 people who developed Parkinson’s after TCE exposure.”
