961 - The TOP Natural Remedies For Constipation Relief
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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Are your normal laxatives or other constipation remedies no longer providing enough relief? Luckily, there are several natural remedies that can provide a laxative effect. In addition, dietary changes, supplementation and even body movement have been proven to heal constipation. In this compilation, I’ll share some of the best constipation treatments that provide you with both quick relief and long term solutions.
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Timestamps
00:00 What is constipation?
00:41 Quick relief remedies
03:06 Water & fiber
06:40 Low FODMAP diet
09:32 Probiotics & synbiotics
13:06 Ginger
15:17 Antimicrobials & MSM for SIBO
17:45 Elemental diet for SIBO
18:38 Walking
19:29 Abdominal massage
23:03 Pelvic floor therapy
25:31 Gut-brain recommendations
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| 0:00.0 | If you're ever trying to do a diet to perfection, it will be difficult. |
| 0:05.1 | The good news is that for the most part, you don't have to be 100% compliant, but rather |
| 0:11.1 | 70% compliance is enough to really move the needle, or in this case, move your bowels. |
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| 0:48.5 | Defining constipation would be three or less bowel movements per week, or a hard time with movement, sometimes probably better described as incomplete evacuation, or taking a |
| 0:58.9 | long time to pass a bowel movement. Let's start with the quick relief strategies. There's many of them. |
| 1:08.2 | These are the few that I think make the most sense. |
| 1:15.6 | Magnesium. There's different forms. There's citrate, which I favor. There's oxide. |
| 1:20.6 | Irrespective of the form, again, I would favor citrate or oxide. |
| 1:26.4 | Magnesium is going to pull water into the bowel and function as a laxative. |
| 1:29.4 | The way to use magnesium in this application would be titrating or gradually increasing your dose until you notice a bowel movement. So |
| 1:37.0 | magnesium or even vitamin C with the gradual incremental increasing of the dose will have a laxation effect starting off with |
| 1:46.9 | maybe 300 milligrams of magnesium and then you can double to six and double to nine when you |
| 1:52.2 | hit that appropriate level you'll know it the one downside potentially of magnesium is that |
| 1:58.1 | you can overshoot the landing and go from constipated to |
| 2:02.6 | looser bowels, but at least this is something that gets you moving. |
| 2:06.6 | Sena and aloe are also other options that can be used to help with regularity. |
| 2:13.6 | And with Sena, the dosages are 15 to 30 milligrams once to twice per day, and with |
| 2:22.2 | aloe anywhere from 500 to 200 milligrams per day. Now, with Senna, some have claimed that you |
| 2:29.7 | should not use this long term. I don't know that I would agree with that based upon Leonard Weinstock's |
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