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happy life. Foods that help with occasional constipation and diarrhea.

All right, when it comes to constipation, we basically have two problems.

Number one, and probably the biggest problem is that we have

almost no soluble fiber in our diet because of our highly processed food. We have

stripped almost everything in our diet of any form of fiber, most

particularly soluble fiber. Believe it or not, the vast majority of what constitutes our bowel movements is bacteria, not left over waste.

It's the bacteria that form the bulk of our bowel movements.

And bacteria have to have foods that they eat to make more little baby bacteria.

And those foods, unfortunately soluble fiber. I remember back in the

good old days of the Atkins diet and now the carnivore diet which is is just renamed Adkins diet, one of the biggest complaints of the

Adkins diet, was pretty impressive constipation and very small bowel movements. And that's because a carnivore diet or an Adkins diet pretty much deprives gut

bacteria of what they want to eat and grow with.

And so naturally, your bowel movements become hard little pebbles.

So getting more soluble fiber back into your diet is one of the first steps to fix constipation. Where do you get

them? Well just about any tuber you care to name has soluble fiber. Hekama is easy to get in your diet. A lot of stores now already sell

hekema in slices. Munch on it like carrot sticks. Use it as a dipping chip to get into avocado, guacamole.

We'll talk about avocados in a minute.

Sweet potatoes, fennel root, which is actually a cousin of celery.

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