Erm, how often do you poo?

[Mrskbpw]

I've never been regular (!) but recently have been keeping an eye on how often I go and it's averaging once every four or five days. Is this normal?! How often do you go?

I'm really struggling to lose weight at the moment and I wonder if this could be related. I feel like everything needs 'speeded up'. Any ideas of what I can do to help?

This is interesting, from the Guardian -

'Today the Gerson Institute, run by Max's 82-year-old daughter Charlotte, has an office in California but runs its main clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, because the US forbids doctors to practise it'

and then further down -

'...the American Cancer Society warns that the therapy may be dangerous. On its website it states: 'Gerson Therapy can be very harmful to the body. Coffee enemas have been associated with serious infections, dehydration, constipation, colitis (inflammation of the colon), electrolyte (salt and mineral) imbalances, and even death.'

I usually go once a day, either first thing in the morning or after school run/dog walk. Occasionally twice, especially if I've eaten heavily/meaty meals. If I don't go daily I feel a bit bunged up and drink lots of hot water which usually does the trick.

Must say when I was a feckless youngster in my twenties with a very disordered life, the bowel habits were also irregular and could be 3/4 days between poos. Now I am a sensible mum type with a more regular meal / activity routine, my bowels are also calmer and more regular!

thanks, do you have any peer reviewed research or just shopping sites and blogs?

I vary greatly between once a day and 3/4 days too. The week before p is due everything stops though. Prune juice and pear juice help me lots. Dd is 3 and I still get bad haemorrhoids :(

Almond

We humans have come a long way since our times of hunting and gathering.
We've extended the lifespan of ourselves through new discoveries.
We've cured previously uncurable diseases.
Each and every day, there's some doctor, researcher or layman out there discovering something that can help us live better lives.
The coffee enema was one of those discoveries. Brewed up in a ward for soldiers during WW1.
Are we to cast aside such things merely because we 'weren't born with a bag of coffee beans' or whatever it is you wrote?
With that kind of thinking, man would never have made it to space.
Brits would never have started eating yoghurt.
It's called evolution in health and it happens because sometimes we discover things that can help us live healthier lives.
Dismiss if you will.
I, for one, will not.

so OP, have you done a spreadsheet yet?

Pubes
Whatever.

Are we to cast aside such things merely because we 'weren't born with a bag of coffee beans'

no, we're to cast aside such things because there's no proper supporting evidence for them and a fair amount of evidence that they can be pretty harmful.

The AMA. Says it all.
And yes, if you have already started chemo, then don't try to cure your cancer with coffee enemas.
It's too late.
The poison from the chemo is already too powerful.

But you know something, Pubes, you are right.
In all that info I gave you, the AMA (big money medicine) finding stands out the most.
I shall stop doing coffee enemas pronto.
See you in hospital down the line. I hope my ward has a window.

A fair amount of evidence?
Please post your links to this fair amount of evidence, just like I posted links to the contrary.
I am interested in reading about this 'fair amount of evidence'.
I have done my own research in the past by googling, 'bad side-effects/dangers of' and so of coffee enemas, and have not been concerned by what I found because, quite frankly, I found nothing.
Please, dish up some links.
Lots of them.

Twice a day - what a frightful waste of good coffee BayPolar. Would rather drink it (though not after it's been up someone's jacksy obv.).

I get a good deal on the coffee, and anyway, I have money to spare because I don't have to waste it on medication for bad health conditions.
:)

Pubes?
Where are you?
Surely googling, 'bad things about coffee enemas' brought up heaps of links you could have posted by now.
It only took me a minute to post mine.
Giddy up.
:)

I'm not quite sure why I'm in here defending coffee enemas.
He he he.
Who cares about another person's health anyway.
Also, I am an extreme ex-pat so none of my taxes have to go on paying for the NHS and other gories over their in Old Blighted, so I don't really care if the NHS continues to sink under the nation's sickness.

So why am I here defending something that works for me, my friends and I?
I don't know.
It's a bit stupid, really.
I have a boat.
It can sail round the world but it is of a medium that is unconventional.
I defend that, too, even though I shouldn't need to, because, well, it's my boat and I know it's safe, so who cares what somebody else thinks.

Time to take a lingering bath, me thinks.

there not their..gah, hate doing that..shows up my British education

However......when I get out of the bath, I expect there to be a post from you, Pube, with a fair amount of links dissing coffee enemas.
You challenged me, I challenge you.
:o

Careful the bath doesn't turn brown.....

Strawberry..you poo in the bath? Times must be hard in the F.UK.
We use toilets here in Japan.
I had one when I was young in England.
I feel sorry that you don't.

I was alluding to the fact your rectum may be so damaged you can't keep your faeces in.

Just concerned for your health.

If it did turn brown a carrot might be an alternative healthy plug?

HTH

Far from it. Indeed, given the joker that I am, and having had some interest expressed in coffee enemas as a health enhancer, yesterday I made a funny short video of me jumping up and down on my mini trampoline whilst retaining a litre of coffee.
Which goes to prove that my asshole is still as tight as can be, even after 9 years of inserting a little silicon pipe into it.
Where you get these urban myths about coffee enemas, beats me.

Did you previously post under the name Bareal Baypolar?

Bobby, yes, why? I'm not 'hiding', if that is what you are insinuating.

Birds. There is nothing 'barking' about trying to share useful information about good health practices, albeit this thread has become more one of reminding me that folks still have a long way to go when it comes to being pro-active about their health. A long way.
This site is very British, there's a lot of stuck-in-the-mudness about the British still, a reluctance to embrace new ideas, ergo, Mud Island is one of the unhealthiest places on the planet.