I’ve heard people say, “if you’re constipated, you need more fiber in your diet.” and I’ve also heard people say, “if you’re having diarrhea, you need more fiber in your diet.” does fiber really help with both? and if so, how? I would think that fiber would help with diarrhea but make constipation worse. (TMI) >!but multiple times, eating fiber-heavy foods like flax seeds has caused diarrhea for me.!<
TLDR: how does fiber work to influence your bowel movements??
In: Biology
You know those playdoh toys where you put in playdoh and it makes hair grow or whatever? Pretend we’re doing that but we are your stomach and the hair is um… Poop.
After all the digesting takes place and all the good stuff is taken out and fed to your body, you only get to keep a little bit of playdoh to put in your… Poop hair thing. Like a pea size. Doesn’t make much does it?
But since our body can’t use fiber, it comes out the same way it went in. Any part that is fiber gets to be put in the playdoh toy. Like a whole handful! Time to poop!
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