01/15/2026
Constipated? 💩 Consider addressing your morning routine!
🧘 Are you rushing around and out the door? This puts input into our sympathetic nervous system, or our fight or flight response. In order to have a bowel movement, we need to have more input into our parasympathetic, or rest and digest, part of our nervous system.
🍳🍎🥯Taking time to sit down and eat something chewable before heading out will help stimulate our gastrocolic reflex and movement through the colon.
☕️ And finally, sipping a warm drink like a warm coffee or tea is also helpful in stimulating peristalsis or smooth muscle contraction through the colon.
Try it and see if these simple adjustments to your morning start to make a difference! ☀️