Constipation

Constipation is a common condition that affects people of all ages. It can mean that you're not passing stools regularly or you're unable to completely empty your bowel.

Chronic Fatigue

Constipation

Chronic Fatigue is a feeling of constant tiredness or weakness and can be physical, mental or a combination of both. Fatigue can affect anyone and most people will experience fatigue at some point in their life. Chronic fatigue affects many body systems leading to multi-system symptoms and sleep disorders. Chronic fatigue is long lasting and has significant impacts on daily functioning and can lead loss of work, relationship strain, and overall decreased quality of life.

Did you know?

About 16 out of 100 adults have symptoms of constipation. About 33 out of 100 adults ages 60 and older have symptoms of constipation.

Symptoms of Constipation

  • Not having a daily bowel movement
  • Hard, pellet like stools
  • Feelings of not fully emptying out your bowel
  • Bloating
  • Abdominal discomfort, pain

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Constipation

Constipation can be brought on by poor diet, medication use, stress, toxins, etc leading to dysbiosis or bacterial imbalance in the GI tract as well inadequate digestion and absorption of food and slowed motility of the GI tract.
Typical treatments are aimed at treating the immediate symptom with medications like increasing fiber, using laxatives and increase fluid intake etc. Things like Fiber can make some symptoms worse depending on what is going on inside the GI tract and frequent laxative use can lead to dependence on these medications.
Getting a comprehensive stool analysis will allow your practitioner to see exactly what is going on inside of your GI tract I.e. bacterial balance, digestion and absorption markers, pathogenic overgrowth, and inflammation. This will allow for a customized treatment plan to be developed based on your symptoms, history and biomarker analysis

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