The Genetics of Constipation

Are you genetically predisposed to constipation? I know I am. If your family members have had problems with their bowels, there is a good chance that you will too, especially if you've got their looks! My father and grandfather both had problems with their bowels. My own father died of a bowel obstruction and it scared me a lot.

My father was diagnosed with Lung Cancer in 1995 at the age of 79. After dad was finished with his Chemo, his Oncologist gave him a prognosis of
no more than 3 years to live. Dad died in 2001, 6 years later, but not from Lung Cancer. The Cancer never returned. My father died from a bowel obstruction, and I truly believe that it was caused from abusing laxatives for so many years.

When dad died in 2001, he had been addicted to Milk of Magnesia for numerous years. Although I kept telling him how bad it was for him to keep taking a laxative daily, he would not stop taking it. I kept warning him about probable detrimental outcomes, and still, he did not listen. (btw, my dad was a doctor!)

My father was so used to getting the relief he needed from a bottle, that he risked his life to have a bowel movement. It can be very deadly to be addicted to laxatives to have a bowel movement daily, but also equally deadly to allow feces to remain in the intestine for long periods of time. What a true paradox!

My father had Lung Cancer and beat it! Instead he died from a bowel obstruction and it was a very hard and painful death! I was with him and I personally observed how much pain my father went through in death.

If you are addicted to laxatives, then you will hopefully understand the urgency presented. You may think, 'well her dad was just old'. When it comes to your bowels, your youth will only protect you for so long, then your health will be affected too.

If you use a laxative on a regular basis, don’t think that laxatives aren’t addictive. They are terribly addictive! Constipation is a very serious ailment and should be treated as such.

You see, when you have a bowel obstruction your bowels have nowhere to go, so the bacteria putrifies in your bowels and they seep into your body and poison it. This is what the doctor’s refer to as 'sepsis'. (Actually any organ can cause sepsis, if the organ fails and its contents seep into the blood stream and then into other organs.)

It is what killed my father. And it is a very painful death! One could almost actually say that my dad died from chronic constipation.

Death by Constipation! Scary but true!

All this being said, I knew that being proactive was now a requirement. Some things needed to change so I sought to find the answer that would take deadly laxatives out of the picture! Genetics can predispose you to constipation issues. It is vital that you find the right combination of safe to use non-addictive supplements that give you the relief you desire. I reluctantly tried the new prescription drug Zelnorm but it didn’t seem to help much, and cost more than I was willing to spend monthly. I had insurance but it didn’t much cover this drug. Since then, the FDA has pulled Zelnorm from the market. It too, was unsafe! How often does that happen? We rely on pharmaceutical drugs to help us and later find out they are totally unsafe to take. How often does that have to happen before you take charge of your problems and learn how to handle them without prescription drugs? How often too, are we put in the position of having to choose what we'll buy from month to month? Food? Drugs? Food? Drugs?

Which one do you buy? If you are on a fixed income or are a single parent, you know what a dilemma! We are forced to pick and choose which things we can afford each month. How sad a state of affairs is that? I have been frustrated for years with IBS with constipation and very perplexed that I could not find long term relief, especially since I already drink a lot of water, which is imperative for good bowels? Why wasn't it helping me?

Of course, over the years I have tried everything: Stool Softeners, Metamucil, Milk of Magnesia, Exlax, Stool Softeners with Laxatives, Aloe Juice, Prune Juice, etc.

Nothing gave me long term relief. This posed quite a dilemma for me! After my father’s death, I knew that I had to find the right answer for me that would take laxatives out of the picture entirely. They tell you to get your 'affairs in order' before you die.

Well my thought is that you need to 'get your bowels in order, or you’re gonna die'..., and probably a long time before you would have died if you had only changed some bad habits.

After my father’s death I started 'experimenting', using different combination's of natural supplements, different foods and fiber, etc., trying to find the right solution.

After many things failed to help me long term, I decided to go back to the drawing board. With the right combination of non-addictive supplements that are inexpensive to buy, you can find relief. You too, can have regular bowel movement every morning. It's not the two or three bowel movements that is recommended by Traditional Chinese Medicine, but it’s a start!

There is another way to deal with chronic constipation besides harmful laxatives if you are genetically predisposed to having bowel problems. If you take a laxative even one time a week, you have a problem. It is not normal to be chronically constipated. To get more information about constipation, please click on the link below.

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