In today's frantic paced environment it is very easy to overlook the basics. Doctors will dose you with additional pharmaceuticals instead of back tracking to see if the very prescriptions given to you to help you with various ailments may be acting as gut stoppers & giving you more intestinal troubles than the original ailment is worth.

 

Not everything needs to be medicated to be corrected. If your doctor hasn't taken the time to write all of your medications down; you should keep a running list of what exactly you take, first all of the prescription items, what they are taken FOR & their brand name & their generic name if you have that & how much of the product you take & how many times a day that you take it.

 

Once you have that for your prescription drugs, please do it for your over the counter products as well. There are many times that a simple filler or preservative, taken many times in many products can act as a stool stopper; instead of helping you to swallow or otherwise take a product more easily.

 

YOu may be surprised to know that many good for you items actually work like glue to keep you from being able to move your bowels on a regular schedule. It is one of the four most common complaints of Americans today & one of the biggest sellers of over the counter & prescription products:

how many fillers are you "filling" yourself up with, besides the ones in your prescription drugs? Even your regular food products such as cheeses, oatmeal & other food items can work against you if you are also taking prescriptive & over the counter products on a regular basis.

 

If you experience constipation more than once a week; You may be taking drug supplementation that includes fillers, are white or capsules that have additional fillers plus the actual prescriptive element. {ask your doctor to be sure}.

 

You can combat those constipating fillers by upping the amount of Vitamin C that you take a day.

A normal 15 to 30 year old person; should be taking 1,000 to 1,500mg of vitamin c with rosehips a day. This amount will help to keep the immune system in fighting shape whether or not you augment that amount with the foods that you also eat, the orange, cherry & vegetable  products plus your average beverage & cereal products that include vitamin C.

 

A normal 31 to 80 year old, on the other hand, should be taking in at least 1,800 to 2,500mg of vitamin C in their diet along with the food that they eat as their appetites aren't the same & the amounts of vitamin C that they augment with food in their diet won't be enough to combat the amounts of pharmaceuticals that they are going to be taking for the most part.

 

Vitamin C is water soluable. That means that once you've reached the therapeutic limit that your body can hold; your body will be able to flush the rest of it away with the liquid that you drink. Unlike some of the other supplements, it isn't held in the fat or known as a fat soluable vitamin. 

 

The other plus of Vitamin C is that it acts as a stool softener or as a stool mover without the harsher products like senna's cramps or having to worry about letting out wind & chunks at the same time. {don't laugh, it happens more than you think.}

 

You know that you are getting enough vitamin c in a day's time when you are moving your bowels at least twice a day & they are not difficult in leaving. They should still be solid.  If they are not solid, then reduce the amount of supplemental vitamin c down by 500mg until you see solid poop. A bowel movement of twice or more a day is considered to be a "norm" not an oddity. It is only in today's frantic society that it seems strange to be able to "go" multiple times in one day.

 

You should not reduce the amount of vitamin c below the minimum for your age group. Doing so, puts you in danger of reducing your immune system's punch & leaving you open to infections of various types.  If you are fighting  IBS or Crohn's disease; please work with your doctor to find the best level for you that will work with your other prescriptive products. As with all supplementation, when it works; let your doctor know; so that he can adjust your other medications around it.

 

The best vitamin C should include some Rose Hips as well as the extracted Vitamin from natural products.  A multi-vitamin may have 100 to 600mg in it, it isn't enough. a good Vitamin C product should have at least 1,000mg of vitamin C with little or no fillers, dyes or preservatives plus some rosehips. If necessary you can break a 1,000mg capsule in half to reduce the dose.

 

Cherries, Acerola cherries, Acai's {another wonderful amazonian product from the rain forest} & other fruits have large amounts of vitamin c in them; eat as many of them fresh or dried as possible each week along with taking the supplements. Again, since they are water soluable; you cannot overdose on this supplement. Why waste it?              Keep it cool & dry {under 80 degrees F & out of the refrigerator would be great}  & a bottle will last you more than a month if you take the right dose just before  you go to sleep.

 

Take your most important supplements before you go to sleep. Your body moves around less & the solids don't go through you when you sleep as much as they do when you are active. This gives your stomach & intestines a great deal of time to absorb the maximum amounts of supplements from the forms that they were injested as. The more time to injest the supplements; the more supplement gets in you to work.

 

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