Being regular is good for you, a new study shows.
Predictable bowel movements could be tied to your long-term health, allowing your body to absorb essential nutrients without producing harmful organ-damaging toxins, researchers found.
The “Goldilocks zone” of bowel movement frequency, once or twice a day, is associated with better health, results show., which they ferment into beneficial short-chain fatty acids, explained lead researcher Johannes Johnson-Martinez, a doctoral student with the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle.
“After that, the ecosystem switches to fermentation of proteins, which produces several toxins that can make their way into the bloodstream,” Johnson-Martinez explained in an institute news release. For the study, researchers analyzed medical and lifestyle data for more than 1,400 healthy adults, according to the study published July 16 in the journal. The constipated moved their bowels once or twice a week, low-normal three to six times a week, and high-normal one to three times a day.For example, a protein fermentation byproduct called indoxyl-sulfate is significantly associated with reduced kidney function, results show.
“However, it has been unclear whether or not bowel movement abnormalities are early drivers of chronic disease and organ damage, or whether these retrospective associations in sick patients are merely a coincidence,” Gibbons added. “Here, in a generally healthy population, we show that constipation, in particular, is associated with blood levels of microbially derived toxins known to cause organ damage, prior to any disease diagnosis.
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