Are you looking for new tips to improve your intestinal transit? Particularly thanks to cider vinegar, Archie gives you his Top 5 tips to improve transit, a true indicator of our overall health.
So okay, constipation will probably never be in the top 3 most glamorous topics to discuss in conversations. However, this problem concerns many of us. Did you know that the quality of our intestinal health can be a great indicator of our overall health? But the good news is that there are lots of simple things you can do to improve your transit and make your bathroom trips much more comfortable and frequent. From drinking water to cider vinegar, we have summarized the best advice for you...
Small disclaimer: if you encounter any significant problems, the first thing to do will always be to contact your doctor!
1. Eat fiber
The basis of everything: our diet. Eat a varied, balanced diet but above all do not skimp on the amount of fiber, especially insoluble fiber. It has the ability to absorb water and increase the volume of stools. Wholemeal bread or spelt for breakfast, sweet potatoes for lunch, an apple at four o'clock, salad sprinkled with flax seeds in the evening for dinner, a spoonful of psyllium in your yogurt ... increasing the fiber intake is simple.
Broccoli, dates, prunes, Brussels sprouts… They are found in a large number of foods, it's up to you to choose what pleases you the most. Because good food, good mood (sorry, it didn't work as well in French).
2. Chew!
It is not uncommon to eat in front of the computer or in front of the TV, to gobble up your meal without really taking the time to chew. These small, harmless gestures in our daily lives can impact our transit. Eat, chew, swallow. A simple little exercise is to put down your fork between two mouthfuls (the most playful can count to 30 before swallowing).
3. Drink enough water
1.5 liters of water per day or 8 glasses of water is what is traditionally accepted to help flush waste from our body. For the most connected: there are applications on the phone to remind you to drink water. Having a water bottle or flask with you throughout the day is also a useful and visual way to focus on good hydration.
4. Exercise
We won't have enough of a lifetime to go through the benefits of physical exercise. Sculpting, burning calories, improving our mood are generally well-known benefits of sport, but did you know that it also has a considerable impact on our intestinal transit? According to the University of Michigan, lack of physical activity is one of the most common reasons for constipation in older people. According to this same university, increasing your exercise time helps stimulate the intestines and improve our transit.
We have tested and approved Anaïs Jasmine's belly sculpting classes 1000 times. This technique combines physical activity and breathing exercises (stomach vacuum) to improve our digestion and transit. As a bonus? a much flatter stomach (the effects are spectacular!).
5. Take probiotics
Good bacteria, good intestines, good transit. Using prebiotics and prebiotics in your daily life is relevant to increase the regularity of stools. Your diet will be a real source of good bacteria: use fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kimchi, sourdough bread. Apple cider vinegar is rich in prebiotics, these nutrients that will serve as food for probiotics and improve their effectiveness. You can also supplement with probiotics by using products such as those from the super brand dijo. With all this, we hope that you too will proclaim “more problems than solutions when you suffer from constipation” (this nice slogan is a gift).
To learn more about the role of bacteria “Good bacteria for good health“.
*To date, there are no published French scientific studies on the benefits of cider vinegar. To fill this information gap, Archie has formed a Scientific Committee dedicated to providing the greatest possible transparency regarding the benefits of cider vinegar.
