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UnitedHealthcare This viewer asks, can alternative treatments
help with chronic diarrhea? Well, in any good medicine and treatment, we want to understand
the cause. And that's really a maxim of integrative approach to health care. Looking at and treating
the causes. For chronic diarrhea, there's a number of things that can be an issue. I
means stress and emotional upset can always loosen the bowels. Abnormal microbes, food
reactions and when you take magnesium supplements, that often causes a looseness of the bowels.
Really diarrhea is hyper paristalsis. Paristalsis is the movement of the smooth muscle along
the intestinal tract and when that's too active, our body has loose bowels. And when we have
loose bowels, we don't absorb our nutrients as well and we can get deficient in electrolytes
like potassium and magnesium. We can get other minerals that we lose, some of the B vitamins
and certain other nutrients, amino acids including. So it's important that we do what it takes
to slow down our bowels. But getting to the cause also. Assessing the digestive tract
for abnormal microbes, abnormal bacteria or parasites can be helpful. Looking at food
reactions because certain foods can cause reactions in people. Eating a diet that has
more fiber. You know, often times you say rice, and bananas, and oatmeal and applesauce
and just kind of help calming the digestive tract. So overall, you know, the bowels are
a result of our life and we need to figure out what the factors are that are causing
the loose bowels and then treat that accordingly. And really, we want to keep our digestion
good and our bowels functioning normally for good health. So yes, there are some helpful
lifestyle and natural therapies that can help with chronic diarrhea.
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