Dr. Mark Hyman
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So you don't want to do that.
So fiber is really important.
Pooping regularly is important.
And I had a patient, I said,
Do you have regular bowel movements?
She said, yeah, I have regular bowel movements.
I said, well, how often do you go?
She goes, once a week.
I'm like, what do you mean?
That's not regular.
She goes, yeah, it's regular for me.
I go every week.
Really, the idea here is that you should probably go at least once, if not two to three times a day.
I don't know, it sounds crazy, but if you look at the studies by Burkett and others from England who studied a lot of the cancer risks, for example, in Africa, they found that if you were
a hunter-gatherer in Africa, your stool weight was about two pounds a day.
If you were an urban dweller, same ethnicity, same genetics, it was about four ounces.
So we want to have a lot of poop.
Just saying, fiber is the way to do that.
And there's lots of different kinds of fiber.
Fermented foods are great.