Pooping only every 3 or more days linked with cognitive decline, research finds | CNN
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Scientists have found concerning associations between constipation and brain health in the first research to look into this subject.
  • sudo_shinespark
    55·
    2 years ago

    Compared with people who pooped once a day, constipated participants had significantly worse cognition equivalent to three years more of chronological cognitive aging, the authors found. Increased risk was also found among those who pooped more than twice daily, though these higher odds were small.

    Not pooping often enough? Jail. Pooping too often? Believe it or not, also jail

    • Patrizsche
      8·
      2 years ago

      I tried to upvote your comment twice… I’m stupid maybe I don’t poop enough

    • Uli@sopuli.xyz
      42·
      2 years ago

      My 3-year-old niece is chronically constipated, so I think this must mean she’s as smart as a 6-year-old.

  • Uno@monyet.cc
    282·
    2 years ago

    kind of obvious to say ig but correlation =/= causation. for ex: fiber, (the plant material in our diets that is undigestable by us, but is digestible by the healthy bacteria in our intestines) both leads to a healthy “gut microbiome” while having the side effect of making your poops bigger and softer, such that it is easier for your intestines to push it through your digestive system.

    Still, in case anyone was wondering, you are supposed to be pooping, aka “having bowel movements” once every day 2-3 times every day. If you aren’t that regular, you may need to eat more beans & grains and less processed foods & meats

    • Lumidaub@feddit.de
      191·
      2 years ago

      you are supposed to be pooping, aka “having bowel movements” once every day.

      Citation needed, pretty sure this is long outdated. Afaik, anything from 3 times a day to once every three days is fine.

      • Steeve@lemmy.ca
        161·
        2 years ago

        Can confirm, I poop 3 sometimes even 4 times a day and I’m literally the smartest person I know

          • FruitParty
            3·
            2 years ago

            I moved my entire computer desk into the bathroom for this reason. My productivity has never been better.

      • Trippin
        21·
        2 years ago

        Exactly what I’ve heard from our pediatrician when talking about baby pooping. When someone reaches a certain age anything between 3 days and 3 times a day is OK, as long as it looks as a normal poo

      • Uno@monyet.cc
        1·
        2 years ago

        CORRECTION: Ideal pooping frequency is actually 2-3 times a day, not 1 time a day, I was originally wrong https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-how-many-bowel-movements-should-you-have-should-you-sit-lean-or-squat/

        Normal frequency is between 3 per day to 3 per week, but normal doesn’t necessarily mean healthy. Populations eating high enough fiber diets to reach that 2-3 times a day number have 1/50th the rate of heart disease, gallstones, and appendicitis, 1/25th the rate of diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, and hiatal hernia, and 1/10th the rate of colon cancer

  • Pinto23
    19·
    2 years ago

    I poop like 3 times a day or more. Almost always about 30 minutes after I eat. I poop when I wake up. I’ll poop 1 or two times at work. I’ll poop usually about an hour before bed. I poop when I walk around walmart

    I poop a lot

    I literally just got done pooping

  • Sagrotan
    17·
    2 years ago

    When that burrito plug came loose, my brain started working again in bliss. I believe!

  • JoeKrogan
    14·
    2 years ago

    Now we need to find the poster who wanted to hold it in for three days and see if there has been a cognitive decline… for science

  • Flying SquidM
    8·
    2 years ago

    If a genie ever gives me three wishes, one of them will be that I never have to use the bathroom again. I hate every second of it. Maybe the cognitive decline is worth avoiding pooping so often.