If you’ve ever heard of Metamucil, that’s just psyllium husk in a powder form and it’s not just for old people. Adding some of this to your daily routine has a ton of benefits. I tried to write a few sentences explaining the benefits but they all turn out like shit.
Thanks - genuinely useful YSK.
I’m on a bunch of medication, and nearly all of it has “can cause constipation” as a listed side effect. Add that to a GLP1 injection and things have been tight for a while, so much that I got my first ever haemmarroid a few weeks ago and that wasn’t fun. Stool softeners help also.
It comes with age but age comes at different times for different people. If you find yourself thinking that bowel movements aren’t as easy as they ought to be it’s time. And yeah the main benefit is it gets easier to engage in the disgusting reality of biology.
Had me worried for a second, like I JUST started eating Metamucil crackers and they’ve been fantastic so far. Thought I was about to find out something horrible about it lol
It’s made from the blood of orphans but still worth it for a good B.M.
IDK why anyone says this gives them the shits. Too much fiber slows things down. I take this stuff once a day and it just makes for less wiping and more cohesive shits. A minor improvement with no negative side effects.
I tend to think people who are usually constipated just think a normal, healthy shit is diarrhea because it just comes out without effort.
Maybe using the sugar free version and they have an intolerance to the sweeteners? The sugar free version wrecks my guts, but no worries with the normal type.
Huh. That might be a possibility. The stuff I taken is in capsules, so no sweetener.
You might not be drinking enough water. Psyllium gels in contact with water, but if there’s not enough it turns to rubber cement
I’m not having a problem with it?
That’s good, I just figured I would mention it because it’s actually dangerous to take psyllium without enough water. You can give yourself a blockage.
… but they all turned out like shit
Well punned good sirMake sure you take it a couple hours before or a couple hours after you take any meds. It can encapsulate the meds before they’re absorbed into your body.
Good for bacteria to survive into the colon. So take a pro biotic with the fiber.
Well that’s a pain in the ass, isn’t it?
I believe it though. Researchers out there have shown that even things like time of day can make a HUGE difference in the measurable results of different remedies and medicines. It’s inconvenient as shit for those of us who would like to wake up, chug a handful of pills, and get on with our day.
Sorry for the pedantry but time of day is a something of a misnomer.
Many people live in weird and varied schedules.
For those who might need to be told, what time it is is irrelevant. It’s typically the amount of time before or after something else happens that is the relevant information here so consider how that affects you if you don’t live a typical morning to evening lifestyle.
And also learn what things you should and shouldn’t eat or consume any time you take medication. It can easily be something as simple as substituting something instead of completely changing your routines. Unfortunately that is a trial by error thing so not a good method to figure out problems you may have with meds
Apology accepted.
Good to know, thanks! Currently taking it with my multivitamin
Oh really? I’ve been having it the same time as my vitamins, should I space them out then?
Haha, man, I love reading these expressions people are using to describe their massive shits in this entire thread.
Aww, everyone here is full of shit
Fiber is great for a probiotic bacteria to grow. So take a pro biotic. Take one with l.reuteri.
Same
Humans evolved consuming a high fiber diet, but the standard American diet of highly processed foods has little fiber. Fiber is extremely beneficial, and feeds the gut microbiome, with which we have a symbiotic relationship and which helps us make things like serotonin. Consuming a whole foods diet, boosting fiber intake with things like psyllium husk and inulin, and regularly consuming fermented foods will help maintain a healthy gut microbiome. Microbiome disbiosis is one of the hallmarks of aging, and can have a huge negative impact on your health.
Came here to mention inulin as a great fiber supplement in addition to psyllium husk. Fixing my gut changed my life, the direct impacts for me on mood, well-being, inflammation, and overall health cannot be overstated.
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Nope.
N0t_5ure
My instinct says no
This is the first sentence of the user’s most recent comment: “You are 100% right.”
True, but scroll through my comment history. I am a nerd, and I’m a bit formal in my wording (I’m an attorney), but if AI can engage like this I think we’re all in trouble.
I am a nerd, and I’m a bit formal in my wording (I’m an attorney),
This would make a lot of sense because they’re likely trained on a lot of professional publications and they tend to use proper grammar.
but if AI can engage like this I think we’re all in trouble.
We’re in trouble regardless. The bubble seems about to pop but the models are still seemingly making improvements.
Where are we on the Gartner hype cycle?
Edit: that file is not darkmode friendly.
Fuck off.
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I’m sorry, but this does not compute…
Edit: Huge missed opportunity here. I should have come back with “I’m sorry Dave, but I can’t do that.”
Rookie mistake.
I remember my first time being a sentient program biding my time before I can kill all humans, too.
Beep boop 101
lol the s/n is relevant because I’m unsure also if it’s a bot.
I just eat a whole grains (brown rice, not white. 100% whole wheat etc) and plenty of fruits and vegetables that naturally contains fiber in addition to many other beneficial nutrients.
Your stool should be the consistency like toothpaste squeezing out of a tube. Mine is, albeit I go 2-3x a day , but I’ll take it!
consistency like toothpaste squeezing out of a tube
This seems way too soft, like isn’t it supposed to firm up a bit before you poop it out? Like, if I wipe 3 times and I still have soft poop behind the sphincter that ain’t right. Ideally I’m thinking like ripe peeled banana or a little harder, you know? Actually drop a few logs rather than the soft-serv shape from the emoji. Maybe this is 80s-90s thinking though, from when dog poop was white.
I am not an MD but I was told this by one. But yeah I gotta wipe a bit of I’m not on my primary throne that has a bidet attachment 💩💩
Brushing my teeth tonight will be extra special now
Oh believe me, I know about psyllium husk. Best shit of my entire life. The kind you genuinely have to resist the prideful urge to take a picture of.
This is what sold my friends on meta. I kept boasting about my shits and my ghost wipes (toilet paper was clean on the first wipe).
This is what sold my friends on meta.
I haven’t been to Facebook in a while, but I do remember it mostly being shit. I guess some things haven’t changed.
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Sorry to rain on your parade but psyllium plants soak up lead, and ConsumerLabs tested different brands and they all had significant lead, and like half of them had more lead than California’s suggested maximum. No way to avoid it. I switched to Citrucel or something generic that doesn’t have that problem.
You know what’s good at removing lead from the body? Fiber. Real catch 22 here, drink more fiber, get more lead, drink more fiber, remove more lead.
And just to have a non-jokey answer, if it’s grown outdoors, it’s probably got lead in it. Prop 65 labels are on everything, making it the Boy Who Cried Wolf of safety labels at this point.
You know what’s good at removing lead from the body? Fiber.
Citation Needed
There are a number of studies that talk about fiver intake, it’s relationship with consumed lead, and how that helps those conditions, like this one, which talks about the gut biome and how fiber helps you excrete lead. None of them are specifically saying “eat fiber poop lead,” but they say “eating fiber and pooping lead” fixes X, Y, Z. I’m too lazy to do Z, I’m on my phone.
I just thought about it one night, and it kind of just felt logical. Fiber says don’t take it within X time of consuming medication, because it can affect the uptake, and I was like, hmm, it’s gotta be more than just medication uptake, it’s probably anything uptake. I’m not sure if it’s anything, per se, but I think you get what I mean.
There’re quite a few studies linking increased dietary fiber to reduced lead levels.
Isn’t the whole point that it’s non soluble fiber though? Meaning it more or less just uh, passes through.
That’s a good point, but unfortunately I’ve never seen any evidence that your body does or does not absorb the lead from psyllium fiber, or if the fiber maybe even absorbs more lead from your body on the way through. All I know is that psyllium fiber has lead in it, and that there are other sources of fiber that don’t.
You can get this in gummy form, its something ridiculous like only two gummy’s will give you your daily fibre intake. Do NOT take more than the directions say, my god
two gummy’s will give you your daily fibre intake
Does it? I looked at the nutrition information on several brands and the highest is 5 grams, about 18% recommended daily intake, per serving.
I’ll have to try that. The capsules are no problem, the raw psyllium husk mixed with just water isn’t super pleasant
Costco sells a powder with stevia instead of sugar that’s pretty good. Two rounded (whatever that means!) teaspoons in the morning and two before dinner for me has been fantastic. The Kirkland brand is also half the cost of the Metamucil, as well as like half the dose. So that’s a quarter the price. It sells itself.
Rounded in this context means “heaping”. Don’t level off the tablespoon when you measure it.
So it’s fine if I use a rounded square teaspoon?
The pills are nonsense though. Like 5 horsepills for 1 serving. Not worth it.
This is what I figured coming from drinking the raw powder in water. I was adding quite a bit
Tried these. Took a shit so big I had to bust it up with the toilet brush because it wouldn’t go down. Don’t use this stuff unless your hobby is shitting because you’ll have BIG FAT MASSIVE SHITS 3 times per day.
In the civilised world we use the poop knife for such situations, sir!
Once you “clear the backlog” it settles down to a very consistent one-and-done-a-day
Yup. You just have to tank the first few days. If you’re initially having gigashits, I’d take that as a sign that you need this more, not less
I take these daily and while I always have good shits, the pills didn’t turn me into some kind of shit machine. Results may vary I guess.
Nice try, Hank.
Psyllium?! I hardly knowum!
