Hey, everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of Red Pillar Healthcast. My name is Dr. Charlie

Faganholz and here with Lauren Johnson at FNP. And we don't have a guest this week, but we are going

to be answering some more questions that were submitted in the Q&As on Instagram. So we have a few.

And then depending on time, we can kind of just talk about some other things that people have

been mentioning even if it wasn't a question asked so Lauren let's start out this is a this is

one we were talking about extreme constipation what are your first thoughts when you hear the word

constipation well I guess my first thing would be a food sensitivity. That's probably my first

thing, but really close second is emotions because I have like seen a patient like we've done all

the interventions. We we have addressed parasites. We've done all the things. And what moves the needle is like any T and

emotional work and really getting after some of those emotions that bind us up. And so I would say

definitely food sensitivity. What are your common food sensitivities that you might see with constipation?

Well, there's the, you know, the general ones that we all know about is gluten and dairy and soy and egg and corn.

Ironically, you know, I'd say that caffeine helps constipation generally.

It does.

That's why most women will say that's like why they have a cup of coffee so that they know that they can go to the bathroom.

Yeah.

And I totally understand that.

Like that's good.

You know, I'd say that that's probably better than getting like a colonic.

But if you are relying on something to do a bodily function, that doesn't sit well for me.

Just from a root cause standpoint, just from, you know, if there wasn't, if you're on a desert

island, there was no coffee, then how are you going to have a bowel movement?

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