What Is Your Constipation Telling You About Your Overall Health And How To FIx It with Dr. George Papanicolaou

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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What Is Your Constipation Telling You About Your Overall Health And How To Fix It | This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth and Belcampo

Constipation is an often uncomfortable and extremely prevalent condition affecting close to 80 million people. And while constipation might be common, it is definitely not normal and it can have disastrous consequences. Having healthy digestion and eliminating waste every day (ideally twice or three times a day!) is critical to your overall health. Your liver flushes out toxins and dumps them into your intestines. However, if your digestive system isn’t working optimally, then all those toxins and waste can get reabsorbed into your body. So, it makes sense that constipation has been linked to multiple diseases, including cancer and even Parkinson’s disease, plus it actually makes you feel like crap!

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. George Papaicolaou to discuss the importance of getting to the root cause of constipation. They share information on the most common drivers of constipation including diet, chronic stress, antibiotic overuse, and a wide range of many other issues.

George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is Board Certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine Practitioner. Upon graduation from his residency he joined the Indian Health Service. He worked on the Navajo reservation for 4 years at the Chinle Comprehensive Medical Facility where he served as the Outpatient Department Coordinator. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He practiced with a philosophy centered on personal relationships and treating the whole person, not just not the disease. He called that philosophy “Whole Life Wellness”. Over time as the healthcare system made it harder for patients to receive this kind of personal care Dr. Papanicolaou decided a change was needed. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health – a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou joined The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth and Belcampo.

Cozy Earth makes it super easy to try out their products with a 30-day free trial and 10-year warranty. Plus, right now they are offering my listeners a Spring cleaning, bedroom makeover offer of $100 off their sheet set, just head over to cozyearth.com and use the code HYMAN100 at checkout.

Right now, you can order Belcampo’s sustainably-raised meats to be delivered to your door using my code HYMAN at Belcampo.com/Hyman for 20% off for first-time customers.

In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Papanicolaou discuss:

Symptoms of constipation

The conventional vs. functional medicine approach to constipation

Are over-the-counter constipation remedies safe?

Why constipation can be a dangerous precursor to other health conditions

Main causes of constipation

How to heal your gut

Lifestyle practices to heal the gut

Additional Resources:

Simple Steps for Dealing with Constipation

https://drhyman.com/blog/2017/01/13/simple-steps-dealing-constipation/

How To Feed Your Gut

https://drhyman.com/blog/2018/04/13/how-to-feed-your-gut/

Are You Still Consuming Dairy

https://drhyman.com/blog/2017/07/27/still-consuming-dairy/

What Is Leaky Gut And How Can You Treat It?

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/03/20/podcast-hc2/

Fixing The Root Causes Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/08/10/podcast-hc22/

Magical Magnesium

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/03/11/magic-magnesium/

Top Five Natural Remedies for Constipation

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2018/06/14/top-five-natural-remedies-for-constipation/

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, you need to be able to evacuate your toxins, your metabolic weight.
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