This podcast-style YouTube interview (hosts Wendie Trubow and Ed Levitan with guest Dr. Terry Wahls) focuses on bowel health: the importance of regular, complete bowel movements for toxin elimination, using the Bristol Stool Chart (rocks → logs → snakes → pudding → tea) as an accessible framework for stool types, and practical management tips. The speakers emphasize pooping comfortably and regularly, note special issues such as fecal incontinence in Parkinson’s patients (who may prefer mild constipation over loose stools), and share a personal anecdote about excess magnesium causing diarrhea while nursing. The tone is practical, anecdotal, and clinician-informed.
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I'm a gynecologist. All I love to talk about is gut function and sex. This isn't about sex. It's about your gut. So I think it would be a good idea to just take a little detour into the importance of pooping. Because if you're not pooping regularly, fully, generously, you're not getting rid of your toxins. So it's just sitting and building up in you, and then you start to recycle the toxins and hormones into your body as it sits in your gut. That's my plug for pooping every day.
Yeah. And let me put in my plug for rocks, logs, snake pudding, and tea. For research, we like to do the Bristol Poop Chart one to seven. Great research tool. Patients don't know what that means, but they do understand. Are you pooping rocks? Are you pooping logs, dry and hard to get out? Or logs that are easy to manage, or. Or snakes that are easy to manage, Pudding or tea? And is the poop getting in your pants? Everybody understands that question. And it really comes down to, I want them to poop comfortably, easily, and have it not get in their pants. If it's an easily passed log, that's okay. If it's an easily controlled snake, that's ideal. But if you have Ms. Or Parkinson's, fecal incontinence becomes an issue. And for many of those folks, they're going to prefer a tendency towards constipation as opposed towards the snakes. Even though snakes are ideal. Those snakes have a tendency to get into your pants, and that's a problem.
I remember vividly our youngest came to work with me for about six months after she was born. I just had this flexible role at the time. And one day I said to Ed, who's. I think everyone knows by now we're married. So I said, I'm sort of guessing that, yeah, we're married. So I was like, can you make my shake for me? Because I don't have time. I'm rushing to get us out to the office. So he makes my shake. I'm not watching. I drink my shake, and I proceed to have diarrhea. The entire day. The whole day I'm like, what's going on here? And the reason it sticks out in my mind so much because I had a baby strapped to me. And do you know how hard it is to go to the bathroom with a six month old in the carrier on you? You know, like you can't even bend over because she's there. So. And you can't see what you're doing because she's there. So I said to him, how much Mag did you put in my shake? Do you remember this? I don't remember how much. I normally did, like, you know, half to quarter of a teaspoon. And he's like, I did four. I was like, oh, no wonder. I've been in the bathroom all day with the six month old on me. And then, and then I was nursing her, so she got it too. That was fun. That was very memorable. So a good plug for managing it. I'm glad I gave you a memorable moment. You gave me a shareable moment with.
Dr. People learn through stories and that's how we can categorize knowledge. So people will remember that magnesium has a variety of effects.
