Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

How to Find Out If You’re Constipated

10 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Wendie Trubow, MD, explains that constipation means not pooping daily. Small pellet-like stools are a sign, even if you go every two or three days. Aim for at least one bowel movement a day, though three to four times daily is fine if stools are formed.

Questions this video answers

Not having a bowel movement every day (e.g., every two or three days is constipation).

At least once a day; three to four times daily is also fine if stools are formed.

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I'll say to someone, are you constipated? They go, no. I go, great. How often are you having a bowel movement? Every two or three days. Okay. That's constipation. If you are not having a bowel movement every day, you are constipated, and it should not be bunny poops. Bunny poops mean you're constipated. Yeah. So. So I just want to put a plug in for every day. It's called. I. I don't know if you remember. I know there's a. There's a chart that shows you the different types of bowels. The Bristol chart. There's the wiener one. There's the. Yes. So look at the Bristol chart online. It'll show you what kind of poops you're. But there's also something called the oro anal reflex, that when you eat, you're supposed to poop. And we have gotten away from that as a community because partly what we're eating, we sit a lot. We're not on the move. So at least once a day, three to four times if it's formed, is totally fine. Yeah.