Using Laxatives to Achieve Constipation Relief
The reason that the regular use of laxatives is a problem is because you are teaching your body to be an addict. Instead of getting it into the habit of doing its job properly and feeding yourself the foods that will help that happen, laxatives allow your colon to not care about working properly. Over time, your body forgets how to work without laxatives, and as soon as you try to quit using them for a couple of days you will be completely stopped up and suffer from a recurrence of constipation. Essentially, your colon becomes addicted to the laxatives, just as you would think of any other drug addiction.
You may have noticed when you take a laxative for constipation relief, it makes your stool much runnier than it would usually be. That is not magic. The laxative pulls water from your body to mix with the waste to make it flow out of your system more easily. This is water that your body also needs to survive.
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