In good health, people defecate about once or twice a day.
With the development of the Internet age, people have learned from more and more media that the best time to defecate is in the morning.
I don't know where this theory comes from, but many people have inspired the "good habit" of keeping healthy defecation in the morning.
Is defecation the healthiest in the morning?
The reasons why well-off doctors look at the arguments carefully are roughly as follows:
After a night of digestive system adjustment, waste accumulation has reached its peak. Getting rid of these wastes after getting up in the morning is good for your health.
Therefore, many friends are struggling to form the habit of getting up early and defecating, racking their brains to think of various ways, even if they have no intention.
But is there really a scientific basis for this?
If you want to know when defecation is the best, you must first know how defecation is formed!
The food we eat is not fully digested by the stomach. It is only digested in the stomach, and then it will enter the intestine and be reabsorbed.
Small intestine is the main place for nutrient absorption and digestion. When the food has completed its real "task" here, what remains is undigested food residues and a lot of water, which will be further absorbed and digested by the large intestine. After the large intestine is treated, the rest is the real "waste".
These residues gradually turn into feces and are stored in the colon and rectum. When a certain amount is reached, defecation will occur.
After understanding the process of defecation, let's look at the defecation time!
A person's defecation time is related to many factors, such as food intake, eating habits, gastrointestinal function and so on. In addition, suffering from gastrointestinal diseases will also affect the defecation time.
For example, if you eat a lot of food this day, especially high-fat food, you may poop in a few hours, and the stool is not shaped.
Under normal circumstances, people will defecate once a day, and of course they will defecate once every two to three days.
As long as the stool is normal in shape and yellowish brown in color, there is no difficulty in defecation, indicating that the intestine is in a healthy state.
Therefore, according to the analysis of the above two parts, it is enough to show that people have the consciousness of defecation before they have defecation behavior, and at this time, we don't need to look at the time.
When there is no defecation, it is best not to force yourself to defecate, which will make defecation lose its sensitivity and cause constipation over time.
As for when is the best time to defecate, there is no such thing as "the best time to defecate" in the medical field. You can defecate at any time, and you have to solve it when you come.
There is really no need to set a certain defecation time. In contrast, what we really need to pay attention to is the color, shape and nature of our stool. Only through the situation of stool can we judge whether the intestine is healthy or not, and we can check the intestinal discomfort as soon as possible.