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Answer: Let’s look at several possibilities:A. You may be consuming a food to which you are reacting; i.e., a wheat or dairy product. If you are still eating some grains or dairy products, try to eliminate them totally from your diet for a few days and see if the problem resolves itself. Both are common causes of constipation.B. You may not be drinking enough water. Try increasing your water consumption to eight to ten glasses each day. Make sure you are drinking the water between meals.C. You may not be eating enough fiber. Make sure you are eating at least five to six servings of raw or lightly steamed vegetables per day, in balance with your protein. The menu suggestions include several servings of vegetables each day. If you find that you simply can’t do this, use a sugar-free fiber supplement with an additional eight ounces of water. Take the fiber supplement before you go to bed each night at least three hours after your last meal.D. Certain mineral deficiencies can cause constipation, particularly deficiencies in magnesium and potassium. Use a magnesium supplement (not magnesium oxide) to increase your magnesium intake to about 500 milligrams per day. Take about 99 milligrams of potassium per day. (Avoid potassium chloride. Use both a magnesium and potassium ion bonded to an amino acid combination, or use magnesium glycinate. These mineral forms are typically well absorbed.) And remember that magnesium helps reduce craving for chocolate and sweets.E. After following these suggestions, if you still can’t get things moving again, you may need to resort temporarily to an herbal laxative that contains dandelion root, burdock, ginger, fennel, buckthorn, and small amounts of cascara sagrada. Sometimes it helps to take an herbal fiber supplement with psyllium husks and other fibers. Be sure to drink plenty of water with them!Avoid all herbal laxatives that contain senna or large amounts of cascara sagrada. Most reputable herbal companies have formulated an herbal laxative that will stimulate the bowels without creating dependence on them.*62\319\2*

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