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    How to Help Your Colon Do Its Job: The Forgotten Organ
    How to Help Your Colon Do Its Job: The Forgotten Organ
    How to Help Your Colon Do Its Job: The Forgotten Organ
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    How to Help Your Colon Do Its Job: The Forgotten Organ

    By Wilson White and VIKRAM TARUGU, M.D.

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    For most people, talking about their colons is either touchy or taboo, even in these supposedly modern times. And so most people know very little about this vital organ, or what to do when trouble strikes. This book is written for healthy adult lay people who want to know more about their colons, and how to help them do their job. (Jobs, actually, because lots goes on down there.)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 20, 2016
    ISBN9781483563060
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      Book preview

      How to Help Your Colon Do Its Job - Wilson White

      INFORMATION

      INTRODUCTION

      Mama (hopefully) taught us some things about our stomachs, and our hearts and brains — but pitifully little about how to ‘go to the bathroom’. Or how to help your colon do its job. Why?

      1. She really didn’t know very much about it.

      2. It’s nasty!

      And when you were a kid, did your pediatrician ever mention anything about defecation? We bet not. And we doubt if many people have ever talked openly with any doctor about any bowel problem, except maybe constipation.

      HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS

      The plain fact is that we humans, men and women, defecate very like other mammals. It’s an everyday, ordinary, common thing. So what’s the big deal about discussing it? Or knowing how it works. Nothing, dear readers — NOTHING AT ALL! But listen how we tiptoe through the tulips: ‘The little girl’s room,’ ‘irregularity,’ and ‘have to go’. Not to mention ‘Number Two,’ ‘poo’, and ‘poop’ — among other ridiculously roundabout terms. In most dictionaries after ‘shirt,’ comes ‘shiver,’ bypassing the other, unmentionable word.

      Fortunately, our use of language constantly changes. Long ago we heard someone announce that his wife was pregnant. His father sternly replied, ‘Hugh, I think you owe Dorothy an apology.’ But these days ‘pregnant’ can be a very happy word. And just a generation ago, saying ‘breast’ made most Americans uncomfortable. Now even ‘boob’ is fine. So why not S-H-I-T?

      Of course, the younger generations use ‘shit’ and ‘shitty’ in a different, non-literal sense. Do college kids say ‘junk,’ or ‘silly,’ or ‘DOPEY?’ Of course not. Still, even our young guys and gals don’t openly talk about any problems with their colons.

      Your authors believe that the human body is an amazing, almost incredible creation. For instance, there are more cells – more individual functioning things – inside our bodies than there are galaxies in the whole universe. Not to mention the much more complex doings of the human mind!

      In this little book we try to describe how the colon works, some of its problems, and how to help it do its job. Thank you for buying it. Read on!

      PART ONE

      CHAPTER 1 - ANCESTORS AND DIGESTION

      According to the Big Bang theory, the universe began about 13.8 billion years ago, and Earth about 4.5 billion. Then, about 3.7 billion years ago, the first life appeared on Earth.

      Wikipedia: Public Domain

      Hello Mr. White and Dr. Tarugu. My name is Lisa Schmidt. Okay if I interrupt to ask some questions?

      Sure, Lisa. We welcome them. Go right ahead – any time.

      Thanks. What exactly do you call ‘life’?

      Good question. Life is anything that grows, responds to stimuli, reproduces, and dies. The first forms of life probably developed in the long-ago waters – possibly as tiny strange little creatures called Archaea - but we don’t know exactly. Then, maybe a billion years ago, animals developed - worms, for instance. Most animals convert food and oxygen into energy.

      Over the ages, though animals evolved into many different forms, we all have one thing in common - a closed digestive system. We put food into our various Gastrointestinal (GI) tracts, process it into energy, and excrete the waste. This book focuses on one last part of the human GI tract, the Colon.

      Animals need food and oxygen to produce energy. What for? Every single thing we do – chew, move, think – everything. Food enters at the mouth, then goes through the GI tract, which turns it into fuel, and disposes of the waste. Here’s a diagram:

      Copyright @ Blausen.com staff

      Now that we’ve located everything, let’s talk a little about the colon, or large intestine. What’s its main function? To make crap and move it on. That’s why we, your authors, call it The Garbage Truck. But the colon has lots of other jobs, too - so many, it’s been called ‘The Forgotten Organ’.

      We’ll start in the mouth, and then go all the way down - from bite to butt. Or if you wish, you can just skip to Chapter 5: The Garbage Truck, or anywhere else you wish. It’s your book, right?.

      CHAPTER 2 - THE MOUTH AND THROAT

      In the mouth the teeth chew solid food into smaller pieces, which the tongue moistens with saliva, and also mixes with the enzyme Amylase, revving up the digestive process. Lisa, ever notice how bread tastes a bit sweet just before you swallow it?

      Yes, I have.

      That’s your taste buds going to work, signaling that AM-A-LACE is starting to convert starch into sugar.

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