Water and Colon Health
Water is one of the most abundant natural resources that can be found here on earth. But even knowing the importance of this resource, not everyone takes full advantage of it. In this article, I will try to explain how water can affect colon health.
Water is one of the most important ingredients in trying to keep our body healthy. The insufficient consumption of water on a daily basis is a big contributing factor to the many health problems that plagues many individuals around the world. Through actively trying to increase the amount of water that we intake, we can help make our bodies healthier.
Our body is made up of about 80% water. That water is vital to the functions of our skin, organs, bones, brain, fat tissues, and muscles. Water also helps out in keeping our digestive and colon systems functioning normally. How it does this is through the flushing out of bacteria, waste, toxins, and other harmful substances that should not be inside of us. Both our kidney and colon use water to flush out unwanted substances from our body through urine and solid waste respectively.
Let me explain to you the process of how our colon flushes out these harmful substances. The liver is one of the main toxin filters of our body. Any harmful substance that passes through the liver is sent directly to the colon along with bile. This bile that comes from the liver is what contributes in the process of making solid waste. After the solidification of this waste, the colon moves this solid waste material as quickly as possible through bowel movement.
The length of the colon is about five to six feet long. Colon health must be monitored for this is one of the organs in our body where waste materials pass through. In the situation where the body has limited amounts of water, the waste matter can become more hard and dry as other parts of the body extracts water from it during its passage. If this waste matter becomes too hard and dry, its movement becomes restricted and it sometimes becomes stuck or backed up. When this happens, toxins present in this waste matter leaks out and starts going back into our blood stream. These leaked toxins poison other organs of our body.
So now do you see the part that water plays in colon health? The daily intake of water contributes to better waste movement. A better waste movement decreases the chance of toxins from these waste materials poisoning our body. Less poisons inside our body, equates to better health.