 Hello, everybody! Welcome. Welcome to what Chelsea eats. Although we're not talking about food, that is the general gist of what all of my topics end up being about is what are we feeding ourselves. And that can be from what we're actually putting in our physical mouth, what we're putting in our ears, what we are letting our eyes see, are we feeding on God's word. And those things matter. So today though, that's not the point of this video. We're going to be talking about dealing with constipation along with having fibroids or any kind of womb issue. And I'm going to give you some tips and solutions on what you can do to alleviate this problem with constipation. I get lots of people asking me, I get emails, lots of people asking me about constipation because of the position of the fibroids or that they feel bloated and they don't really release what's in their digestive tract. And I'm going to talk about this in a little bit more detail today to give you some ideas as to what you can do to help yourself on this journey. But if you're new here, welcome. I'm so glad you landed on my channel. My name is Chelsea Knudsen and I am a Fibroid Healing and Life Transformation Coach. I help Christian women heal womb issues, emotional traumas using food, herbs, God's word and prayer as medicine. And I'm so happy that you decided to hit the play button here today and join me, whether you're joining me live or whether you're tuning in for the replay. Let me know where you're coming in, where you're watching from. I would love to hear about that. Do you struggle with any type of constipation issue or digestive issue? I would like to know that in the chat. Be sure to type your questions in the chat as I do the presentation and then at the end of my presentation, I'll be happy to answer questions. Also, if you haven't already, type in what type of reproductive issue or womb issue you are dealing with. And I know that my channel is all that I talk about fibroids often. I mean, most of the things that I talk about is fibroids because that is most of my audience, but I help people with any kind of womb issue. The other thing that I want to say about that is I have struggled with just about any type of womb issue you can name. I've had fibroids, ovarian cysts, PCOS. I had the large cysts on my ovary, on my right ovary. I have had heavy bleeding. I've had anemia. I've had all the symptoms of polycystic ovarian syndrome. I've had it also. And I may have even had a little bit of endometriosis too because there was a time period where I had like this pain that I would get. It was random. It wasn't like ovary pain. I know the difference between ovarian, like ovulation pain. And I think this was endometriosis, although I was never technically diagnosed. But there was a spot on my left-hand side of my womb area that would... It was small. It was like about this big and round and maybe the size of two to three inches of my abdomen. And it was just one spot, but it would feel like it was on fire when it would flare up and it would be so bad. And I said to myself, if this is what people feel all over their abdomen, as far as endometriosis pain, I have no idea how they survived it because I was barely able to handle it with just that little bit of pain. So I just wanted to share with you, just because you always hear me say, vibrates, vibrates, vibrates, and then I'm a vibrate healing coach, I help women heal all kinds of reproductive issues. So if you have been hesitant to reach out to me because of that, please don't hesitate because I do have experience with every reproductive issue that I haven't heard of one that I haven't had experience with. So not necessarily personally, but I have helped women with it because really they all have the same root cause from a physical perspective. There might be some things spiritually that are different, but slightly, but physically definitely the same root. Also, I've opened the doors to my group coaching program. It's called the Fibrate Detox Collective. If you want more information about that, there's information down in the description box and you can email me with questions if you have them. But anyway, let me get into the topic. We're going to talk about constipation and fibroids and I'm going to give you some tips and solutions. Don't forget to chat in if you have issues with constipation or digestive issues, and I will be sure to answer your questions if you have any questions about them if I haven't answered them during this presentation. But let me go ahead and get into the information. Constipation can be very brutal and it is one of the things that I believe leads to sickness and disease the fastest when you are constipated because it is old, putrified waste that is just sitting in your body with no place to go. And every day it's kind of you're reabsorbing the toxic waste that is just sitting in your body, like it's going all over your bloodstream, all over your body, affecting your organs and glands and causing sickness. Now there is an old expression that the old holistic health people that they would call themselves natural hygienists back in the day. They would say death begins in the colon and you hear even modern day people talk about death begins in the colon but that's really what happens to people when they are constipated. So let me explain what constipation is. First of all, when you eat a meal, it's supposed to come out like a few days, a few hours later. It's supposed to digest and come out a few hours later but most of us, when we eat say three meals a day, most of us will poop two to three, I'm sorry, one to two times a day. And some of us, well, more and more of us aren't pooping every day. There was a time in my life, well, I'll get into my story in just a second but before I do that I want to also just completely explain to you what constipation is. So you see this, this part of your arm, this part of your arm is supposed to be like 12 inches or whatever. So when you poop, that's how much poop you're supposed to let out of your body depending on how much you eat. So if you eat, you know, a full plate of food, that poop should come right out, not right out after you eat, that's the thing you just ate. It's got to have time to digest but in time over the 24 hour period, it should be coming out. So if you eat three meals in a day, you should have three poops in a day. If you eat two meals in a day, you should have at least two poops. If you eat one meal a day, you should have one poop a day. But most people, they eat two, three, six meals every day and some people eat, will poop once or twice or none. Where's that poop? It's in a traffic jam in your digestive system is where it is. So it's stuck there and that's called constipation. Now, another form of constipation is when the person has diarrhea. You go to the bathroom and you have diarrhea. You're like, how is it constipation when, you know, I got the runs? Well, the truth of the matter is your bowel movements are supposed to be solid formed bowel movements. And when you have a watery stool, it means your body is taking water from your body and just trying to hit your digestive tract with hydration to try to push out what's in there. So that's why you have the loose stool. But the actual bulk of the stool is still stuck in there. And lots of people say, I'm not constipated. I will have a poop after I drink my morning coffee. And that's true. You do poop after you have morning coffee, but it wasn't a natural poop. The reason you pooped is because of the coffee. But let me explain to you why coffee makes you poop. Well, the caffeine in the coffee, it is, it stimulates your kidneys. And more importantly, it stimulates your adrenal glands. Your adrenal glands are responsible for your flight or flight mode. Like, are you going to like run away from something or are you going to freeze? So what happens is that caffeine hits those adrenal glands, it turns on the flight or flight mode. And what happens is it will signal your body to dump excess so that it can be ready to run if it needs to run. So that's why, like after that caffeine sits in, you have to go to the bathroom and let out a nice poop. And it does help you poop, but it's artificially stimulated poop. If you have to rely on caffeine and coffee or the coffee to make you poop, then you're constipated. Okay, so there you have it. Also, if you're just joining me, please put your questions in the chat. I will answer them at the end of this. Okay, what does constipation come from? Dehydration is one of those people. People just don't drink. And if they do drink, they drink things that don't hydrate them. So if you didn't see my video yesterday from the Perry menopause symptoms, you should go back and watch that and listen to the part where I talk about how you should get yourself dehydrated. I'm not going to go into that into any detail today, but hydration is important. So eating processed foods like sugar-laden foods, packaged foods, boxed foods, chips, starchy food, junk food, candy, soda, packaged foods, those types of things that leads to constipation. One of the big things that leads to constipation though is stress. The stress response is activated. Digestion is suppressed so that the body can reroute its resources to trigger the fight or flight. I just talked about that with the coffee. So what happens is the coffee is like, let me just let this load out and then shut down the digestive juices so that I can use the energy that I have right now to get her ready for some fight or flight. This is what stress does too. The central nervous system shuts down digestion slowing like your contractions of your digestive system and it decreases the secretions in your digestive system, meaning like the hydration is in your digestive system just so that that is one less thing that it has to think about when you are stressed out. And just think about if you are stressed out all day long, the impact that that stress is actually having on your digestive tract. Stress can slow down your digestion in ways where it causes bloating, it causes pain, it contributes to constipation. And some people also when they're stressed out, they experience diarrhea. I know that this used to happen to me whenever I would get extremely stressed or fearful like you know that like somebody hit that fear buttoned on me and I would like go into anxiety and just be like yeah, I would have diarrhea. My stomach would feel like it was in knots butterflies would be flowing around my stomach and I would immediately have to go evacuate. That's my stressor experience. But some people also lose their appetite completely. Stress can also lead to digestive issues like Crohn's stomach ulcers irritable bowel syndrome. How many of you are stressed out and and if you are do you have a digestive issue. I would love to know it in the comments. But anyway, I want to tell you a little bit about my experience being constipated. Just so you know I'm not just talking out of the side of my head when I'm talking about constipation it's something that I know very intimately. I remember being a little girl and there was a window next to my next to the toilet in my bathroom and it was a pretty big window was a really old house at this time when I was a little girl probably four or five years old. Maybe going on six I don't know but it seemed like it was a long period of time so it was probably between those ages. But there was a window and back in those days it was like in the 70s and they had like these films that they would put over the window. But I would be sitting there and sitting there and sitting there trying to go to the bathroom and I remember my stomach being really big or swollen when I was a little kid I was really. At this point I was thin but my stomach was big and I know now that my stomach was big because I had a whole bunch of junk in my stomach that needed to come out. So I remember I got bored one day and I started peeling the paper from the corner of the window so that I could look out the window while I was sitting there. I didn't have anything else to do I was trying to poop I needed to poop and you know every now and then my grandmother would give me like. Like this met like some kind of laxative or something and it will help me go to the bathroom I can't remember the laxative but it tasted really good and it was brown and it was in this brown bottle. Some of you listening might remember that laxative maybe your parents gave it to you and it had this man on it. Anyway that's not important but throughout my life my early through my childhood and teens like I would go to the bathroom like once or twice a week. I remember being in college and I really didn't go to the bathroom very much at all and then I met my husband and he would just get up and go to the bathroom every day and be like wow you take a poop every day. He's like yeah don't you don't you. I'm like no I never really have and then I started and then I shortly after that I you know recognized that I had PCOS and I started looking online believe it or not in the 90s about how to heal naturally from PCOS and I did find information there. There was information it didn't come in the form of video or anything like that there are lots of chat rooms and message boards with really good information and then that's when I learned about how you really are supposed to go to the bathroom. Every time you eat you're supposed to get rid of that thing get rid of the food that you ate you know a few meals ago it's supposed to be like a clock like a like a clock you're not supposed to hold that stuff in. And when you hold it in at least the sickness and disease and it's probably one of the reasons why I developed reproductive issues in the first place because I was so toxic from not going to the bathroom. So one of the things that you must do to heal fibroids or any type of reproductive issue is clean your digestive tract completely out and I do teach this in my coaching programs. So what do you do what do you do about this and the first one I want to talk to you about is stress you have to deal with the stressors in your life and here's how you do it. I know that there's all these things that you know the stress technique that stress technique and some of those things are great like the deep breathing exercises and all the things that you do that you can do. But really the one who is who can help you manage stress is is God go to God. And when I talk about God I'm talking about the God of the Bible Jesus Christ Holy Spirit that the three in one God that's who I'm talking about you go to him and you talk to him about the source of your stressors. You may need to do some repentance meaning changing your mind about like some of the stuff you're doing in your life that you don't need to be doing anymore like he's been trying to get your attention saying stop doing this. Well, you need to stop doing this and turn change your mind about those things you're doing this contributing to the stressors can be sent in your life whatever it is, and then change your mind about it and walk the in the direction towards him, meaning God. You may need to walk through some forgiveness like you may be forget you know have some people that you do need to forgive like you're holding on to stuff from that causes stressors. And if you're afraid to forgive let me just tell you what forgiving someone from doing for doing something to you is not letting them off the hook is letting you off the hook. Believe me God will deal with the person who did something to you but holding on to unforgiveness is keeping you in perpetual pain and stress and all things that come along with it. The next thing you might need to do is lay down some idols is there anything in your life that you're putting above God. And that's like a really serious question most people don't take the time to really look at that. What's more important what do you think about all day. That's a good place to start what is the thing that is most dominant in your mind. And there's your idol that's probably one of the things that you can find out really quickly by just answering that question. You may you may need to spend more time or some more or time at all maybe you don't spend time getting to know him and learning what his truth is about your life. Meaning open your Bible up and read the scriptures and talk to him as you're reading so you can have a dialogue with him so that he can teach so Holy Spirit can teach you what it is that is true about your life and what it is that you're supposed to be doing. And a lot of times we're stressed out because we don't know what the heck we're supposed to be doing well we have a we have a book that he gave us a Bible. There's a Bible everywhere these days you can even find them like electronic ones online you can download an app I like I happen to like physical Bibles. I have electronic Bibles but my preference are physical Bibles. Find it and get in a place where you where you can read and learn. Maybe you need to also maybe you need to change your job maybe your job sucks and it's one of those jobs where is causing so much stress is affecting your health. And the truth of the matter is is I'm not here telling you to go quit your job but if you get with God you do those those steps God will lead you in what you're supposed to do for your job situation so that it is not wrecking so much habit on your life where you can't handle the stress that's coming from that you may even need to get rid of some relationships. People don't like that but sometimes we need to cut some relationships off so that we're not living under perpetual stress. Regardless of what it is God is the one who will help you because all things are possible with God. The next thing is hydration I already talked about it if you want to know more details go back to yesterday's video and listen to that part about hydration but you do need to be hydrated so the ways can move through your system. Next is stop eating the junkie foods if you haven't already downloaded my foods to avoid let's go download it read it and take it to heart and do what it says. I'm in the process of writing a new one. I'm just updating that information, making it a little bit more user friendly I should say but the one that's there is good enough. It has the information on it. The next thing that can help you is exercise get to get your digestive tract moving so when you move you help your you you cause your digestive tract to move. I don't know how many times I've been exercising like vigorously and all of a sudden after I'm done with who I got to go take a poop. And that's one of the ways that you can get your digestive system moving if you're having trouble with that. I also I think walking is the perfect exercise is the easiest exercise that you don't have to have any special equipment. You can just go outside and walk. I did recently buy a walking pad that is here in my office. Let me see if I can show it to you. See there it is right there is my walking pad. Can you see it? I put a link down in the description box below this video so that if you're interested in the walking pad that I have because every time I mentioned something that I have people are say where did you get it from. Well the link is down in the description box. It wasn't expensive. I love it. It's small enough for me to sit right back there in the corner and what I love about it is that it goes seven miles per hour versus versus some of the other walking paths that are like max four hours. So if I really wanted to get a little jogging I could get a little jogging too. The next thing you can use to help cleanse your colon or I'm sorry to get your colon moving is to use herbs to cleanse your colon. I'm not talking about taking a laxative because a laxative sure it'll move a little bit out but that's not helping you to heal your digestive tract so that you can like have regular normal bowel movements but I have something called the colon formula. Some of you may have heard me talk about it but what the colon formula does is it helps to heal the entire digestive tract, move some of that, move the mucoid plaque off the sides of your colon, move all the excess junk out of your colon and while it's doing that it helps to soothe and heal the digestive tract. Now you could use this formula for constipation for any kind of digestive issue that you have because the herbs in it are not just purgative herbs and there's not much purgative herbs in it. It has herbs that soothe the digestive tract. Now the next thing that you want to do is change your diet to a diet that is rich in raw fruits and vegetables. If you cannot take like eating a big salad, put it in a smoothie that's easier on a digestive tract and if you really can't eat raw foods, which I think that the reason that people say they can't eat raw foods is because they're not willing to go through that time to break it in, breaking their gut microbiome so if you cannot do that you can take your food and you can steam it lightly and eat it that way. That'll make it be easier on your digestive tract. So if you have any questions, hopefully just put them in the chat and if you didn't know already, I opened the doors to my group coaching program. So if you've been wanting to work with me to help heal you from, to help you heal from reproductive issues of any type, my Fibroid Detox Collective is open is starting on May 7. So if you're interested, there's a link down in the description box. And if you have questions about that, you can email me at info at whatchelseaether you can ask me questions here in the chat. Also remember with all of this with all of these issues, it is possible to heal. Remember, all things are possible with God. So I want to see what kind of questions you have, you may or may not have any. Callie I'm struggling with constipation Callie 83 constipation hopefully Callie 83 you can take some of the tips that I have talked about here today. And put them into practice so you can get some leave you can alleviate some of those issues with the constipation. Hi, I suffer from a lot of fibroid fibroids and possibly endometriosis and ovarian system sorry to hear that. Is it Danielle. It's a pretty I love the way it's spelled. I hope I'm saying it right. But if you haven't already downloaded my foods to avoid list that's probably the first place to start that's where I would start, because it's the easiest place to start to start to get relief from those things. I'm not saying that it's easy to change these things, but it is definitely the easiest simplest place to start. I'm going to get the recipe section on my YouTube channel is a playlist of my recipes down in the description box of this video should be reading the reading space I like your name. Let's see. Good Hey Monica do smoothies do smoothies do the same thing as coffee does stimulate a bowel movement, because whenever I drink a smoothie for lunch, I make a bowel movement. Okay, so here's the thing. So it could Monica, but it really depends on what you put in the smoothie. But if it's a basic clean smoothie, you know, like I teach like with no shenanigans in it like almond butter and all the stuff that people like to put on in their butter. But it's just like say it's a green smoothie says greens fruit and water and maybe some chia seeds or hemp seeds or something like that. That's not stimulating. So what's happening is it's that a smoothie is a pre pre digested meal sort of because it's already broken down. So it goes in to your body and it helps to move out solid waste because it doesn't have any work to do is close to juice except it has fiber. So it's pushing things out. So I don't think it's stimulating a bowel movement from a bad perspective is stimulating a bowel movement because it has fiber and that's what fibers supposed to do which is to move stuff out of your digestive tract. I hope that answers your question. Hi everybody hope you're all having a lovely day hi shy Lynn. I'm having a lovely day. Katrina yes, Father Johnson's yes that was it laxative was the name orange and white that's it. I remember that so well as a matter of fact it tasted so good I used to ask for it like not realizing that it was going to make me good but I used to ask for it because it tasted like candy I don't know what they put in sugar, probably. I have seven fibroids IBSC gastric parietes I can never say this sorry thyroid nodule and I am perimenopause with hot flashes my stress levels are high. Well, you can heal from every last one of those things you absolutely can it will take you some, some focus for you to do it, but you can do it all things are possible with God, you may want to consider my fibroid detox collective if you are needing help. But the first place I would start is that foods to avoid list if you don't already have it. Thank you. Yes, it is Danielle. Okay. All right, I don't see any other questions let me see I'm going to give you guys a minute to answer to ask any other questions that you might have. Okay, do you recommend colonics or hydrotherapy. Do you mean hydrotherapy are you referring to hydrotherapy where you immerse your body or are you talking about colonics or colon hydrotherapy. Is that what you're, is that what you're trying to say. So, if so I do recommend colonics if you want to take colonics but I'm more of a fan of high enemas. High enemas are I first of all they're less expensive and I think you have more control. Once you learn how to do them. And so but yes to your question. Let's see is warm lemon water good for constipation. So lemon water in general is good for hydration in general so it's going to help you with with the constipation problem. But one of the things that happens if you take warm lemon water first thing in the morning it will stimulate a very nice bowel movement especially if you take it as soon as you wake up. Yes. Do you recommend juicing or smoothies for women with reproductive issues any recipes you could share on on live. Thank you. So, I recommend both. Most of my my the beginning of my healing journey started with juicing I didn't really know anything about smoothies at the beginning of my healing journey so most of my experience with healing. I don't want to say most. I should say. I'm a I'm a Jew I'm a believer in juicing and the reason that is because it gives the digest attract a break but smooth so let me explain it this way. I think juicing is king and smoothies are queen. They serve a great purpose for healing but they have two separate. Purposes so juice goes straight to the bloodstream goes straight to the healing goes you know it bypasses having to do anything the digestive tract although there is fiber and juice believe it or not some people think that's not but there is fiber and juice. Smoothies also heal especially if you make it right. And, but it has fiber. So your body does have to do the digestion of it, which is not a bad thing, but it's just an extra step. It's not a bad thing at all. And the recipes, so I have a ton of recipes. If you go on my YouTube channel. There's a ton of recipes. Nothing that I can think of right off the top of my head honestly. But yes, I think I answered okay how do you feel about putting spinach and smoothies. I think putting smoothies and putting spinach and smoothies are great. Lots of people have the question about oxalates and all the stuff. I tell you, people in their research put smoothies if you feel like putting spinach in your smoothies and put it in there. Like you'd have to take in like so much spinach like I have gone through spells where I would use a box you know the 16 ounce box of spinach in a day. It is good to rotate your greens like so if you use spinach sometimes use kale sometimes use arugula or whatever your greens are but like there's nothing wrong with putting spinach in a smoothie. Thank you for the information listening while getting an iron infusion all do you think fibroids push on or block bios making constipation as well absolutely that happens. Absolutely that happens so I'm sorry you're having to get an iron infusion and that really sucks I don't I have had that and I don't like it at all. But you can overcome just do whatever you've got to do so you don't need to do that again. It's not any fun. But yes fibroids can be in a position where it can cause constipation that's why I like enemas because you can manipulate how you put the water in and you and if the fibroid is big enough and you you can move the fibroid out of the way to let the water in to kind of allow your body to kind of moisten that area where there is poop that's stuck and push it out that way. And also as you change your diet your your the things will change in your digestive tract and can move past that fibroid. I can feel the difference in my energy levels when I put spinach in my smoothies good keep using it. Don't stop using the spinach just because they say not to use it. So okay ladies I don't want to hold you all day but that's that is all I have for today tomorrow I will be back. I forgot what I'm what I'm going to be talking about tomorrow but I'll be here tomorrow at noon Thursday noon Eastern Standard Time. And if no one told you know before I tell you that share this video with anybody you think that it could help because I know that people are struggling whether they have reproductive issues or not whether they've had a hysterectomy or not. This information is is good for people who are struggling out there. And also for if you're watching and you have had a hysterectomy and you're feeling shame and all that stuff don't feel shame because of it still participate in this environment because just because you got the hysterectomy or the surgery or whatever. Doesn't mean that you still don't need to heal your body because the surgery does not negate the fact that you still have the issue that caused the problem in the first place. So thank you so much I've learned so much and will be sharing good thank you Danielle. Do you have high animal products or do you you recommend I do and typically what I do is I I share that information in my group programs or in my coaching programs I don't have any place where I have that here right now. Let's see Chelsea when is the next fasting and miss the last one. It's going to be the end of this month the last week of this month I'll be making an announcement soon I can't remember the exact dates but like 2324 25 somewhere around there. You're welcome Katrina. All right. All right ladies I'm going to let you go I love you so much. And if you miss if if you if you're catching the replay please type replay in the chat and and put your questions in because I will answer questions as I can. All right lots of love ladies take care.