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	This Japanese macaque knows that proper sleep is essential for bowel health.

If you’re not getting enough deep sleep then your body isn’t able to “process your pooh” properly.  It’s during the night that much of the process of elimination takes place (while daytime is the time for eating and assimilation).

Emails flooded my inbox asking me to write more about Thursday’s The Proof is in the Pooh wellness tip – where I explained how unhealthy bowel movements usually mean whatever diet you are following isn’t working for you.

But today I want to emphasize another major factor that can lead to constipation or loose stools: Lack of quality sleep.

Before electric lights our ancestors had little reason to be awake at night (as I explain in module 38 of Future Health Now!). Your body assumes a warring tribe from across the river is preparing to attack if you’re not sound asleep after 10pm (11pm Daylight Savings Time). This state of “fight or flight” diverts energy to your arms and legs and away from your stomach and colon.

After ten, your body revs itself up. You’ll probably get hungry and eat some cold food from the fridge. Instead of letting your body process it’s pooh… it’ll be forced to assimilate even more food — dividing its energies with double duty night shift. (Don’t think I can’t hear the punsters out there reading “double do-do” into the previous sentence.)

So if you’re not moving at least two large stools a day (that are the consistency of a ripe banana) try getting to bed earlier and see if it makes a difference.

P.S. If you’d like one-on-one time with me on the telephone to fine tune your health program click here to book a spot. There are still a few spots left in March.

P.P.S. In future pooh posts I’ll talk more about when to have those bowel movements and how many are enough. Until then, did you miss the original The Proof is in the Pooh wellness tip? You can still click here to read it now.

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