Brewer’s yeast can help relieve, reduce, or eliminate constipation. If you can handle the taste, add it to your juices morning and night.
Brewer’s yeast contains all the B vitamins except B12. It also contains many vitamins, minerals and is rich in amino acids.
When you first use brewer’s yeast, it will create gas in your colon. Brewer’s yeast supplements the good bacteria in your colon and increases their count. This increase in good bacteria triggers a battle between the good and bad bacteria creating gas as a byproduct. Keep using brewer’s yeast until the gas stops. This takes a few weeks, but you are doing one of the best things you can do for your health: increasing the good bacteria and reducing the bad bacteria.
You can enhance the benefit of using brewer’s yeast by eating cultured yogurt or supplementing the good bacteria capsules between meals. You want to do this between meals so that when you take your supplement your stomach doesn’t produce a lot of HCl acid, which would kill off the good bacteria.
If you like or are taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors, do not take brewer’s yeast.
MSM
MSM stands for methyl sulfonyl methane. MSM is organic sulfur. It provides many benefits to the body and is widely used as an anti-inflammatory and is especially useful for arthritis pain. MSM is used in all cells and tissues in the body, including joint tissue.
MSM is especially good for relieving constipation.
The MSM in your colon stops or blocks the activity of cholinesterase (ko-li-nes-ter-ace.)
What is cholinesterase?
Our nervous system is made up of a network of nerve cells, starting in the brain and ending in all parts of our body. It is the nerves that direct muscle contraction or expansion for your bowel movements. Once the muscle completes its movement, a cholinesterase enzyme is released, which prevents the muscle from moving again. Without the nerve signal that cholinesterase blocks, the muscle would continue to move without stopping.
MSM is helpful in eliminating constipation. It allows more colon contractions to occur, helping you get rid of constipation. When I have used MSM, up to 6000-8000mg per day, I have had up to 3-4 bowel movements per day. Since MSM blocks cholinesterase activity, it allows more peristaltic action to occur in the colon.
Using 2000-4000 mg of MSM, you can keep your bowel movements up to 2-3 times a day. Of course, for each person the amount will be different.
The action that MSM has on your colon is useful for older people who have fewer nerve signals for peristalsis. Cholinesterase stops the few peristalsis signals older people have, leading to constipation.
In SW Jacob, MD, RM Lawrence MD, Ph.D, and M. Zucker’s book, The Miracle of MSM, 1999, they say:
“As a dietary supplement, MSM offers great potential for anyone with constipation. MSM produces a general ‘tonic’ effect on the intestines and normalizes bowel function, particularly for older people. We have administered MSM to nursing homes, where constipation is a common problem. Nurses have said that MSM works well for patients, even for people who don’t respond to Metamucil or stool softeners.”
This is where you can buy MSM torpedoes. http://www.richdistributing.com
The rich distribution has good quality products. I have always received good service and fast shipping. I recommend you buy the MSM torpedo tablet. It is a flat oval tablet of 1000 mg. This allows you to take 4000-5000mg of MSM by taking just 4-5 tablets. They are easy to swallow.
The effects of MSM during pregnancy have not been evaluated, so it is best not to use it during this time.
Get constipation relief using brewer’s yeast and MSM. MSM is easy to use. Brewer’s yeast takes a while to get used to.