What is a ‘normal’ amount to have come out in a bowel movement each day?
Whether in daily life or in a detox program there is no set number of bowel movements a day that everyone must have. “Optimal elimination” means as much as necessary to dispose of the materials that will affect the system negatively. With a good, healthy diet (free of toxins) one should eliminate feces after every meal. Most of us eliminate much less often than that—in general we are a constipated population—and it’s now considered normal to have one movement a day, with many people having even less than that. In its healthiest state, the stool should have the color and consistency of peanut butter (though some healthy foods like dark green vegetables turn it darker). When your stool is more solid than this consistency, it is an early sign of constipation. A healthy stool should not smell in a way that urges the evacuation of the bathroom and it should not take too much effort to eliminate. When you switch from a poor diet to a better one, better bowel movements are of the earliest ben
