Warning Signs
That You Should NOT Ignore

Why is it that the most important issue (your health) never gets addressed until you are sick? If you are aware of the warning signs, the "little" symptoms that can lead to larger health problems, you can head off disaster. Prevention is far less costly than disaster recovery - physically, emotionally, and financially. Let's learn to read the signs and take heed when our body starts to warn us of impending ill health.

Many of us don't know the "subtle" warning signals we experience on a daily basis. We are bombarded daily by so many advertisements designed to mask these symptoms, rather than find the cause of them, that we have come to believe that the symptoms are "normal". If we only temporarily relieve the symptom and don't get to the root cause of it, it WILL escalate and cause further damage to your body.

All illness, disease, and symptoms of ill health are related. There is no such thing as an "isolated" health problem in your body. Treating any symptom as an isolated incident, without determining the root cause of the symptom, will not fix it, only mask it. On this basis, we, at The Wolfe Clinic, work with you and your body as a "whole" so that your body's build-in healing mechanism can give you balance and vital health. 

Did you know that . . .pain of any kind means your body is in crisis? This means headaches, neck aches, back aches, leg cramps, menstrual cramps - pain of any kind.

When your body is in crisis, some of the warning signs it will give you are:

Nature's Way of Telling You

The quality of your bowel movements is nature’s way of telling you the level of health you are experiencing. Just as you need to monitor what goes in your mouth, stool investigation will give you valuable information regarding your highway to health, the digestive tract. Your digestive tract is the assembly line for the food you eat. Your bowel movements can give you a clear picture daily as to whether the most important process of health is functioning properly.

Learning what to look for in your bowel movements can prevent future illness and suffering. We have been taught to feel embarrassed about talking or even thinking about our bowel movements. Do not let this get in the way of your vibrant health.

The large intestine is the sewer system of your body. Mismanagement will only cause the digestive tract to become a cesspool. How does the rest of the body become toxic? The answer is "mismanagement of the large intestine". You reabsorb your own toxic waste.

What indicates a good bowel movement is, firstly, that the stool floats and does not mark the toilet bowl. One or more bowel movements EVERY day is essential to good health.

Stool Investigation

If you have any of these warning signs in your bowel movements, you must take action. These are a physical indication that things are not well in your digestive tract. An unwell digestive system is always the start of bigger health problems that can lead to chronic disease, including cancer, diabetes, arthritis, etc. You can be sure that someone with any chronic disease started out with one or more of these warning signals that were not heeded:

• blood of any color in your stool - bright red, dark red, blackish red, or totally black
• stool that is yellow, orange, olive blue, slate gray, very dark brown, or black
• offensive smelling stool
• hard stool that sinks to the bottom of the toilet bowl and/or marks the bowl
• flat thin-like stool
• stool with many small bead-like bubbles
• slimy stool that appears to have mucous in it
• bowel movements that require effort on your part to excrete
• less than one complete bowel movement EVERY day.
  

These symptoms are warning signs of bigger health problems if they are not addressed properly. Stools should normally be soft, a medium brown color, and should float, and this should occur a minimum of once per day. If this is not the case with your bowel movements, you need to fix the situation before it escalates into chronic illness. 

As embarrassing as it might be for both you and your children, it is important to check with your children on a regular basis, as to the quality of their bowel movements. Remember when they were babies and you did this on a regular basis? Remember when you took them to the doctor and one of the first questions he asked was about your child's bowel movements? Somewhere along the way, we forget the importance of this vital key to good health.