For less than the price of a co-pay, Your Friendly Neighborhood Colorectal Surgeon, Dr. Carmen Fong, explains the history and science behind why we go and why we cant. Grounded in research, Constipation Nation is a comprehensive resource for the millions of Americans who struggle with bowel issues and want answers but dont know who to ask.
A definitive guide to the science and history of constipation across the nation.
Most Americans have had constipation symptoms at some point in their lives. Statistics show up to 30% of Americans are affected with chronic constipation. This number reaches 60% as we age. At any given time up to 100 million people in the United States have constipation. During the pandemic, constipation and its related anorectal issues worsened because everyone was sitting at home.
Constipation has affected humans throughout history. Some called it civilizations curse. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (yes, of Kelloggs cereal fame) promoted cold cereal as a constipation cure. Today, we have more probiotics and diets than you can shake your tushy at, and social media has popularized the Blue Poop Challenge to diagnose gut health. But what does it all mean?
After seeing thousands of patients in her practice as a colorectal surgeon, Dr. Fong realized that she was repeating the same information, sometimes twenty times a day. Yet, this information was not common knowledge. What was found on the Internet was confusing and conflicting, leaving people who Googled their symptoms with more questions than answers. As an academic clinician who has written peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Fong sought information beyond even what the medical textbooks taught her.
Constipation Nation helps readers who would rather research information themselves before seeing a healthcare professional to troubleshoot their poop chute. Drawing from 200 evidence-based sources as well as historical texts, Constipation Nation addresses all aspects of constipation, combining medicine, physiology, anatomy, microbiology, nutrition, history, and social sciences to get to the bottom of it all to explain why we doo
and why we dont.
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Dr. Fong has written an extraordinarily comprehensive book on a pervasively common concernthat of constipation. Her encyclopedic approach to this subject is truly remarkable. As a colon and rectal surgeon, myself, I learned considerably more about bowel evacuatory dysfunction than I had heretofore believed I understood. While written for a lay audience, it is at once a scientific, yet personal approach and is accompanied by an extensive bibliography. The author is to be congratulated on providing a worthy medical text for all individuals troubled by this condition. -- Marvin L. Corman, professor of Surgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, M.D. Dr. Carmen Fong makes talking about poop fun! This easy-to-read, helpful book is packed with medically backed information that helps patients poop better, start conversations with their doctors, and break the stigmas that keep so many silent. -- Danielle Ripley-Burgess, vice president of Disease Awareness, Fight Colorectal Cancer, and author of Blush: How I Barely Survived 17
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For less than the price of a co-pay, Your Friendly Neighborhood Colorectal Surgeon, Dr. Carmen Fong, explains the history and science behind why we go and why we cant. Grounded in research, Constipation Nation is a comprehensive resource for the millions of Americans who struggle with bowel issues and want answers but dont know who to ask.
Preface
Part I: The Scope of the Problem
Chapter
1. Introduction: Why me?
Chapter 2: What Constipation Is? (Why we doo... and why we dont
Chapter
3. You Are Not Alone (The Statistics)
Chapter
4. History Constipation Is the Root of All Evils Or Is It?
Chapter
5. All Animals Poop (A Bit of Natural history and How Pooping Works
Chapter
6. Embryology, Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter
7. Anal Immune System- The Anus Cleans Itself
Chapter
8. Trained to Contain (Potty Training and Poop Shaming)
Chapter
9. Pregnancy and Constipation
Chapter
10. You Cant Poop Out a Bad Diet
Chapter
11. Probiotics and the Gut Microbiome
Chapter
12. Bearing the Load- Exercise
Chapter
13. Coffee or not covfefe?
Chapter
14. Nature calls- Natural Supplements
Chapter
15. Other Treatments People Have Tried (warm water, SNS)
Part II:
Chapter
16. Monday Morning Hemorrhoids and Other Scenarios
Chapter
17. Common complaints and takeaways
Chapter
18. My mother, a Case Study of an Irregular Pooping Cycle
(Parkinsons and Constipation)
Chapter
19. Diagnosis
Chapter
20. The COVID connection
Chapter
21. When Surgery is Necessary
Chapter
22. The flip side of the coin (fecal incontinence)
Chapter
23. Bugs or drugs? Infections and Pharmaceuticals
Chapter
24. Mimics of constipation: when to get medical attention
Chapter
25. Recipes Ideas for Constipation
Chapter
26. Conclusion and future directions
The Ten Bowel Commandments
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Carmen Fong, MD, FACS, is a Chinese American writer and colorectal surgeon. Shes a New York City transplant who now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her wife, daughter, and two cats. Fong is co-director of the Hemorrhoid Centers of America and specializes in office-based proctology, and most recently was an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She sees patients with constipation every single day. During her training, Fong won multiple awards and presented at national meetings. Shes a member of the Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, where she sits on the Ethics and Health Advocacy Committees, and shes a member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, where shes active on the Young Surgeons Committee. She has been an ambassador for Fight Colorectal Cancer!, a national advocacy group.
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