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Irregular Bowel Habits

Irregular Bowel Habits

Irregular bowel transit (constipation, diarrhoea, or alternating patterns) most often reflects an imbalance of the intestinal microbiota. This imbalance, known as dysbiosis, alters fermentation, disrupts motility, and promotes low-grade inflammation. Food intolerances (gluten, dairy) aggravate this condition: they weaken the intestinal mucosa, increase hyperpermeability, and sustain variability in bowel transit. Chronic stress and hormonal fluctuations (premenstrual syndrome, menopause) also play a role by disturbing nervous regulation and digestive motility.

Cellular Nutrition provides particularly effective solutions: it helps rebalance the microbiota (targeted probiotics), reduce digestive inflammation, and correct micronutrient deficiencies linked to poor absorption. These approaches restore food tolerance, stabilise bowel transit, and sustainably improve digestive comfort.

To better understand these mechanisms, the assessment explores several physiological axes:

  • Gut & microbiota axis: dysbiosis, intestinal hyperpermeability, excessive fermentation, irregular bowel transit, bloating, spasms, post-gastroenteritis sequelae.
  • Neuropsychic axis: the role of stress and chronic fatigue on the gut–brain axis, disturbances of the vagus nerve, reduced digestive serotonin aggravating transit instability.
  • Hormonal axis: bowel variations linked to the menstrual cycle (progesterone, oestrogen), heightening digestive sensitivity.
  • Dietary & lifestyle axis: aggravating role of gluten, dairy, excess raw fibre, sugar, and alcohol, which sustain inflammation and variability of bowel function.

This assessment highlights the dominant imbalances responsible for unstable bowel transit and identifies the key corrective levers. Through nutritional optimisation and targeted micronutritional supplementation, it becomes possible to restore digestive tolerance, stabilise the microbiota, and improve daily intestinal comfort.

Complimentary Online Assessment

Complete a brief questionnaire to receive personalised recommendations. Access your results at any time in your secure personal account under "My Assessments."

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