Slow vs. Fast Transit Time: What Your Poop Is Telling You
What if your poop is more honest than your doctor? 🧻
Understanding your bowel transit time could reveal hidden causes behind bloating, fatigue, breakouts, and poor detox.
In this video, Dr. Erica Steele, a holistic and board-certified naturopathic doctor, breaks down how to track your bowel transit time using simple tools like beets, corn, or sesame seeds. You’ll learn how to assess your digestive speed—whether it’s slow, normal, or fast—and what to do about it.
💩 What you’ll learn:
What’s a healthy bowel transit time (18–24 hours)?
What fast vs. slow transit means for your detox pathways
How to test your bowel transit time at home
Tools like the Bristol Stool Chart, food markers, and symptom tracking
🎓 This is part of Intro to Holistic Medicine II: Detox & Elimination, a 12-week course that teaches you to decode your digestion and detox patterns.
📥 Get the printable tracker & try our app: https://nueb.io/drericasteele
📲 Learn to sync bowel tracking with the Holistic Life App
💬 Comment below with your Bristol Stool Chart number 😄
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⏱️ Timestamps + Chapters:
00:00 – Intro: Bowel Transit Time = Your Body’s Truth Teller
00:30 – What Fast, Normal, and Slow Transit Means
01:03 – Testing Transit Time with Beets, Corn, Charcoal
01:36 – How to Track Transit Time Over Days
02:07 – Why This Matters for Nutrient Absorption & Detox
