From: "Adrienne Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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> also makes me constipated and tired at the gym.  For some reason, meat,
fish,
> poutltry and lots of veggies just do not get my bowels moving the same way
> fruit does.  I don't want to spend my life having to rely on herbal
laxative
> remedies.  Any other women out there following the Cordain version with
> success?  And if so, could you tell us a typical daily diet?

What I do:
Drink a lot of water. Work up to several liters or more per day

Use psyllium fiber. I have used this daily for about ten or twelve years. I
drink a glass of water with 2 - 3 tablespoons of unrefined fiber mixed in,
often with another glass of water. I do this several hours before bedtime
but at least an hour or two after dinner, so I am not up urinating all night
and so that I can digest my dinner relatively unmixed with the fiber.

I have found that I cannot do as well without the fiber, even on paleo. It
makes things much better for me and it is impossible to be really
constipated this way. Recent reserach has shown that this type of fiber is
partially digested by bacteria in the gut ecosystem. It seems to be very
beneficial for me and nothing else completely replaces it.

--Richard

Is it paleo? Probably not in the strictest sense, although it works for me.
Psyllium fiver