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Can Stress Cause Constipation?

The human digestive system is extremely susceptible to stress, and one of the most common ways stress affects your bowels is by causing one of the most painful, uncomfortable and dangerous digestive issues - constipation. Here is why that happens and how you can treat constipation brought about by stress.

The Link Between Stress and Constipation

Constipation is when a person is experiencing infrequent bowel movements or difficulty passing stools. The condition is characterized by the following symptoms:

• Passing less than 3 stools a week.
• Hard, dry or lumpy stools.
• Straining during bowel movements.
• Incomplete bowel movements.
• Painful bowel movements.

Chronic constipation is diagnosed when a person experiences two or more of the symptoms for a period of two consecutive months. A variety of health conditions can cause chronic constipation and the diagnosis requires professional medical help. However, irrespective of how often you experience constipation or how severe your condition is, there are certain factors that can increase your risk of constipation, the most well known of which are dehydration, a lack of physical activity and not having enough fiber in your diet.

There are also factors you can't control, such as age or gender, with women and older adults being at a higher risk of suffering from constipation. The last, but unfortunately not the least thing that triggers constipation is stress. Stressful situations make the different glands in our body release certain hormones, which can then wreak havoc on different systems, your gut included. The first of those hormones is epinephrine, which is produced by the adrenal glands.

Epinephrine makes the body redirect the blood flow from the gut in favor of increasing the blood supply to the heart, lungs, and brain. This is part of the so-called fight or flight response to stress. This results in worse blood supply to the gut and possibly the slowing down of intestinal movement, which can result in constipation.

The second hormone that can cause constipation is the corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF), which is secreted in the part of our brain called the hypothalamus. Through blood, this hormone travels directly to the intestines, making them slow down and increases the risk of constipation.

Apart from that, stress can affect your gut lining, making your abdomen feel heavy or full. Finally, stressful situations are suggested to reduce the number of healthy gut bacteria, possibly because we tend to eat unhealthy when we're stressed out, which may further slow down digestion and result in constipation as well.

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