What is the link between calves and colons?

squishysangel
squishysangel Posts: 149 Member
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Ok all my life I have had a link between my calves and my colon....what is with this?

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  • RollinDawg
    RollinDawg Posts: 235 Member
    Not sure why I want to ask this, but....what?
  • ohwhataday
    ohwhataday Posts: 1,398 Member
    Not sure why I want to ask this, but....what?

    Is it wrong that I giggled on the inside at this?
  • squishycow7
    squishycow7 Posts: 820 Member
    I am extremely curious about this?!!
  • cschu544
    cschu544 Posts: 320 Member
    .............uh....................what
  • Scoobiesnax
    Scoobiesnax Posts: 148 Member
    I can't wait to see how this one turns out...I'm getting some popcorn and pulling up a chair..
  • spammyanna
    spammyanna Posts: 871 Member
    Bump, only because I am curious as to what the explanation is.....
  • squishysangel
    squishysangel Posts: 149 Member
    Ok...whenever I work my calves it activates my colon. Its annoying as h***. Doesn't matter if its a brisk walk or doing calf raises at the gym.
  • squishysangel
    squishysangel Posts: 149 Member
    LOL I hope its worth it
  • vwfrog
    vwfrog Posts: 57 Member
    Libraries and book stores will generate the same result.
  • lynnie30
    lynnie30 Posts: 105 Member
    um, maybe see a doctor?
    Did you google it? lol
  • melbaby925
    melbaby925 Posts: 613
    Unh...I had to read this one twice and laughed, but I actually think that I have some light to shed on this. (I think my brain is just full of bits of unrelated trivia sometimes...)

    Your lymph system is tied to the calves - when you walk and/or move around, the calf muscles push lymph fluid around the body - jeez, I hope I'm remembering this correctly - and the colon is the way you cleanse all of it out?

    Gah - that sounded like a total reach to me. I think a massage therapist told me this once. It's why being sedentary is so bad - no movement of the lymph system, none of the trash gets taken out.
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    What the fff...?
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    ask someone who does Chinese medicine. maybe there was too much air circulating on your neck.
  • squishysangel
    squishysangel Posts: 149 Member
    Libraries and book stores will generate the same result.

    No not usually the cause hot flashes ( due to over stimulation :tongue: )
  • squishysangel
    squishysangel Posts: 149 Member
    Unh...I had to read this one twice and laughed, but I actually think that I have some light to shed on this. (I think my brain is just full of bits of unrelated trivia sometimes...)

    Your lymph system is tied to the calves - when you walk and/or move around, the calf muscles push lymph fluid around the body - jeez, I hope I'm remembering this correctly - and the colon is the way you cleanse all of it out?

    Gah - that sounded like a total reach to me. I think a massage therapist told me this once. It's why being sedentary is so bad - no movement of the lymph system, none of the trash gets taken out.

    Thankyou Mel....makes sense.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,049 Member
    I figured the only relationship was actually eating a calf and it goes through your colon..............................
  • spammyanna
    spammyanna Posts: 871 Member
    I am having the opposite problem, since I started running, I am only having a BM once a week, and that's only after I take a laxative.

    At least your colon is moving.
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    Is it the taint?
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Not sure why I want to ask this, but....what?

    Is it wrong that I giggled on the inside at this?

    I giggled on the outside.
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    Not sure why I want to ask this, but....what?

    Is it wrong that I giggled on the inside at this?

    I giggled on the outside.

    Is inside/outside giggling the missing link?
  • rebecca9341
    rebecca9341 Posts: 66 Member
    Ok, so basically the act of ambulation (walking) increase paristalsis (movement of waste through the bowels). In layman terms, the more you move the faster your poop moves out of you.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    I figured the only relationship was actually eating a calf and it goes through your colon..............................

    LMGDAO
  • tracielinn
    tracielinn Posts: 113 Member
    I have the same issue, especially after a really hard workout. It gets very annoying after awhile! :)
  • squishysangel
    squishysangel Posts: 149 Member
    Ok, so basically the act of ambulation (walking) increase paristalsis (movement of waste through the bowels). In layman terms, the more you move the faster your poop moves out of you.

    Thank you...
  • squishysangel
    squishysangel Posts: 149 Member
    I have the same issue, especially after a really hard workout. It gets very annoying after awhile! :)

    Finally someone who has this issue too....its so nice to not be alone out here :flowerforyou:
  • philosohoe
    philosohoe Posts: 272 Member
    I am having the opposite problem, since I started running, I am only having a BM once a week, and that's only after I take a laxative.

    At least your colon is moving.

    How's your fiber intake? That might make a difference along with water. If you added running, maybe you need to increase your water to help everything, you know, move a little quicker. Just a thought.
  • rebecca9341
    rebecca9341 Posts: 66 Member
    I am having the opposite problem, since I started running, I am only having a BM once a week, and that's only after I take a laxative.

    At least your colon is moving.

    How's your fiber intake? That might make a difference along with water. If you added running, maybe you need to increase your water to help everything, you know, move a little quicker. Just a thought.


    watch it on the laxative use also, long term laxative use has the opposite desired effect. Meaning it will constipate you even more. assuming you just started taking laxatives, i'm sure all is well on that front.
  • deanadimples
    deanadimples Posts: 419 Member
    When I first read this post (before the explanations)....all I heard in my head was the Minion from Despicable Me going..."Whaaaaat?"

    Well that was...interesting.
  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
    A sausage link?
  • queenofthemountains
    queenofthemountains Posts: 29
    I have the same problem with tea. Black tea or green tea, makes no odds - but infusions don't have the same effect. How does it KNOW??!
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