{"id":42262,"date":"2022-12-03T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T01:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42262"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T01:04:54","slug":"this-may-be-the-most-overlooked-measure-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42262","title":{"rendered":"This may be the most overlooked measure of health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-42263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Puzzled_Doctor-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Puzzled Doctor\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Puzzled_Doctor-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Puzzled_Doctor-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Puzzled_Doctor.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are several key measures or values that indicate things about your health and whether there may be an issue brewing.<\/p>\n<p>Anytime you step into a doctor\u2019s office you will see this in action. You will likely have your heart rate and blood pressure measured, your temperature taken, and the most dreaded one of all\u2014stepping on the scale to get your weight.<\/p>\n<p>But there is another measure that 99.9 percent of doctors do not even think of, but it is arguably just as important as the other items I mentioned above!<\/p>\n<p>I am talking about your \u201cbowel transit time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let us take a close look at your BMs and see why your bowel transit time is pretty darn important.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.holisticblends.com\/en-au\/blogs\/holistic-blends-blog\/this-may-be-the-most-overlooked-measure-of-health\">https:\/\/www.holisticblends.com\/en-au\/blogs\/holistic-blends-blog\/this-may-be-the-most-overlooked-measure-of-health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several key measures or values that indicate things about your health and whether there may be an issue brewing. Anytime you step into a doctor\u2019s office you will see this in action. You will likely have your heart rate and blood pressure measured, your temperature taken, and the most dreaded one of all\u2014stepping &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=42262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This may be the most overlooked measure of health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42264,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42262\/revisions\/42264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}