Your “bubbly” gut will thank you.
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When you’re feeling backed up, the struggle to find relief is real. While there are plenty of medications and supplements on the market to help ease constipation, sometimes, you just want an easy and natural alternative. Well, we’ve got one for you: blowing bubbles. Yep, you read that right. Some say that blowing bubbles for constipation relief is legit.
Karan Rajan, MRCS, MBBS, a surgeon with the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) and health and science content creator, says this playful-sounding trick might actually work. In one of his recent TikTok videos, Dr. Rajan explains that changing how you breathe—whether by pretending to blow bubbles, blowing out a candle, or even making an elongated “moo” sound—can activate your vagus nerve (a main component of the nervous system) and trigger wave-like contractions (aka peristalsis) to get things moving.
