I am a holistic nurse practitioner and here are all the VERY surprising ways your POOP affects your weight

A holistic nursing specialist has lifted the lid on the surprising ways your bowel movements can affect your weight.

Jonathan Mendoza, who is known as ‘Nurse Doza’, has more than 193,000 followers on TikTokwhere he shares educational videos about health and wellness.

The Austin, Texas-based content creator went viral this week after explaining how healthy pooping equals weight loss, while unhealthy pooping leads to weight gain.

“I bet you didn’t think your stool could affect your weight in a good or bad way, but it can,” he began.

Known as “Nurse Doza,” Mendoza has more than 193,000 followers on the platform, where he shares educational videos on health and wellness

“If your digestive tract isn’t working in any way, your body is no good, including your overall health,” he continued. ‘And let’s be honest, you really don’t get that with a healthy person with weight gain.’

Nurse Doza said she should view weight gain as inflammation in the body that “causes destruction and dysfunction.”

“Imagine you have arthritis of your knee. Your knee will swell. That’s exactly the problem,’ he explained. “Well, imagine if you had arthritis in your stomach.”

The NP gave an example of someone who knows that his overall lifestyle, including his eating habits, is the cause of the weight gain.

“Okay, where do you put this lifestyle?” he asked. ‘You put your lifestyle here in your fat cells, and you put it here in your liver, and you cause them to become inflamed, which causes you to become inflamed.”

When it comes to your bowel movements, he noted that if your digestive tract is working properly, you eat food, digest it, metabolize it, and then poop it out.

“Isn’t that exactly how health should work?” he said. “So if it’s backed up somewhere and it’s stored in my fat cells, my liver, it’s most likely because I couldn’t poop it out.”

Nurse Doza added that he often asks patients how many times they defecate in a day to assess their health.

“If it’s backed up somewhere and it’s stored in my fat cells, my liver, it’s most likely because I couldn’t poop it out,” he explained.

The nursing specialist stressed that healthy poop should be a “general focus of longevity” because “health poop is a sign of good health”

“Don’t just think of it as weight gain,” he advised. Think of it as health. Because healthy poop is a sign of good health… A general focus of longevity and health should be healthy pooping, and it’s one reason we should talk about this.”

The nurse specialist’s video has been viewed more than 390,000 times in a few days.

‘This! I worked full time all summer and waited until I got home to go to the bathroom. Gained more than five pounds because of being held,” one person replied.

“I know exactly what you’re talking about,” someone else commented. “(It) happens when I eat bread or wheat products.”

Another added that they “agree 100 percent” and said, “I have to do it every day.”

Nurse Doza recently shared his “ultimate guide to healthier stools” on his podcast, Doza’s school.

He explained that most people don’t even realize they have digestive problems because they think it’s normal to go to the toilet once every two or three days.

“That’s not normal,” he said. “Pooping healthily means going when you want consistently, and you can count on your fingers how many times you’ve been in the past few days. That is not the case for most people. That’s not the norm.’

“You should be able to poop daily,” he added. “You should be able to poop after meals. You should be able to poop first thing in the morning because your body is relaxed.”