Regular, complete movements
Constipation
Also searched as Constipation.
You want it relieved. The endpoint to demand is the between-group difference in complete spontaneous bowel movements, not a within-arm improvement — and stool form and straining should move with it, or the number is doing the work alone.
In depth
Infrequent, hard or incomplete bowel movements — counted in the literature as complete spontaneous bowel movements per week, with straining and stool form recorded alongside. It is the outcome that slow transit produces.
What drives it
Moves everything along reduces it.
In constipated patients, a 5-HT4 agonist that accelerated colonic and whole-gut transit simultaneously increased stool frequency and softened stool form, showing that faster gut transit relieves constipation. doi 10.1053/gast.2001.21166 · PMID 11159875
Blends that modulate it
Each blend page names this pathway and carries the study behind its claim.
See it on the map
Open the causal map to follow this pathway upstream and downstream, arrow by arrow, each with its study.