# What causes constipation?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Heba Shaheed
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/heba_shaheed_what_causes_constipation)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Visiting the bathroom is part of the daily human experience. But occasionally, constipation, a condition that causes a backup in your digestive system, strikes. In some especially uncomfortable cases, the food you eat can take several days to exit your body. What's behind this unsettling phenomenon? Heba Shaheed takes us into the digestive system to find out. \[Directed by Mimi Chiu, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Eric Matyas\].

## Lectures

1. [What causes constipation?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/heba_shaheed_what_causes_constipation/1b726f49b8cd), 4 min (TED's player)