Chew gum and recovered faster from Surgery

Surgeons have discovered chewing gums can help patients recover from colon surgery faster. Gum juice may actually fuel up gut hormones and pancreatic secretions. They made an analysis of five studies with a total of 158 patients. These patients (who had surgery) improved from colon surgery that chewed sugarless gum three times a day for five to 45 minutes while others didn’t chew any gums at all. The patients who chewed gum had recovered faster while the patients who did not chew gum stayed more days to recover from the surgery. The sugarless gum has artificial sweetener called Sorbitol and is know to have a laxative effect. This sounds sensible. This might really work. I guess, whenever I have constipation, I'll try to chew gum. Let's see what the effect is.