6 Water Recovery and Stool System · 6.1 Proximal Small Intestinal Water Recovery
6.1 Proximal Small Intestinal Water Recovery
Feline Fat-Based Metabolism (Fat-Based Metabolism)
Proximal small-intestinal water recovery affects how much water remains available for later intestinal segments. It is an upstream water-handling control variable in constipation backtrace.
Water recovery is not the same as drinking water. Upstream intestinal recovery sets the stool water basis before colonic propulsion and secretion variables act.
Do not explain constipation only as “not drinking enough.” Link recovery to SGLT1-Mediated Water-Sodium Absorption and upstream food structure.
SGLT1-Mediated Water-Sodium Absorption drives cotransport-linked water recovery.
Exogenous Carbohydrate Load influences proximal handling.
Downstream output variable for backtrace.
Later-segment variable after proximal recovery.
upstream food structure
proximal small-intestinal water recovery
water available to distal gut
stool water content and colonic propulsion
constipation or loose stool observable outputs
Constipation index and stool hardness patterns backtrace through recovery variables—not through water bowl volume alone.
constipation = drinks too little by default
proximal recovery = drinking water intake
This page defines proximal water recovery only. Not a clinical diagnosis system, not a treatment protocol, not an effect-guarantee system.