Alicia Silverstone Came Up with 'The Kind Diet' by Helping Her Girlfriends Poop

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Everybody poops. It’s a message we all teach our kids — but what happens when you’re not pooping quite as much or as regularly as you’d like to? If you’re a girlfriend of beloved Clueless actress Alicia Silverstone , you get her on the phone ASAP. At SHE Media’s #BlogHer20 Health event, we learned that Silverstone is something of a poop guru in her friend group. In fact, it was her pals’ excitement about Silverstone’s bowel-moving magic that gave her the idea for her first book: The Kind Diet . Since then, Silverstone has published two books and launched The Kind Life , a wellness community that offers tips on how to eat a vegan diet, shop sustainably, and more. But the actress herself readily admits it: it all started with the poop.

As mom to 9-year-old son Bear Blue Jarecki , Silverstone is no stranger to poop, and she was happy to help her friends when they called. “ The Kind Diet and T he Kind Mama , the books that I wrote, that came from people asking me all the time — some friends would be like ‘I don’t poop for 10 days. How do I poop?'” Silverstone told Variety reporter Audrey Cleo Yap.

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“And I would help them, I’d be like, ‘ this is what you eat , and this is what you stop eating, and you’ll poop every single day, and sometimes twice a day, which is fantastic. You should be pooping that much!” the actress continued. “ Writing little prescriptions at home turned into a book — or suggestions, I should say.”

I won’t lie — I’m intrigued. And of course, Silverstone says her switch to a vegan diet has impacted so much more than just her digestion. “If I don’t eat well, I don’t sleep well,” she explains. “And if I don’t sleep well, I’m a grumpy mama.”

When Silverstone found her way to plant-based living, she found both a calm and an energy she’d never expected. Those oh-so-regular trips to the bathroom? Just the icing on top.

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