Your problem isn't a plumbing problem. It's a signaling problem.
Your colon moves when it receives a chemical signal — short-chain fatty acids, produced by the bacteria in your gut. When those bacteria are healthy, the signal arrives and your colon contracts on its own.
But those bacteria don't live in empty space. They live on your gut lining. And after years of laxatives, antibiotics, stress, poor sleep, and aging, that lining thins out. The environment changes. The bacteria that make your signal are the first to go.
No lining, no bacteria. No bacteria, no signal. No signal, no urge.
That's why you say "I lost the urge" and "my body forgot how."
Fiber adds bulk. Magnesium pulls in water. Probiotics add bacteria. A laxative forces a squeeze.
Every one of those is something you do to your gut lining. Not one of them is something you give it.
Seelev gives it. 5,000mg of whole bovine colostrum, every morning.