The Truth About Colon Cleanse
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One new alternative medicine therapy that is popping up all over is the colon cleanse. You see it on television, hear about it on the radio and even get plenty of spam in your email box about it but is it really good for you?
It is important to maintain a clean colon by watching your diet and avoiding fats, sugars, processed foods and drinking plenty of water throughout the day. By doing this, the colon is able to do its job naturally and there is no need for a colon cleanse to begin with.
Colon cleanses can actually be dangerous for you as the ingredients sometimes used can cause the bacteria and natural chemicals in the colon to get out of their natural balance, making the colon not able to perform its functions properly. It is also possible to absorb too much water using a colon cleanse.
Many types of colon cleanses use equipment, as well, for the process that needs to be sterilized and sanitized. What happens if it is not done correctly? Unhealthy bacteria enters the picture and you become sick or worse. Long term use of colon cleanses can lead to anemia, malnutrition or even heart failure. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/colon-cleansing/AN00065
Eat right, exercise and let your colon do its job.
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Great points you’ve mentioned! The majority of ailments these days are a direct result of the horrible, processed foods that people are eating by the ton….litterally! If people would only eat fresh, local foods, there would be a much healthier population!!
dave
Good information about colon cleanse that makes us to know about the positive effects of colon health.
Mandy,
you are so spot on with this post. I would like to point out that Probiotics should be used after a cleanse. This restores the natural bacteria to the former levels.
Best wishes,
Jan Smith
The “Queen” of Colon Cleansing
I think getting a regular colon cleanse is very helpful to your overall health. I read about a guy that got 3 colonics EVERY 6 month since the age of about 40…and he lived to be about 100, and in perfect health…nary a problem.
Its true when they say your health begins in the colon. If all those toxic products are trapped inside your body forever…you can imagine the harm it can do to you all over your body.
So I agree w/ them. But be sure to get good quality probiotics put back into your gut (they make a lot of great vitacaps, capsule forms) that can do a great job of putting the “good bacteria” where it belongs. It will keep you healthy for life.
Wow…maybe i’m wrong about the colonics. I didn’t realize it could be so harmful…:) Maybe exercise and regular exercise is the better, more gentle way to handle this type of thing, and it’s true, that you never REALLY know what germs are creeping back into your body w/ colon therapy.
You definately don’t want your system to be “out of whack” wich the bad bacteria and germs.
You gave me something to think about…great article.
Sheila
This is absolutely ridiculous! While is it certain that many types of colon cleanses would have their flaws, and could potentially lead to some problems by creating imbalance in the body, it is just as certain that proper cleansing of your digestive tract is IMPERATIVE to proper function of the body!!! By the time somebody is old enough to consider ‘eating right’ (which by the way, most peoples versions of this, however (psuedo)organic they think they are, still contribute polluted waste to the body that does not get purged) they already have a filthy digestive tract. Why? Because from the time they were infants their parents were feeding them garbage and they lived half their lives before they realized that eating this garbage is not good for them.
The damage is done. Period. Nobody has clean insides and your insides don’t magically ‘clean themselves’ by eating the right foods. Most people have a lifetimes worth of compacted fecal matter inside of them leading to all sorts of disgusting thoughts like parasite breeding grounds fpr starters. If you don’t clean out this waste which is the perfect hiding place for parasites, it will kill you eventually. Or some symptom caused by the presence of this compacted waste will destroy your health, but of course, it will get blamed on something else like genetic weakness or “catching” something.
A clean healthy alimentary canal is the single most important primer to achieving balanced well-being and good health. That is a simple fact.
A colon cleanse is not good enough, you need to clean the entire alimentary canal using herbs, see ariseandshine.com. The most comprehensive cleanse available. I am not a paid spokesperson, I am somebody who has spent many months cleansing. I have lived my whole life organic vegan (except my childhood) and I have lived the last year 100% raw food. I WAS TRULY APPALED AT THE WASTE THAT WAS INSIDE OF ME. Believe me, once you start down the path, you dont stop until you are healthy. Because once you are aware of the garbage that is inside of you, polluting your blood and destroying your health, you will want it all gone! Unless of course you would rather subscribe to the dominant paradigm and simply take some Rx drugs to mask the symptoms of your failing health.
Why do you think the average lifespan is only 60-80 years in this so called advanced society? Because people spend those years consuming poisons which they think are food.
If you want to be healthy, you have to clean you insides. Find the right, safe way to do it, and get started. That is the only way. Humans are meant to live MUCH LONGER than they do.
And your argument ‘against’ colon cleansing was not convincing at all, and you presented no viable evidence to back up your opinion.
Yeah, it could promote bacterial imbalance. That is why you supplement with bacteria that belong there. NOT acidophilis, the real bacterias that belong in the human body. Bifidum infantis, which is found in mothers milk passed to the child, and other allies of this kind.
People who are studying cleansing, trying to reclaim their health: DON’T LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE. IT IS NONSENSE AND HAS NO FACTUAL INFORMATION WHATSOEVER. Find the right cleanse program, and clean yourself out. That is the only way to achieve health.