I don't know, a lot of people (usually the detox bunch) claim this is healthy...
I just don't buy it.
The colon is designed to purge out feces and effectively cleanse itself (with the help of dietary fibre). Does it need anymore cleansing?
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"I don't buy it" makes me shriek! It is a personal opinion, and a joke and who ever advised you then with the cafeine topic also advised you now and he also uses such comments!...and being found wrong-I mean the one who took your throne in one of the forums!
The heart pumps blood but problems occur and does not do it.
The liver, the kidneys etc., all suppose to do their job effectively-but hey-even for people who eat and exercise effectively-shit happens-so I don't know where yuo are coming from when you say the colon is designed to pump out effectively. So many colon disorders occur for a reason and then it is too late, and only surgery is aceptable when in such advance stage.
Let's see, enemas were used for a reason, no?
Strictures occur everywhere. The colon is not straight! There are convolutions and old material petrifies in there. I don't know who advises you, but the detox people you are suggesting are not well imformed in this area.
Surgeons and regular doctors are not trained in the subject of mucoid plaque and therefore remain unaware of this important bowel condition. The mucoid plaque is usually less than one-fourth of an inch in many areas of the bowel (except in heavy meat and dairy eaters). It usually develops from a semi-transparent liquid solution (mucin) and may look like it is part of the intestinal wall itself as it takes on the exact shapes, striations, and bulges of the intestinal wall. Until the mucoid plaque begins to mix with fecal matter, its color and texture may appear similar to healthy bowel mucosa. Unless one knows what they are looking for, it may be difficult to identify, especially by sight. Therefore, to doctors using endoscopy and to surgeons, it is unnoticeable unless they are familiar with the many different appearances mucoid plaque may have.
The colon is approx. five to seven feet in length and should be about two inches in diameter. Elvis’s colon when he died, was at least three and a half inches in diameter in some places and as large as four and half to five inches in diameter in others. The megacolon was jam-packed from the base of the descending colon all the way up and halfway across the transverse colon. It was filled with white, chalklike fecal material.
It is possible for fecal matter to become impacted and lodge in the digestive system. In most cases, the colon tissues eventually stretch so that stool can push its way around the impacted matter and be evacuated.
If this condition continues too long, however, the colon can stretch to the point that ist nerves are no longer capable of receiving signals effectively, and the afflicted person loses voluntary control over the contraction of his bowel muscles and becomes incontinent.
When you use one of these machines, you see wht is coming out of your colon-through the clear glass tube, and I tell you it ain't pretty!
Remember one of the Gibb brothers who died, and they found his intestines were tied up in knots and adhisions everywhere. When they operated on him, for this, he had a heart attack and died on the operating table, and the other brothers were trying to sue the doctors.
I will just say, that you get your information from people who are experienced in this specific area-Cononics-and no other. Many so called professionals are ignorant outside the square they live in!!
There is a lot about the body they don't know and it is totally outside of their awareness because they feel themselves as Gods and know it all, and this is where they fail-utterly.
Check this link out for some imfo, and if you want more ask me!
I hope you open up and accept the information in!

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http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/articles/constipation.html
http://www.wellsphere.com/digestive-health-article/colon-carcinoma/696759
http://www.wellsphere.com/singleSea...chString=Impacted+Colon+Symptoms&photoId=8738
http://shangrilabiospa.com/colonics.htm
http://www.colonic-association.com/Colon Hydrotherapy and its Clinical Applications.htm
Some herbal:
Although the specific ingredients in these products vary, they all contain some sort of laxative, be it a fibre blend or an extract of cascara sagrada bark, well known to stimulate intestinal contractions.
Classic fibres include psyllium husk, flax seed, fennel seed, slippery elm bark, apple pectin and guar gum. All of these can send you running in a hurry. And they are indeed prescribed for that very purpose by physicians. But problems can arise. Fibre absorbs water in the gut and sometimes can swell, making it difficult to expel. Usually this is prevented by drinking lots of water, which helps flush out the fibre before it has a chance to expand and form an intestinal blockage. In rare cases, with just the right (actually wrong) amount of water consumed, the mixture of fibres can be expelled as a long, stringy, slimy glop.
As we know, things do not always work as they are designed, or we do not always put the input it requires to function well. It's certainly ambitious to think that everything and anything you place in your mouth will come out a neat little fecal package and all, most especially if you eat a lot of refined products. The body is made very well, but it isn't magical.
My cousin is an oncologist and talks a lot about colons these days, as her mentor has just died of colon cancer. There is a lot of heavy putrefied material left in many digestive tracts.
When you have had a history of eating things that could have stopped up and putrefied in your tract, eating some dietary fiber can help of course. But sometimes these things adhere, and the digested food squeezes by them.
I myself have seen these chunks of black come out in the tubes of a colonic center from my boyfriend's treatments. They decreased with every session, and eventually the stuff coming out stopped being so dark and chunky. He has not changed his diet at all, but those never recurred. Of course I did not remove them and examine them, but I can draw some hypothesis from the experience.
There is also a good amount of mucus in (think of thickened saliva after eating something overly refined and sweet, and think this goes all through your digestive tract). While your body can deal with small amounts, typically we humans reach a certain type of diet where the body needs extra help. Teas, greens, hot water help. Think of a sink with gunk lining it.
(I often observe my dog to have much mucus in his stool when I leave him with my stepmother, who feeds him a lot of carbs to "fill him up". He gets insane bad breath. To remedy this, we feed a lot of bones which probably are his fiber counterpart. His stool normalizes and his breath stops stanking.)
PERFECTLY SAID!!!!!

:D GLAD TO SEE SOME MORE AWARE PEOPLE and outside the square box!