Doctor-bashing in the "Healthy Living" forum? If you knew anything about medical school curriculum, you would not have made that comment.Yay Dj Danny!
Most doctors know diddley squat about really being healthy. All they know is to give you pills. They don't see the dynamic interaction between what you eat, how you live life, and your health.
More "western medicine" bashing...Most diseases are directly caused by lifestyle choices. Smoking, poor diet, and lack of excercise are the biggest killers. Has your doctor ever told you to start smoking and stop excercising? lol.I think western medicine is way ahead when it comes to acute things (broken legs, gunshot wounds, heart attack, etc) but when it comes to preventing illness, we are way behind.
Oh YEA, breast cancer, AIDS, prostate cancer, MS, and Alzheimers are all pushing colon-cleansing to the back burner. Those crazy doctors just don't want people to find out about colon-cleansing. Yah, OK.Alternative medicine is very slow to gain any type of credibility when there's no significant demand for studies and I doubt you will see colon cleansing attract any sort of in-depth study anytime soon, especially with issues like SARS, Avian flu, and other issues that put alternative and complementary medicine on the back burner
Maybe, because the stuff doesn't DO ANYTHING?Why do you think when you buy herbs you see the "this statement has not been evaluated by the FDA" message?
That is true, but it doesn't really have anything to do with why colon-cleansing is bullshit.For example, many people will say the colon doesn't need to be cleaned because the outer epithelial wall of the large intestine completely replaces itself and therefore doesn't need to be cleaned.
Always with the *descriptive* words. The stool is always "putrifying" or "rotting."However, this is not the case for impacted stool which putrefies and subsequently the old epithelium becomes part of that impaction.
Define "putrifying"?
Where exactly is the feces impacting?
What is preventing the body from reabsorbing the old epithelial cells?
What is preventing the body from expelling the feces?
Is this a medically recognized disorder that I don't know about?
How common is this condition?
What role does diet play in the impaction process?
Is there a correlation with shape of the colon?
Correlation with fluid intake?
I don't suspect I'll get an answer to any of these questions from anybody trying to sell me on colon-cleansing. I will, however, hear a lot of talk about rotting feces and how gross it is, and how badly I need to buy their product.