Colonics

[Gabby]

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ok what i will do is post my waist measurement before the colonic and after. I will also post my experience.

[Finelly]

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The one thing doctors worry about when people do colonics is that it can become a form of purging. And an addiction of sorts.

The theory behind colonics is that your intestinal tract somehow has residue that lasts for years in the bowels and intestines and it needs to be cleaned out. This "residue" contains toxins that do all sorts of bad stuff to your system - allegedly. The colonic basically hoses you out. The staff who give them will "show" you all this gross-colored stuff that they hose out of you and tell you that it represents "years of toxins stored in your body".

What the people who perform them DON'T tell you is that if you eat fiber, there's nothing to clean out. Your body does it on its own. The gross-colored stuff is not toxins stored in your body for years and years. Sometimes, and actually quite often, it is intestinal lining matter that actually HELPS your body, not hurts it.

I've heard that your waistline will go down after one. It will also go down if you take diuretics. Or have one of those body wraps. It's a water thing. It comes back. You aren't losing fat and your muscles aren't getting tighter and more firm. You're just depleting your body of fluid.

So, in short, a colonic may or may not hurt you, but it won't help you. People who have a history of binging or purging (and that includes people who have a history of deciding to go on a starvation diet and exercising vigorously for a few days, then caving in and eating crap and not exercising, then going back to the diet thing) are in danger of using the colonic as a purging mechanism. If you feel that you need your insides "cleaned out", it's usually a psychological issue, not a physical one.

[mamakimberly]

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Good stuff there Finelly!

Not to mention, there is something terribly unnatural about sticking tubes up our butts!

[Gabby]

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taking something medicianal in the anus is different than what some do for pleasure. this helps the body that helps in a different way. i am not knocking either.

[Finelly]

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My point is that it does NOT help the body. In fact, it depletes your system of enzymes needed for health.

[Gabby]

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not so in my opinion. there would be lot more sick people if that were the case. kate beckensale, janet jackson, cameron diaz...they look healthy no?

[Finelly]

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Half the stars in Hollywood have eating disorders. Including Janet Jackson. As I said, colonics are used to PURGE.......

[yemenitegreen]

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First time I heard about colonics was when I met people on Fit For Life or Natural Hygiene. Fruitarians, wo told us that meat rots in your body, leaving all sorts of scary rotting protein toxins. Flusing them out would make you healthier and would probably rid you of fistfuls of eekie worms living in your intestines.

I really do believe that human bowels were not designed to be flushed with whatever... water, coffee, you name it... to me the whole concepts sounds like an exorcism. Get rid of the BAD inside you, we the priests will help you to become a white clean and better person.

Give me spinach, flax, water, enough fat and yogurt...

Finelly, I second the point about losing useful enzymes (and bacteria). I am just flushing my system with antibiotics, thank you, and I am losing already too many of them.

Losing inches wil probably also be a consequences of deflated bowels, and again, I don't think our bowels are made for such treatment. If you do it while fasting, there is a time the body can adjust to less and no food and then some food again, but the colonics process doesn't involve such a phase of adaptation. (Oh yeah and the NH guys of course told you to eat only fruit...)

yemenitegreen

[mamakimberly]

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From the Iowa Medical Board:
"The Board has found colonics to be unsafe because of potential for electrolyte imbalances, loss of essential vitamins, bowel perforation, and disease from poor sanitary practices."

An excellent link:

http://your-doctor.com/patient_info/alternative_remedies/various_therapy/fraud_topics/bogus_tests_tx/colonic.html

Another link:
"Perforation of the colon has been reported."

http://ljh.fitdv.com/new/articles/article.html?artid=382

Another link:
"Irrigation of the colon carries a number of risks, including interference with the normal digestive process and perforation of the bowel."

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11532

Ultimately, it is your choice.

[jsj0305]

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WOW!! Everyone came in here PACKING with info!! Well, not me....I just wanted to say..be careful and I hope that you dont have an unpleasent experience after...if ya know what I mean. I'm also interested in hear of your experience. How much do those things cost anyways? On a more serious note, I did see that you want to be at goal by the 22nd this month. Is that a way just to get some of those last pounds off? I hope not. I think that's where you could run into a problem. Also, I'm also positive that having colonics done one time will not provide bowel deflation and most of those other scary things. Good Luck tomorrow and I can't wait to see your results!!

PS...Brook I love your "toilet humor"!! You're great!!

[Kiasmama]

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I had to take that FLEET crap before a colonoscopy. That will clean you out as good as any colonic I think The doc showed me pics of everything afterwords...and I don't remember seeing any gooey, yucky stuff. Not sure about that whole "years of toxins in there" stuff. I think if you eat right...it all comes out. And there is a need for some of that stuff in your intestines....so not sure getting it washed out is a good idea. Good luck whatever you decide

[lee1112]

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Go to www.drnatura.com and you will SEE why people do it! I got this website from Joy this morning and boy has it opened my eyes!

[mamakimberly]

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oh my word, that is raunchy. I still think it is bogus and hokey and a BAD idea.

[Gabby]

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Half the stars in Hollywood have eating disorders. Including Janet Jackson. As I said, colonics are used to PURGE.......

That is your opinion which you are entitled to. Your opinion does not mean it is fact. Do you know Janet Jackson? If colonics were solely used to purge don't you think that there would have been some kind of backlash or worse?

Come on now really? The sole purpose for a colonic is not to purge. I mean there are people who down grade and ridicule this way of eating (atkins). Does that mean they are right? If that is the case everyone on this board has an eating disorder.

Relax the colonic devils are not going to come and get you and stick a tube in your heiney.

[Gabby]

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WOW!! Everyone came in here PACKING with info!! Well, not me....I just wanted to say..be careful and I hope that you dont have an unpleasent experience after...if ya know what I mean. I'm also interested in hear of your experience. How much do those things cost anyways? On a more serious note, I did see that you want to be at goal by the 22nd this month. Is that a way just to get some of those last pounds off? I hope not. I think that's where you could run into a problem. Also, I'm also positive that having colonics done one time will not provide bowel deflation and most of those other scary things. Good Luck tomorrow and I can't wait to see your results!!

PS...Brook I love your "toilet humor"!! You're great!!

no that is not a way to get to my goal. as a matter of fact i will not reach it with or woth out the colonic. I have been planning for months to get it just did not have the time.
No i will not be doing this over and over. Considering the amount of meat that I ingest i think it could help.