Dear Dumpstin,
I am curious about your colon cleanse. Did you research other cleansing techniques before you chose this one? I am suspicious, cause I'm not a bit fan of this sort of "contrived" or forced or unnatural colon cleansing, if you know what I mean. Isn't it possible to get the same effects by eating food (like more high fiber food, and cutting out refined sugar, or some such thing), or eating less, or doing some kind of fasting for a few days? Have you heard anything about this Lemon Cleanse that seems to be popular nowadays? I'm curious to hear what you think on these topics.
Dear Anonymous,
I did research other colon cleansing techniques before dropping in with the
Colonix product. There were a few directions that I could take when I was considering which product to go with:
1. Wait and change my diet - try eating more high fiber food, etc.
2. Do a hydrocolonic (colon hydrotherapy)
3. Try a Colonix or other herbal colon cleanse product
4. Wait and see if things "melt" in my pipes and if the pipes get moving again
Before I started anything, I waited a while without changing much of my diet. I was taking dumps every two, three, or four days. Too long in my book. It was definitely different than before. I researched the colon hydrotherapy and found a few main problems with it:
1. Some people feel that it can wash out "good bacteria". Bacteria lives in your digestive system and your body needs these friendly bacteria to help break down food, and do other things that I don't know about. Until I research this more and find out more about how it works, I'm going to hold off.
2. It's not cheap
3. It seems a little bit unnatural, but then again, there are birds that stick their beaks up they butt and squirt water to clean out they business so it may not be all that unnatural, this one is a tough call.
4. I don't dig going to doctors (risk involved every time you go)
5. I don't dig people sticking tubes in my business.
Anyway, I felt that I'd like to try keep from putting anything in the out-door, and at least see if an herbal cleanse would work. One of the biggest reasons I think that I went with the Dr Natura Colonix brand is the pictures they had on the website of the assropes. I wanted an alien to come out of my behind. I had friends on other products but just weren't getting the ropes. The Mucoid Plaque is what I wanted out. Old, dried-up toxic fecal matter. I wanted to put that behind me. Plus, the Dr. Natura website does a good job of selling their product with all the testimonials. Their product also seemed a little bit more complete than some of the others because it came with the Kleritea laxative tea (senna tea), Paranil (anti-parasite herb pills), and the Colonix fiber drink. I also looked for people complaining about it on the web and really couldn't find much negative talk (if any). So, I thought it might be a good one - or good enough.
I really haven't been big into taking drugs, supplements, vitamins, or herbs up until this, so it was a bit of a departure for me. I looked at the ingredients on the colon cleanse and said "hey, this is all stuff that you can find in a forest". The ingredients includes stuff like: Slippery Elm Bark, Fennel, Alfalfa, and
Psyllium Husks. It's basically all natural stuff that you can't digest which is what Fiber is.
All the ingredients are non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) and it's all natural. I know herbs can really tweak you if you don't use them properly, but I'm less afraid of herbs than I am of Aspartame (Nutra Sweet) and other chemicals (Laxatives, etc).
Plus, Laxatives just liquify your dumps and the caked-on toxic waste still sits in your colon while the liquid poop just cruises right on by.
You asked about whether you could just change your diet... I do feel that you can gain a lot from just changing a few things:
1. Drinking a lot of water and eating water-rich foods
2. Eating a high-fiber diet (this can be difficult if you are a "normal" american eating "normal" american diet - if you eat steak & eggs, ham sandwich on white bread with chips, hamburger and fries for dinner... basically, you just ate no fiber. It can be hard to eat a high-fiber diet unless you know
what to look for).
3. Exercising regularly and walking a good amount (my theory is that exercising keeps your body strong and energized while walking helps the natural vibration of your colon to move along caked on waste and overall relax your system)
4. Meditating or relaxing somehow (you carry a lot of stress in your gut and can hold dumps back unconciously).
I would try this, but I really don't see anything wrong with the herbal colon cleanse other than it costs money and some discipline to make sure you do it every day.
As far as doing a lemon cleanse or something like that:
1. There are all kinds of different types of cleanses that work on cleansing different things. The colon cleanse is for cleansing the colon. It's my understanding that the lemon cleanse will help cleanse the liver. All these things are important, but I was looking for a colon cleanse because I could tell that my system just wasn't processing physical food waste properly.
2. My theory is that fasting may help you to get regular again, but it also may backfire. Your body is going to look for places to pull nutrients and energy from and it may look to pull out energy from the toxic waste that is sitting on your intestinal walls. That stuff is all wrapped up in mucous and it really isn't supposed to be digested or absorbed but when the body gets desperate, it may look to these resources for energy. That's why I think it's a good idea to cleanse the colon first and get the pipes clean so that all the other toxins can get excreted as well.
In general, the colon cleanse is something that is part of an overall healthier way of living. I didn't think that it was that unnatural once I found out what the ingredients are. You have to ask yourself if your normal everyday lifestyle is really that natural. If you live in a city, you're breathing fumes, you're probably not eating truly natural food, so a little natural herbs isn't that unnatural.
I think that for many of us, we've eaten McDonalds, Taco Bell, Arby's, etc. etc. in the past and realize that some of that gunk may still be up in our shizzy. The colon cleanse is a way to get that out and get a fresh start. So, eliminating refined sugar, white flour, aspartame, partially hydrogenated oils (trans-fats), pesticides, toxic cleaning products, etc. etc. from your every day diet is a good thing to do, but it is part of this new fresh start. Do the colon cleanse if you're into it, but also eliminate all those nasty chemicals and try an overall healthier lifestyle. Hopefully, you'll take some monster dumps and enjoy all the wonderful benefits of a regular colon. That's what Dumpstin is trying to do...
