Lately I've been hearing a great deal about colons, and how they may have a bunch of gunk just sitting around in there rotting and taking up space. Is this just hoopla designed to get people to buy herbal products and/or services that are not really needed?
Case-in-point: http://www.colonblow.com
Worth the money or a crappy deal? What do you think?
I think it's a scam myself. We've managed to survive for over one million years without high colonics, I don't see why we need them now. I trust my body to generally take care of itself with the occasional help of a handful of almonds. So much of it sounds like a renewal of the Dr. Kellog trip.
load of crap, but this made me laugh on that site..
"What about that stinky butt? FartBUSTER" (pills)
This is way over-priced for psyllium seed husks plus cascara and senna. You can get these at most drug stores and health food stores for maybe about 1/10 the price I think.
At colon-blow 3 doses of each are $33.
At drug store, you get about 100 doses of psyllium husk for about $14, and about 12 doses of senna for about $5.
So you can colonblow yourself for about $3, instead of $33.
Last edited by soilman; June 21st, 2002 at 04:32 PM.
ShakaHara: Sanskrit for vegetarianism. Shaka=vegetable. Hara=consumption, eating. With perhaps a few exceptions, I think we should be able to live well, without animal husbandry. Both plants and animals need to be fed. Although peas are naturally carnivorous, they can be fed with green manures, turned in cover crops, and composted plant matter; animal matter is not needed.
I have heard all these stories from people who say that when they fast all this solid stuff comes out that has been in there for years. I don't know about that. And colonic irrigation- don't get me started.
But yeah, I eat fiber and drink coffee every day. Nothing stays in me very long. Oh, and I eat Olean chips!
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Curry and lager...
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all this solid stuff comes out that has been in there for years.
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How the hell would they know how long it's "been there"? Is it that they do radioactive carbon testing on it? Is that it? Maybe it only looks old, and its really only been there since last Tuesday?
ShakaHara: Sanskrit for vegetarianism. Shaka=vegetable. Hara=consumption, eating. With perhaps a few exceptions, I think we should be able to live well, without animal husbandry. Both plants and animals need to be fed. Although peas are naturally carnivorous, they can be fed with green manures, turned in cover crops, and composted plant matter; animal matter is not needed.
One of my friends said her friend who was into it believed it was like all the old gum she ate as a kid or something. She thought it was old because it looked different.
www.musingmanya.com "Thalia" is not anyone alive or dead. Any similarities are coincidental.
Hmm... I remember this story going around about how long gum would stay in your "stomach" if you swallowed it. I forgot how long it was, something like 12 years. Never swallowed gum after I heard that but I always kind of figured it wasn old wives tale.
By the way, I'm not saying that colonic irrigation is necessrily a bad idea. And I have little doubt that people can feel much better as the result of having one. I just don't necessarily believe the common reasoning that is propounded, to explain why people feel better: that stuff that's been there for years finally gets washed out. I do think stuff you ate last week, or yesterday, could still be there, and be making more energy demands, for processing, than the stuff is worth -- in proportion to the amount of energy or building materials that it can supply. It has a low profit margin. And that could make you feel, umm, crappy.
If you are operating at a loss -- the "momentary" energy needed to process what is in your gi is greater than the amount of energy it is supplying -- you will feel ill, lack get-up-and-go. You will usually feel better if you simply wait long enough for your processing system to get over the "hump" -- the point where, after processing has proceeded for awhile, the energy supplied, at any moment, beginss exceeding the energy needed to process it, at that moment. Depending on what you ate, this could take a while, or it could happen never. Getting rid of all of it will give you more get-up-and-go right away. But if you were to do this too frequently, you would obviously start getting rid of so much matter that you won't have enough to supply your spools, buffers (your fatty tissue), and you will start either decreasing in size, or feeling worn out. So it can make you feel better for a short period of time. In the long term, it is wasteful; it wastes food. And, for the most part, you would tend to feel better anyway, if you didn't do it, and feel better for a longer time -- but you would have to wait to feel better.
ShakaHara: Sanskrit for vegetarianism. Shaka=vegetable. Hara=consumption, eating. With perhaps a few exceptions, I think we should be able to live well, without animal husbandry. Both plants and animals need to be fed. Although peas are naturally carnivorous, they can be fed with green manures, turned in cover crops, and composted plant matter; animal matter is not needed.
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