Colon Cleanse

[Lu 13]

I have a product from Ress Labs called Natural Organics Colon Cleanse. The label says to take my "personal dosage". How much is that?

[Renee Radenberg]

I do not recommend colon cleansers to be used unless you are going in for a colon test. The cleansers may destroy our natural bacteria in the colon where vitamin K is produced. Vitamin K helps clot our blood when the body is injured or cut. To keep a good integrity of the colon, I recommend high fiber foods (roughage). Foods such as: whole grain / wheat breads, pasta, brown rice, oatmeal, fruits, and vegetables.  With high fiber you will need to increase water consummation to allow the waste to pass through on a daily basis.
Thank you for asking a question on the forum.

[Bob_D]

The intestines developed through millions of years of natural selection to digest food and eliminate waste and normally do so quite well in the absence of disease.They provide a delicately balanced internal environment to billions of friendly bacteria crucial to food digestion and immune function. Abandon the idea that they are like clogged plumbing that needs 'Drano' periodically. Your intestines wouldn't work if they were as "clean" as plumbing or sewer pipes.
Colon cleansers are widely hyped as a means to "detoxification" - whatever you think that may mean; it is never defined. They are not only unnecessary, as the skin, liver, lungs, kidneys and intestines are constantly removing waste products from the body but they can be harmful, as explained by Ms Radenberg.
One can only speculate as to the reasons these "colon cleansers" are so popular, but ignorance of human physiology surely is the main cause along with the constantly promulgated, unsubstantiated notion that we are all "drowning in poisons" and a multitude of murky psychological reasons including mob psychology, delusional parasitosis and what was once called the "anal fixation".