The Benefits Of Doing A Cleansing Diet
Monday, April 27, 2009 13:01Why Cleanse?
Basically, nothing has really changed in the last 100 years. Back then Dr. John Harvey Kellogg claimed that 90% of diseases were due to improper functioning of the colon. Today we still believe that the benefits of cleansing are huge. The main improvements one notices after a cleanse are improvement in energy levels, vision, hair, skin, mental attitude, ability to cope with stress situations, generally resulting in a happier and healthier individual.Other claimed benefits include reduction of menstrual pain, migraines, and joint pain, fewer colds, curing of long term sinus congestion, skin problems, and breast cysts, weight loss (often dramatic), and improved concentration.
What happens in a colon cleanse to produce these benefits?
Consider three facts about the intestines
- If stretched out to their full length, the large and small intestines together would measure 25 feet long.
- The total surface area in the intestines capable of absorbing nutrients is the size of a tennis court.
- The intestines can store a vast amount of partially digested, putrefying matter (as well as drugs and other toxic chemicals)—for decades even. Some intestines, when autopsied, have weighed up to 40 pounds and were distended to a diameter of 12 inches with only a pencil-thin channel through which the feces could move. That 40 pounds was due to caked layers of encrusted mucus mixed with fecal matter, bizarrely resembling hardened blackish-green truck tire rubber or an old piece of dried rawhide. This is sometimes called this mucoid plaque. This mucoid plaque, when it is removed during an intensive colon cleanse, often shows ropelike twists, striations, overlaps, folds, creases—the shape and texture of the intestinal wall.
Mucoid plaque may vary considerably, depending on the chemical conditions in a person’s intestines. It may be hard and brittle; it may be firm and thick; tough, wet, and rubbery; soft, thick, and mucoid; or soft, transparent, and thin; it can range in color from light brown, black, or greenish-black to yellow or grey, and sometimes emits an intensely foul odor.
Some people have reported during a long-term colon cleanse, passing a single length of mucoid plaque 15 feet long; Others claim to have excreted a total of 11 pounds of mucoid plaque during a cleanse.
The trouble is once the mucoid plaque is created, it is not routinely excreted from the intestines. Instead it lodges in the numerous folds and crevices of this large organ and can remain there for many years. Over time, the mucoid plaque grows thicker, firmer, and more widespread. Old feces adhere to the plaque and are not removed during a normal bowel motion.
The plaque slows down intestinal action, both waste excretion and nutrient absorption. It can harbor pathogens, including bacteria and parasites, which actually hide underneath the plaque; it may block the normal outflow of lymph and mucin drainage. It binds toxins to itself and contributes to bowel toxicity, slowly emitting toxins into the bloodstream. Finally, plaque creates a friendly environment for disease, in some cases for colon cancer and gastric carcinomas.
Gradually your immune system is weakened as the chronically toxic bowel environment destroys useful bacteria. Your liver becomes overburdened by the unprocessed intestinal toxins, and nerve meridian points in the intestines related to hundreds of other parts of the body are compromised.
A toxic bowel results in toxic blood and lymph, toxic organs and cells, and toxic function. The bowel “feeds” every organ, tissue, and cell in our bodies, so when the quality of feeding from the digestive system is contaminated or of poor quality, the cells and organs elsewhere in the body will be compromised and grow sluggish and inefficient.
All, in all I think that you'll agree there are many more benefits to cleansing than simply losing weight.
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