Our culture so values cleanliness and beauty that millions of us spend sometimes thousands of dollars annually on body care products and personal services. We regularly clean, soften and beautify every inch of our exterior, from toenails to hair. Yet, how clean are we on the inside?
“Today’s onslaught of known toxins in our environment continually bombards us with chemicals that can alter the way our body works,” says Brenda Watson, a nutritional consultant and author of Detox Strategy. “This not only affects natural processes, it affects the body’s capacity to heal and maintain vibrancy.”
Watson suggests we adopt an increasingly refined mindset about being responsible for our health. She likes programs that keep internal body systems, such as our colon, clean and maintained using colon hydrotherapy. “For centuries, every culture around the world has been using some form of colon cleansing for health,” observes Watson.
This proponent of colon hydrotherapy is not alone. Like Watson, Dr Linda Berry, a chiropractor, clinical nutritionist and author of Internal Cleansing, indicates the viability of colonic irrigation.
“Colonics remove the waste from the body and can be optimized with an herbal cleanse that may aid in the cellular relief of toxins,” says Berry. The problem with an enema, is that they are short-term and can cause the walls of the anal area, as well as the section of the large intestine known as the sigmoid colon, to stretch.”
Both agree that one of the reasons an individual feels better after colonic irrigation is because the protocol hydrates the intestinal walls, and people typically fall short of their daily requirements for drinking water.
Watson has used colonic hydration to overcome her own issue of constipation, related to a lazy colon. “Hydrating the colon causes the muscles to contract,” explains Watson, “and that brought about an automatic release response, which my body needed, to remind my colon how to do its job.”
Watson and Berry suggest that we employ a cleansing program twice a year, one that includes a series of four colonic irrigation sessions of about an hour each. If an individual is suffering from chronic constipation, Watson points out that colonics might be done more frequently.
For more information from the International Association of Colon Hydrotherapy, visit www.I-ACT.org , or from Optimal Health, visit www.AchieveOptimalHealth.com . Call 253-2900 to schedule a colon irrigation appointment.