Our culture values cleanliness and beauty so much, that millions of us spend sometimes thousands of dollars per year on body care products and personal services. We regularly clean, wax, condition 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,” said Brenda Watson N.D., nutritional consultant and author of De-tox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps. “This not only affects natural processes, it also affects the body’s capacity to heal and maintain vibrancy.”
Watson suggests that we adopt a mindset about being personally responsible for our own health. She likes a program that keeps internal body systems, such as our colon, clean and maintained by 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, which detoxifies the large intestine through a gentle infusion of purified water at a safely controlled temperature, with gentle, continuous pressure, 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 an herbal cleanse may aid in the cellular relief of toxins,” said 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 a colonic irrigation is because the protocol hydrates the intestinal walls, and people 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. So what do you think? Isn’t it time to start cleaning the inside of our body also?
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