Colon And Body Cleanse Info

Your liver is the most important organ in your body. Without it, you would die within 24 hours. But what does the liver have to do with weight loss? I bet you’ll be surprised.
One of the primary purposes of the liver is to filter the blood, cleaning out anything that could be toxic to your body. This would include things like pharmaceutical drugs (yes, your body sees those as toxic), undigested foods, alcohol, viruses, bacteria, ingested chemicals (these can enter the body orally or via the skin, like pesticides, lotions, deodorants, make-up, hairspray). The liver is also involved in metabolism, hormone balance, and immune functions.
Imagine pouring something through a mesh strainer. At first the liquids run through easily, but eventually, if there are too many solids, the strainer gets clogged and the liquid has no where to go. If the liver has to work overtime to cleanse toxins, a similar situation can happen to the liver. It gets clogged with toxins and at that point fails to run efficiently.
When the liver becomes clogged, every organ in your body is impacted and efforts to lose weight are blocked. Here are just some of the impacts:
–It can cause an accumulation of sodium which can raise blood pressure.
–It can cause water retention which adds body weight.
–It can cause a hormone imbalance which makes us moody.
–It also can’t regulate glucose making us hypoglycemic which in turn can result in sugar cravings, weight gain, and Candida overgrowth.
–It cannot process toxins out of the body, so they escape into the blood stream which creates an immune response by the body. If this continues, then your immune system becomes burdened. This in turn can result in autoimmune diseases like arthritis.
–It cannot burn body fat making all of your weight loss efforts a complete waste of time.
Doing a liver and gallbladder cleanse can help alleviate this situation and aid in your weight loss efforts. It is recommended that you precede the liver / gallbladder cleanse with a colon cleanse. If your colon isn’t operating efficiently (constipation, fewer than 1-3 bowel movements per day), then the toxins will be released from the liver into the blood stream rather than flushed out of the body through the colon.
There are numerous cleansing programs on the market. Do your homework and find one that is backed by a company with a good reputation, positive product reviews and customer testimonials.
Once you have cleansed your liver, a good daily practice is to begin your morning with a glass of water with a wedge of fresh squeezed lemon juice. This will support your digestive organs by cleansing and activating the liver. Additionally, consider reducing the toxic load by avoiding some of the stressors mentioned above.
Don’t take your liver for granted. Although it can regenerate, if it isn’t functioning properly, you won’t either!

 

We are subjected to unhealthy toxins day in and day out. These toxins come from an unhealthy diet, the environment (such as pesticides or pollution), stress, overeating, under-eating, or malnutrition. These toxins place a burden on our colon by making it work harder than necessary. Detoxification by colon cleansing will remove the burden by removing the toxins that prevent our colon from working more efficiently and effectively.  

We get rid of useless junk that we accumulate in our homes by tossing it out. The human body essentially works the same way. Junk, in the form of toxins accumulates and burdens our major organs such as our large intestine. When our intestine is clogged, we can’t absorb necessary nutrients. Toxins circulate back to our body, causing autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, allergies, asthma and acne. Cleansing our bowels is a way of maintaining a clean, healthy efficient body.  

If the colon cannot do its job effectively, toxins will build up in the body and cause a whole myriad of health problems.  This is why colon

cleansing is critical to the detoxification of our bodies. Cleansing will

remove unhealthy toxins from the body, enabling the colon to work

more efficiently.  

What Toxins do in the Colon

Our bodies can get toxic, from fermentation of undigested foods in the colon. When toxic compounds are formed during fermentation of foods in the colon, serious consequences result. These toxins include ammonia (liver toxin); amines (liver toxin); nitrosamines (carcinogens); phenols and cresols (cancer promoters); indoles and skatoles (carcinogens); estrogens (suspected carcinogens and breast cancer promoters); secondary bile acids (carcinogens or active colon cancer promoters); aglycones (often mutagenic) and others. An impacted colon creates disarticulates which are herniations or pockets in the wall of the colon that contain fecal matter. If the fecal matter remains long enough, it can leak into your body and cause autointoxication. Bowel pockets can leak pus, toxins, and fecal matter back into the bloodstream. Diverticulitis or inflamed diverticula, is becoming more common, because people’s diets have gotten worse. It is estimated from autopsy studies that 30% of all adults have diverticular disease and over 50% of those over 40 years old. Diverticulitis is associated with a heavy meat diet and processed foods. Before the 1920′s, this disease was almost unknown. It is a 20th century disease, as is heart disease, cancer, and most of the degenerated conditions that people create. When the body is toxic, the cells cannot receive nutrients from the blood because the interstitial fluid surrounding the cells is plugged-up with wastes from sluggish lymphatics. This internal poisoning also causes mental depression and morbid thoughts. It is a vicious cycle–one condition feeding off the other.

If the colon is not cleansed, other organs cannot effectively cleanse their waste. People choose to use incense, air fresheners, underarm deodorants, foot powder, mouthwash, toothpaste, breath fresheners, perfumed sprays and colognes to mast body odor that is caused by impacted fecal matter. The body’s tissues will not eliminate wastes unless the colon is working properly because all our bodily systems are connected. With a colon detoxification, your body will start pulling poisons out from everywhere. Wastes from your colon can leak out and pollute other organs. Other organs can be treated with natural methods–with only partial results–because these organs are constantly being re-infected or re-irritated by poisons from a toxic colon. Unless you clean out your colon, you may never regain vibrant health.   

The Side Effects of Colon Cleansing 

Although a colon cleanse can be an excellent tool to improve the condition and functions of the bowels and colon, there are often some challenging aspects to overcome.  The challenging side effects of a colon cleanse depends on the speed of the detoxification. The shorter the cleansing process, the more serious the symptoms can be, even leading to a deep yet short lived depression.  The worst part tends to be over within a week and is nothing compared to the beneficial side effects of a colon cleanse.  Things seem to get worse before they get better as the body is subjected to a sudden yet necessary clean out.  As the toxins start to pour out of your cells they can cause migraines, nausea, flu like symptoms and even anxiety, cramps, diarrhea, body aches, fever and extreme exhaustion. Some people also experience nervous symptoms like depression, anxiety, irritability, panic attacks and weepiness. However, these side effects are short lived and are generally over within three to four days. If you choose to go for a colon-cleansing program that takes one to two weeks or even more, then you might escape with just diarrhea, nausea and headaches, which are generally caused because of an electrolyte imbalance. An electrolyte imbalance is caused whenever you have diarrhea or vomiting, but all you need to do to counter this effect is to drink an electrolyte solution so that your body’s natural balance of salt is instantly restored.  

Please keep in mind that colon-cleansing side effects are not caused by the process used for colon cleansing. Rather, these side effects are withdrawal symptoms that your body faces as it gets rid of the toxins that it has been harboring for years. This is similar to facing side effects when you detoxify your body through a diet or give up smoking or drinking alcohol.

Remember that once your side effects wane off, you will experience vitality and energy like never before. People who undergo colon cleansing claim that they feel much lighter (which they actually are as a result of losing pounds of useless weight), more energetic and full of life. Losing useless weight is certainly an added benefit for many although it should not be a primary motivation for cleansing your colon. The good ‘side-effects’ you will  experience are regular bowel movements, glowing skin, a flatter stomach and healthy hair these ‘side effects’  will not only make you happy, but last much longer than the bad ‘side effects’ of colon cleansing.  

The unhealthier your lifestyle has been, the deeper the shock to your body will be when it releases those toxic residues from your colon after your first cleansing.  Colon cleansing does not need to be dramatic.  If you keep your body in a moderately healthy condition between each cleansing process, you will notice that it gets easier with time and this makes the detoxification process less of a trauma to your system.