The Colon: Sewer or Cesspool?

November 16th, 2001 at 12:00am

Day #3. Doin’ ok. I had a good day today. Last night when I went to bed I had quite a headache but I woke up this morning feeling much better. After the 7am detox drink I went for a walk on the beach with Ines. Then I basically hung out around here until the 11am shake. I felt SO much better after the morning colema – today I did a coffee one in the morning and a garlic one in the afternoon.

So then at 11am I decided to go to Chaweng for the day. Chaweng is a big tourist beach town on the island about 8 km north of Lamai. I had a really nice day just shopping and meandering through town. At one stage I was feeling a little tired and weak so I decided to peel off for a one-hour facial massage. Cost me about $8 and it was great, although I think I prefer the full-body Thai massage the best. I had a ginseng clay mask that the woman massaged into my skin for about 30 minutes and then she spent the remaining time massaging my head, neck and shoulders. It was well worth the money and now I’ve added another type of massage to my list. I’m hoping to try them all! Tomorrow I may go for the aloe vera wrap (full body). I am spending a bit more than I’d like but I’d never be able to afford this stuff at home so why not live it up!!

So I just want to stress that this whole fasting program is not some kind of diet frenzy… I figured the best way to explain why it’s really so important to fast and’cleanse’ is to pull an excerpt from one of the books here. The following is from The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity (Chapter 2: Fasting and Excretion):

“The Colon: Sewer or Cesspool?

Of all the vital organ in the body, the one that suffers the most abuse is the colon. Our colons were intended by nature to function as smoothly flowing sewer systems, in order to promptly flush digestive wastes from the body. Instead, they have become stagnant cesspools, the physiological equivalent to a festering pile of uncollected garbage or a broken toilet that continues to be used for defecation. The average American male colon today carries within it about 5 pounds of putrid, half-digested red meat, plus another 5-10 pounds of foul toxic waste impacted for years in the folds of the colon with mucus.

Why does toxic waste from bad food accumulate in the colon? V.E. Irons explains it in his newsletter as follows:

‘When food that is not wholesome or is harmful to the body reaches the stomach, word is immediately sent from the stomach to the mucoid manufacturer, warning’Get busy, the enemy is on the way!’. We know that mucus starts to be produced immediately and the colon is lined with it. 12-18 hours later, when the poisoned or harmful food from the stomach finally enters the colon, the latter is well prepared with a layer of mucus lining it, so that the body does not absorb any of the poison. Were this to happen once or even several times a month, this mucus, having been used, would disintegrate and slowly be discharged from the colon with no harm done.

But it is now certainly apparent that nature never intended that protective mechanism to be used as continuously as it is today…The result is that layer on top of layer is secreted until its accumulation thickens to 1/8 to 1/4″ thick. Sometimes this layer or layers gets to 3/8 to 1/2″ in thickness, becoming as hard and black as a piece of old hardened rubber you see on a highway, torn from a truck tire…

We have specimens preserved in alcohol from several inches to a few feet in length, while the longest we have had was 27 feet, in one piece.’

What goes in MUST come out – eventually. In the meantime it can fester inside for years and cripple or even kill you.

No type of quantity of drugs, surgery, or other remedial medical care can save you from the self-imposed death sentence of autointoxication. The only way to win a reprieve is by’good behavior’, which means thoroughly reforming your bad habits and’cleaning up your act.’

However, it is an illusion to believe that you can clear out these fetid obstructions and purge the imbedded toxins from your colon simply by eating bran, raw vegetables and other fibrous foods. Bran and raw vegetables are so rich in fibrous bulk that they cannot get through the tiny holes remaining for passage of feces in most colons. Instead they back up, fester, and contribute further to the problem. It’s pointless to embark on a major new dietary program until you have first flushed all the accumulated, impacted debris and poisonous residues from your former dietary habits out of your digestive tract. There is only ONE WAY to do this and that is by fasting and flushing out your colon with colonic irrigations.

When you put new oil into your car engine, you don’t just pour it on top of the old filthy oil, but first drain the old stuff out. The least you could do is treat your own body with the same respect and care you give your car.”

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