Unhealthy Colon

What are the benefits to a healthy colon? How do you clean up your colon or detoxify it? Would prune juice help? Sources? What are the disadvantages to an unhealthy colon?

You don't need to clean up your colon. It is self cleansing.
The colon remains healthy through the balance of a good diet, sleep and exercise. Eating lots of fiber keeps the colon in shape. Exercise is good overall, and reducing stress is a good way to avoid bodily problems.

It's as simple as that.

# Your colon doesn't require enemas or special diets or pills to eliminate waste material and bacteria. It does this naturally on its own.
# It may be harmful. Your colon absorbs water and sodium to maintain your body's fluid and electrolyte balance. Some colon-cleansing programs disrupt this balance, causing dehydration and salt depletion. Long-term or excessive cleansing programs can lead to problems such as anemia, malnutrition and heart failure.

2009-06-11 14:43:20 by Certified Storm Spotter SKYWARN

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Hi Lucy,

It depends I suppose on the type of pills you are taking.

I use a natural colon cleanse made from a combination of herbs and fiber (Herbal Fiberblend) and is in powder form. You can do a thorough cleanse for 3-4 months and then take a small amount each day for the rest of your life if you wanted to. There is nothing harmful in it at all.

It isn't necessary to continue with a full colon cleanse indefinitely. If you are having trouble with constipation or other bowel issues, a short term colon cleanse should take care of the problem.

If you are taking the colon cleansing pills as a way to try to keep your weight down over a long time, that isn't a good idea. A healthy diet and regular exercise is much more sensible.

Although some people don't think colon cleansing is necessary, there are many fine doctors, both current and throughout history, who promote the importance of colon cleansing for digestive health.

2008-02-22 12:52:13 by lucy s

ah... about 1 day, if your doing it to try and lose weight that is.

2008-02-11 14:16:30 by lucy s

Other symptoms are chronic or frequent diarrhea, runny or watery stool with a paste-like stool, watery stool by itself, bloody stool (melena), dark tarry stool (melena), weight loss, abdominal pain and/or distention, cramps, a sudden change in bowel patterns or stool appearance, nausea and vomiting.

2006-08-22 12:32:01 by im the Sibyl

I read that an unhealthy overworked colon that does it's job less efficiently can result in unprocessed toxins that end up reaching the joints and that building up and creating sore joint pain
- so secondly would anyone know of any effective colon cleansing supplements - Thank You very much for any help!
It's always good to look at research done on both sides of the issue, so for anyone that's done that, Thank you.

Just take fiber. Colon cleanses are BS. I read studies on them and they found that they did nothing beneficial for the body.

2009-07-10 08:46:14 by flourite444