Are We Really That Toxic? Let Me Count the Ways…

I find it more than a bit entertaining that I’m such a big fan of colon cleansing because the first couple times anyone brought up the subject around me, my response was something along the lines of, “Um, do you mind if we talk about something else?”

But the flat stomach of the second person who brought it up, got me enrolled in a cleansing and detoxification spa just a few weeks later. While there, I plugged my nose with toilet paper while colon cleansing and was absolutely repulsed at the filth that came out of me. But eventually, I got comfortable with the process, and became repulsed at the filth that was inside of me, and also quite determined to get it out of my body.

Most people don’t know it, but the average person carries ten or more pounds of old, uneliminated fecal matter in their colon and it takes some work to remove it. Most people also don’t know that many problems of the body can be directly attributed to having so much of stored waste in the body.

For close to a hundred years, naturopaths have said that all illness begin in the colon. While I still believe this to be true today, these days, most people also have tiny holes in their colon walls – which allows the waste from the colon to escape and enter the bloodstream and then make it’s home throughout the entire body.

This is a fairly new predicament for the human population, and it can be pretty directly attributed to a common fungal condition in the body called candida overgrowth. It’s estimated that 90 percent of the population has a problem with candida overgrowth, but most don’t know that they have it. Also unfortunately, candida overgrowth is rarely diagnosed, but the symptoms are often given the names of disease.

To get you up to speed on candida overgrowth, it’s a common problem that occurs when the healthy bacteria in the colon (called probiotics) are killed – usually through antibiotics, birth control pills, or steroids, and by having a high sugar and refined carbohydrate diet (foods that feed the fungus).  

With these healthy bacteria that are meant to dine on the yeast candida gone, the yeast that was only meant to reside in our colons in small amounts can now grow to large proportions. In large proportions, the yeast now morphs into a fungus, and often eats small holes right through your colon walls – which allows the filth in the colon to escape and pollute the entire body. This combination, as you can imagine, creates highly toxic people and can be responsible for any number of health problems, including what appear from the outside to be emotional problems.

These are just a couple of the reasons that doing colon cleansing with a thorough candida cleanse are so desperately needed. Most people don’t understand how much waste is stored in the average person’s body or the problems it causes in the body. But when you see it all pour out of you in amounts you never thought possible, the question, “Are we really that toxic?” becomes a bit mute. And when you watch your health problems disappear along with the stored filth, what was actually the cause of the problem also becomes quite clear.