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    My first time doing a cleanse that is intended to help remove toxins from your colon and all that good stuff. I bought "Simple Cleanse" and it's a two week cleansing process; two bottles of pills, one fiber and one a mild laxative. It's my third day and far so good, I feel like I have a little bit more energy than usual, and don't feel as sluggish. I wanted to try "Master Cleanse" as I heard it was a bit stronger than Simple Cleanse but settled for what the store had in stock. Anyone had any good or negative side effects you've experienced with this one or Master Cleanse? Hoping I might be able to shed a few pounds, anyone know if that is likely? So far it seems to be doing me good. I do like the extra energy.

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    I have friends who do that too and their poo is scary...lol

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    LoL how come???? I know it's gross but doctors claim that our colons are performing at their optimum level when the poop is "S-shaped" or "question-mark" shaped. Ugh...it IS gross. I thought perhaps that is what you were referring to.
    Either way, I'm just looking to help eliminate toxins that have probably built up due to all the "road food" from the cross-country trip.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaiyla
    LoL how come???? I know it's gross but doctors claim that our colons are performing at their optimum level when the poop is "S-shaped" or "question-mark" shaped. Ugh...it IS gross. I thought perhaps that is what you were referring to.
    Either way, I'm just looking to help eliminate toxins that have probably built up due to all the "road food" from the cross-country trip.
    hahaha yeah its normal...i just mean that they showed me pics (i know...lol) and their fecal matter looked like snakes I guess their ridding themself of all the "junk" inside em. Anyways have you ever gone to the clinics/spas that do colon cleansing? I have been thinking of trying that.
    P.S. here are some pics from a website that sells a similar product.
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    http://www.drnatura.com/picture_gallery.html

    *beware these are poop pics..

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    Oh My God. That is like nothing I've ever seen before. The good news is, I won't have any trouble referaining from eating anything else for the rest of the evening <gag> haha.
    I would actually love to try colonics at a clinic/spa. I've been looking into it for some time but I don't think I could swing it yet, financially. So I went the cheaper route. I figure, if I don't get anything out of this product, I can always save up and go the clinic/spa route. Let me know if you make it there before I do!

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    oh hehehe sorry for ruining your appetite. but yeah if i do go then ill let you know how it goes.

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    Well that was nothing! You have not seen anything until You have to stick something up somebody's ugly floppy ass. Than they all sudden have the urge to shit every where! The training you have to go thru to be a nurse.
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    Quote Originally Posted by leilanicandy
    Well that was nothing! You have not seen anything until You have to stick something up somebody's ugly floppy ass. Than they all sudden have the urge to shit every where! The training you have to go thru to be a nurse.
    hehehe i feel ya, i plan to be a nurse eventually.

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    OMG! There's this huge thread about that Dr. Natura stuff. Also, I work with Dr.s and asked one about it and he wrote me this response I posted. I'll try and see if I can find it.

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    Ok, here's the one with my friend's response.

    http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73872

    And I'm gonna go look for the long thread that started the thing...

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    Good... lord!
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    wow, I don't know what to think really, now.
    I don't think what I am taking (an enzymatic pill-form cleanse) is as harsh as the spa/clinic stuff but who knows.
    My only concern is that after the 2 weeks is up and I stop taking the cleansing pills that I might experience a little constipation due to the fact that I had provoked "cleansing" for two weeks with the fiber/lax pills. If my body does not kick into gear when the cleanse is over, I know that I'll never do another cleanse again.
    I'm not experiencing any of those creepy-shaped turds, just seem to be going to the bathroom a bit more.

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    Well, I did the Dr. Natura and had no problems and great results. I wouldn't recommend anyone doing it more than once a year. Besides, if you change your eating habits...and eat healthy, you won't need to.

    The crap that comes out of the colon during a colonic is usually not fully digested food wastes (its just sitting there rotting). And this is mainly because people are eating WRONG. Eating an acid based food with an alkaline based food and drinking tons of fluid while eating will make the stomach not fully digest its contents. The stomach pushes the food out when it get to a certain "level" into the intestines...not when its fully digested.

    The vast majority of people who have those crazy craps are ones who have been eating very, very poorly for a long time. Yes, rotting waste sitting (stuck) in your colon becomes toxic. While your doing this Colon Cleanse, start changing your eating habits so that you won't have to do this cleanse again. 80% veggies and 20% meat...learn how to properly mix your foods (so, no steak and potatoes). What happens is when you eat meat, your stomach excretes acid to break it up...when you eat a starch, your stomach excretes an alkaline to break it up...what happens when you mix acid and alkaline together? Yep, nothing. They cancel each other out. Which is why when someone eats steak and potatoes, they feel full for a long time...because their digestive system is not working a full capacity.

    If you feel that you need a Colon Cleanse, the I suggest you do one. Not an irrigation, but a Cleanse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess
    learn how to properly mix your foods (so, no steak and potatoes).
    Aww man, and that's my favorite food I want to try one of these cleanses. I think it would be helpful especially since I want to change my way of eating..







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    Anyone get bad where they where incapacitated for like a day or so? I'm all up for this... but I keep associating various scenes in the alien trilogy with it.
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    Cinn, I think you should do it. It takes about a month, but it is so well worth it. You'll feel better, look better, think more clearly...I highly recommend it.

    I know you like steak and potatoes, but once you learn how to properly combine food...you'll find another grouping and even better, you FEEL better afterwards (not like wanting to just go lay down for a while).

    Its been said that the reason MOST people fall asleep after a big Turkey day meal is NOT because of the "sleep effects" of the turkey, but because of the meat/starch combos most families make (aside from the obvious overstuffing of the self...LOL). If you skip the potatoes with the meat and just eat the veggies (non-starch veggies) you'll most likely notice that you are NOT tired after your meal (providing that you don't gourge yourself).

    Mast, I've never been incapacited...but I could go days between bowel movements. Not fun. After the colon cleanse I go a couple times a day...like normal.

    And, don't worry...you most likely won't have any parasites...especially if you are not a big raw fish eater.

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    All of these "colon cleanse" products are 100% quackery. These exact same products were being sold (in exactly the same way might I add) over 100 years ago right next to Snake Oil and "Ma Kettle's Miracle Cure All." The reason all your poo looks horrible after one of these cleansings is that the ingredients in these products are extremely strong laxatives. Many people have even reported having massive medial problems after taking them due to the huge dehydration they put your body through. This is also the reason you lose weight...it's water weight, not the claims that you have "pounds of built up material in your colon". Ask ANY gastroenterologist about this and they'll explain how these colong therapies are complete frauds. There is no such thing as built-up material in your colon...it's a marketing trick used to sell these products and any doctor will tell you this. If you do have any material in there, you have a MUCH bigger problem than any OTC product will help you with. You can scope the colon of a 90 year old person and short of any cancer or other major issues, the inside will be bright and pink and normal...no pounds of material in there.

    Another way you can identify this as a hoax is that you can ask any one of the promotors of these products a question they can never answer..."What specifically are the toxins that are building up in there? Can you please list them?" They can't. It's not possible...it's just marketing hype. Here are a few articles:

    http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quackery...cs/gastro.html

    http://www.lisabarger.com/colon_cleansing_scams.htm

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    ^ Sure, DW...and you know this from experience??

    I've researched this plenty. Everyone has a different opinion on this. I can find just as many sites that ENCOURAGE the cleanse and support the cleanse as you can disputing it.

    I've used the cleanse with great/fantastic results. And, you know, I FEEL healthier because of it. I'm more regular and that's all I care about. The cleanse does not use a "laxative" but does use herbal ingredients to help stimulate your bowels...and no its not addictive...its not habit forming.

    So, I guess the most important thing is that the people who use it FEEL better after using it.

    Of course, I wouldn't put my faith in a doctor who makes money off of the diseases of the intestines. Just like I don't put much faith into a governmental agency who will ban the sale of "healthy" items while flooding the market with stuff that will kill you.

    So, believe who/what you want. I'll go with my own experience and research, thanks.

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    But that's just it Venus. The RESEARCH has shown that it's a fraud. All the claims that it works are done either by the companies selling the product or by people who have done no scientific research into the benefits of it. While it's true that you can find arguments on both sides here, the argument claiming it works has no scientific merrit and has never been proven to be true. Never. Ever. Making a claim something works does mean it is scientifically proven. Also, the argument that a doctor not endorsing it is a fallacy as well. Using the argument that they're only in it to make a buck, they would all be selling it whereas on the contrary a doctor telling you that your colon is fine to not bother with any treatment or to not seek them for any treatment means they make NO money. My personal experience in this is from a friend of mine telling me at a party one night that he was thinking about having such a treatment and was working to convince me of the benefits. A mutal friend overheard (she was an Internist) and starte laughing and explained the whole hoax. I did my research and it low and behold, it was proven to be a scam decades ago. This isn't a matter of opinion...the science just doesn't support it. Any first year medical resident will say the same thing. Here's agreat quote from the following article:

    The detoxification theory can enable con artists to gain great power over their customers by diagnosing and curing "potentially fatal" (but nonexistent) illnesses. "They have to invent the idea of toxins," says Peter Fodor, president of the Lipoplasty Society of North America, "because that gives them something to pretend they can fix."

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    Getting a doctor's opinion on this is goofey. They don't believe in anything that wasn't approved by the FDA. These are doctors that will look at you and say, "No, there's nothing wrong with your colon...you have IBS...and here's a bunch of medication for that. Don't pay attention to the warnings that it could cause death in rare cases, but on the whole will fuck up your kidneys, your liver, and may cause you to grow hairy palms and go blind. That "all-natural" colon cleanse stuff is a hoax. Its just snake oil salesmen out to make a quick buck. But, go turn in this prescription so I can get my pharmaceutical kick-back."

    Never mind that other people I know who have tried this have had great results. Why would I listen to a doctor, who's money comes from pushing meds...and from people taking pills that they get secondary side effects from and so need meds to counteract that...why would I trust anything that they say? I would much rather take a "chance" using herbal supplements (in moderation and under intense research) than to go to a doctor and get pills that will fuck my body over immensely...but I won't have IBS symptoms anymore.

    YOU don't get that the medical community is only interested in one thing...money...just like they claim all of these herbalists/homeopaths/natrapaths/etc are...and that they make their money by pushing drugs that will keep your repeated business.

    There are some things you do not need drugs for. There are some things that can be helped by a clean diet...yes...and you cannot tell me that out of this entire country...out of a country that has the, on average, WORST eating habits in the nation...have perfectly clean, high functioning, and healthy colons. Bullshit.

    That noxious gas that some people pass...that ROTTED FOOD STUCK IN THE INTESTINES. Yes, that's healthy. Being that the intestines are the organs that pull the nutrients/etc out of the food stuff that passes through it...yes, there is no such thing as toxic wastes in your colon.

    Your problem is that you refuse to trust anything that is not medically endorsed. I have done the "medical" route and I did not enjoy it...nor will I ever do it again. And, you also fail to recognize that the medical community will never endorse anything that they cannot make money off of.

    So, you can feel free to keep doing what you're doing. That's your choice. But, there ARE more safe options out there aside from the pills that the medical community pushes. There are ways of taking care of yourself without fucking up the rest of your body. Maybe its not something you believe in...but that doesn't make it any less true.

    The medical community can say whatever it wants...I know what worked for me, my body, and that of my friends/acquaintences. That's more telling than any "scientific" study (which are usually biased anyways) that could be conducted.

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    Ok, I'm SOOO not gonna try and get into the middle here, just looking at your first paragraph above, I want to throw out some defense for my friend who wrote me that response I have a link to in the first page of this thread. He's amazingly competent, and a medical doctor, and prefers homeopathics and natural remedies to prescriptions.

    That's all. Just wanted to throw that out there to all who have read that thread I linked to. He's very partial to doing things that are good for the body, naturally.

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    I'm not going against you venusgoddess, i believe these cleanses can be good, but i just wanted to point out i don't think the master cleanse is good because it DOES use a laxative. it uses that laxative tea...and heaps of people say they think it works because they poo so much while they do the master cleanse and it burns. that laxative tea makes you poo all day regardless of whether or not your doing the master cleanse and it burns because it's just hurting your ass. sorry i just had to say that because it's marketed throughout chinatown as "slim tea" and all my friends, including myself have used them with our EDs. i read all these reports by master cleanse users who went on about how it gave them the worrrst cramps and they'd be stuck in the bathroom. that tea does it regardless of whether or not you've been eating or have anything else left to crap!

    i'd also like to say, someone mentioned they were worried they'd be constipated after a cleanse, you shouldn't be, but i found, from using the laxative tea for purging i had really lazy bowels afterwards and sometimes i'd go days without being able to crap - and yeah you don't have to go everyday, but i felt like i really had to and was just blocking up but couldn't make it move - then i started to eat a lot of black fungus - you can find dried versions in asian supermarkets - just soak it in hot water and it's ready to eat - and it fixed everything. i don't know what it is about it, but it's made me verrrrry regular. not diarrohea regular but just regular, sometimes i go like 5 times a day, it feels so good!

    haha, sorry for all that, but who knows, maybe it'll help anyone else who has constipation problems! hehehe.
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    Although I don't really have an opinion on the colon cleanse debate I did have an issue with one post:

    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess
    What happens is when you eat meat, your stomach excretes acid to break it up...when you eat a starch, your stomach excretes an alkaline to break it up...what happens when you mix acid and alkaline together? Yep, nothing. They cancel each other out.
    I was just wondering where this information came from?? It seemed odd to me so I checked out my Bio Textbook (which hopefully is an unbiased resource!!).

    Polysaccharides (ie starch) are not digested at all in the stomach because the enzymes that digest carbs are inactive in low (acidic) pH. Starches begin digestion in the mouth from saliva and finish in the small intestines.

    Only proteins are digested in the stomach by the enzyme pepsin which only works in very acidic conditions. Pepsin starts the protein digestion and then it continues with other enzymes that are active in alkaline pH in the intestines.

    So although the info you got is kind of right, it definately doesn't happen in that way!! Anyway that is my science lecture for the day hahaha.

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    I don't think any of this is really all that necessary. I'm not saying the cleanse is detrimental or anything, but if you just changed your diet to include more fiber, you would be a lot more regular.
    It's pretty simple to me.

    My boyfriend tried one of these once, and he liked it, but I don't think he has much of a problem staying regular anyway. He liked the way it made his skin look and feel. Apparently the cleanse makes you break out and then your skin looks good afterwards. I think maybe it "looks good" because the break out clears up.

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