Now the time has come to go deeper. Over the past five months, I have given quite a few colon hydrotherapy sessions and I have also successfully helped clients through specific colon cleanse programs. However, as the number of inquiries into these kind of treatments appear to continually increase, the curiosity inevitably arises of gaining first hand (or should I say ‘first bowel’) experience myself, in a systemized approach to detoxification that is not solely focused on chelation and ozone (with which I have plenty of first hand and patient experience), but in addition includes, yes, colon cleanses as well as herbal kidney and liver cleanses. In other words, I also have to try these out. Although as a physician I clearly understand the physiological processes involved, knowing from the textbook is one thing, experiencing and then speaking from experience, another.
In a site dedicated to colonic irrigation, it states that, “when you want to cleanse and detoxify your body, the colon should be the first organ to start with.” There is logic to this. Even though my other treatments of ozone and chelation have overall been very successful, with a high rate of patient satisfaction, the truth just is: “Unless the colon is cleansed first, the toxins that are flushed out from other organs cannot be [fully] eliminated from the body and may get back into the blood stream.” In other words before we start detoxifying, we better make sure that the toxins can be eliminated smoothly, without impediment.
In my first willy-nilly trials with colon hydrotherapy in December last year, I continued to eat a regular diet, and although I am naturally slim and trim, I tend to take in my daily small dose of junk. It says that such is not helpful while receiving a series of colonics. Rather it says that the client should instead take in small amounts of food, and not over eat.
I am doing one better than this now. While taking my present series of colonics I am on a 90 to 95% liquid diet. I have freshly pressed vegetable juices, warm vegetable broth, and some fruit, or peeled warm tomatoes run through the blender with herbs. The results are remarkable in the sense that a lot more old residual feces that clogged the intestinal walls are released than in the course of the previous treatments when I had continued with my regular diet. And this is precisely the point of colonic irrigation, which is much more powerful than the usual enemas: the entire colon gets freed from gas and matter that were trapped there, sometimes for years. And although this is hardly news, it is helpful to confirm what the textbooks on colon hydrotherapy are saying. I can more convincingly state my case when working with others.
To sum up some additional points that are important factors for the success of your colon hydrotherapy and the subsequent regimen to keep the colon clean afterwards:
- You need to drink plenty of water (2 to 3 liters a day).
- Take vitamin C supplements to boost the immune system.
- Exercise some. And if you want to feel really good, exercise some more – without driving yourself beyond your limit, just gradually stretching it.
- Take some probiotics, i.e. supplements that supply the system with helpful bacteria.
- Even after your series of colon cleanses, do NOT over eat. Follow the 80% rule: stop eating when you are 80% satiated. In other words, when you finish your meal you should not feel totally full.
- Eat a diet rich in soluble and insoluble fibers,
- Eat lots of green foods.