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Colon/kidney detoxification

What Is Detoxification?

Detoxification is the process of clearing toxins from the body or neutralizing or transforming them, and clearing excess mucus and congestion. Many of these toxins come from our diet, drug use, and environmental exposure, both acute and chronic. Internally, fats, especially oxidized fats and cholesterol, free radicals, and other irritating molecules act as toxins. Poor digestion, colon sluggishness and dysfunction, reduced liver function, and poor elimination through the kidneys, respiratory tract, and skin all add to increased toxicity.

Detoxification involves dietary and lifestyle changes which reduce intake of toxins and improve elimination. Avoidance of chemicals, from food or other sources, refined food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and many drugs helps minimize the toxin load. Those lifestyle changes are a direct result of choices you make in your life. Transcendental meditation has helped me make marked improvements in not only my health and behavior but all aspects of my life. I highly recommend you look into it .

When detoxifying your colon, it is also important to incorporate probiotics in your diet to replenish your intestinal flora.

Colon cleansing

Bowel movements are the basis of your health. If you don’t have at least 1 bowel movement per day, you are already walking your way toward disease. Man’s body has not changed very much in the past several thousand years… however man’s diet has certainly changed a lot. All the refined sugar, white flour, hormone/antibiotics-filled meats we constantly ingest constitute an assault on our bodies. We are continuously violating our bodies by eating terrible foods. Colon cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.

So, all congestion and toxins must be removed, and it must begin with cleansing of the bowel.

One of the most frequent bowel problems that people experience today is constipation.

A constipated system is one in which the transition time of toxic wastes is slow. The longer the “transit time,” the longer the toxic waste matter sits in our bowel, which allows them to putrefy, ferment and possibly be reabsorbed. The longer your body is exposed to putrefying food in your intestines, the greater the risk of developing disease. Even with one bowel movement per day, you will still have at least three meals worth of waste matter putrefying in your colon at all times.

Disease usually begins with a toxic bowel. Those having fewer bowel movements are harboring a potentially fertile breeding ground for serious diseases. Infrequent or poor quality bowel movements over an extended period of time may be very hazardous to your health.

A Proper Colon Cleansing Program Removes the Mucoid Plaque From the Colon.

Even a thin layer of mucoid plaque weakens the body. Nature intended mucoid plaque to be sloughed off. But due to stress and diet, most Americans have many hardened layers of mucoid plaque. The healthy colon weighs about 4 pounds. One autopsy revealed a colon choked with 40 pounds of impacted mucoid plaque! A proper colon cleanse and detoxification program prepares your body for optimal health by removing the mucoid plaque.

Begin transitioning to a diet rich in raw fruits and vegetables with very few cooked or processed foods to help keep your digestive system free of mucoid plaque. Regular and easy elimination will be the rule, toxins will not build up and foods will be fully digested and utilized. This optimum nutrition allows rejuvenation and peak vitality. Of course it was a process of years or decades to get the body so full of plaque and toxins, so it will be a process, although faster, to detoxify and get your body pure and back to its highest possible state of health.

“Colon cleanse” or “Bowel Cleanse” or “Intestinal Cleanse” or “Intestinal Therapy” are terms referring to a procedure (or a therapy) which has as its main goal having a clean bowel. A real “bowel cleanse” can take from 3 to 4 weeks up to a few months, depending on the person. But don’t get discouraged, it’s worth it!

Colon cleansing is a procedure which may include the use of many different supplements, and few days of FASTING. A good intestinal cleanse will also include a parasite cleanse.

Natural Colon Cleansing

More often than not, natural colon cleansing means following a colon cleansing diet along with taking some colon cleansing supplements which may include herbs which are known to kill parasites and worms, contain digestive enzymes, contain probiotics (beneficial bacteria), contain herbs that stimulates liver, gallbladder and intestines, also psyllium husk or seeds, Cascara Sagrada, or flax seeds, or slippery elm, and others.

Herbal colon cleansing using psyllium, internal cleansing herbs and other natural colon cleansing products, is an essential part of a good detoxification program.

The person on a typical American diet holds 8 meals of undigested food and waste material in the colon, while the person on the high fiber diet holds only 3. The herbal colon cleansing page and the colon health page explain in detail how you can embark on a good colon cleansing program for yourself.

Start your detoxification program with the COLON

A good cleansing program should always begin by removing the waste in your colon, the last portion of your food processing chain. If you attempt to clean your liver, blood, or lymph system without first addressing a waste-filled bowel, the excreted toxins will only get recycled back into your body.

Decrease Bowel Transit Time With Intestinal Cleansing

Constipation and diarrhea, are also indications of foul matter in your intestines. Furthermore, the much more serious problems of cancer and immune system dysfunctions begin with a toxic bowel.

Once we truly understand that the “single greatest challenge our bodies face is the effective removal of wastes and toxins”, we will never again undermine the importance of frequent bowel movements.

As the colon becomes impacted with dry putrefactive waste, its shape and function are affected in numerous ways. It may stretch like a balloon in certain areas, or develop something called “diverticula” (pouches on the intestinal wall which may become infected), or fall down upon itself (prolapsed colon). All of these colon malformations greatly impair your large intestine’s ability to function, which in turn places severe strain on your digestive organs and glands and affects nutrient assimilation and absorption. The colon is the body’s “sewer system”, and if not treated properly can accumulate toxic poisons, which are absorbed into the bloodstream. This in turn can cause many diseases.

A standard bowel cleanse contains:

• fasting on water, juices, raw fruits and vegetables
• Probiotics
• Psyllium husk and/or seeds or flax seeds
• bentonite clay
• salt water enema

Bentonite clay and flaxseeds assist with the colon cleansing process. Bentonite is a type of edible clay that acts as a bulk laxative by absorbing water to form a gel. It binds toxins such as pesticides and helps to carry them out of the colon. Flaxseeds also absorb water and expand in the colon, allowing toxins and mucus to be removed. In addition, flaxseeds have been found to lower cholesterol levels.

As part of your colon cleansing program, take 1 tablespoon of liquid bentonite and one tablespoon of ground flaxseeds in a glass of water first thing in the morning (wait at least 1/2 hour before eating) and before bed. Drink at least 8 glasses of water per day or constipation may result. You should take the bentonite separate from medications or supplements because it may interfere with absorption. I find the best price for a high quality colon cleaning product containing bentonite clay is here.

An important component of a colon cleansing program is the use of probiotics to help replenish the population of friendly bacteria which resides in your colon.

Kidney cleansing

Now let’s turn to kidney cleansing. Did you know that your chances of developing a kidney stone in your lifetime are 1 in 10? More than 300,000 people in the U.S. suffer from renal failure each year and undergo dialysis or await a kidney transplant.

Your kidneys are 2 bean-shaped organs, each about the size of your fist. Although the kidneys are small organs by weight, they receive a huge amount – about 20% – of the blood pumped by the heart. Every day, your kidneys process about 200 quarts of blood to sift out about 2 quarts of waste products and extra water.

The actual filtering occurs in tiny units inside your kidneys called ‘nephrons’. Every kidney has about a million nephrons. In the nephron, a glomerulus–which is a tiny blood vessel, or capillary–intertwines with a tiny urine-collecting tube called a tubule. A complicated chemical exchange takes place, as waste materials and water leave your blood and enter your urinary system.

The large blood supply to your kidneys enables them to do the following tasks:

Your kidneys receive the blood, they process the blood by removing the wastes and then return the processed blood to the body and the unwanted substances end up in the urine. Urine flows from the kidneys through the ureters into the bladder. In the bladder, the urine is stored until it is excreted from the body through the urethra.

A kidney cleanse is any procedure that involves drinking a huge amount of liquid, and making sure you are eating a healing diet. Simply eating a better diet and increasing your consumption of water can sometimes be enough. Any form of bowel cleansing will also help kidneys. A juice fast is also a kidney cleanse, and any other form of fasting which incorporates a lot of liquids, will by the same token cleanse the kidneys.

An easy way to do a kidney cleanse is to purchase 20 to 100 pounds of watermelon (a few huge melons) and eat as much of the watermelon as you can throughout the day, while regularly emptying your bladder.

An effective kidney cleanse is discussed in more detail here.

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“Q & A About Past Newsletters”, Article by Matt Monarch

The following information is for education only and is not meant to diagnose, prescribe, or treat illness. It is valuable to seek the advice of an alternative health care professional before making any changes.

In this article I will be answering some of the questions that have been sent in from newsletter readers in recent weeks:

‘The Benefits of Systemic Enzymes‘ Article
Q. I have heard that enzymes can’t make it past the stomach acid and that they are useless. Is this true?

A. In my opinion, I am positive that these enzymes don’t get destroyed in the stomach. I feel that our stomach acid is a lot less powerful than many people think. If it were true that our stomach acid is so strong, it could be burning the delicate tissues in our stomachs and other organs. Also, from a logical standpoint, how would any of the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and HIGH VIBRATION of any foods make it through to our small intestines where we absorb this nourishment, if the stomach acid is supposedly so strong that it is destroying everything? In my opinion, taking systemic enzymes

on an empty stomach is one of the most beneficial things we can do for our health.

‘The Benefits of Systemic Enzymes‘ Article
Q. I have never taken enzymes in a powder form. How do you suggest that I take them?
A. This is a GREAT question, as these systemic enzymes

are SO POWERFUL, that they can give you a slight burning sensation if placed directly into the mouth. I recommend taking a shot glass and placing the amount of enzymes you wish to take into the shot glass. Then fill the shot glass up with water or vegetable juice and stir it up with any utensil. Next, ‘shoot’ the enzymes down and follow the mixture with 16oz of water or vegetable juice.

You can order Systemic Enzymes by clicking HERE

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‘Royal Jelly‘ Article
Q. Hello! I just got my shipment of Royal Jelly. Do you have suggestions how I can take this? Can it be mixed with something?? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

A. Although, Royal Jelly

is a whole food, I would consider it more as a supplement. 1 teaspoon a day is PLENTY for most people. I feel that Royal Jelly is the MOST POWERFUL food in the world and can be a KEY INGREDIENT for successfully living deficiency-free as a raw foodist (or for anyone, for that matter). If I could subsist on only one food, I would choose Royal Jelly. I have even heard recently that Royal Jelly contains B12 and a good amount of Vitamin C too. If you just consider it as a supplement and take even just 1/2 teaspoon of this POWERFUL food each day, you are getting a RICH amount of nourishment. I would personally suggest taking 1 teaspoon on an empty stomach every day an! d it may do you wonders. The kilo packs of Royal Jelly that we offer will most likely last 3 – 4 months at that rate. If you want to add the jelly to smoothies or elixirs, that is fine also. In my opinion to get the best results, I would take it on an empty stomach as one of your first ‘solid’ foods of the day.

We’ve also had some people writing in, concerned that their Royal Jelly

from our store defrosted in the process of shipping it to them. This is NOT an issue. Royal Jelly is much more durable than some people think. Our supplier of this product told us how he left some of their Royal Jelly in a refrigerator for over a year and they were still able to raise Queen Bees on it. This is POWERFUL stuff! The Royal Jelly arrived frozen to us at our warehouse and we put it straight into the freezer. Depending on which shipping method you choose, we then priority mail or 2-day air the Jelly to you with ice packs. If it arrives completely thawed out, you can be assured that the potency of the Royal Jelly is still THRIVING. I am personally keeping my Royal Jelly in the refrigerater – I do not refreeze it.

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‘Cleansing the Colon on a PERIODIC Basis‘ Article
Q. I have heard that it is not good to cleanse the colon on a periodic basis as it can flush the beneficial bacteria out of the colon. Is this true?

A. I would guess that you probably heard this from either a Natural Hygienist, someone in the mainstream medical community, or from a person filled with fear(many people spread the same kind of fear-filled messages about the raw food lifestyle, trying to suggest that it is ‘BAD’ for you.) Colon hydrotherapy is one of those things that it seems the mainstream medical society would like to suppress, because of how POWERFUL colon cleansing is in aiding the healing of the body. NOTHING detoxifies and cleanses the body more effectively than cleansing the colon on a PERIODIC BASIS. I am always hearing different reasons why colon hydrotherapy is supposedly ‘bad’, such as losing your ability to poop, peoples’ colon walls getting punctured, losing beneficial bacteria, and so on. However, from personal experience combined with reports from others who are experienced in this field, doing colon hydrotherapy does the EXACT OPPOSITE of everyt! hing suggested by these fear-spreaders. When somebody brushes their teeth and washes any bacteria away, is it not true that within a matter of hours or even minutes, the mouth is teeming with bacteria again? Why would it be any different in the environment of the colon? There is more bacteria in your colon than people on the Earth – more than four times the number, in fact! Dr. Norman Walker and Dr. Ann Wigmore both published in their books that colon hydrotherapy actually makes your peristalsis STRONGER and helps create a HEALTHY environment, where beneficial bacteria can FLOURISH. Lastly, I have never heard of anyone who has injured themself by cleansing their colon – quite the contrary in fact.

This is a good and thorough article on the benefits of the raw food diet, cleansing and detox!

Cleansing the Colon on a PERIODIC Basis, by Matt Monarch

Whenever you improve your diet (i.e. eating less, consistently, compared to your previous intake), you will inevitably go through detoxification. The more you improve your diet, or in other words, the more damaging foods that you elminate from your diet, the more you will detoxify. For example, the most cleansing diet that ANYONE can do is go on a water fast, because you are eliminating everything from your diet except water. Generally, you are advised to lie in bed during water fasting, as you detox, regenerate and heal.

About 10 generations ago (1000 years or so), man was not eating processed foods such as refined sugars or “McDonalds” and breathing polluted air like today. As our ancestors started eating more poorly and creating more polution with each generation, they would pass down their toxic cells as they reproduced, until we have reached our current state of widespread gross toxicity today. We are born with toxicity. Studies show that human breast milk is more toxic today than ever before in history.

Keeping all of this in consideration, most of us have also been eating poorly ourselves for decades on end. In this condition, if we were to eliminate everything from our diet except water and go on a fast, we will be detoxing a huge amount… Now… When you go on a 100% Raw Food Diet, you are eliminating everything from your diet except the most water-rich and easy to digest foods. Choosing this kind of lifestyle is ALSO like going on a Life-Long Fast. It’s like going on a “Raw Food Fast”. That is why it is called the DETOX diet. An apple is more than 80% water, it barely taxes the digestive system, and it is the same kind of situation with most fruits and vegetables. When you go on a 100% Raw Food Diet, you step into the process of bringing your body back to the days 1000 years or so ago when we walked a much cleaner Earth.

Regardless of your diet, your body’s natural process is to detox and cleanse every single night. Even if you are eating “McDonalds” three times a day, your body cleanses as much as it can throughout the night…and then you wake up groggy. Then most people seem to drink coffee in the morning to attempt to counter this groggy effect. With this type of lifestyle, you cleanse and detox a lot throughout the night, however, you become more and more toxic with every single passing day, because more toxicity is going in daily than the body can detox out. When you go on a Raw Food Diet, you are still going to do this natural process of detoxing every single night… however, the tides change a little here… Comparatively speaking MUCH LESS toxicity is going into your body on a daily basis and your body can easily handle cleansing out any toxicity created from those raw foods that you ate that day in a short period of time. Therefore, during this ! nightly cleansing process, the body has energy freed up to go after older, deeper DENSE matter that has built up through the decades and generations of poor eating. As the years go by on a 100% Raw Food Diet, you are going to consistently cleanse deeper and deeper and you will become “cleaner and cleaner”. at a cellular level. Side Note: The more you detoxify, the cleaner you become, the more sensitive you become to past food choices & toxins such as air pollution, cigarette smoke, and perfumes… and lastly… the more in-tune you also become to that universal cosmic spiritual energy.

This release of old waste matter is going to continue throughout your 100% Raw Food path, whether you are aware of it or not. The MOST EFFECTIVE way to get around this is to cleanse the colon with colonics (colon hydrotherapy). NOTHING DETOXIFIES THE BODY MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN CLEANSING THE COLON! ALL of the health institutes out there that bring people in and help them heal from degenerative diseases utilize colonics and enemas. In my opninion, it is the number one reason why these health institutes have such a HIGH SUCCESS RATE in healing people from all sorts of degenerative diseases. I have seen people who just wanted to slightly improve their diet AND were willing to do the colon hydrotherapy on a periodic basis, and they pretty much healed based on the colon cleansing. You name ANY health food institute out there that has a high success rate like this and guess what they do… They usually give everyone three col! onics a week and everyone does two enemas a day… in the morning and evening. Ding ding ding…!!! Healing occurs and cleansing the colon is the number one reason why. When these people improve their diets, it is imperative to also get this old toxic waste out, swiftly and effectively.

It is unavoidable: the TRUE 100% Raw Food Eater will feel very toxic, again and again, as waste is released DEEP from their cells in detox. Most people who aren’t willing to cleanse the colon on a periodic basis don’t do well on the 100% Raw Food Diet because of these repeated cycles of feeling toxic. Often, when someone runs into a “rut” with the Raw Food Diet, they think that fasting is the solution. This can actually make the situation worse if the real issue is located in a dirty colon. They are already cleansing STRONGLY on this raw food diet and then they go on a fast and eliminate MORE FOODS from their diet, accelerating the cleansing process even more. This just adds more toxicity to the bonfire and can worsen the situation, whereas a simple colonic or series of colonics could remedy the situation.

Many people think “I have bowel movements three times a day, I don’t need to do colon hydrotherpay to aid my detox”. There is a GREAT chance that you may be extremely toxic AND poop three times a day. The amount of solid waste being eliminated daily does NOT determine the toxicity within the human body. For example, when a person goes on a water fast, they DETOX A LOT! and it is definitely not only coming out of the body in the form of feces. The tongue is coated white, they have body odor, mucus is pouring and their breath smells. If they were only detoxing through solid waste on this fast, they would obviously be pooping all day long; detox has many routes other than solid bowel movements, hence the amount of feces someone passes daily doesn’t necessarily correlate directly to their level of detox. To learn more about what toxicity really is, you can read about the blood gases in my book Raw Success or read the Blood Gas Theory article I wrote HERE.

Now, I am not suggesting to do colon hydrotherapy EVERY SINGLE DAY. However, I do feel that it is key to do this on a PERIODIC, ongoing basis for ultimate success on any type of improved diet. Ironically, the more foods you eliminate from your diet (the less you eat), it becomes ideal to cleanse the colon more often. Many people think that the 100% Raw Food Diet is what we are meant to eat in nature, and therefore, it should all work itself out, without colon cleansing. I consider this a little ABSURD considering the current condition of this planet and the human species; we can use all the help we can get in terms of detox. When you go on a 100% Raw Food Diet, you initiate the process of bringing things back to HUNDREDS of years ago, when we walked in a pristine environment.

Here is a general recommendation for the frequency of doing professional colonics. Each person’s condition is naturally different and someone weighing 300 pounds may require more than a slim person, for example. If someone is on a Standard American Diet without improving their diet at all, a colonic once a year may provide some benefit. Unfortunately, in this kind of situation, it would pretty much just be like hitting the reset button until the inevitable. Someone on a WHOLE FOOD, intermediate cooked food diet, I would suggest to do colonics 3 – 4 times a year. Ironically, if you are on a 100% Raw Food Diet, I would recommend doing colonics once a month. I know some individuals with serious degenerative diseases who want to heal so badly, that they do colonics weekly. I know of some individuals who wanted to heal so badly that they did a professional colonic 3 days a week, with enemas on the other days.

I don’t gain anything personally from sharing this information with you; I don’t make any money from colonics. I share this information because I KNOW from experience with myself and THOUSANDS of others who have benefited from cleansing the colon that this WORKS! If you think this is some kind of “ego” thing, well, I’m sure to the majority of the human population, I look like an IDIOT trotting around this planet telling everyone to stick pipes up their bums! I share this information because, quite simply, it works…whether you choose to take action on this or not is up to you…

For ULTIMATE success on any improved diet, the key is to not just cleanse the colon once here or there, but to do it on a periodic basis. Cleansing the colon CONSISTENTLY on a periodic basis has the potential to make a huge difference for your health and well-being.

“At long last, I’m delighted to present the Colon Therapy Directory. It is a work in progress and there will hopefully be many new additions as highly trained gravity method colon therapists contact me with the details of their practice and approach. If you are a colon therapist who would like to be considered for the directory or a reader who would like to recommend someone, please send an email with all the details of the practice to natalia@detoxtheworld.com.”