Colonic Therapy: What Are the Benefits of Colonics and Are They Safe?

Colonic Therapy:  What Are the Benefits of Colonics and Are They Safe?
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What is a Colonic?

A colonic uses water to remove waste from the colon. I prefer to use the gravity method for colonic therapy. An experienced colon hydrotherapist will allow for a pleasant experience that is gentle, comfortable and modest. There are no foul odors involved in the process. The gravity method itself is a very gentle method of colon cleansing using only gravity to allow water to flow into and out of the colon simultaneously. As clean water moves into the colon, it washes and loosens hardened matter and carries it back out. A typical colonic session lasts 45 minutes to one hour.

Unless your diet is extremely clean and always has been, then you have built up waste in your colon. One way to tell if you do indeed have built up waste is to look in the mirror first thing in the morning after you have used the restroom. Pull your belly button to your spine. If you see your abdomen get very close to your spine, then you may not have a lot of built up waste. On the other hand, if you cannot get your belly button close to your spine, then you do have built up waste.

Colonic Benefits

The colonic benefits are many as long as the hydrotherapist is experienced and you are having a gravity method colonic session. If you have been eating a standard American diet (SAD), then you definitely have waste matter stuck to the sides of your colon walls. When we eat cooked foods that have basically had the water removed in the cooking process, our colons cannot properly rid themselves of the waste from this food. It ends up being stuck on our colon walls and gets baked in there by the heat of our body. After years of eating foods that were not meant to be food (like processed and refined foods), we end up with a lot of rotting matter stuck to the walls of our colon. Even if you eliminate once every day, you are not getting out all of the waste produced by all the food you ate the day before. We should ideally be eliminating after every meal we ever eat. I don’t know anyone who does that!

Colonic therapy is useful because it enables the built up waste to be loosend up and eliminated instead of staying in our colons, rotting and poisoning the body. We absorb nutrients through our intestinal walls and if they are clogged up by waste, we are not absorbing nutrients properly and certainly not as many as we could be absorbing. Built up waste matter is also a breading ground for fungus, parasites and bacteria. Not the ideal ecology to have right inside our own bodies!! If that is not enough to send you straight to your nearest colon therapist a clogged up colon will also slow your metabolism because your organs become sluggish when there is toxic build up. This is why colon therapy can assist with weight loss. If you have a clean colon your body simply works better. If you eat a healthy diet you will be able to shed pounds easily when your colon is clean.

As you can see, colonic benefits can truly enhance our health and an experienced colonic therapy practitioner will be able to get those bowels clean.

What to Watch Out For

The only possible risks from a colonic will come from an inexperienced therapist or from using a less than gentle approach such as a method that uses electricity instead of gravity to drive a large amount of water into the colon and then suck it back out. In the gravity method, the body uses it’s own parastalsis to rid the waste. This is the safest form of colon hydrotherapy. Always check with your naturopathic physician before embarking on the process of colon cleasing.

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