Posted by raybakes on November 4, 2004, at 2:40:49
In reply to Re: Bowel Cleanse?? anyone? » tealady, posted by Larry Hoover on October 30, 2004, at 13:31:25
> > My main concern is the the dumb bowel cleanse. I've been reading on it.
> > Some of them are in the "What the..." category <g>
> > and some people actually get addicted to them? wow!!
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> > I just don't want to do anything that'll destroy the mucous membrane!..they talk about sloughing it off the plaque with the chemical mix..
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> If you can find anything in a pathology textbook, or one from general surgery, I'll start to believe in deposits forming in the intestines.
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> Those products you mentioned cause severe osmolic stress, flushing huge amounts of electrolytes into the bowel and down the toilet. Phosphate-buffered magnesium sulphate and similar compounds simply draw so much fluid into the gut that you have no choice but to expell all the contents of the gut. I can see no health benefits accruing from the use of these sorts of products.
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> Lar
A lot of alternative practitioners talk of a healing crisis, but I think that's just justifying agressive, shoddy protocols. A couple of years ago I spoke to a guy who's liver failed a few weeks after his olive oil/lemon juice/epsom salt/apple juice cleanse - he was certain his liver failure was purely coincidence, but I wasn't convinced!Ray
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