Your observations are great. That is what we need, more observations from people actually studying cadavers. Are you a medical student or is this a one time class for another major? If you have anything else to report, please do. I would be curious what an overweight person's colon looks like. Or if you ever see a colon that is huge and impacted. Thanks for sharing. Aloha

I am not necessarily disagreeing with your findings at all... what I am saying is many people develop poor bowel habits and conditions over time due to a number of issues. I am not refering so much to impaction and mucus plaque as I am to just sludge and things like intestinal pockets (diverticulosis) that can be helped and improved through responsible bowel cleansing and the "retraining" if you will of healthy bowel habits.

I also question whether many bowel issues are not a result of bad habits such as holding it in on purpose\ignoring the urge to go.

There was a little kid, about 10 in the chiropractors office the other day who was complaining about pain in his lower abdomen just above the groin. The doctor told him to go in the bathroom and try to poop. He did, and came out and said the pain was gone... My point being mom was already training him to hold it whenever the urge was inconvenient. By the time this kid is an adult, no wonder he has bowel issues, constipation or what have you. He was already being "trained" to ignore the signs to go.

ok this is going to be long! here you go...all details included!! also, i apologise in advance because my memory is TERRIBLE. i have a disorder which means i cant remember things properly. so i am not the best person to give you exact details but i will try! i am going to give you what i can piece together, but it may not be totally accurate (i will leave out bits i am confused over). it will give you a general idea anyway...

1. detox herbal tincture
i took this ages ago, i cant remember too well it was before i got into the whole cleansing/flushing thing. i had a fairly healthy diet, no processed foods, lots of fresh fruit and veg, estimate about 10-20% raw. yoga 2-3 times/week about 40mins. i made no changes to diet or exercise while taking this tincture. it was this one:


http://www.alternativescentral.com/herbdetx.htm


looking back i dont know how i got past the visuals! still, the info was good and it convinced me.

results: i cant remember the dose, sorry. it was maybe a dropper full in the morning and thats it. so it was a weak dose i think. also, it is recommended on the site to fast while taking it and i did not do so at the time. still, i got a few of the aforementioned chip like objects out. no other noticeable results so i stopped using it. no change otherwise in my BMs, they were still ibs-y.

the rest is all since about 6 weeks ago (appx!)

2. oil pulling
20 mins of swishing olive oil (cold pressed, organic blah blah just assume this every time i mention olive oil!) on an empty stomach 4 times a day. my body was very toxic and this is how often i needed to do it. i mainly fasted, eating a very small meal about once a day. lots of water and herbal tea. my digestion was rubbish still at this point (underactive in general), and i did not have BMs for days because of fasting. i did this for about 4 days before adding the next step.

3. lemon/OO drink

2 US oz fresh squeezed organic lemon juice mixed with 2 US olive oil. taken at 3pm after fasting for the whole day. i had my first detox reaction the day of taking this, in the evening. it was extreme fatigue, trouble concentrating and some nausea i took aloe juice for.`i also did a shot of corriander juice. i lost my appetite, so i continued fasting until my appetite came back sometime in the evening the next day. i continued oil pulling for approximately the next week, along with partial fasting as my appetite dictated and started yoga again after about a year of not being able to. i had tons of energy.

results: in terms of BMs, the oil moved things through. i would estimate i had appx 1 BM a day for the day i took the drink and the day after, then a bunch of BMs the day after that. then, slowly my BMs went back to being around 1 or less than 1 a day.


4. another lemon/OO drink, and the herbal detox tincture

this was maybe a week after. same protocol as before. this time i resumed normal eating in the morning of the day after. my tongue got white from the detox tincture this time. i do not remember the results exactly in terms of BMs, i would imagine it was similar to the first lemon/OO drink. i know sometime around this time i had about 5 BMs a day one day, and 3/4 the day before or after that.


5. throughout all of the above i was doing hot/cold showers, and detox baths (cover body with OO (Olive-Oil) and get into hot epsom bath +/- herbs/spices)


6. egg/lime/oil liver flush, with swf

i fasted the day before and on the day until about 3pm when i drank 2 egg yolks, juice of 3 limes and 2 tbsp olive oil mixed together. i laid on my back for 1.5 hours then slept for appx 3-4 hours. i could feel my liver being suctioned it was weird! i fasted for the rest of the night, and the next morning at about 6am i took the swf with abdo massage and yoga stretching. it all moved through in just over an hour. i got out a lot of stuff, and it was gross. lol!

i did another one the day after, and swf the next morning. same results. after a few days i did another one i think. same results as far as i can remember.

throughout this period of Liver Flushing i did oil pulling too, about once a day for 20 minutes. i was drinking fennel tea as well, which was helping my BMs. i was having few BMs still though by this point. still continued the detox baths

(sorry do not have time frame for this last part)

7. started drinking kefir, 300-400ml in the morning on an empty stomach. after a few days, i was having 1 BM/day without fail. (sorry, i dont know if this stage actually came before or after the next stage.)

8. did another egg/lime/oil and had swf disaster (bowel obstruction, swf stayed in there for a good 7 hours). finally got it out with Epsom Salts . similar results to first times.

9. did 1 week of bowel healing diet mostly veg broths +/- rice, soups etc.

10. resumed normal diet. added 2 tbsp ground up flax seeds to my kefir in the morning. got bloated and very full feeling at first. then after a few days or a week started having many BMs. one day had something stupid like 6 in a few hours.

11. continued with morning kefir/flax seed, added 1 small glass just kefir before evening meal on empty stomach. bloating decreased slowly, BM's stabilised at 2/3 per day.

apologies it is all so sketchy, have a lot of memory probs near the end. please ask if you want more details. i might have to come back and correct if i start to remember better. let me know what results you get, i am interested!