Re: A very enlightening article...

It is really amazing how in the face of actual real and repeated evidence, there are still people who refuse to accept it. They will even go so far as to claim that it is all a Conspiracy to keep people sick and in need of constant medical care. But, those same people will easily accept the claims of people who are not in the medical profession, and who lack any real and repeatable data. It's as if facts are not what is important. Seems that if the claim is contrary to accepted medical, biological, physiological, and scientific fact, then it is more acceptable and real. The people who would rather accept the false claims about colon cleansing fight against real evidence just like zealots. Belief is more important to them than actual fact, especially if the facts are being given by a medical professional.

I'm not a medical professional. I am a person who is simply interested in the biology of the human body and it's process's. This interest has led me to read and study Science in general that includes biology, physiology, chemistry, etc... These are studied fields that have numerous people gathering information in order to help all of us understand the world and ourselves. In fact many colon cleansing promoter's use the data gathered by these fields of scientific study in order to make their claims sound legitimate. And, the people who believe and accept the claims made by the promoters of colon cleansing will then discount information and facts by the very people who help generate the date that those CC (colon cleansing) promoters use to inform their supporters and believers.
Well, you're trying to have your cake and eat it too.

If you discount medical Science as a collection of foolish charlatan's who only want to keep you sick and drug companies wealthy, then don't use ANY data that has been collected by the medical and broader scientific community.
Simply stick to information solely gathered by promoters of CC. That means that CC promoters should be able to give us actual repeatable observations by which to call their claims "facts". So then, where are those repeatable data to support the facts of the claims? The only thing I've seen is the "evidence" of the nasty material that is coming from the colons of people who use these products.
BTW, if the medical community only gives lies in order to keep selling drugs and medications, then why do promoters of CC products get a pass? Is it because their products don't need a prescription? Is that the difference?

These images of "facts" show us disgusting looking mostly brownish waste products that are oddly shaped like the sigmoid colon. The sigmoid colon is the last part of the large colon right before the sphincter.
SO, let's put a few things together.
Most of these CC products contain the clay described in the post and psyllium. Both of these products have been shown to create a gel like mass when they absorb water.
Psyllium tends to give a more mucous like consistency and the clay a harder gel like consistency.
Ok, now what if we were to combine those products in a test tube shaped like the sigmoid colon. What do you think it will look like when we pull the test tube away from those two products? YES, it will look like the sigmoid test tube.
Now, use your very basic "it's obvious" thinking tool set.
Put those products into a glass of water and quickly drink it. The digestive system will push it along and eventually it will end up in your colon and into your sigmoid colon.
Now, the colon contains a lot of water, which those two products love to absorb. Once that material sits in the sigmoid colon, what do you think it's general shape will be?
YES, sigmoid colon like as that is what is passing through your sphincter and into your toilet.

That explains the odd shapes. What explains the color/colors? Well, as you're taking your CC product you're also eating. What does the color of you stool look like?
Hmmmm, obviously enough very much like the stool we see in the pictures. So, it's basically your regular stool material combined with the mucous and gel like CC product so NO surprise the color and shape.
Now, some will say that the CC product is also removing old impacted fecal matter because that bulked up gel is scraping along the colon and removing the old fecal matter and all of those years of toxic build up.
Really? Ok, let's see if that's true. Where is that actual independent conducted and repeatable data showing that gelled up fecal matter's composition? What is the gross gel material made of? If the CC promoter's are right, then the data should show VERY high levels of "toxic" materials.
Please post that actual data showing us all the VERY high levels of toxic material that would otherwise not be found in regular stool samples. Let's see it.

Now, here's another question. I've always seen the words "toxic material" or "highly toxic" materials in the CC claims. BUT, I never see what those toxins actually are.
What are those toxins? Can the CC promoters please tell us what those toxins are and at what levels are they in a normal or clean colon? Then we can compare the levels of those identified toxins in normal stools vs the stools of those taking the CC products. If these toxins are in the blood, then show the blood tests revealing those levels.
Then, explain how the CC products are capable of removing toxins in the blood through the colon. That'll be a good one considering the colon is not capable of scrubbing the blood stream.

Next, CC promoters need to show actual repeatable evidence that fecal matter can actually stick to and/or remain in the colon from food eaten years ago. Explain how that concept completely contradicts the already proven physiology of how the lining of the colon is shed as old cells die and are replaced by new cells and lining. Explain how fecal matter can still hold onto something that is falling away.
Our skin also sheds BTW. Yet, we don't see any impacted stuck on years old dirt that remains on our skin.

Then, explain the real evidence shown by years of colonoscopy where doctors simply do NOT find any stuck on years old fecal matter even when they are looking right at the colon directly. BTW, understand that the colon like the small intestines is not a smooth surface. It also has creases, these creases create a larger surface area such that if you were to take a small portion and stretched it it would be larger than it first appears. Some may want to suggest that old fecal matter can hide in those creases and stay there for years decaying and releasing those "toxins". So how do the colonoscopy doctors see into those creases? Simple, during a colonoscopy the doctor injects air into the colon, which stretches the colon walls so that the surfaces are smoother and thus easier to look at. Even then the doctors do NOT see any years old fecal matter.
Please show the repeatable data that is contrary to this already established fact.

I'm simply amazed at the comments made by CC supporters in this forum, and how vitriolic the comments are towards the medical field. Most of you sound as if you think the medical community was created to make people sick and then to keep them sick. Yet we have evidence, HUGE levels of evidence, showing how sick people have been cured by the practices and procedures of the medical world. Don't you see how amazing it is how the sheer number of people who visit the hospital and private doctors offices clearly and remarkably out number how many people are actually in hospital rooms? If your Conspiracy theories were true, then explain how the vast majority of sick people have been cured and not laying in hospital rooms.
Yes, sometimes people get very sick and still they remain ill with certain problems and modern medicine can't find a cure. It's unfortunate but we haven't advanced enough to cure everything and everyone.
But I'd sure take the advances we have already where certain illness's that would have meant death and/or death at a young age, have been cured. Most people survive the flu these days even when it advances to new illness like pneumonia, which in the past would have meant keeping the patient comfortable until they died. Now, most won't get to that stage, and if they do they are MUCH more likely to survive than even 50yrs ago. You don't get that type of advancement from an organization that is only interested in keeping people sick.

Colon health is important to life. However, CC proponents have created a whole sphere of influence for the colon and the need to keep it as clean as grandma's good chinaware.
But, where's the actual data, evidence, and proof?
Most of you hold the medical world to a MUCH higher standard than you do the sellers of CC.
The greatest evidence I've seen is anecdotal coming from users who simply see poop colored gel,shaped like a sigmoid colon coming from their waste exit hole. Then they end up citing the same websites that site the same websites.
It's data based on the data that created that data in the first place. Circular ratinoalization is the best evidence it has.
It's like saying, Billy said Santa Claus is real because he heard Tommy say that Jimmy heard Sandy say that she talked to Mark who said that Billy said Santa Claus is real because he heard Tommy say that Jimmy heard......

The mind boggles and squirms. :) Tweet