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had thought dietary changes would be necessary to avoid having the same dismal bowel condition return. I
still think colonics are far more effective if people are on a cleansing diet too. However, I was delighted to see
the potential for helping people through colonics.
For me, the most interesting part of this colonic school was that I personally was required to have my own
barium enema and X-ray. I was privately certain that mine would look normal, because after all, I had been
on a raw food diet for six years, and done considerable amount of fasting, all of which was reputed to repair a
civilized colon. Much to my surprise my colon looked just as mangled and dysfunctional as everyone else's',
only somewhat worse because it had a loop in the descending colon similar to a cursive letter "e" which
doctors call a volvulus. Surgeons like to cut volvululii out because they frequently cause bowel obstructions.
It seemed quite unfair. All those other people with lousy looking colons had been eating the average American
diet their whole life, but I had been so 'pure!'
On further reflection I remembered that I had a tendency toward constipation all through my childhood and
young adulthood, and that during my two pregnancies the pressure of the fetus on an already constipated
bowel had made it worse resulting in the distorted structure seen in the X-ray. This experience made it very
clear that fasting, cleansing diets, and corrected diet would not reverse damage already done. Proper diet and
fasting would however, prevent the condition of the colon from getting any worse than it already was.
I then realized that I had just purchased the very tool I needed to correct my own colon, and I was eager to get
home to get started on it. I had previously thought that I was just going to use this machine for my patients,
because they had been asking for this kind of an adjunct to my services for some time. I ended up giving
myself over a hundred colonics at the rate of three a week over many months. I then out of curiosity had
another barium enema and X-ray to validate my results. Sure enough the picture showed a colon that looked
far more 'normal' with no vulvulus. That little "e" had disappeared.
What Is Constipation?
Most people think they are not constipated because they have a bowel movement almost every day,
accomplished without straining. I have even had clients tell me that they have a bowel movement once a
week, and they are quite certain that they are not constipated. The most surprising thing to novice fasters is
that repeated enemas or colonics during fasting begins to release many pounds of undeniably real, old, caked
fecal matter and/or huge mucus strings. The first-time faster can hardly believe these were present. These old
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fecal deposits do not come out the first time one has enemas or necessarily the fifth time. And all of them will
not be removed by the tenth enema. But over the course of extended fasting or a long spell of light raw food
eating with repeated daily enemas, amazing changes do begin to occur. It seems that no one who has eaten a
civilized diet has escaped the formation of caked deposits lining the colon's walls, interfering with its
function. This material does not respond to laxatives or casually administered enemas.
Anyone who has not actually seen (and smelled) what comes out of an "average" apparently healthy person
during colonics will really believe it could happen or can accurately imagine it. Often there are dark black
lumpy strings, lumps, or gravel, evil smelling discs shaped like sculpted hemispheres similar to the pockets
lining the wall of the colon itself. These discs are rock-hard and may come out looking like long black braids.
There may also be long tangled strings of gray/brown mucous, sheets and flakes of mucous, and worse yet, an
occasional worm (tape worm) or many smaller ones. Once confronted however, it is not hard to imagine how
these fecal rocks and other obnoxious debris interfere with the proper function of the colon. They make the
colon's wall rigid and interfere with peristalsis thus leading to further problems with constipation, and
interfere with adsorption of nutrients.
Our modern diet is by its "de-"nature, very constipating. In the trenches of the First World War, cheese was
given the name 'chokem ass' because the soldiers eating this as a part of their daily ration developed severe
constipation. Eaten by itself or with other whole foods, moderate amounts of cheese may not produce health
problems in people who are capable of digesting dairy products. But cheese when combined with white flour
becomes especially constipating. White bread or most white-flour crackers contain a lot of gluten, a very
sticky wheat protein that makes the bread bind together and raise well. But white flour is lacking the bran,
where most of the fiber is located. And many other processed foods are missing their fiber.
In an earlier chapter I briefly showed how digestion works by following food from the mouth to the large
intestine. To fully grasp why becoming constipated is almost a certainty in our civilization a few more details
are required. Food leaving the small intestine is called chyme, a semi-liquid mixture of fiber, undigested bits,
indigestible bits, and the remains of digestive enzymes. Chyme is propelled through the large intestine by
muscular contractions. The large intestine operates on what I dub the "chew chew train" principle, where the
most recent meal you ate enters the large intestine as the caboose (the last car of a train) and helps to push out
the train engine (the car at the front that toots), which in a healthy colon should represent the meal eaten
perhaps twelve hours earlier. The muscles in the colon only contract when they are stretched, so it is the
volume of the fecal matter stretching the large intestine that triggers the muscles to push the waste material
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