Colon Cleanse – The silent problem inside you…
Every day when we eat foods, drink water (including bottled) and breathe air, we are exposed to and ingest preservatives, toxins, chemicals and pollutants—they are everywhere. And, no matter how careful we are in the foods we choose to eat and in our lifestyles, we cannot avoid them. A frightening fact is that most people do not realize that the typical, everyday foods and beverages that we consume cause our bodies the most problems. These are processed foods like bread, pasta, pizza, white rice, any food containing white flour; mucus forming foods such as some dairy products; sugar and alcohol products; and even fruits and vegetables exposed to pesticides and other chemicals. Many of these have just become commonplace in our lives with everyone having consumed them at one time or another.
The problem is that the body cannot properly digest and eliminate some of these foods and the substances they contain—and they can become lodged or stuck in the lining of our intestinal tract in the form of old, dried fecal matter and mucus. It is estimated that the average person can have between 4-25 pounds of this “built-up” intestinal matter in their colon—and it can just keep accumulating over the years! “The intestines can store a vast amount of this partially digested, putrefying matter,” claims natural health expert, Richard Anderson, N.D., N.M.D. “Some intestines, when autopsied, have weighed up to 40 pounds and were distended to a diameter of 12 inches with only a pencil-thin channel through which the feces could move. That 40 pounds was due to caked layers of encrusted mucus, mixed with fecal matter, bizarrely resembling hardened blackish -green truck tire rubber or an old piece of dried rawhide.” Dr. Anderson calls this accumulation “mucoid plaque.” “This mucoid plaque.” he says, “when it is removed during an intensive colon cleanse, often shows rope like twists, striations, overlaps, folds, creases—the shape and texture of the intestinal wall.” Mucoid plaque may vary considerably, depending on the chemical conditions in a person’s intestines. It may be hard and brittle; it may be firm and thick; tough, wet, and rubbery, soft, thick, and mucoid; or soft, transparent, and thin; it can range in color from light brown, black, or greenish-black to yellow or grey, and sometimes emits an intensely foul odor. The trouble is once mucoid plaque is
created, it is not routinely excreted from the intestines, affirms Dr. Anderson. “Instead, it lodges in the numerous folds and crevices of this large organ and can remain there for many years. Over time, the mucoid plaque grows thicker, firmer, and more widespread— colonizing throughout the tennis court—sized interior of the intestines. Old feces adhere to the plaque and are not removed even during normal bowel movements.”