Well, I found a very fascinating (and slightly disgusting) website devoted to the entire practice of colonics. I can’t help but believe that 50% of the information contained in the website, is somewhat convincing, and 50% is just utter new-age quackery! The site is packed (no-pun-intended?) with just about everything you wanted, and didn’t want to know, about colonics.
One of the weirdest parts of this site is how the guy running whole thing, refers to himself as Jos-hua. (hyphen deliberate on his behalf) Jos - hua… What the heck? This alone was cause enough for one to think the guy is some kind of nut-job!!
Anyway, the site is a compelling read, even if it is utter nonsense. They have some really gross pictures of non-fecal matter that has been expelled from the clients’ “plumbing.” If you go to the site, take note that you will see a few harmless pop-up’s, which appear as dialog boxes. These are few in number, though. The site is not offensive. (Unless you happen to be eating lunch while surfing it)
I would love to read everyone’s reactions to “Jos-hua’s” quirkiness and possible quackery. I’m sure there will much parody to be made of it all. {It would also be interesting to hear who thinks what parts are legit, as well}
One vote here for that web page being totally gross, and WAY, WAY TMI. And the dialog boxes are irritating–they evidently don’t use cookies, so you keep getting the same boxes over and over again.
I’ve heard the “colonic” thing before, and don’t really find it all that amusing, or worthy of parody, but YMMV. It’s just icky, and weird.
He doesn’t seem to give much credibility to the idea that millions of years of evolution might have designed the colon to function precisely as it does function.
If it really were a problem, if people really do have dangerous putrefying meat inside their colons, and if the conditions in your colon are less than optimum without “high colonic cleansing”, then how in the world did hominids survive for millions of years?
It’s a lot of bushwah, with no medical credibility. “What parts are legit?” None, IMO.
Ask yourself a few questions :
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[li]What are these toxins they mention ? Can they at least identify a proven one that came from the colon to the bloodstream ?[/li][li]On that site they say “We have had a few specimens preserved in alcohol from several inches to a few feet in length, while the longest we have had was 27 feet, in one piece.” Have you ever heard of a 27 feet human colon (not to be confused with the small intestine) ?[/li][li] If enemas are not enough to clean a colon (as colonic hydrotherapists are fond to say), why all the pictures of coloscopy show an absence of these so-called “encrustations” ?[/li][li] Where I work, they perform colonics, and yet I never witnessed one of weight loss that they mention. Where is their evidence (and I don’t mean testimonials) ?[/li][/ul]
I had been leaning heavily toward the “this all a bunch of quack nonsense” from the moment I first discovered the site. And yes, it is pretty disgusting. The photos of “sample eliminations” I believe are fake. The “goo” looks not of human origin, and is probably some “prop” like the goo you find in the toy store.
It does sound too bizarre to be true. On the other hand, someone told me recently about this article in UK newspaper the Guardian recently.
The enema within
Ian Belcher took some persuading to go on a colonic irrigation holiday, even at a Thai beach resort. It is, he discovered, quite astonishing what gets flushed out in the course of a week’s treatment. But did he feel the better for it?
Ian Belcher
Saturday March 9, 2002
After reading the article, I was definitely scared of what could be hanging around in my intestinal tract.
