A client of mine wanted to try a ‘colon cleansing diet’ post the New Year’s Eve and I just had to research more into this!
Detox tea’s, juicing diet, Colon tonics, enama’s etc.
Even if you have not considered a colon cleansing diet, I’m sure you would have at some point considered one of the above.
A growing number of people think that the colon is a biological sewage system in your belly loaded with unclean faecal material leftover from junk food consumed since years. They believe the walls are clogged with this debris, breeding infections that must be removed.
However, according to experts, your colon wall does not need cleansing. Colon cleansing is a natural process of your intestine, according to Dr Michael Klaper, an experienced physician and sought-after lecturer on health and wellness. It doesn't require much intervention.
The wall or lining of the colon is quite smooth and, more crucially, highly moist. Its mucous glands are continually producing mucus, making it very slippery. As a result, items can't stick to it.
Furthermore, peristaltic waves go along the colon tube along its smooth inner lining, keeping things moving. Things clinging to the walls of typical, healthy colons are not possible since this would disrupt the blood flow beneath the faecal bulk.
So should you get an enema?
With all things considered, people who eat high fat and very low fibre diet filled with meat and dairy have very sluggish faecal masses.
In such circumstances, the water is drawn out of the gut, leaving only hard stool masses, some of which can linger about in the small fissures on the colon's wall for days.
But enama’s also flush out the good gut microflora. The bacteria that keeps you thriving. As a one of incident when you have not poop’ed in long, enama’s are ok, but continuously getting them done will on make your gut weaker.
Instead, if you consume a whole foods plant-based diet, your stool bulk and are easy to pass. Oh the glorious feeling of a good poop every single morning after going plant- based is an unmatched feeling. Exactly this song comes to my mind:
Consume a diet rich in fibre, such as a whole food plant-based diet, if you want to see your colon clean, pink, and healthy.
Additionally, eat your water (through water rich fruits and vegetables like muskmelon, cucumbers etc), go for a daily walk, or engage in any exercise for some time each day to aid the cleaning process.
Without the need for a particular colon cleansing diet, these actions are sufficient to maintain a clean and healthy colon. A temporary, restricted diet will do more harm to your colon than good.
Trust this helps,