Colon Cleansing Scam

Hello all. I know I have been a bit slow in keeping this blog up to date, and I apologize for that.  The truth is that I actually have a number of blogs that I try to keep up with in different categories, so trying to keep up with them all can be a bit tough. Some things happened over the last few weeks, however, that have compelled me to write this post.

People scare me sometimes. Not because I am afraid that they are going to attack me, or anything, but because of their determination to blindly follow false beliefs and ideas, no matter how strong the actual evidence to the contrary. I have three examples that I want to share with you that relate to the whole idea of colon cleansing.

Scary incident #1

A friend of Kathy’s is a “health nut”. Not that she lives a healthy lifestyle, based on organic foods, exercise, meditation, balance, etc. No, she is one of those that believes all of the hype about every “miracle” drug and homeopathic “remedy” out there. Obviously, she is a HUGE fan of colon cleansing.  She “cleanses” her colon regularly by whatever means is the biggest fad at the moment, absolutely ignoring all the scientific data that PROVES that colon cleansing is not only not beneficial, but can actually harm you – ESPECIALLY if you do it a lot (which she does).

If that isn’t bad enough, she always felt that what she could do in the U.S. doesn’t do a good enough job, so it was always her dream to be able to go to India where some shaman (or whatever they call which doctors there), could do a “thorough” job, complete with magic incantations, or whatever else it is they do.  She is actually planning a trip to India to do just that!

Now, is it just me, or is this kinda scary?  What would you say to your friend who wanted to do this?  Her own mother could not talk her out of it, so she asked Kathy to help.  Now, I have nothing against India, per se. I do, however, have something against stupidity.  India is not the cleanest country out there, and I am sure their health regulations are not nearly as stringent as ours.  Her friends and family are actually concerned for her life – and rightly so, I think.

Will we be able to talk her out of this insanity? Hard to say, but we’re sure going to try!

Scary incident #2

I check my stats every once in a while to see how people get to my site.  Most of my visitors get here from google searches for “colon cleansing scam”.  I think I am ranked second for that term at the moment.  I get visitors from other searches as well like colon flow scam, homemade colon cleanse and others.

A couple of days ago I looked at my stats and found something a little scary.  Someone got to my site from google by typing in “colon cleansing safe when pregnant”! I am glad they got here instead of some site that is offering specialty enemas for pregnant women, but this still kind of scares me.  I can see someone like that finding a site that offers a “dietary supplement” that is meant to help with colon cleansing that they swear is safe for pregnant women.

I am sorry, but I have a hard time with this. If you were pregnant, would you be running around searching google to find out if colon cleansing is safe for you if you are pregnant?  I hope not!  Maybe I am just old fashioned, but I believe that the place for that particular inquiry is your doctor!

Scary incident #3

Another person got to this site by going to google and typing in the phrase “homemade ex lax for baby”.  What can I even say about this?  Honestly, the first thing that I thought when I saw this was that I kind of wish that person would have chosen not to breed.  I know that sounds cruel, but that was my first thought.  I’m sure that person’s pediatrician did not recommend that they go on the internet and find a good formula for homemade ex lax. Sigh…

One last thing before I go

As long as I am on a roll here, there was one thing that I wanted to bring up.  If you look at the bottom of the left sidebar, you will find a button that tells how many spam comments have been blocked since this blogs inception.  At the time of this writing, the number is 222.

There are quite a few people who comment on this blog that actually have something useful to say.  Often, I do not get around to approving their comments because they are mixed in with all the comments left by spammers and idiots.  If your comment is one of those, I apologize.  I hope I didn’t miss yours.

For everyone wishing to comment on this blog, I want to make absolutely clear the kind of comments that I will accept here:

• I will accept comments from people who agree with my thoughts on the subject of colon cleansing.
• I will accept comments from people who disagree with me, as long as they have something useful or insightful to say on the matter (“try acea colon cleanse for effective colon cleansing” is NOT insightful!)
• If you are commenting in this site for the sole purpose of trying to promote your site, you better having something VERY useful to say.
• If you just want to tell me that you liked my post, don’t bother to include a URL to your site.  I will either strip the URL or will not approve the comment.

Basically, I would love comments from people who really want to add to the conversation.  All comments are moderated, and nothing gets through without my reading it first.

Sorry to be so blunt in this post.  This has been brewing for a while.  Still, I hope you enjoyed the read, and I will talk to you again soon!

J

Hello.  James here and this is my uncensored report on the colon cleansing scam.  If you want to know whether or not colon cleansing is a scam, I’m glad you found this site and I suggest you keep reading.

I have to warn you though: I am pulling no punches here, so if you feel that some of this is information that you do not want to hear, you may as well leave now.

If you would like to  go right to the product website to see what they have to say, click here.

If you want to see a healthy alternative, click here.

If you read my previous posts, you already know how I was introduced to colon cleansing products and what they are.  You know that I have taken them as has my girlfriend.  You know that there was a colon cleansing product that actually did help with Kathy’s constipation and that she recommended that I try it for diarrhea. Now on to the “brass tacks”:

First of all, there are hundreds of companies in the colon cleansing supplement industry.  Bowtrol is the one that we took that helped some, although we did try others. First I will tell you what it did do:

• It did help with Kathy’s constipation
• It did help with my diarrhea
• It did reduce Kathy’s feeling of being “bloated”

What it did not do:

• It did not help either of us to get into better shape
• It did not give us the ability to better digest our food
• Neither of us lost any weight
• It did not give either of us a “fresh” feeling of being detoxified
• It did not significantly increase our energy

Here is the truth behind it:  The benefits of colon cleansing were scientifically debunked years ago.  While they do have some minor benefits, these same benefits can be had from proper nutrition, without the risks of using colon cleansing products.  I told you before that it was hard for both of us to get the proper nutrition, given her busy schedule and my limited capacities.  This lack of nutrition and proper exercise was the biggest contributor to our problems.

We had to find a way to get our bodies to be ready to utilize the food we ate without a lot of exercise, and without diet pills, supplements, etc.  We had to come up with a plan that we could stick to.  We needed to find a way to do all of this, without feeling like we were sacrificing. We actually found a way that did not require us to take unsafe supplements or spend a lot of time exercising or count calories or anything like that – something that allowed us to be friends with our food and finally get healthy again.

Click here to see what worked for us.

Did I say “unsafe supplements”?  How can an herbal supplement be unsafe?  Here are some cold, hard facts about colon cleansing supplements that the supplement companies do NOT want you to know:

Nutritional supplements are not regulated by the FDA. That means that there is no governing body that tells these companies that their supplements have to actually contain what they say they do!  The pills you are taking could be powdered sugar in a capsule, and you would never know.

Colon cleansing products can do damage do your colon. Colon cleansers use laxatives and other products that interfere with your colon’s ability to absorb moisture.  This can cause dependence on laxatives for regular bowel movements.  They can also cause an electrolyte imbalance which can actually lead to heart failure.  Frequent use of oral laxatives can also cause drug absorption issues.  There are many more dangers as well.

Your Colon does not need cleansing. Our bodies are naturally capable of eliminating waste on its own.  There are countless ads that show the “waste” that passed through the test subject due to the cleansing product.  The fact is that there has never been a surgery or autopsy performed that found someone with waste build up in their colon! The “waste debris” shown in the ads was the product itself!

Want to see the biggest colon cleansing scam of all?  Click Play to watch the short video below:

Is that what you want to put in your body?

Okay, so now the challenge:  I want you to take a second and ask yourself why you want a colon cleansing product.  Is it because you heard that colonics can help you to lose weight?  Are you afraid that your body is filling with toxins?  Do you think that colon cleansing will help to prevent colon cancer?  Maybe you just want more energy?  I am going to tell you a way that you can get all of that and then some – SAFELY!

Look, there is a reason that I put up this site and wrote all of these articles.  It is because I am sick to death of being sold scams that don’t work!  I want to share something with you that does.  It worked for me.  I am incapable of most forms of exercise, due to my injuries (explained on the About Me page), and can rarely cook.  Yet I am thin, healthy and feeling better than I have in years!

Click here to see how I did it.

I hope this article was helpful and informative.  Please feel free to quote this information and pass it along to whomever you like.  The colon cleansing scam is bigger than both you and me, but the more we spread the word, the less people will be conned.

Thanks for reading,

James

Typical Colonic Clinic Room

Hi, this is James again, and I wanted to use this article to give you a little information about what colon cleansing is and what colon cleansing products are supposed to do. Before reading this article, I recommend you first read my last article HERE.

Colon cleansing is a form of alternative medicine that focuses on “flushing” the colon and lower intestinal tract to remove toxins and fecal waste. There are basically two forms of colon cleansing products: colon hydrotherapy and oral cleansing supplements.

Colon hydrotherapy (also called colonic irrigation or colonics) is the injection of water, usually mixed with herbs or other ingredients into the rectum. Oral cleansing supplements are dietary supplements usually comprised of herbs, dietary fiber, or laxatives. Colon cleansing clinics will most often utilize colonics as their preferred method of colon cleansing, while most of the products available online and over the counter at retail drug stores are the oral variety. There are, however, “enema kits” available from these retailers as well.

The use of colon cleansing dates back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed that waste would accumulate within the intestinal tract and rot. The decomposition would breed toxins that would then travel to the circulatory system and cause fever and other symptoms. These beliefs were adopted by the Greeks, who took it a step further, believing that these toxins would create an imbalance in the human body. For more information about the Greeks Humorism, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism.

Colon cleansing and the theories developed by the Egyptians and the Greeks actually appeared to have some scientific evidence to back it up through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Then in 1919, a Journal of the American Medical Association article titled Origin of the so-called auto-intoxication symptom marked the beginning of the end for colon cleansing and the “auto-intoxication” theory in the medical community. Advances in medical science provided more and more evidence to suggest that not only do colon cleansing products do nothing to “detoxify” the body, but that the use of these products can actually be harmful to your colon and digestive tracts.

Despite this evidence, colon cleansing is still alive and well in the alternative medicine community, and has recently gained increasing popularity. Colon cleansing products currently represent a multi-million dollar industry. Companies that manufacture and sell these products claim that their products can cure headache, irritability, loss of appetite, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, constipation, obesity… One of the most popular of these products is Bowtrol. You can check out their products and their claims HERE.

So, the bottom line is: Are any of these claims true? Do colon cleansing products live up to their claims? Are they dangerous? I will explore these questions in my next article. See you then!

J

Hello. This is James, and I’d like to welcome you to Colon Cleansing Scam. In this first article, I wanted to just give you an idea of how Kathy and I first got involved with colon cleansing. If you read my About Me page, you already know a little about me and Kathy and a little about why we came to investigate colon cleansing products. I will go into a little more detail here.

First, about me: I suffered a few injuries while working as a service plumber for about 18 years. These injuries caused pretty severe spinal problems in my neck and back, as well as hip problems. With these injuries, it is very difficult to get any real exercise. Cooking regular meals is difficult, because I cannot stand for longer than a minute or two at a time, and I usually need a cane to walk. Kathy is so busy with school that she rarely has time to cook.

I was feeling sluggish a lot and gaining weight. I was always tired. Kathy told me, over and over, that all of the pain medications and stuff were building up in my body and I should look at some kind of product that can flush the residue out of my system. She had heard a lot about colon cleansing products and how they are supposed to help detoxify the body and remove build-up in the bowels. I was also having problems with diarrhea, and she said a colon cleanse would help that as well.

Now, Kathy started looking into colon cleansing products for a different reason – constipation. Her busy schedule made it hard for her to get enough exercise as well. She was not eating right which was causing her to have constipation. It was Kathy that first started looking into and finally trying colon cleansers. She actually tried a few of them before finding one that didn’t make her feel “icky”. The one she liked was called “Bowtrol” (in case you are interested, click the name to get more info about them). It did seem to help her with her constipation, and that added some weight to her argument that I should try it as well.

Now, there is more to the story here than “she tried Bowtrol and it worked”. Is colon cleansing a scam? This site is called “Colon Cleansing Scam” for a reason, and we will get to that reason a little later.   Right now, I need to get to a doctor’s appointment. Take care and I’ll see at the next post.

Thanks for reading,
James