I find it kind of entertaining that I’m such a big proponent of colon cleansing because the first two times anyone brought up the subject around me, my response was something along the lines of, “Um, can we change the subject?”

But the extremely flat stomach of the second person who brought it up, got me enrolled in a detoxification spa just a few weeks later. While there, I plugged my nose with toilet paper while colon cleansing and was absolutely repulsed at the filth that came out of me. Eventually, I got comfortable with the process, and instead became repulsed at the filth that was inside of me, and also quite determined to get it all out.

Most people don’t know it, but the average person has ten or more pounds of old, uneliminated fecal matter in their colon and it takes some work to get it out. Most people also don’t know that having so much stored filth inside the body is also responsible for many of the problems of the body that people commonly experience.

For close to a hundred years, naturopaths have said that a toxic colon is at the root of all disease. While I still believe this to be true today, these days, most people also have small holes in their colon walls - which allows waste from the colon to escape and reside en masse throughout the entire body.

It is a relatively new predicament for the human population, and it can be pretty directly attributed to a fungal condition in the body called candida overgrowth. It’s estimated that 90 percent of the population has a problem with candida overgrowth, but most don’t know that they have a problem with it. Also unfortunately, candida overgrowth is rarely diagnosed, but the symptoms are often given the names of disease.

To get you up to speed on candida overgrowth, it’s a common problem that occurs when the healthy bacteria in the colon (called probiotics) are killed - usually through antibiotics, birth control pills, or steroids, and by having a high sugar and refined carbohydrate diet (foods that feed the fungus).  

When these healthy bacteria that dine on the yeast candida are gone, the yeast that was only meant to reside in our colons in very small amounts can now grow to large proportions. In large proportions, the yeast now morphs into a fungus, and often eats small holes right through your colon walls; these holes allow the filth in the colon to escape and pollute the entire body pretty thoroughly. This combination, as you can imagine, creates highly toxic people and can be responsible for any number of health problems, including what appear from the outside to be emotional problems.

These are just a couple of the reasons colon cleansing and candida cleansing are so desperately needed by so many. Most people don’t understand how much waste is stored in the average person’s body or how many problems such toxic conditions create in the human body. But when you see it all pour out of you in amounts you never thought possible, the question, “Are we really that toxic?” becomes kind of mute. And when you watch your health problems disappear along with the stored filth, what was actually the cause of the problem also becomes quite clear.