I find it more than a bit entertaining that I’m such a big proponent of colon cleansing because the first couple times anyone brought up the subject around me, my response was something along the lines of, “Um, do you mind if we talk about something else?”

But the flat stomach of the second person who brought it up, got me enrolled in a detoxification spa a few weeks later. While there, I plugged my nose with toilet paper while colon cleansing and was 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 very determined to get it out of my body.

Although most don’t know it, the average person has ten plus pounds of old and uneliminated fecal matter stuck in their colon and it can take some effort to get it out. Most people also don’t know that having so much stored waste inside the body is also responsible for many of the problems of the body that people commonly experience.

For almost 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 tiny holes in their colon walls - which allows the waste from the colon to escape and enter the bloodstream and then make it’s home throughout the entire body.

This is a fairly new predicament for the human population, and it can be pretty directly attributed to a common 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 give you a quick run down on candida overgrowth, it’s a problem that develops when the healthy bacteria in the colon (called probiotics) are killed, usually through antibiotics, birth control pills, or steroids, and by just generally having a high sugar and refined carbohydrate diet.  

With these healthy bacteria that are meant to dine on the yeast candida 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 - which allows the filth in the colon to escape and pollute the entire body. 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. 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 in a million years would have 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.