Detoxing, food combining, colonics, etc

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There's lots of discussion about " detoxing " . I

think the basic premise is that when one switches from

a toxic lifestyle to non-toxic that the body

switches actions from defensive - neutralizing toxic

substance - to offensive - getting rid of accumulated

toxins.<br><br>It's been asserted here that the process can take

anywhere from several days to months and even years. With

respect to toxic eating habits, there is a " science "

called trophology (I may have slightly misspelled this)

or " food combining " . Basically it asserts that the

typical SAD diet combines too many foods at each meal and

therefore the body cannot properly digest it all. The

theory suggests each food digests best when there are

optimum conditions of the right enzymes being secreted by

the body in the correct acidic environment. Since

meat requires certain enzymes (sorry I don't have the

names in front of me) in an acidic environment, and

carbohydrate-based foods require different enzymes in less acidic

environment, if you consume all in every meal you don't digest

any of them optimally and this also increases

toxicity.<br><br>Therefore the best course of action is to only consume one

food at each meal or, secondbest, consume only the

same foodtypes at one setting. The cardinal rule:

Don't mix high-proteins with high-carbs at the same

meal. No meat and potatoes! Obviously, anyone on

meat-free raw diet is way ahead in this

game<br><br>However, if you've lived a lifestyle of toxicity with

improper food combining, your colon - in all its infinite

wisdom - protected your body by releasing mucous to

prevent the toxic putrifying food remnants from being

absorbed back into the bloodstream via the colon. Over the

years, these mucous layers continue to build up and be

trapped with remnants of improperly digested food. Even

when you switch to good diet it may take an extremely

long time to get rid of this buildup.<br><br>The

answer: some form of fasting and or colonic irrigation.

I've seen documentation that many people in 30's or

older will release mucous ropes and hard rubber-like

products from their colons. The most expeditious way to

achieve this is with 7 day " fasts " where you consume

almost nothing but finely ground psylium husk combined

with once or twice daily colonics or colemas. The

psylium acts like a broom and a few days into this the

body begins shedding the layers of mucous. It is

recommended to repeat the 7 day process several times the

first year to cleanse the system. I made it through 5

days on one of these fasts and can attest to the

secretion of jelly fish-like mucous strings. Since I'm not

100% raw I find it hard to fast and unfortunately did

not repeat the process enough to get rid of any real

ugly stuff. But I belive continued repeats of this

would produce some scary stuff.<br><br>I hope this

provides some useful starting information to those posters

who occasionally ask about colon cleansing. I

personally think that there is marginal benefit to one-off

colonics and, if you're going to bother, you should do the

7 day ones. If the process is too dirty for you,

fix your diet anyway and with 100% raw your body will

probably eliminate much of this filth for you anyway - the

question is how long it will take.