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Lifestyle and Love Discuss health & fitness, dating, relationships, sex, and other kinds of topics related to lifestyle.

View Poll Results: What all do you take to enhance your natural health?
Nothing. That's blarney to spend on supplements. 4 30.77%
A daily vitamin is it. (Like Centrum) 3 23.08%
Vitamins and a few choice supplements. (Like CQ-10 or gingseng, or saw palmetto) 4 30.77%
I really get into natural health. And besides vitamins and minerals, I take probiotics. 2 15.38%
All that PLUS I go for colonics regularly. 0 0%
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Old 01-25-2008, 07:27 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Most of it is a racket, especially colon cleansing.

Always the best way to stay healthy is to eat healthy and stay active. That is the only universal truth in health, no matter what. However, the American consumerist way is to eat like shit and sit on the couch all day, and when they wonder why their health fails them they don't do the obvious but instead take pills for everything from being fat to your 'restless leg'. That only prolongs the inevitable and may actually make you fall harder when you do come down.
I firmly believe in getting a good cleaning out though and also in taking probiotics. Those good squiggly wigglies that eat the bad ones...

My recommendation is Floragen 3. I love it!!!

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I firmly believe in getting a good cleaning out though and also in taking probiotics. Those good squiggly wigglies that eat the bad ones...

My recommendation is Floragen 3. I love it!!!

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Colon cleansing has to be the largest-bought and at the same time one of the most quack of 'alternative medicines'. Medically the risks far outweigh any benefits (which are essentially nonexistent unless you're constipated or you need to do it to prepare for a surgery or something). And if you're constipated, or need to get something out of your system, laxatives provide probably a better alternative for a fraction of the price.

There's practically no scientific or medical backing behind 'colinic irrigation' and are actually potentially detrimental to your health (possible infections, etc.). The FDA certainly doesn't approve and have actually taken action against distributors.

The crap you see going through the tube at your last 'detoxification session' is just stuff you would have pooped out the next time you went to the toilet.

The only observable benefits of all this stuff is purely within the placebo effect.
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Colon cleansing has to be the largest-bought and at the same time one of the most quack of 'alternative medicines'. Medically the risks far outweigh any benefits (which are essentially nonexistent unless you're constipated or you need to do it to prepare for a surgery or something). And if you're constipated, or need to get something out of your system, laxatives provide probably a better alternative for a fraction of the price.

There's practically no scientific or medical backing behind 'colinic irrigation' and are actually potentially detrimental to your health (possible infections, etc.). The FDA certainly doesn't approve and have actually taken action against distributors.

The crap you see going through the tube at your last 'detoxification session' is just stuff you would have pooped out the next time you went to the toilet.
I havenot ever had a colonic done or even bought the colon cleansing kit. I do drink Yogi Detox Teas though. But I have had two friends, one who does the colonics and one who does the pills ...and they both swear by them.

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I havenot ever had a colonic done or even bought the colon cleansing kit. I do drink Yogi Detox Teas though. But I have had two friends, one who does the colonics and one who does the pills ...and they both swear by them.

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People will always swear by things that they're persuaded to believe in; this is why people still think they can cure their arthritis by visiting a faith healer or by sticking magnets at pressure points. The power of suggestion seems to be very pervasive.
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Speaking of toothbrushes, though I do not practice this sage bit of advice myself, it is reported that one ought to store their toothbrushes in their bedroom or kitchen or any room other than the bathroom.

It is reported that fecalforms can deposit on anything within 8 ft. of the toilet.

Ewwww!

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