This is a guest post from an awesome reader named Kendra.
She’s a fellow Canadian from Nelson BC, who loves skiing, rock climbing, and kicking ass. She writes about health and her journey with acne at her blog: Crazy Happy Healthy. Check it oot!
Hi. My name is Kendra and I am obsessed with my poop.
Maybe you are laughing at this right now, or maybe you just think I am weird. Both are acceptable reactions. I am a big supporter of colon health. And to be honest, I don’t think people talk about this stuff enough. It is a fairly taboo topic in our society. No one seems to talk openly or comfortably about colon health and don’t forget, girls don’t poop!
Well I poop! And I want every poop to be the most amazing poop I have ever taken.
Having healthy poops is a huge indicator of a healthy digestive system. Increasing the health of your digestive system, resulting in those awesome poops that you just wanna tell everyone about, can have so many benefits for your health, and your acne too!
I have struggled with acne for over 5 years now. My skin has always been acne prone but it never was more than mild acne until I stopped taking the birth control pill.
Getting acne made me desperate, and unfortunately it drove me to try a bunch of conventional acne treatments (antibiotics, more birth control and topicals) that ended with me getting cystic acne. Ever since it has been a struggle.
Eventually I stumbled upon The Love Vitamin and a few other helpful websites and learned how to treat my acne holistically. With in a few months my acne cleared about 50-60%. While this made me incredibly happy, I became obsessed with trying to get 100% clear. I cannot admit I am 100% clear now. I still have very mild acne, and I know it bothers me more than it should. But my secret to pushing myself into the 90% clear zone was the addition of self enemas into my routine.
I know the idea of putting a tube up your butt may not seem that awesome, but actually, it kind of is. Let me explain.
Why Is Colon Health Important?
Your colon comprises the last 5 feet of your digestive system. The primary function of the colon is to absorb some water, electrolytes and vitamins and hold fecal matter prior to elimination.
The colon, along with the liver, skin, kidneys and lungs, is one of the major stations for elimination if your body. If one of these elimination sites gets over loaded, then it puts more pressure on the other sites, like your skin!
If you are not having regular bowel movements, then the toxins will accumulate and get reabsorbed into your system. You body will try to remove these toxins one way or another, so the result may be toxins getting pushed out your skin. And here comes the acne!
How Does a Colon Get “Backed Up”?
Again, the culprit appears to be the Standard North American Diet, pharmaceuticals and stress. These things give off substances which are toxic to your body. Everything we eat or drink will affect the walls of our intestines.
Damage to the cell walls causes a decrease is peristalsis function, the method which moves food through your digestive track. This decreased movement leads to a decreased bowel transit time and the result is undigested food and waste fermenting and putrifying in your gut by bacteria and yeast. If you aren’t fully grossed out by now, don’t worry, you will be soon.
The bacteria and yeast gives off by-products which can cause inflammation and directly damage the cell walls. When elimination is not occurring correctly, the waste just sits there. All that poop. Just sitting in your intestines.
Now that is gross.
This is why having “good” poops is such an amazing thing. It means your system is operating properly and your gut is happy!
It is important that you have at least one bowel movement a day. Like every morning, you should poop out yesterday’s breakfast. 24 hours is the max length of time it should take a meal to move through your system. Ideally 2-3 well formed poops a day would be the best!
What Are Enemas?
Enema: “the process of introducing liquid into the rectum and colon via the anus.” The water then sits in your colon and is then flushed out to remove fecal matter.
How can enemas help your acne?
Basically, inserting water into your colon causes waste to “loosen” from the walls of your colon. Yes, waste can literally get caked onto your colon walls! The water causes the rapid expansion of the colon and ultimately results in the complete elimination of its contents. So if you are constipated, this is the quickest most effective way to relieve that.
So the benefit is you remove all these toxins from your system and prevent them from being reabsorbed into your body and getting pushed out your skin. If all your elimination stations are operating properly then there are no toxins in your blood. No toxins can mean a lot less acne!
Of course, I doubt an enema will have more than temporary results if you are still eating a highly refined and processed diet. I think enemas work best for acne when combined with a healthy, whole foods diet. You need to stop the root cause of your colon being clogged and not just treat the symptom. So if you have been eating really well, not stressing too hard about your skin and you still are breaking out, you might get some good results from an enema!
Should I Try An Enema?
You should definitely do your own research and consider it!
If you are feeling a little unsure about this and are maybe a little scared of doing one yourself, then I recommend going and getting a colonic. Colonics are actually superior to enemas in that they clean the entire length of the colon, while enemas only clean the lower half.
A professional performs the colonic and you actually get to view what comes out of you through a clear tube. This will give you some great feedback about what is going on in your colon. When I first decided to work on my colon health, I went and got a couple of colonics. It was definitely an interesting experience having someone stick a tube up my butt, but I decided to just roll with it. My first colonic was a very intense experience for me. Talking to other people though, it seems like my experience was an exception.
I think colonics are great but they are not very affordable if you want to cleanse your colon on a regular basis. They cost me $65 a session and I think that might be on the cheaper side. An enema kit only costs $5-10.
I think, ideally, a combination of both would be best; giving yourself regular enemas but getting a colonic every few months.
How To Give Yourself An Enema
An enema kit consists of a small plastic bag, a catheter and an enema nozzle.
First you want to assemble the enema kit and make sure the nozzle is closed. Then you want to fill the bag to the top with lukewarm, filtered water. It is important not to use chlorinated water as this can damage your colon.
If you want to up the anti of your enema, you can add some probiotics to the mix. Empty one of your probiotc capsules into the water or add a bit of your homemade kefir. Do not add any of those hard probiotic tablets, as they generally contain additives. Just make sure you are only adding the bacteria and nothing else.
Once the enema bag is filled you can hang it up about 3 feet off the floor. I usually attach it to the shower bar or a towel rack. I also like to make myself very comfortable by laying a towel down on the floor, putting some relaxing music on and maybe even cranking the heat. I like to make it very romantic for myself.
Lie down on the towel, starting first on your left side. Insert the tube into your butt, about 2-3 centimetres. The tube is about the width of a pencil so it is not hard to do. You can apply a little coconut oil to the tube to make things easier.
Once the tube is inserted open the nozzle and let the water drain in. You don’t need to try to get it all in at once. Just let it in slowly, stopping every 10 seconds or so to massage your lower abdomen and breath deeply. Once you have emptied the first third into your colon, lie on your back and empty the second third and then finish with the last third on your right side. Ideally you want to get all that water inside you and then chill for 10 minutes before emptying on the toilet.
Don’t worry if you have to empty your colon well before you get the whole bag in there. My first time doing it, I think I had to get up like 10 times. You get better at holding the water in the more you do it.
The first thing you’ll be amazed at is how much “stuff” actually comes out of you! It’s crazy to think that all of that waste would just be sitting inside of you otherwise. After I do an enema, I feel amazing. I feel clean and light and ready to take on the world!
How Often Should I Do An Enema?
Well it’s hard to say since it depends on the state of your colon. When I am doing a detox or a cleanse, I might do one everyday to aid in the detoxification process. For maintenance I do them usually about once a week, or anytime I feel like I need to get things moving. It’s really up to you. But remember to pay attention to your body. If doing enemas does not make you feel good, then they probably aren’t for you.
Do You Want to Take Your Enemas To the Next Level?
So maybe you have been doing enemas for a bit now and you want this relationship to get a little more serious.
Try a coffee enema.
Yep. I’m serious. Take some coffee and stick it up your butt. This may sound a little off but coffee enemas are actually promoted by numerous health professionals.
How Does a Coffee Enema Work?
Coffee enemas are an ancient herbal and folklore hydrotherapy procedure. Having a coffee enema is not the same as drinking a cup of coffee.
When you ingest coffee is broken down and digested in the stomach. In the anus, the veins are extremely close to the surface. So what happens is the caffeine is absorbed into the circulatory system and goes directly to the liver. Here it acts as a very strong detoxifier and stimulates the liver to remove toxins through the bile acid. It causes the liver to produce extra bile which stimulates the gall bladder to dump its contents and eliminate them into the bowel.
Why is this good?
Because it frees the liver of toxins. Now the liver is capable of processing toxins more efficiently.
A very awesome thing is it’s very effective at killing off candida albicans in your system. Since candida can be a huge contributor to acne, I think coffee enemas can be very effective at clearing your skin. Keep in mind the caffeine only goes to your liver. It does not circulate through the rest of your body, so don’t expect to get much of a coffee buzz.
I was pretty skeptical about these coffee enemas when I first learned about them. But I decided to try one anyway since I am always on the search for optimal health. I loved the results. Initially I felt quite fatigued. I had to lie down on the couch and not move for a while. This was no doubt a detox reaction.
But the next morning I felt amazing. I felt energized and a feeling I can’t quite describe; kind of like a “lightness.” I believe coffee enemas have really improved the quality of my skin. Since doing my first one, I have only seen more and more positive results. I still breakout but much less now and the quality of my skin has improved ten fold.
I have also read many testimonials from people who swear that good diet plus coffee enemas cured their cancer and other chronic illnesses. That’s a pretty amazing thought and it makes me happy.
So if you can get past the initial disgust and messiness than I definitely recommend trying these things out. Who knows, it could provide that tipping point, tipping you into the clear skin zone. Wouldn’t that be nice.
Regardless though, clear skin or not, adding enemas into your regular routine may improve your health in more ways than one. It’s definitely a lot to digest but I hope you feel a little more informed. I know when my colon is a happy camper, I am a happy camper too.
Happy butt cleaning friends!
What do you think about enemas? No way josé, or are you interested in potentially giving them a try? Or maybe you’re already experienced with them? Share!
36 Responses
I would say a salt water flush as well, just cause it cleans from top to bottom instead of just the colon.
Much less invasive too. 🙂
Unfortunately too much sodium at once can be difficult for the kidneys to handle. And that much salt at once might be irritating to the intestinal tract. And a salt flush still relies on your body’s own peristalsis, whereas an enema is both peristalsis + “mechanical” cleaning.
Kendra, this is so, so awesome. Happy butt-cleaning to you my friend!
So glad you enjoyed it friend! Kisses xoxo
I’ve been doing enemas as well as coffee enemas for about a month now and love em. You feel sooo clean internally from them. I got a stainless steel enema kit on amazon. Tips: Do water first, then coffee, then coffee again. The third time with the coffee you should have no problem retaining 2 half cups or so for 15-20 mins.
I’m interested in giving it a try, although I’m aprehensive about walking into my local chemist and asking for an emema kit. I’m sure it happens more often than I think and it’s their job, but I can see that glimpse of judgement in their eyes haha!
I have had a colonic in the past though and I felt so light after it. When I get some money I may do it again and maybe my colon will be a happier place (it’s been giving me some trouble the last couple of weeks, I blame stress)
Thanks Kendra!
Gah, typo! If I did ask for an “emema kit” they’d probably think I was drunk.
Hahah I did find that pretty embarrassing when I bought mine… I bought it at a large place though so I didn’t actually have to ask anyone for it, but I averted my eyes while paying for it at the check out! lol
Nope, that’s def. one of those things I’d never ever consider doing… Even after reading about all the benefits it’s just, no way. :/
INTERESTING
I’m interested in this definitely. I just wonder about the water to use, since I live in a big city and my water is definitely not very pure, do you suggest bottled water maybe?
Yes, I would boil city water for about 10 minutes to make sure it’s nice and pure and free of chlorine.
Boiling does NOT remove chlorine! It may actually make the concentration higher since some water is evaporated.
Been thinking about getting a colonic..very skeptical though. it doesnt seem very natural.
I’m gonna have to put myself in the “no way” category. If one cannot have regular bowel movements, that is a symptom of something larger going on whether it’s bad diet, food allergies/intolerances, over-use of medications or other toxins, etc. If you’re able to pin point the problem and heal the gut, I just don’t see an enema as necessary. I would also worry that it would impair peristalsis function if used to often, same way laxatives do.
Kendra, I hope you don’t mind if I inject little bit of skepticism here. Because this post falls into the 50% good advice, 50% bad advice and 100% horrible reasoning category.
Yes, gut health is linked to skin health and yes, we should take steps to improve gut health. But I don’t think we should involve outright nonsense and quackery in doing so.
The premise that the gut holds undigested food and old waste matter which then poisons you is false on so many levels. First, even after thousands of colonoscopies and autopsies real doctors have never found this mucoid plaque. The whole term was invented by a natural healer looking to sell his solution.
Second, it’s anatomically impossible for the gut to harbor this kind of stuff. The colon wall is very thin, I think only a few cells thick. There’s no way it could physically support pounds and pounds of waste material.
Third, there’s the matter that if the gut lining would be caked with this stuff you couldn’t absorb anything through it. Since we absorb lot of water through the gut most of that water would come out via the ‘enema gateway’, meaning you would constantly have loose stools. I think most proponents say they suffer from constipation and can’t go frequently enough.
Fourth, the cells in the gut wall renew every few days. So whatever would get stuck on them would also come off as those cells slough off.
Leaky gut, or intestinal permeability, is a real thing. And it can lead to increased inflammation in the body. But this happens because incompletely digested proteins, bacterial byproducts and other stuff leak into the blood. We don’t have to invoke this toxin quackery to the explanation.
Let me finish this by saying that I’m all for treating acne naturally. What I’m against is making it harder than it has to be. I’ve been down this natural path. Deep down. I really believed into this stuff a few years back. And about 5 years ago I even had my own Colema Board and was administering my own colonics. So I’m fully aware of what you are talking about.
But over time I became increasingly disillusioned with the whole natural and alt-med movement. It’s saturated by nonsense like this. And I’ve come to realize that all this nonsense just makes things harder than they have to be. You end up wasting a lot of time and money on doing things that, to put it mildly, just aren’t very plausible. If you really want to do that, then by all means go ahead. I’m not here to stop you. I’m here to say it’s probably not necessary, and that you can get the same (or even better) results with just a fraction of the time, money and effort you waste on those things.
haha I knew you had a severe dislike for enemas and were probably going to chime in here. So – this whole ‘poo caked on your colon wall for ages thing’ aside (which I’ve always been kind of skeptical about believing, myself) – do you think enemas are useful if you are chronically constipated? What I’m asking is – do you disagree that waste and toxins get reabsorbed into your body if you aren’t going fast enough? because the poo really is just sitting there in your colon too long?
Obviously I propose fixing the problem so that you aren’t constipated anymore, but I think the most useful use of enemas would be to get things moving in the short term while you fix everything up so that it isn’t needed anymore.
Personally I never liked them either and they’ve never been a regular in my routine – but.. hey… it seems to help some people a lot. And some people genuinely seem to like them, so who am I to say
It looks like I’m too predictable, lol.
I’m not against people trying these things. What I’m after is informed consent. Claims like these (toxins in the colon) can sound very persuasive when you don’t know any better. I know I believed into this 105% years ago. So I just wanted to introduce the other side of the story.
Anyway, I have nothing against enemas. Even since my ‘deconversion’ I’ve used them a few times. I do think they are a valid solution for occasional constipation. For chronic constipation? I don’t know. Anything that you do regularly fosters dependency and maybe after a while you can’t go at all without them.
To my knowledge the claim that toxins get reabsorbed from the colon in pure nonsense. I do believe that some things that shouldn’t get out of the colon leak into the blood, and these can include bacterial byproducts (or toxins).
I also remember this one study I read when I was doing my Candida post. In the study they treated Candida in the colon with antifungals and the skin got better. But the twist in this study is that it’s known to stay in the digestive track. So maybe some Candida antigens or maybe even Candida ‘toxins’ leaked into the blood, and this increased inflammation in the body.
So there is definitely something to leaky gut syndrome and SIBO, but trying to treat this with colonics sounds like a really, really bad idea. If you think antibiotics wipe out the bacteria in the gut, well what do you think happens when you repeatedly flood the colon with water? The same thing! You flush out everything. And with the water you always introduce new bacteria and pathogens there. Not to mention the very real possibility of puncturing your colon when you insert the stick into your nether region.
I could go on, but I think it’s better that I end my rant here 🙂
Aaaaw I’m bummed that you think my post is outright nonsense and quackery. I really do respect your opinion. I wrote this post based off my own experience. And in my opinion enemas and colonics are a great tool.
I have been so stoked on them since I have had a lot of success with them. I noticed a huge difference in my skin immediately. A couple of my colonics actually did show pieces that were literally in the shape of my colon wall.
I did encourage readers to do there own research. So I hope they will and make their own decisions about enemas and colonics.
Kendra, my post wasn’t meant to be a personal attack or criticism towards you. So my apologies if it came across that way. I know that you are just trying to help people.
There’s a very good reason we don’t practice medicine based on personal experiences and anecdotes anymore. They are horribly unreliable. And as humans we go to great lenghts to actually fool ourselves. There’s a good article on one of my favorite blogs about this thing. Please check it out:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/why-we-need-science-i-saw-it-with-my-own-eyes-is-not-enough/
And when we ask people to ‘do your own research’ it usually means Google it. But that, unfortunately, is more motivated reasoning than actual research. People will just see many of the same websites you saw and probably come to the same conclusion than you did. In most things converning natural health the few critcal voices of reason are drowned in a sea of nonsense.
Again, I want to stress that this wasn’t a personal attack against you or anything like that. I’m just giving you the other side of the story also, and you can make up your mind after seeing a little bit more complete picture. Perhaps you don’t have to waste so much time and money in many alt-med nonsense than I did 🙂
I have to chime in here too. It seems you have travelled the path and now view things in a very different way to how you did before. But that journey is as important as the information gotten at the end of it. Don’t for a minute think you will never again change your views.
Alternative med nonsense as you call it has helped many people in many ways if nothing other than helping them to find a way to reconnect with themselves and take ownership over their health and life. I think this is so important when you look at how most people view health in the 21st century. Disengagement is the biggest problem. In fact many of these ‘alternative’ practices were established, mainstream practices before Western medecine and it’s reductionist methodology took hold. In fact in many cultures and civilizations other than our own, indiginous peoples use alternative medicinal practices and live long healthy live completely free of the chronic illnesses and complaints which blight the West. It is these very conditions which, unable to be understood and treated by conventional medecine, lead people to look for alternatives in the first place. And i feel very strongly that the looking in itself – so long as you are listening to yourself – can lead to better health directly (and maybe the dropping of these practices too as in your case) and at least a better relationship with your health.
As for motivated reasoning, we all do it, all of the time. You’re reasoning speaks volumes about your assumptions like the rest. Reason is only an instrument and is governed by intuition and emotion.
So my question to you is, if alt-med is just a sea of nonsense, how would you describe conventional medecine?! More and more so alt therapies and practices are being recommended by doctors. As far as my reasoning goes, biased as it is, I believe this is motivated by two not disconnected reasons. 1. Resources are in short supply and chronic illness is rising to epidemic proportions. 2 The emerging consciousness is that Western Science is extremely limited with regard to everything other than intervention medecine and research based on reductionist methodology. These things clearly have their place but cannot understand the body and health as a functional, interconnected whole.
Do you tell the person who feels meditation has made a huge difference to their anxiety levels, that actually they are wading through a sea of nonsense and should be wary of wanting to believe they are feeling better when in fact they aren’t? Probably not as meditation is science’s little baby at the moment and you can’t move for studies proving it’s benefits. People in China certainly haven’t been waiting for someone to tell them its healthy and good for them. And you will be waiting a long time if you wait for science to catch up with it’s understanding about chronic illness.
For what it’s worth, I passed a huge tapeworm today after a week of coffee enemas. My skin looks unrecognisable and I feel open spacious and light. Someday I might feel that many of the practices i did didn’t work, but hopefully I won’t beat down too hard on those sharing the joy and discovery of their journey!
I most certainly will change my views in the future. That’s almost the whole point of skepticism. Skepticism is a method for critically examining your beliefs and evaluating them against currently available evidence. If your beliefs conflict with evidence, i.e. what is known, then you do your best to change your beliefs. With all the cognitive biases and problems we humans come with, changing your mind is not that simple. And when sufficient new evidence emerges that contradicts current views, then you do your best to change your views.
It’s exactly through that process that caused me to abandon alternative medicine. I’d be very happy if alternative medicine views were correct and there were simple solutions to complex health problems. Alas, at the moment there’s so much evidence against alt-med, not to mention that most alt-med modalities don’t fit into physiology and chemistry of the human body, that the likelihood of them being correct is vanishingly small.
Fully agree with you here. We would be all better off if everyone would take better ownership of their health. And I fully agree that doctors don’t have enough time to spend with their patients to fully coach and advice them.
But this in no way supports alternative medicine. There’s a science-based and rational way to help people engage with and take ownership of their health.
Yes, that’s largely because alt-med proponents make grand promises they can never keep. They talk, in my view prey, on people during the very vulnerable stages of their lives. Often times when people are desperately looking for solutions.
The problem is they offer nothing but false hope. Alt-med cannot actually deliver on those promises.
You might also be surprised to learn that there’s a ton of evidence in the scientific literature on the effect of diet, lifestyle, supplements, meditation, etc. to treat those chronic problems.
This knowledge comes through scientific investigation of what those interventions can do. None of this information comes from the alternative medicine field. And while alt-med practitioners co-opt these treatments, they often do so by making grandiose and unsupported claims about what diet, lifestyle, etc. can do, such as claiming diet can cure cancer.
So far lot of money has been spent on studying various alternative medicine treatments, the US government funds research on alt-med to tune of 1 Billion USD per year. The result of these studies is depressing to say the least. Very few, if any, of the treatments that are ‘exclusive to alternative medicine’ have any effect beyond placebo.
Yes, because a significant proportion of those people die during birth, and even more succumb to infectious and easily preventable diseases.
In a way scientific medicine is a victim of its own success. Today we live long enough to die of cancer, heart disease and other chronic conditions. Just 150 years ago most who today die of chronic disease would have died far earlier of other causes.
Furthermore, it’s not that ancient people have been free of chronic health problems. Examinations of mummies shows many showed signs of heart disease and other ‘modern’ health problems.
Yes, and shame on those doctors. This fact speaks clearly that medical education doesn’t guarantee capacity to think critically. This is also plainly evident in Nobel price winners who start endorsing pure nonsense – almost always in a field that’s outside of their expertise.
Anyway, doctors endorsing and recommending alternative medicine has nothing is not because those modalities work. In many cases this is just a response to market demand. Hospitals are commercial organisations that respond to customer demand of natural treatments. So they offer acupuncture for treating side-effects of chemotherapy or something like that.
And there’s evidence that in such a role alt-med treatments can be somewhat helpful. They can help to ease nausea and pain. It’s still a placebo response, but it can make people feel better. Whether it’s ethical to prescribe placeboes is another matter all together and not the point here.
Funny that such sentiments almost never come from people who are familiar with scientific medicine. As mentioned earlier, there’s plenty of research on diet and other ‘holistic’ methods in the scientific literature.
It seems that you don’t like ‘reductionist’ methods, and that’s certainly a valid point to have. Can you then please help me to understand exactly how holistic view is better, specifically:
What does holistic methodology exactly mean?Can you point to specific examples of how the holistic view is better? Exactly what kind of advancements have come through this holistic view? Reductionist science has brought us vaccines and antibiotics that have saved millions of lives. It has brought insulin that allows diabetics to live fairly normal lives. It has brought us antiviral drugs that allow HIV positive people to have nearly normal lifespans, instead of dying within 5 years of infections as it used to be. It has brought us new chemotherapy drugs that allow cancer patients to live longer, have better quality of life with far fever side-effects. Through the same reductionist methodology we have also learned best diet and lifestyle methods for treating chronic health problems. How exactly has humanity benefited from holistic methodology?
Of course not. The difference is that meditation 1) has evidence showing effectiveness, and 2) is plausible in the context of what’s known of the physiology and chemistry of the human body.
Meditation is also a perfect example of how science-based medicine works. If an alternative medicine method is shown to be effective, it becomes part of medicine. If there’s no evidence, it remains in the real of alternative medicine.
Yes, and people in China currently also consume vast amounts of rhino horns in a mistaken view that it improves their sexual performance. As a result, rhinos in Africa are poached to brink of extinction.
The same people also use medicine made of bear bile that comes from tortured bears in captivity.
I bet both rhinos and bears would hope someone told those Chinese people their tinctures are useless.
The point is that people do a lot of stuff, some of which works and most of which doesn’t. So far science is the best tool for telling the two apart. If you know something better, I’m all ears.
We all want the same thing: safe and effective solutions to acne. We just go about getting there in different ways.
I have learned to rely on science, skepticism and rationality to figure out what works. Because it became painfully clear that personal experience is very unreliable, how many times you’ve gotten your hopes up after reading some success story in the forums only to later find out that it didn’t work for you?
I also do my best in helping people. I get a lot of emails from people who appreciate a more critical look at alternative and natural treatments. And I would have paid dearly for someone to tell me what I’m sharing now to me 7 or 8 years ago. It would have saved me tons of time, money and frustration – not to mention it would have saved me years of living with acne.
It’s unfortunate that you see this, and challenging your existing beliefs, as stamping on people.
Gastric wall thickness (body-antrum) was blind measured prospectively by real-time ultrasound in 58 patients (30 with gastric cancer and 28 healthy) who had previously undergone endoscopy. Gastric wall thickness on the average measured 5.107 +/- 1.100 mm in the normal subjects, or 0.19 inches, NOT a few cells as this individual claims.
If I were you, I wouldn’t go as far as suggesting that coffee enemas stand a chance of curing cancer.
Apart from that, lovely article! Quite inspiring 😀
I just wanted to add that in because I have been on a quite a few blogs from people who swear that these things did cure their cancer and I think it’s a beautful thought that’s all.
Glad you enjoyed the article 🙂
Actually dr. Gerson in the 40’s and 50’s created the coffee enema and used it to treat and cure his cancer patients. Just a bit of history for you
Seppo,
No worries. I did not see it as a personal attack. We are all entitles to our own opinions. Thanks for the link. I will check it out for sure.
I did want to say though that my info did not come from google. It was based a a handful of books I have read on the subject and from a local lady in my area who specializes in colon health. 🙂
I started out with enemas as a teenager of age 14 with similar skin problems to yours. A neighbor who was a nurse told me how the system needed to be cleansed at least once a month and preferably about every 5 to 7 days. For over a year I went over to her house every Saturday morning for a series of enemas. She was a firm believer in soapsuds for cleansing and coffee for detoxification. She taught me how to breathe while taking the enema and what position I needed to be in for maximum results, and she always massaged my abdomen while the water was flowing in and while I was holding my enema in. I found the enemas really uncomfortable at first because she insisted on putting the entire two quart bag’s contents into my rectum, but I understood this was for my health so I promised her to continue for one year. I was also embarrassed about being naked while she gave them to me but soon I came to understand how to relax and after that actually looked forward to the clean feeling I had afterwards.
She always did the enemas in a series of three, the first had the soapsuds for cleansing, the second was clear water for a rinse, the third had kosher salt or sea salt in it to balance electrolytes. It was quite a routine and took about 90 minutes to complete. About every three or four weeks, the second enema would be coffee and the third one the salt water.
By the time I was 15, I was confident that I could take the enemas by myself and have continued to do so ever since. I am now over 60 and still take an enema at least once a week, three quarts of warm water with eight squirts of baby wash liquid in the water. I try to hold it for 10 to 20 minutes but cannot always do so.
I also started taking colonic irrigations at a clinic the nurse recommended and with my parents approval on a monthly basis when I was 15. I went there until I was in my late 20’s and moved to a different city. Now I go to a colon therapist anywhere from four or five times a year to twice a month depending on how I feel. It is a very different feeling from the enemas but seems to work on things that the enemas don’t always bring out. During my colonics I have passed some very hard and sometimes large material, a few times it was hard as a rock and black as a chunk of coal, other times it has been long stringy masses.
I simply love the healthy clean feeling throughout my body after my enemas and colonics and am certain they are helping me feel well and stay healthy. I would recommend that anyone who has general feelings that they should feel better and can’t put their finger on the problem to try a series of enemas for at least several months to see if it helps.
I do believe once the body is detoxified, your hormone levels are repaired as well. I’ve seen videos online.
Too many people today are ashamed to admit they’re human and asking for a professional enema or colonic they think is taboo because it stimulates the body. There are alot of religious folk out there who don’t want to be stimulated like that, they believe that stimulation of the body is improper and to this very day hide and mask themselves and continue to make a strong effort every day to censor and keep this hidden away from public consciousness.
I just found out about enemas randomly on pinterest just today and I was like… what… Is this what I think it is? Weirded me out but I kept reading because weird stuff is appealing to me and health is very much a huge passion of mine so, I had never done any sort of enema before and I just went right on, brewed some coffee and poured it right into my butt. I got 2 cups in me all in one go and held it for about 25 minutes! As it first started going in I started to feel … bright… I don’t know how else to describe it. I felt energized. I have anemia and I have been struggling with borderline anorexia lately so I have been feeling pretty horrible and I felt completely well while I was doing this. Any ways, after the 25 minutes, I sat on the potty, I did not know what to expect. I just thought the coffee was going to come out like trinklets of pee but wow… I was wrong. I pooped my guts out like never before. It was great. And now I feel light as a feather. Definitely have a feeling this will be one of my favorite things to do. Gosh I seriously love learning about health, so much fun.
Hi Hailey, glad enemas were a hit for you! 25 minutes… impressive for a first timer 😉
Hi, Lately i am having problems with diarrhea…… ia m so confused because my diet is so healthy!
I am drinking green smoothies every day, eating salad, fish and vegetables, nuts, drinking only water……The lady at the green smoothie store suggested i should go easier on the smoothies so that my system maybe has charged up enough and i dont need them everyday anymore.
What do you think? And do you think that enemas would work here too? i already bought a kit with a ready to go solution in it. Do you think that is ok or could there be anything unhealthy inside ( i dont like pharma industry and i am so sceptic)? Also when is the best time to do an enema ( before after eating?) THANK YOU!
Hello, I came across your blog while looking for something totally different. I ended up reading it and loving it, not because I have skin issues but because of the overwhelmingly sweet and positive voice you speak to you readers with. My skin is generally good but got better when, because of you, I began using honey. I continue to visit anytime I just want to remember that there are such sweet and loving people out there. Thank you so much, you are fantastic!
Woohoo, thanks Kathleen!
hi good day!
i have a concern, i have been administering coffee enema for the past 2 weeks,at the same time im taking my birth control pill to prevent me from getting my self pregnant. does this have an effect? please reply
thanks,,
Angeli
I’ve had acne since I was 12 and I am now 37. I’ve recently tried coffee enemas and they seem to be making my acne so much worse. I’ve even done them daily for week and how I’m doing them a few times a week. I’m not sure if I should continue with them. I’ve tried everything to heal my acne. Gluten free Dairy free. Accutane. Rx creams. Antibiotics. Natropath dr. Hormone testing. I feel like there is no hope for me now