A Clean Colon Is The Foundation Of Your Health
One of the greatest keys to optimal health is a healthy digestive system, and a colon cleanse is a great way to restore and maintain digestive health.
Your digestive system is the hub to the rest of your body and since it’s linked to the immune system it is crucial to your over all well-being.
Constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, colon problems, indigestion, are not subjects that most people like to discuss, not to mention actually experience, but these problem are more common than one might realize.
A major contributor to these conditions is a disfunctional digestive system.
Thanks to the well documented studies that have been done which prove that a properly functioning digestive system is a prerequisite for overall good health, people having been turning to colon cleansing to get their system back on track.
First of all, what is so great about a colon cleanse?
To answer this question we need to have a basic understanding of what is taking place in the digestive system.
Your “system” processes every bit of nutrients that enters your body. Starting from your stomach and going into your small intestine it breaks down the food that you eat.
The nutrients from the food then gets absorbed through your small intestinal wall and from there they enter your blood stream. They then get delivered to your heart, liver, brain and every other organ, tissue and gland in your body at the cellular level.
All the food that did not get digested ends up in your large intestine which we know as the colon. Along with the undigested food, all metabolic waste from your cells and any other toxins that the body wants removed ends up in the colon waiting to be expelled.
Believe it or not what starts this whole downward spiral is our diet. It is what we put in our mouths.
Our bodies were meant to function in an alkaline state, but the foods that we eat are creating excessive acidic levels. (We measure our acidic/alkaline balance in the form of pH. 0-7 being acidic and 7-14 being alkaline.)
These foods consist of dairy products, meats, breads, refined and processed foods, and sugars, all of which produce acids in the body.
Normally our bodies can handle higher then normal acidic levels by using our bodies reserve of electrolyte minerals, which go to work to neutralize the acids.
This would be fine and dandy but the American lifestyle includes the over-consumption of these acid producing foods. Over time our electrolyte levels start to get depleted because of the never ending higher than normal acidic levels in our bodies.
Next to breathing and maintaining a heartbeat our bodies are hard at work maintaining a proper pH in our blood. pH stands for “potential hydrogen”. It is our electrolyte reserve that is measured in pH.
So in laymans terms the lower our electrolyte levels the more hydrogen is in our blood which means our bodies are more acidic. The higher our electrolyte levels the lower the hydrogen the more alkaline our bodies are.
Our bodies strive to maintain a pH balance of 7.35 to 7.45. When the pH level drops below or rises above, health problems start to develop.
How Does This Effect My Digestive System?
In order for your body to use any of the foods you eat it must neutralize the acids in the food. It does this by using a primary electrolyte called sodium (and its not sodium chloride “table salt” its an organic sodium which is found exclusively in plants).
The thing is, when our electrolyte reserves are low or nearly depleted thanks to higher than normal acid levels, our bodies must look elsewhere to get its electrolytes.
The safest place that the body can extract electrolytes from, especially sodium, is from the bile, which is produced by the liver.
Bile has a pH of around 8.5 and it is stored in the gall bladder until it is needed to help digest meals. The bile mixes with food along with pancreatic juices and together it alkalizes the food. This process is essential for proper digestion.
When your body has extracted the sodium from your bile, your biles pH starts to drop. When it drops below a certain level gallstones start to form.
In fact, cancer, heart disease and most other diseases are associated with electrolyte deficiency and it’s this deficiency that puts our body in an acidic state rather than an alkaline state.
Once your bile has been depleted of sodium (which is a primary electrolyte) your bile is now acidic. Acidic bile is the primary cause of cystic fibrosis, polyps in the bowel, bowel cancer and all the other colon problems that we have in the digestive system.
Once your bile is acidic its not too long after that your bowels become acidic. Once this happens it starts killing off friendly intestinal bacteria.
Friendly bacteria are essential to digestion, plus it helps in preventing constipation. It also helps in the production of B vitamins, as well as the production of amino acids and many other beneficial things.
With this over acidic environment in our bowels, it responds by secreting a gel-like substance known as mucin (mucoid plaque). It does this to protect the cells of the intestinal wall from the damaging acids, but in doing so this mucoid plaque becomes a store house for all kinds of toxins.
Not only that but it starts to interfere with digestion and the absorption of nutrients which our bodies depend on for survival.
There is hope and a solution to this problem. There are two things that you can do to restore your health. The first is to eat more foods that are alkaline forming. Fresh raw vegetables and fruits is a great start.
The other is to do a colon cleanse. A good colon cleanser will remove all the built up toxins and acids along with the mucoid plaque from your bowels.
Once your bowels have been cleansed and you add more alkaline forming foods to your diet you will experience greater digestion, better elimination.
You’ll have less constipation, bloating and gas, not to mention a greater sense of satisfaction and well-being.
See Also:
The Best Colon Cleanser
The Importance Of A Colon Cleanse
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