S/O Colon Cleansing

a-beautiful-mess

What are those disgusting pictures people post after "colon cleansing"? Did that stuff really come out of their colon? Why doesn't it look like poo? It's always stuck together in a really long, disgusting rope.

(Sorry, I know this is a gross question.)

CDMay2006

I think it's a coating of the colon walls, so it's a tube shape, but without the colon to stick to it collapses and looks like that.

a-beautiful-mess

CDMay2006:

I think it's a coating of the colon walls, so it's a tube shape, but without the colon to stick to it collapses and looks like that.

Oh, wow. That doesn't sound good.

blue_elle

I saw on Dr. Oz (cause tv's the best place to get medical advice, lol) that those infomercials and products are junk at best and can actually harm you. You shouldn't have "stuff" just hanging around in your colon anyway, so there shouldn't be this outpouring of matter.Your body is designed to clean itself, and so long as you are getting the proper intake and "going" on a regular basis then it's useless.

 Made sense to me. I've seen photos of the insides of people's intestines and I never saw any creepy stuff hanging around. 

 

7river7wed7

CDMay2006:

I think it's a coating of the colon walls, so it's a tube shape, but without the colon to stick to it collapses and looks like that.

annabelle.27

blue_elle:

I saw on Dr. Oz (cause tv's the best place to get medical advice, lol) that those infomercials and products are junk at best and can actually harm you. You shouldn't have "stuff" just hanging around in your colon anyway, so there shouldn't be this outpouring of matter.Your body is designed to clean itself, and so long as you are getting the proper intake and "going" on a regular basis then it's useless.

 Made sense to me. I've seen photos of the insides of people's intestines and I never saw any creepy stuff hanging around.  
 

I agree. Our bodies aren't so inefficient that we need to drink nothing but lemon juice and cayenne pepper (or whatever) to help them heal. Things like that do more harm than good.

musgral8

This may be a little late but those "magic" colon cleansing pills are actually just psyllium fiber and a clay substance that expands rapidly in the body. Once it gets into your stomach the fiber will go straight through and the clay expands into that shape in your intestines. It makes people think that their colons are being cleansed because it simulates poo, but really, they're just going straight through you.

a-beautiful-mess

musgral8:

This may be a little late but those "magic" colon cleansing pills are actually just psyllium fiber and a clay substance that expands rapidly in the body. Once it gets into your stomach the fiber will go straight through and the clay expands into that shape in your intestines. It makes people think that their colons are being cleansed because it simulates poo, but really, they're just going straight through you.

Interesting... that would explain the shape.