First things first (and foremost) – the foundation of it all (without which, the chance of healing –naturally or unnaturally– goes down to virtually zero), we memorize this fact (‘used to be taught in third-grade science):

“No living organism, no matter how large or small, can sustain life unless it can assimilate the nutrients it needs and expel toxins/waste effectively”.

Every organ, system and cell in our body IS dependent upon this process – NOT one system/cell works correctly if it does not have the fuel & oxygen it needs and/or it is clogged or laden with sludge & toxins (toxin: a politically correct term for poison). And it’s all dependent (lungs/brain included) on ‘the main tube’ that runs from our mouth to our rectum. Clog the exhaust of ANY engine? The engine eventually malfunctions in every system. Completely clog it? The engine dies. Give an engine the wrong kind of fuel? EVERY part eventually fails. Add poisons and substances not appropriate for the engine? Disaster. We’ll NEVER get all the other parts (symptoms) functioning correctly, until we get ‘the main tube’ functioning at peak (and get the fuel right in and the poisons out).

It’s natural for every animal to have 3-5 bowel movements daily – one upon waking, one before going to sleep, and one for every major meal ingested. If that’s not happening, there something wrong with the tube and the fuel. Breastfed babies do this – they stop doing it when we feed them food that is unnatural to them…starting with cow’s milk. (That’s kind of a “duh”, eh? What other animal in nature suckles from a different animal than their own species, or drinks milk after it weans). What is natural food for a human? The same that is natural to the great apes – fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds & grains (and the oils thereof)…in their wholesome, ‘life bearing’ form. No food that is dead is alive, and everything we ingest that is dead (without enzymes) requires an extra expenditure of time, energy and reserves in order to process, digest, assimilate & eliminate (our body has to MAKE the enzymes or order to digest & assimilate the nutrients). In order to HEAL, the goal is to first, stop wasting our body’s energy (that could be used for healing & restoring), stop using up our ‘storehouse’ of nutrients (to make enzymes we could be eating) and to give our bodies the purest, most premium high grade fuels possible (and of course, to stop thinking/believing this is some kind of an “extreme burden” or freakish lifestyle choice).

At the same time, we must ensure that we stop poisoning ourself/systems and that we’re able to assimilate the high-grade fuel we’re ingesting (and spending so much money on). From the time they started feeding us unnatural foods (that couldn’t be digested, assimilated and expelled in 6-8 hours after eating them), we’ve adversely affected the strength & musculature of our upper/lower intestines. Picture this: instead of swallowing every bit of food/water you eat in a day, after you chew it halfway and mix it with saliva/digestive enzymes, you spit it into a glass jar, tightly cap the lid, and put it into a dark place with the temp around 100 degrees…what will happen? In 12-24 hours the jar will likely explode from the pressure of the putrefying gas. For most of us, ever since we’ve been a toddler (day after week after month after year), our intestines have been stretched/expanded by the gasses of unnatural/dead foods that take too long to digest & eliminate. This stretches and weakens the musculature of our colon, which of course, adversely effects peristalsis (the squeezing motion of the intestines).

Now, add to that, all the mucous forming foods. Egg whites have been used for centuries as glue (they will hold bricks/buildings together). Dr. Christopher (while never recommending milk), used a tea made of mullein & milk to cure extreme intestinal bleeding. Why? the milk mucous “sticks” to the lining of the intestines allowing the mullein time to ‘do it’s thing’. So all those ‘soft scrambled eggs’ and bottles of cows milk made a nice thick layer of mucous all over our intestines, and since we’re all full of gas & only pooping a couple of times a day or less (as a toddler), it starts building up and adversely affecting our ‘main tube’ even more. As we poop less AND assimilate less (due to the mucous covering the tiny villi that absorb the nutrients and send them to the liver for processing) we end up ingesting even more unnatural food because we’re hungry! And so the cycle continues until we’re either constipated (having less than one bm for every meal) or we have some form of IBS or other ‘digestive syndrome’. But wait,it gets better (worse)…now add a daily portion of chemical poisons.

‘This theorized by V.E. Irons (and accepted by most natural healers that ever read it): Just like the liver starts creating bile the second oil touches the tongue, and the pancreas start making insulin the second anything sweet touches the tongue, the intestines create a micro-thin layer of mucous whenever a chemical poison touches our tongue…so that the poisons are captured and sloughed on in the next bowel movement, thus preventing the body from assimilating poisons (which would be taken directly to the liver from the intestines). Now whether or not we actually ‘secrete mucous upon poison ingestion’ really doesn’t matter, because by the time we’re in our teens (or earlier with many constipated children), we have a VERY thick layer of rubber mucous lining our intestinal track, and whether it’s designed to “capture” poisons, or they just soak into it…the fact remains that this “mucoid plaque” is the most acidic, putrid, poison-laden substance in our body. And EVERY molecule of food & water we ingest has to soak through it before assimilation, and then it heads directly to the liver (as if the liver wasn’t busy enough already) to feed and nourish our body. This rubbery mucoid plaque also weakens the muscular of our intestinal tract and provides the perfect feeding/breeding grounds for parasites & candida. There are many natural healers that say if it weren’t for the parasites burrowing through the mucoid plaque (so that nutrients can get to the lining of the colon for assimilation) and candida overgrowth to feed on it, we’d be in far worse condition than we are. ‘Sure sounds logical to me, but I can’t say for sure.

Anyway, there’s two other “tube issues” that are very important. 1) The intestinal tract comes into contact with virtually every organ in the body (surprise!). It is NOT like the pictures and diagrams we see where there’s space between everything. Even if we had NO build up of mucous & mucoid plaque, we’d have several POUNDS of putrefying food (and gas!) to swell the colon, which puts unnatural pressure on virtually every organ in the body. The uterus/ovaries are tightly wrapped by the sigmoid colon (my first colon cleanse totally eliminated early menopausal symptoms of a 6-10 pound monthly fluid gain, vicious cramps -that I could SEE as well as feel- for three long days, 2 weeks of brutal PMS & emotional swings, abnormally heavy bleeding/clotting that require 2 super+ tampons every two hours for nearly three days). My uterus and ovaries had been SQUISHED for years (and that might have even been the cause of my lifelong battle with PCOS & infertility). And it eliminated acid reflux…which is virtually ALWAYS eliminated by a *thorough* colon cleanse & diet change.

Think of it, our digestive tract is a tube, and everything in it is supposed to move DOWNWARD…yet acid from the stomach is moving UPward into the esophagus (the only place where stomach acid can be felt). WHY is it moving unnaturally upward? Because of too much acid? Nope, because all the gas from the mucoid plaque and undigested, rotting food is pushing it upward. And the same gas that has the ability to push acid from the stomach into the esophagus, also has the ability to negatively impact the flow of bile from the liver/gallbladder and pancreatic/digestive enzymes from the pancreas into the duodenum. Not to mention the transverse colon pushes on the liver, pancreas/spleen, wraps around the sciatic nerve, and touches on the kidneys, hence adrenals. There’s no organ or system in the body that’s not effected by a swollen colon/intestines…and it doesn’t matter if the issue is constipation or over-frequent bms (I had IBS at the time, and was having 5-8 bms daily). What would have happened if I’d gone to a “professional alternative medicine doctor”? Several hundreds of dollars worth of tests revealing that my hormone levels were a mess (no kidding? :::smirk:::) and several hundred dollars worth of “natural (smirk again) hormonal supplements. But my body DID NOT NEED supplements, and the reason for my hormone imbalance had NOTHING to do with my ‘hormone levels’, it had to do with the fact that my colon was squishing my uterus/ovaries and they couldn’t do their job naturally.
Read these two links for more complete & enlightening info:
http://www.plim.org/drSchulze2001BowelNewsletter.htm

http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/colon/Journey-to-the-Center-of-Your-Colon.shtml