AskTheHerbalistBlog.com

Q: What are some of the benefits  one might expect from a colon cleanse?

• Raise energy
• Improve mental clarity
• Build immune system
• Lose weight
• Improve digestion
• Increase assimilation of nutrients

I like to think of this topic as Waste management - managing how your body processes waste - will direct effect your waist !!

Colon function Beginning of all health good or poor Health

Q: What is State of the American Colon ?

– it is estimated that more than 50% of the population is suffering from some type of intestinal disorder - Constipation, Ibs, Chrons

** large part of the population under the age of 10 now suffering with IBS and constipation -

The U S is leading the world in Colon cancer .

Cancer and Chronic disease will continue to increase over the next 5 to 10 years , that are young people are in serious danger.

Q: What is the cause of such problems in the colon? 

Causes - food and Habits - training’s - toxic build up in body

Food difficult to digest, assimilate and eliminate.

Q: How does lifestyle affect health?

 Your habits will determine your future

Years of making bad choices - leads to poor health and chronic disease

making right choices in food, life style and environment

Healthy people have healthy habits - Unhealthy people do not have healthy habits -

• Good digestion -
• good elimination -
• pH balancing -
• Proper use of supplements

Your Habits will determine - Your Future

Habits - a behaviour you keep repeating

commit to improving and preserving your health every day

Your habits will determine your quality of life

The results of bad habits show up later than sooner

nourish your body - spirit soul –

By practising natural health you reduce greatly your chance of getting a chronic disease –

Q: What are some tips to good health ?

1) stop putting poisons into the body.

2) it takes five to seven times the normal amount of nutrition to build and repair than does to maintain .

3) nothing heals in less than 3 months - must be diligent

4) moderation

5) take full responsibility for healing yourself

6) Live closer to God

7) alka line diet

Herrings law - All cures starts from within out and from the head down in reverse order as symptoms have appeared.

 Do a good colon cleanse - then take steps to get regular

Consider our Clean Start Program –

Then follow with our Get Regular System –

Q: How often should a person do a colon cleanse ?

Full cleanse two to three times per year

Establish regular bowel habits to keep colon clean daily

Q: How often should a person have a bowel movement ?

Two to Three time per day depending on how many meals are consumed dailey

Bowel movemnet should be fairly quick - give a feeling of being empty- consistency of soft serve ice cream -

1 to 3 hours after eating — should not have to starin- THIS helps prevent Hemroids - polyps, IBS –

Q: How much fiber should a person consume daily

30 grams

Q: What are some good sources of fiber ?

veggies - fiber food such as beans legumes lettuce cabbage –

supplemental fiber with phsyliullm or slippery elm .

Q: What if a person already has diverticulitis, colitis , or IBS .

My suggestion would be — Food enzymes - Probiotics , slowly introduce fiber, pH balancing, possibly whole Aloe to heal the colon walls .

***Plus we do counselling by phone - to provide individual suggestions -

Our listeners can simply go to asktheherbalist.net submit a specific question , and we will have an answer in 24 hours or less -

Q: Tell us about probiotics, SBO’s - what are they , what do they do,?

• Line the walls of the intestine with benficial bacteria
• Keep out bad bacteria
• Help to digest food, manufacture and assimilate nutrients 
• Promote regularity fights both constipation and diahrea

Q: Are OTC laxatives harmful? 

 – chemicals - iiratate intestinal walls - harsh - unnatural

Q: What about colonics ?

Only in extreme cases- should enemas and colonics be used - The body needs to be trained to clean itself naturally

Q: Can you give some specific recommendations?

– first if any of our listeners would like specific recommendations - simply go to asktheherbalsit.net and sign up for a phone consultation .

Second on our site askthehetrbalist.net we have an excellent colon cleanse system - see the page that says constipation

Third use herbs to get regular — such as Cascara sagrada - everybody’s fiber - or LBS 2 — Probiotics –

see our site wwww.asktheherbalist.net

This entry was posted on Friday, April 27th, 2007 at 5:28 pm and is filed under Tele-Seminar Notes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.