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How often should you do a colon cleanse?

Twice a year - 0% (no votes) 0%

Once a year - 44.44% (4 votes) 44.44%

Do a colon cleanse once a month - 33.33% (3 votes) 33.33%

Once every three months - 22.22% (2 votes) 22.22%

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by Jade Balle on October 22nd, 2009

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On One Hand: Doctors Say
Dr. Bernard Jensen, author of "Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management," suggests that you cleanse your colon at the beginning of each new season---about four times per year. Dr. Leonard Smith, M.D, a board-certified surgeon, says that "healthy people will find it valuable to take colon hydrotherapy every couple of months."
On the Other: Is It Needed?
Dr. David H. Gorski, a surgical oncologist at Wayne State University School of Medicine, holds the belief that "[c]olon cleansing is a dubious and almost always useless procedure." Dr. Ed Zimney agrees. He claims a cleanse is not needed because "the colon is a continuously self-cleaning system."
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The general consensus is that you should do a colon cleanse whenever your body gives you signs that one is needed. If you haven't had a bowel movement in three or four days, are constipated, and feel sluggish, these are indications that it may be time for a colon cleanse. The toxins in your system from not removing the waste may also bring about symptoms of illnesses, such as the common cold.
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Wholistic Health Solutions: Frequently Asked Questions about Colon Cleansing
Science-Based Medicine: Colon 'Cleanses': A Load of You Know What ...'; David Gorski
Everyday Health; Colon Ceansing Is a Waste of Time, Money and Effort; Ed Zimney, M.D.; Jan. 15, 2009
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- What a load of codswallop.
  
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  by Moongrim on March 6th, 2010
- a balanced answer. I side with the science based medicine, wholistic nuts make assessments and what few results are seen from their few tests are the placibo effect because their tests are not adequately controled.
  
  too bad this was not a balanced question. the option of never should have been available. proves the OPs faith in wholistic "medecine" precludes the possibility of not doing this.
  
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  by TAPriceCTR s son is wearing his COAT on March 14th, 2010
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by Mikelbf2000 on January 20th, 2010
I just stick a garden hose up my ass.
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by Millenium - The Mysterious M. . . GONE! on February 16th, 2010
Where do people get these "crappy" ideas from!????
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- Good wordplay, Mill.
  
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  by Wisdom Tooth on March 14th, 2010
- It just comes to me, Wiz! LOL
  
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  by Millenium - The Mysterious M. . . GONE! on March 15th, 2010
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by TAPriceCTR s son is wearing his COAT on December 15th, 2009
never. I do not know how to clean a colon, but I use the semicolon more often than the colon
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- WONDERFUL Answer. :-)
  
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by Terance McKenna on December 31st, 2009
Before and After you get it in the rear
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- Well at least before, helps lube and stretch the opening... after.. ??????? why?
  
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  by BrownEye Insertion Specialists on January 18th, 2010
- for that minty fresh feeling??????
  
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  by Terance McKenna on January 18th, 2010
- MMMMMMMM --- Ahhhhhhh ok.. sounds good. How big of a minty fress feeling do you take??? 1qt? 2qts? or 3qts?
  
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  by BrownEye Insertion Specialists on January 19th, 2010
- 2qt.duch bag
  
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by volvonut84 on December 13th, 2009
Typically, once a day. However, dry cleaners do a better job...usually once a week is sufficient.
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- I glad I m not your dry cleaner;:
  
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  by Terance McKenna on January 18th, 2010
- ROFLMAO
  
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  by Rip Van Winkle on April 3rd, 2010
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by The Chief on February 17th, 2010
Never.

Ever.
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- I can see you running from the Dr's office...knocking people down who get in your way LMAO!
  
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  by canbfrisky on March 23rd, 2010
- Heh!
  
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  by The Chief on April 3rd, 2010
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by - MojoThunder - on February 16th, 2010
usually happens everytime i go to a particular Burger King ...
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by bazza on December 30th, 2009
Whenever I eat eggs. Ten minutes tops. Away we go, whooosh, toilet needs cleaning but not the old bowels. Check, clean as a whistle.
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by Friartuck on March 29th, 2010
You forgot "Never".
Seems to me to be a useless and potentially dangerous activity - eat healthy most of the time, take exercise and keep everything moving and there's never a "need"...
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by canbfrisky on March 23rd, 2010
voted: Once a year
On ME? 1 time a yr,
On Heidi Klume -once a day...with my own special hose. :0)
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by Moongrim on March 6th, 2010
voted: Once a year
Never.

The stuff that is there is supposed to be there for a reason.
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- yes, a "cleanse" could throw off the balance in biodiversity and cause a bacterial imbalance (yes, your colon has it's own biosphere and if one healthy creature overruns the rest it is unhealthy)
  
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  by TAPriceCTR s son is wearing his COAT on March 14th, 2010
- But if you're a Republican then you need to have it done often enough to get one's head OUT!
  
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  by Moongrim on March 14th, 2010
- should have know that you could not avoid talking about the reps.
  
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  by TAPriceCTR s son is wearing his COAT on March 14th, 2010
- When you get down and dirty with Reps every day, it has a way of getting into your clothing.
  
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  by Moongrim on March 14th, 2010
- politics. poly=multiple and ticks are blood sucking arachnids. wether rep or dem. they are all a bunch of traitors. but since the dems pretend they are loyal to you liberals you are certain that their opponents of pretence (reps) are pure evil and the obamasiah is here to save us. they are in bed together and are only loyal to the investors. both parties. and they (the republicans as well) get their power from ignorant masses believing they are different. as long as they keep america voting dem/rep they will go back and forth and outsiders will never take power from them and their masters, I mean lobyists. so congradulations, your hatred of the reps gives them power.
  
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  by TAPriceCTR s son is wearing his COAT on March 14th, 2010
- When was the last time you heard of a Republican doing ANYTHING to help working class folks?
  
  Got healthcare?
  
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  by Moongrim on March 15th, 2010
- the dems have had the government for over a year now.... got health care? are you stupid enough to believe that the minority evil reps have stalled the healthcare bill for over a year? and might I point out that bush increased my tax return, obama gave the financial industry enough money to give every single american citizen $2000. but hey, pretending I am a rep I will say thank you for your hatred because as long as americans hate one party and idolize the other, no independant upstarts will ever take the power from us.
  
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  by TAPriceCTR s son is wearing his COAT on March 15th, 2010
- Yes.
  
  Who said I idolized one party? Maybe you, but I can see Reps are the far greater evil.
  
  Bullets for Iraqis who did nothing to us, for ephemeral WMD, a doubling of the national debt= Not so much as a whimper of protest.
  
  Healthcare for Real Americans, at a fraction of the cost of the Iraqi war, and they act like they want us to sacrfice children to Moloch.
  
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121703585.html
  
  Don't let reality get in the way of your opinion.
  
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  by Moongrim on March 16th, 2010
- LOL @ the hater who can't figure out how to make an un'broken' link either!
  
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  by LarryH54 on April 11th, 2010
- Sounds like you need a refresher on how to use computers Larry. Perhaps you should "pray" about it?
  
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by 4down2 on January 16th, 2010
voted: Once a year
Yearly check up for cancer too !
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- except cancer is in a completely different realm.... procedures about cancer are based on medical science.
  
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by bazza on December 31st, 2009
Very often, as long as it is not your own.
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  by Terance McKenna on December 31st, 2009
- if you fall backwards while water skiing you'll get a colon clense
  
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  by TAPriceCTR s son is wearing his COAT on March 14th, 2010
- most of the water slides at kings dominion do the job plus mega wedgie bonus
  
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  by Terance McKenna on March 14th, 2010
- that makes sense but makes me wonder why it never happened to me from a high speed water slide. the only time it has happened to me was from falling backwards water skiing
  
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by HOUSTONLONELY on December 12th, 2009
I never had one, should I get one done ?????
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- not unless you believe crystals have magical healing properties like everyone in sedona AZ (no offence to the crystal worshipping psychos)
  
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by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on December 11th, 2009
Not more than once every six months. I have had them in the past and they really add energy to the system by cleansing toxins. Once a year is plenty.
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by Dimstar on April 16th, 2010
voted: Once a year
I have never cleansed any colons, but I'm usually available on sundays.
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by ClintonvilleTom has closed up shop. on October 11th, 2010
Never get them. My MD told me that if we were full of toxins in the first place, we would be very sick or dead. Eat right, drink plenty of water and exercise and you will be as regular as clockwork.
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