My Colon Cleanse Story

In 1981, before the term colon cleanse was even in my consciousness, I met a man who was not only a student of the late, great Dr. John R. Christopher, the famed naturopathic doctor and medicinal herbalist, but was a close friend of his as well.

My friend Kurt K. was one of his closest protégés and was able to sip from the fount of wisdom and study Dr. Christopher had acquired in his forty-plus years of study and experience.

"Cleanse. Nourish. Heal. That's the key to optimum health -- that's what Dr. Christopher teaches." Kurt said. It made sense. As I learned more and more, he told me point blank one day that I had a compacted colon or intestinal tract. "How do you know that?" I asked him.

"I read it in your eyes," he said. Kurt is not only a master herbalist but had achieved his certification in iridology as well. Many consider iridology -- the process of determining the health of a person through reading their eyes -- a pseudo science.

I don't know if that's true or not, but I found in time, he was certainly correct in his assessment on my intestinal health but also with another area of my health as well.

Due to Kurt's influence and example, I decided to become a vegetarian and began severely changing my diet. I was rail thin, only weighing 135-145 pounds at a height of 5'10". I didn't have much weight to lose but that's not what I wanted to do: I wanted to see if I could somehow achieve a state of optimum health.

While I learned more and more about medicinal herbs and naturopathic medicine, my friend Kurt's admiration and respect for his mentor was always present. Hearing even a little bit about Dr. Christopher's story inspired me and I was intrigued as well.

Sidebar: Some of Dr. John R. Christopher's Story

Dr. Christopher had advanced rheumatoid arthritis, hardening of the arteries and other health issues that were so severe, doctors told him he would be dead by the age of 40 or so. That didn't happen. Dr. Christopher was born in 1909 and died in Feb. 1983. In 1939, though, he radically changed his diet when he came upon some writings that said the best diet for man was one with meat eaten sparingly and with fruits, grains and vegetables eaten in their proper season.

My friend said Dr. C. had told him that as he changed his diet, he noticed changes in the severity of his ailments. With a healthy diet, he suffered little from his rheumatoid arthritis.

However, when he included processed flour in his diet, it wasn't very long before he had to use a cane. If he ate refined sugars, he actually had to use a wheel chair. The coup de grace, though, was when he included red meat in his diet, he'd soon find himself confined to bed.

Dr. Christopher eventually cleared himself of all his health problems due to the proper usage of medicinal herbs. He himself became a naturopathic doctor, a master medicinal herbalist and the only herbalist doctor in the U.S. Army during World War II. He also became the bane of the medical establishment and they persecuted and prosecuted him relentlessly for the success he had in actually curing people of diseases.

My Mini-Experience With the Raw Food Diet

I thought that his story was inspiring and it proved the truthfulness of an experiment I had tried the previous year. Before I met my herbalist friend, I had a job working in the oil fields in southern Louisiana. It was tough work for a kid 17-years old. I was tired most of the time, which I attributed to the demanding work, but I was sure that was only a part of it.

I usually ate bologna sandwiches and potato salad for lunch if I didn't buy the usual fare of burgers and fries and often found myself really tired as the day wore on.

At that time, I had a hunch, an instinct, to try eating nothing but fruit and/or vegetables raw. I gave it a try for a time and found myself with a lot of natural energy that was very noticeable to me and those I worked with. It intrigued me and opened the door to other health experimentation later.

Upon returning to Logan, Utah in the early spring of 1981, I met my herbalist friend Kurt K. I told him about my experiment and he didn't seem fazed at all.

My First Colon Cleanse Experience Yields a Big Surprise

I wanted to learn all I could and I took a job at my herbalist friend's health food store for a time. Later, to make more money, I took a job as an assistant surveyor trainee where I worked on the Strawberry Reservoir area in Heber City, Utah. At that time, I committed to go on an all-raw food diet. Mind you this is in the early 80's before it was on the radar screen of the culture.

While working as an assistant surveyor, I was outside all day and was experimenting on an all fruit and vegetable diet. Actually, what I did was somewhat ill advised: I was eating almost exclusively fruit and the fruit I did eat came out of the can! I was also eating a lot of granola bars as well and easy-to-eat vegetables like carrots and celery, but mostly fruit. I drank only water.

Well, the cleansing symptoms began almost immediately: I started urinating -- a lot, which is a classic cleansing symptom.

Then, after about 30 days of this diet, I was out in the field working and what I am about to say may sound unbelievable but on my honor: I defecated seven times in one day! I know discussing the scatalogical is unpleasant to talk about but it must done when talking about colon cleansing.

Anyway, mind you it wasn't a little bit of fecal matter but piles and piles of it that resembled a large snake coiled on the ground. It came out easy enough too. All the fiber in the fruits and veggies I was eating made that happen. The girth of the light, cream-colored, snakelike piles was astonishing.

Afterwards, my manager had to go to the office for something and I was left (told!) to stay in the truck, which I did. It was then that I saw something remarkable: I caught a glimpse of my eyes in the mirror and they had gone blue!!! I couldn't have been more surprised!! My eyes had always been hazel with a clear brown color around the pupil and blue in the outer edges.

My herbalist and an iridologist friend told me previously that that was a classic iridology sign of a compacted colon. Again, this information was gleaned through his "reading" my eyes and nothing more.

I began to believe a little more in iridology; it was a testament to me of the truthfulness of it. I just sat there looking at my eyes for I was so astonished they had gone blue!

Something else happened. My stomach had also gone very, very soft and was very, very pliable. My waist was really small too. The effects of this rudimentary colon cleanse were very evident and I was thrilled with my progress.

After finishing the job in Heber City, I returned to Logan, Utah and tried to continue following the all-raw food diet. It was painful! The cravings surprised me in their intensity. I simply wasn't tough enough to get through them. I eventually gave in and started eating sweets a lot but no meat.

Because my system was so healthy and cleansed, I broke out in a terrible case of acne, which was not common for me. Think of your libido being at its strongest and now multiply that by a factor of two or three and you'll get an idea as to how strong my cravings were. The cravings came in many forms but mostly centered on sugar and cooked food.

That basically was the story for the next 20 years: remarkable periods of discipline followed by tremendous undiscipline.

Eating so much junk food is terrible for your intestinal tract. That's where I'm mainly to blame -- that and eating processed foods due to their convenience. I am ashamed to say I went back to the semi-healthy vegetarian diet soon thereafter and gave up eating an all-raw diet.

I Need a Colon Cleanse!

Now, fast forward 27 years later.

Doing a colon cleanse is a big deal for me. I know I need it. I'm older and while I'm not significantly overweight or in ill health, I know my colon and whole intestinal tract is compacted with mucoid plaque on the inner walls.

When I just stand and totally relax my stomach. It is puffed tangibly outward. This is a classic sign of an over burdened intestinal tract. My only consolation with that is that I see people all the time that I know have worse intestinal health than I. Still, there's no excuse.

I've known some real secrets to health but to be brutally honest, I've simply lacked the discipline oftentimes to follow through.

I love good food and while I've tried to eat healthy, it's been very easy to fall into the "convenience trap" of buying processed food and eating too much. It's easy to just buy a store-bought pizza, like a DiGiornio's, spend 20 minutes heating it up and then eating it. It's easier doing that than making a salad. Ice cream tastes better than broccolli, and chips and salsa are more satisfying than squash to be sure.

Through the years, I've vacillated in the extreme sometimes. I had a roommate once tell me I was the most undisciplined disciplined person he ever met. I'd workout, eat fruit and vegetables one day and the next, a whole box of doughnuts and a bag of chips with salsa by myself.

I am basically a vegetarian but I do eat meat albeit very, very sparingly. I never buy red meat. The red meat I eat is on pizza and I eat pizza minimally. I think I've literally eaten five or six steaks in 25 years. So, no, I'm not a big red meat eater although I must confess I like the taste of it.

This is somewhat gross and scatalogical but here goes: another reason I know I need to do a colon cleanse is because of the size of the stools I make after defecating. When I did my cleanse in 1982, the girth of the piles was quite large. As time has gone by, I've noticed the girth of my stools has gotten gradually smaller and smaller.

This is a clear-cut signal that my intestines have become more and more caked with fecal matter that has turned to mucoid plaque, I have no doubt.

When I was a boy, and I know this is odd, it used to surprise me how large my stools were. As I've followed the western diet for most of my life, excluding alcohol, caffeine, and red meat, I have eaten a lot of junk food and gradually over time, my intestines have become more and more compacted. The "pipe bandwidth" of my intestines has simply gotten smaller and smaller.

Sound odd? You're probably right. Think about it for yourself, though. Look at a child's bowel movement or a young teenager's and the size and girth of the movement and compare that to yours. It's quite a difference. (Perhaps now you can see why a colon cleanse is so vital as we get older.)

I assert again: 90% to 98% of human beings have an unhealthy colon. If they didn't, their health would be so much better, with fewer health ailments, and abundantly more energy. When my system was clean in 1982, I felt that enhanced energy. A healthy colon is a worthy goal to go after.

Summary -- Why Do a Colon Cleanse

So, why do I want to do a colon cleanse? Why do I want to share what I know? I think I've answered it but here's more precision. Because I want to challenge myself. Secondly, I want to be healthier with vibrant health for the long term.

Additionally, I have done this before and I know there are tremendous health benefits to be derived. Fourth, I want to share what I know and help people who come to this site. It's always easier knowing something than doing it. To my shame, that's me.

Knowledge is useless if it isn't applied. I have a good constitution that has allowed me to enjoy uncommon health as I've gotten older. I just turned 47 a few weeks ago and I play softball regularly with a bunch of twenty somethings, run twice a week, play tennis, and most people tell me I look 33 or so, which is always flattering.

Lastly, I think all this will be interesting. I'm going to create a colon cleanse blog and chronicle my experiences. I've got a lot of conceptual knowledge, some practical and some eyewitness testimonial info I wish to share.

Colon health is important and I believe more and more people are interested in understanding more about colon cleanse info than ever before. They should be too. So, that's why I want to do this.

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Yours in health,
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