Toxins = old poop

KenosFeoh

O.k?

Most people eat enough that their intestines are constantly full of waste products, which includes the food by-products that your body can't use as well as pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, etc; whatever you're exposed to. Human beings developed as hunter/gatherers, and sometimes there wasn't food to eat, so the intestines got completely emptied on a regular basis. That doesn't happen very often anymore. Some of us believe that it should.

While that old poop is sitting around in your intestines, some believe that it poisons your entire system from waste products being absorbed by the blood vessels (we're talking at a molecular level here) and having to go back through the cycle of being filtered through the liver and eliminated again.

If you don't believe there's a lot of old poop sitting around in your intestines, schedule a colonoscopy and marvel at what passes.

Mokey41

Or just eat some corn and time when it comes back out. As for the rest, I call total bunk.

ninerbuff

Yeah, this is good old pseudoscience from more "natural" sites. It's crap (pun intended).

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stinkypoopy

Not sure what you are getting at here.

Do you believe this or are you simply stating the belief of others who you have not identified?

pcastagner

Bull****.

Solid material is moved along the intestinal tract via a wave like motion. Here is a wiki explanation of how that works:

Peristalsis is a radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles which propagates in a wave down a muscular tube, in an anterograde fashion. In humans, peristalsis is found in the contraction of smooth muscles to propel contents through the digestive tract. It is wave contraction of longitudinal and circular muscles preceded by wave relaxation of these muscles. Earthworms use a similar mechanism to drive their locomotion.[1] The word is derived from New Latin and comes from the Greek peristallein, "to wrap around," from peri-, "around" + stallein, "to place".
In much of the gastrointestinal tract, smooth muscles contract in sequence to produce a peristaltic wave which forces a ball of food (called a bolus while in the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract and chyme in the stomach) along the gastrointestinal tract. Peristaltic movement is initiated by circular smooth muscles contracting behind the chewed material to prevent it from moving back into the mouth, followed by a contraction of longitudinal smooth muscles which pushes the digested food forward. Catastalsis is a related intestinal muscle process.[2]


In order for what you say to be true, the old poop would have to be stored in a special old poop storage area so that the new poop could get out. A mechanism would have to exist for diverting all this old poop to the special old poop storage area.

In medieval times, you may have been able to convince me there are intestinal gnomes living in there who ferry the new poop around the old poop. But then I might go witness an execution, and as they rip out the guts I might ask "how would one push something through that muscular tube without first pushing out the existing contents"?

CoderGal

Market place - do you really need to cleanse your colon?

They talk to a doctor that deals with colons....they suggest...no. It's generally pretty clean and empty. In fact that doctor has never seen poop in there. It's generally pretty clean (there's a video if you want to take a look)

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2009/how_not_to_win_500000/busted.html

FearAnLoathingJ

Smh

SJVZEE

Well, since transitioning to a whole foods, plant based diet with lots of dark veggies and whole grains/around 50 grams a fiber a day-things have been moving right along, several times a day

pcastagner

And btw, your intestine is supposed to be populated by a whole ecosystem's worth of microbes that do the job of keeping the bad stuff in your gut and out of your blood, making certain vitamins for you, and other functions.

If you want to mess with that delicate balance, I highly recommend a master cleanse and some enemas.

Cadori

Naw. I don't chew good, so I totally know how fast stuff leaves my body.

Cranquistador

okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk then.

fivethreeone

I like transition from "some of us think" (true!) to "this is fact" (false!).

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

So why do you suppose doctors and scientists tell us that this isn't true? Just out of curiosity.

http://www.livescience.com/15912-colon-cleansing-useless-dangerous.html

melindafritz1976

Not sure what you are getting at here.

Do you believe this or are you simply stating the belief of others who you have not identified?

melindafritz1976

okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk then.

melindafritz1976

Smh

81Katz

"In order for what you say to be true, the old poop would have to be stored in a special old poop storage area so that the new poop could get out."

LMAO at this for some reason.


*mentally pictures a dark out of the way area within the intestines with a sign tacked above that simply reads 'special old poop storage only'*

:laugh:

MyChocolateDiet

This thread is so sh!tty.

Shelley6591

Bull.... My cousin who is a nutritionist gets colonics all the time and hits the McDonald's drive through on her way home...something is wrong there....:sick:

deksgrl

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2009/how_not_to_win_500000/busted.html

Ewww, gross, but very informative.

MyChocolateDiet

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1063021-chocolate

dirty_dirty_eater

Excuse me while I whip this out...for the second time today.



Cleanse by bathsheba_c

To cleanse or not to cleanse? That is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of non-specific toxins
Or to take arms against a sea of imagined bowel obstructions
And by opposing, perforate one's colon. To juice; to detox;
No more; and by a detox to say we end
The pH and the balance of intestinal flora
That guts are heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be avoided. To juice; to detox;
To detox: perchance to puke: aye, there's the rub;
For in the pangs of indigestion what side-effects may come
When we go and leave our undies soiled.


Personally, I prefer to be bled when the evil humors grow too strong.

dirty_dirty_eater

Bull.... My cousin who is a nutritionist gets colonics all the time and hits the McDonald's drive through on her way home...something is wrong there....:sick:

I'm sorry to break this too you, but your cousin just likes having things shoved up her, uh, digestive tract.

brower47

That "old poop" is just the natural, regular movement of the food you recently ate through your digestive tract as it makes the transition from food > fecal matter.

There isn't "old poop" that got stuck because of all the "garbage" that we eat. I'm so tired of this ridiculous crap. I expect that living in a society where science and knowledge are prevalent that we'd stop seeing so much of this witch doctor/voodoo/pseudo science crap but people LOVE to believe the ridiculous rather than jr. high school level anatomy & physiology.

whierd

Not sure what you are getting at here.

Do you believe this or are you simply stating the belief of others who you have not identified?

I think you forgot to respond three times. Must have a toxin buildup.

Shelley6591

Bull.... My cousin who is a nutritionist gets colonics all the time and hits the McDonald's drive through on her way home...something is wrong there....:sick:

I'm sorry to break this too you, but your cousin just likes having things shoved up her, uh, digestive tract.

That's what I think too!

ihad

Naw. I don't chew good, so I totally know how fast stuff leaves my body.

Science!!!

MyChocolateDiet

Naw. I don't chew good, so I totally know how fast stuff leaves my body.

Science!!!

Cadori

Naw. I don't chew good, so I totally know how fast stuff leaves my body.

Science!!!

Double blind study and everything. It got...complicated.

Mother_Superior

Human Biology - Digestion and Nutrition [Kindle Edition]


http://www.amazon.com/Human-Biology-Digestion-Nutrition-ebook/dp/B00A0QYMFI/ref=sr_1_8?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1375405716&sr=1-8&keywords=kindle+ck-12

This is a free textbook on Amazon. Please download and read for the love of all that is decent, and holy.

MercuryBlue

This doesn't make any sense at all. If you had "old poop" in your colon, how would the "new poop" be able to get through? It's basically a pipe; when there's a block in the pipe, it can't drain. This is what was call constipation. Eventually, though, it's got to come out- and it usually does. If not, medical intervention may be required. But the idea that three month old poop is sitting around while two day poop makes it out okay, somehow skirting around it, is illogical.

ETA: Also, believing in something doesn't make it true. Theories =/= science. I might believe a giant dung beetle pushes the sun across the sky every day, but that doesn't make it reality.

I don't mean to be rude, but I would really like it if one person posting about "toxins building up in the colon" could provide peer-reviewed scientific studies that prove it to be true. Or even likely. I'd take likely.