WHOLE BODY CLEANSE

You only need to 'cleanse' the outside of your body. Everything on the inside self-cleanses. Save your money!

I too vote for totally unnecessary.

Perhaps just a high colonic, a shake weight and some shape up shoes...

I use Lever 2000 soap for my body and whatever shampoo my fiance happened to buy for my hair. Sometimes I'm afraid it will smell girly, but nobody has complained so far.

Ivory is also excellent, and it floats! But I have sometimes had issues with it drying out my skin in the winter time.

I find that Lever 2000 tends to disappear too quickly. I prefer Irish Spring for my full body cleanse.

lol taso.


Yep, the human body does a very good job cleansing itself. Nothing you can drink or eat that won't harm you will remove anything that healthy, fiber rich food won't do.
Put it this way, Once, when I was an MFP newbie (about a decade ago it seems), I'd heard about cleanses and asked the gastroenterologist that has a practice in the same building as my GP about them. He chuckled and said "You mean those things that say they suck poison out of your body and clean your colon? They're snake oil. If you have gunk built up in your colon, you have serious problems and need to go see a doctor immediately, but you'd know it if you did." I swear on my sole that's what he told me.

I have found that a good, strong cup of coffee is the way to go. (No pun intended.)


-And NOT via a funnel and tube!

I use Lever 2000 soap for my body and whatever shampoo my fiance happened to buy for my hair. Sometimes I'm afraid it will smell girly, but nobody has complained so far.

Ivory is also excellent, and it floats! But I have sometimes had issues with it drying out my skin in the winter time.

My vote.

Does Ivory float because of all the fiber?

LOLOLOLOLOL.

Tests are needed. Wonder how many calories in a bar of Ivory soap?

Drink alot of water and eat your fruits and veggies. Don't waste you money on a "cleanse". Good luck to you.

I don't know if Widmar wants an advocate, but some of you have no tact. If you have no other way of giving advice, but through sarcasm...DON'T! It comes off insulting, demeaning, and discouraging. If I'm not mistaken, she just joined. As did I, and I'll tell you what, if I got that kind of response to a SERIOUS PLEA FOR HELP, I'd give up...smh...tsk tsk tsk.

I'm into having a discussion one day about this.

#1. A colonoscopy which I have had myself as well, only looks at the large intestine, the colon. approx 6 ft long.

- What about the other 23 feet. TWENTY THREE FEET of small intestine that's wrapped up inside of us.
I've mentioned this before , and nobody comments about the small intestine, where our body is supposed to be absorbing the nurtrients from out food, where cramping can occur

#2. Where does all the poop magically go when people do not go to the washroom for 2-3-5 days. We know there are people out there like that. I've heard some people that don't go to the washroom for a week.

They go once, and automatically, 5 days worth of poop is cleaned out?
The colon doesn't hold DAYS worth of poop. It gets backed up into the small intestine.


I've taken a digestive cleanse for years. Herbal product, and IT DOES WORK.
I have NO PROBLEM stating that I fill up to the water's edge, or as the other thread stating. Mine doesn't float but I build a statue and it piles up above the water's edge and I also go 2-3 times a day.

It's a great feeling to empty out the bowels.

thumper44... I'm only going to address #1 as I have no idea about #2 (man, could you have chosen A. and B. as markers instead? ~chuckles~)

You're correct about the colonoscopy only looking at the colon, however, the product you take to clean your colon out does it's job on the entire system, which is why you do a liquid fast... at least I was made to... along with it.

If you think about, if waste product was left in your small intestines after the cleanse, then between the final 'flush', pun not intended but what the heck, and the actual colonosopy, the odds would be good that in a healthy system waste product would progress into the colon making at least part of the test useless.

Sorry I'll use a) and b) next time. Didn't think of that.

Let's clarify waste product. You assume that waste product is movable, and can easily be flushed?

What if that waste product has been there for months/years, and is not easily "moved" or "flushed" Then it would still stay in the small intestine and not make it's way to the large intestine?

I give one example that always made me think.
This might be a bit of a stereotype, but here it goes. ..........The truck driver.

They can't go to the washroom all the time. I'm sure we've all been in a position where our body told us, we need to go. We can't, so we hold it, we do whatever, until we can get to a facility. Sometimes when you get to that facility, you cannot go.

Some truck drivers have big big stomachs.
Their "fat" is not spread out, they don't have fat legs, they don't have fat shoulders, or fat arms, but they have a HUGE gut.

a) is it fat deposits just only in their stomach area
b) Is it their stomach that's stretched huge, and holding extra food?
c) has their small intestines stretched to hold all the poop that they could not get rid of

You know how some people are, both men and women.it's a touchy soubject.
If you ask them, they might tell the truth. They will say they are regular to avoid embarrassment
But if they are honest, they will not be having bowel movements 1-2 a day
They have also probably gone 1-2 days without going to the washroom.

a? b? c?

Okay, this is literally talking out of my hat, so feel free to tell me I'm full of it. Uh... sorry, again, unintentional, it's the topic.

I really should have asked the internest I saw a couple days ago because it's something I've been curious about for some time, but I just can't fathom how waste could build up and stay for long periods in the small intestines. They're not that large, given their length and is some things stick, how do other things move through?

As for the truckdrivers... I'm going to go with a. if it were b or c, they would be incredibly uncomfortable before very long. have you ever been constipated over a few days and kept up the usual intake of food? I can't imagine how they'd not feel the different between fat and impacted waste.

I don't know if Widmar wants an advocate, but some of you have no tact. If you have no other way of giving advice, but through sarcasm...DON'T! It comes off insulting, demeaning, and discouraging. If I'm not mistaken, she just joined. As did I, and I'll tell you what, if I got that kind of response to a SERIOUS PLEA FOR HELP, I'd give up...smh...tsk tsk tsk.

No one was trying to offend. Having a sense of humor really helps along the way. :flowerforyou:

I understand that you are new to MFP, but most of us who displayed 'inappropriate sarcasm' have read literally hundreds of questions from people who want to waste their money on 'cleanses', 'detoxes' and 'miracle pills'. These products don't do what they promise to do and are competely unnecessary. I'd rather tell people that they can save their money and protect their health by avoiding such products than encourage them to do something expensive and potentially dangerous that will not help them to achieve their goals.

No one was trying to offend. Having a sense of humor really helps along the way. :flowerforyou:

I understand that you are new to MFP, but most of us who displayed 'inappropriate sarcasm' have read literally hundreds of questions from people who want to waste their money on 'cleanses', 'detoxes' and 'miracle pills'. These products don't do what they promise to do and are competely unnecessary. I'd rather tell people that they can save their money and protect their health by avoiding such products than encourage them to do something expensive and potentially dangerous that will not help them to achieve their goals.

Agreed that a sense of humor is helpful. However, giving sarcasm to a stranger is cocky, demeaning, and not humorous.

Dood, however you want to justify other peoples rudeness... I was not directing that comment to you anyway, your answer was decent; imo. The "soap" references, and the others were what I was referring to; those were sarcastic and rude. Like anyone is supposed to know how many posts others have read about a topic... That gives permission to be sarcastic; even pretentious?? I don't think so.

Anyhoo...I'm not trying to argue with you...just thought it was a little over the top to see people behave in such a way. That's all.

While the responses were rather rude, it is good netiquette to browse a forum and understand it before posting. This forum is about healthy eating and exercise. When you come to a forum about healthy eating and ask about a topic that is potentially dangerous and a complete waste of money you might not get the types of answers you are looking to get.