The Colon

The colon has several parts:

•Ascending colon – Beginning in the lower right abdomen and continuing up the right side.
•Transverse colon – Beginning at the upper right side of the abdomen and continuing across to the left side of the abdomen.
•Descending colon – From the left upper abdomen straight down to the left lower side.
•Sigmoid colon – An S-shaped section that leads downward into the pelvic cavity.
•Rectum – The last six or so inches of the colon, ending at the anus.

Your colon has two primary jobs. One is to absorb the fluids out of the colon and any nutritional value that maybe left in the digestive waste before it leaves your body. Your colon reabsorbs 8 to 10 times every 30 minutes. This is how your body hydrates itself.

The second job is called peristalsis this is a wavelike muscular contraction of the large intestinal track which forces the feces along your colon wall as the fecal matter moves out of your body. You call this a bowel movement.

When our diet is heavy in grains, cheese and then we don’t drink our daily requirement of water peristalsis can’t perform. As time goes by we start to notice we are having less and less bowel movements, we also notice our waistline is growing, and we have this constant full feeling. This would be an indication of constipation. If your colon is sluggish (very slow peristalsis) and your colon is still doing its other job, absorbing like clockwork, you are going to end up with hard feces. We call this constipation.

Sometimes we forget about all the medications, and the artificial sweeteners, additives, preservatives, pesticides, flavor enhancers, etc, in our foods. The more time digestive waste spends in the colon, the greater your chances are of reabsorbing these toxins. To the degree your colon is clean, is to the degree your blood stream is clean. No matter how sluggish your colon may be, it’s right there doing its other job reabsorbing while dehydrating your digestive waste. Pulling the waste back into your body’s system through the blood stream. Doing a liver, gall bladder, kidney flush, etc., is really hard on the body.

Water is very important. “Clean filtered water.” Your body requires ½ oz. of water per pound of body weight per day. WATER IS NOT AN OPTION. Water is a MUST!
Namaste