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Here is some information relating to the significance of our intestines:

• Nutrient Absorption – As they say, “You are not what you eat, but what you absorb!” Our small intestines absorb nutrients and minerals found in foods.
• Immune Function – The intestines constitute about 80% of our immunity.
• Second Brain – Also known as the gut brain or enteric nervous system, our gut contains 100 million neurons, which is even more than the spinal cord! It sends and receives impulses, records experiences, and responds to emotions just like the brain! It has receptors that are connected to other parts of our body, responding and reacting to the same chemical messengers as our brain/central nervous system. This is why people often say they have a “gut feeling” or “butterflies” in their stomachs – the gut does affect our brain and body significantly!
• Appendix – The appendix functions as the body’s regulator and communicator, monitoring internal pH, toxic load present, and send messages to the immune system over bowel-related activity.
• Digestion and Elimination – If your digestion is impaired or digestion-upsetting foods or habits are prevalent, fermentation, putrefaction and rancidity of foods will occur within the intestines, causing a boatload of toxins to be produced and circulated into the bloodstream. This is not forgetting the existing toxic loads that many of our foods are already harbouring. Over time, these accumulated wastes harden into compacted faecal matter – encrusting the intestinal walls – providing an environment for toxins to flourish and multiply.

An unhealthy gut is thus a surefire recipe for an unhealthy mind, body and spirit.

Moving your bowels daily is not necessarily a sign of good digestive function. In fact, one should move their bowels at least twice a day. Given that most of us eat 3 main meals a day, assuming each goes through proper digestion for a healthy transit time, we should at the very least move our bowels twice a day. Also, a healthy transit time for your stools will often be reflected in the colour – which is supposed to be a lighter brown than we think.

Most of us have dark brown stools, which is a sign that it has been sitting in the intestines way too long – causing problems over time. Here is a stool chart to further gauge the health of your bowels.

If you don’t move your bowels at least 2-3 times a day with Type 3 or 4 stools, there is a very high chance your intestines are sluggish. Even for those who do, they never fail to find lots of stuff being purged out while cleansing!

It is thus imperative to select a proper intestinal cleanser as many on the market contain ingredients that thin and strip the mucousal lining of the intestines, compromise gut integrity, result in more constipation, disrupt electrolyte, water, and gut flora balance, and also unnaturally force spasms and contractions – rather than naturally inducing and restoring peristalsis. The following table contain common categories and examples of these so-called intestinal cleansers we often see.

The benefits of doing an intestinal cleanse are felt so instantly and some people even feel immense emotional and spiritual uplifting once their intestines and colon are cleaned up. Apart from improved digestion and bowel movements, people experience an increase in energy and mental clarity, improved mood, weight loss, plus many allergies and skin problems clear up!

Choked and un-cleansed intestines are where IBS, colon polyps, constipation, loose stools, colitis, diverticulitis, leaky gut syndrome, strictures and spasms stem from. And this is where chronic disease like chronic fatigue syndrome, systemic candidiasis, fibromyalgia, arthritis and many other chronic, degenerative conditions take root.

It is no wonder they say that death, or health, begins in the gut!