Posted by Larry Hoover on October 30, 2004, at 13:31:25
In reply to Bowel Cleanse?? anyone? » JLx, posted by tealady on October 16, 2004, at 19:43:01
> My main concern is the the dumb bowel cleanse. I've been reading on it.
> Some of them are in the "What the..." category <g>
> and some people actually get addicted to them? wow!!
>
> I just don't want to do anything that'll destroy the mucous membrane!..they talk about sloughing it off the plaque with the chemical mix..If you can find anything in a pathology textbook, or one from general surgery, I'll start to believe in deposits forming in the intestines.
Those products you mentioned cause severe osmolic stress, flushing huge amounts of electrolytes into the bowel and down the toilet. Phosphate-buffered magnesium sulphate and similar compounds simply draw so much fluid into the gut that you have no choice but to expell all the contents of the gut. I can see no health benefits accruing from the use of these sorts of products.
Lar
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