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Eric Bohlman
Guest
Toby Joe <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
>> Unfortunately many people just assume that colonics will
>> get rid of toxins and improve ones health, reduce one's
>> chances of getting a serious disease. For all you know
>> colonics may *increase* the chances of getting colon
>> cancer.
>
> Can you give any possible scenario or framework within
> which that would be the case?
I'll bite; frequent colonics would be likely to remove the
mucus normally secreted by the lining of the colon. Now to
most "natural" believers that would be a good thing, because
they believe, incorrectly, that a healthy body doesn't
produce mucus, for no reason other than that they consider
mucus "gross." But in fact mucus serves to protect mucuous
membranes, such as the lining of the colon, and removing
that protection could make the cells of the colon lining
more vulnerable to damage, damage that would require the
cells to divide faster to be repaired. And anything that
increases the rate of cell division would have the potential
to increase the formation of malignant cells.
BTW, I seem to remember that some years ago researchers were
working on a screening test for colon cancer that was based
on the fact that cancerous colon cells *don't* produce mucus
whereas normal colon cells do.
news:[email protected]:
>> Unfortunately many people just assume that colonics will
>> get rid of toxins and improve ones health, reduce one's
>> chances of getting a serious disease. For all you know
>> colonics may *increase* the chances of getting colon
>> cancer.
>
> Can you give any possible scenario or framework within
> which that would be the case?
I'll bite; frequent colonics would be likely to remove the
mucus normally secreted by the lining of the colon. Now to
most "natural" believers that would be a good thing, because
they believe, incorrectly, that a healthy body doesn't
produce mucus, for no reason other than that they consider
mucus "gross." But in fact mucus serves to protect mucuous
membranes, such as the lining of the colon, and removing
that protection could make the cells of the colon lining
more vulnerable to damage, damage that would require the
cells to divide faster to be repaired. And anything that
increases the rate of cell division would have the potential
to increase the formation of malignant cells.
BTW, I seem to remember that some years ago researchers were
working on a screening test for colon cancer that was based
on the fact that cancerous colon cells *don't* produce mucus
whereas normal colon cells do.