What is Colon Hydrotherapy?
Colon Hydrotherapy is the process of flushing the colon (also called the large intestine or the bowel) with purified water. The water is allowed to flow in and out of the colon, cleansing it of waste material (such as impacted feces, dead cellular tissue, accumulated mucous, parasites, etc.). This process is also known under other names, such as "colonic" or "colon irrigation".

What are some of the general benefits of colonics?
They help to eliminate toxic, putrified material from the colon, and allow healthy bacteria to flourish again.

They exercise the colon muscles. The gentle filling and emptying of the colon improves peristaltic (muscular contraction) action, and this is the way the colon naturally moves matter.

Why cleanse the colon?
In today's society, the refined foods we eat lack the bulk and fibre needed to create healthy, well-formed stools, which move properly through the colon as nature intended them to. So often we eat too many foods that are considered 'acid-forming'*. When we do this, the walls of our intestines (both large and small) secrete a mucous, which protects them from damage from toxic or acid substances.

If we went back to eating a predominantly 'alkaline'* diet, this mucous layer would simply come away from the walls of the small and large intestine, and wash away in a subsequent bowel movement. But so often we don't go back to predominantly 'alkaline' diet, and the walls of our intestines keep secreting this mucous until it eventually forms a hardened layer.

This hardened layer is known as "mucoid plaque", and unless we change our eating habits and lifestyles, mucoid plaque production will continue, without reprieve.

Mucoid plaque lining the walls of our intestines greatly inhibits our bodies' ability to absorb nutrients. Clinical studies have shown that 90% of adult North Americans absorb only 3-10% of the nutrients in the food they eat. When the gastro-intestinal tract is coated with mucoid plaque and not functioning optimally, all other elimination organs (the liver, kidneys, skin and bladder) are greatly stressed. Degeneration and disease are the end results.