Many of the foods we eat every day contain inadequate nutrients and toxic substances, especially remined preprocessed foods with preservatives, artificial colors ad flavors, hormones, antibiotics and pesticides that can often add additional "free radicals" (unusable molecules that attack our cells) also frying foods and fast foods.  After these foods are digested, our liver must work overtime to detoxify all toxic substances so that they can be excreted through our kidneys and skin.  We clean our face and body everyday, but people seldom think about cleaning the inside of the body, the intestines..  When you pour greasy food, excessive dairy products, meats and other foods with toxic substances down your intestinal tract everyday,, food residues build up.  Food residues, combined with mucous secreted by mucous membranes in the colon, form layers of gluey feces, which will build up in the pockets and may pile up along the entire length of the colon and part of the small intestines, year after year.  Constipation becomes a normal lifestyle for some people. People have been known to carry 30-50 pounds of old dried up fecal matter in their intestines.  Old feces does not pass generally out of the body like new waste, the old forms a home in the large intestine and needs special attention to dissolve the glue which binds the old waste to your intestinal wall.  If you let this decayed food residue accumulate in your intestines you will suffer from AUTOINTOXICATION (also known as autotoxicosis, enterotoxication, or self-poisoning).  This is a disorder resulting from absorption of the waste products of metabolism, decomposed matter from the intestine, or the products of dead and infected tissue as in gangrene.  The toxins can be carried by the blood stream to all parts of the body and end up in every cell, leading to various forms of illnesses. Some people fell sluggish most of the time, they find it hard to get up or just the opposite, get very little sleep, may have aches and pains, headaches, gas and bloat, constipation, hemorrhoids or perforation, hernias, acid reflux, heartburn, even colon cancer. If the problem gets to the point where diverticuli or colon cancer happen you will then have to see a doctor specializing in gastro problems.

Others come for health and well being to avoid these problems. Some people with normal bowel movements hold about 3-5 pounds of waste in their intestine most  of the time and don't even know about these 3-5 pounds.  People who have have bowel movements every day want to avoid the problems stated above so they come for maintence.  People who eat out often come for a cleanse to avoid parasites, and people who just want to maintain a healthy body come for maintance when they feel it necessary. Your colon therapist will provide you with information educationing you in regards to your colon and your staying healthy.