Colonic irrigation cleanses the colon and helps remove harmful toxins from the body. The procedure is performed at such facilities as spas. This typically involves a practitioner administering an ...

Irrigating your colon doesn’t sound pleasant, but practitioners claim it can provide numerous health benefits like improving digestion and weight loss. However, doing a colon cleanse doesn’t come ...

Figure 1: Colonic transit time correlates to gut microbial diversity and composition. Figure 2: Identified urinary metabolites associated with colonic transit time. Enterolactone-glucuronide, a ...

US researchers have characterized different chronic constipation phenotypes by using a barostat manometric assembly inserted into the colon. “Chronic constipation is a common problem and the ...

Ever wonder what it's like to get a colonic? The author of this article got one, and she tells it all. Because the writer's job is to write about what he or she knows, it's sometimes necessary in this ...

Lying on a coach in a therapist’s treatment room, events organiser Tamily Cookson was not enjoying her first ever experience of colonic irrigation. ‘Every few minutes I was getting sharp cramps in my ...

Colon cleanses might not offer the health benefits they claim. Potential risks of colon cleanses include infection, burns, and dehydration. A colon cleanse called bowel preparation is medically ...

Researchers at the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine have uncovered a key primary step in the hepatic ERK pathway that leads to increased insulin production. While their previous work ...

An overly-familiar mother helped her daughter 'put the nozzle in her behind' for her first colonic irrigation as the pair got treatments together in sMothered. Tonight's episode of the TLC show - ...

Michael Perrine has lead the sort of life that should be made into a movie, or at least TV biopic. As a teenager, he turned to cheap alcohol to self-medicate his anxiety. He was drunk every day. One ...

It had been a steady passage from alternative to mainstream for colonic irrigation – but that could change after researchers have rubbished the treatment’s benefits, and cautioned about its side ...