The Dangers of Using Substandard Colon Cleansing Products
When perusing the various SPAM messages in your email account’s inbox, you will invariably come face to face with colon cleansing products that are sold at $1 per bottle. Others make claims which would even make the mountebanks of merry old England grow shamefaced. Nonetheless, in spite of outlandish claims and price tags that are too good to be true, daily consumers opt for low cost, low quality products that frequently do more harm than the good they purport to occasion. Since buyers of online colon cleanse products do not usually take a printout of ingredients to their physicians for perusal prior to actually purchasing the products, the odds are good that deficiencies of the actual cleansers will not become evident until you are well into the actual cleansing process.
While there is no “once size fits all” guide when looking to avoid being taken in by deceptive advertising and worthless ingredients, here is a list of things to consider prior to purchasing and using a colon cleanse from the ‘Net:
- Take a look at the instructions given on the website. Avoid sites that offer long, rambling reasons why their low cost product is so great but that are devoid of scientific facts and properly quoted studies. When studies are indeed quoted, visit the studies’ websites to see if they are valid. You will be surprised to find that some sites are either non-existent or showcase studies with severely compromised parameters.
- Beware of colon cleansers that do not stress, repeatedly, the importance of increasing your water intake. Since you are adding substantial amounts of fiber to your diet, you will need to increase fluids to flush out the non-digestible fiber, less the feeling of fullness encountered in your digestive tract leads to severe constipation and also dehydration.
- Check the ingredient labels for irritants. Some colon cleansers contain harsh ingredients that may cause skin outbreaks. In addition to the foregoing, in an effort to provide additional health benefits some ingredients are added in such quantity that those susceptible to allergic outbreaks will indeed begin to suffer. The addition of niacin is perhaps the most troubling of all since it not only will cause an onset of heightened body heat but also skin eruptions that mimic acne.
- Last but not least, avoid colon cleansers that use synthetic ingredients when natural ingredients are available. Granted, synthetics are almost always cheaper to make than their natural counterparts, but they are not as gentle on your body or as easy for the body to shed as their synthetic counterparts. Similarly, synthetics are quite often not absorbed as easily by the body as natural ingredients, thus necessitating your increasing the dosage (and thereby the amount of pills you buy) to achieve the same effects you would enjoy with all natural ingredients. The money you believe you will save at the onset is quickly eaten up by the additional product you need to purchase to see the cleansing through to the very end.