Colon Cleansing Supplements: Scam or Healthful?

Most of us internet nerds have probably seen Dr. Natura, the site selling a rather expensive colon cleaning kit by displaying pictures of strange things people have shit after taking the product. If you haven’t seen it, well, just imagine someone holding up some kelp on a stick, except instead of being harvested from the ocean it was harvested from their toilet bowl.

The premise behind these kits is this: All the strange, unhealthful things we eat build up a lining inside the intestines which prevents full absorption of food and might also be cancerous. By periodically shedding this lining—usually by taking some sort of supplement—you clear your G.I. tract of these wicked shit sheathes and attain renewed digestive health.

Of course, some argue that the lining of the G.I. system is actually something we want to maintain, filled with helpful bacteria and other generally positive bits of schmutz that make the whole thing chug along, and if one was to cause the body to shed the lining, the body would simply be forced to rebuild it.

There’s only one way to really find out, I figure, and that’s by taking some of the colon blow myself and seeing if I do actually feel better after it’s all said and done. But I’m not going to spend $200 on some fiber and some senna, so I’ll have to do a little investigation into the stuff available at the corner drug store when we get back into Brooklyn this evening. I figure I should probably wait until I get home before I cause part of my insides to force themselves screaming out of my body.