Complete Colon Cleanse: The at-Home Detox Program to Restore Good Health, Boost Vitality, and Ensure Longevity Book

This book contains some good information about colon cleanses and why they can be beneficial no matter what your state of health or what disease you have.

The book does a good job in explaining why avoiding toxic cleaning and personal care products is so important for health and provides a handy chart showing how many toxic things we may be exposed to each day.

A 6 day fruit-only cleanse is recommended as is eating a fruit only breakfast after a cleanse and meat only once a week. The author has a bias towards a high-carb and low-fat mostly vegetarian diet which will not work at all well for many of us. Nor will a diet high in grains and dairy foods as the book recommends also. The book contains very little information about food allergies and intolerances which is a huge omission in a book about toxin avoidance and lowering the total load of the body.

The author favours colon hydrotherapy over enemas and says that they are far superior. The book contains lots of information about what healthy stools should be like. Information is given on abdominal massage but I found the text on it hard to decipher as it was quite faint. I'm also not sure how anyone manages to massage their abdomen for half an hour (as recommended) to be honest either, about 3 or 4 minutes seems like ages to me. But any amount is still helpful, I guess, and you can only do what you can.

This book contains some good information about colon cleanses. But as a book about treating illness generally it leaves an enormous amount out and isn't suitable as a primary resource for healing from serious disease. Supplements are barely even mentioned, nor is the use of FIR saunas and the diet information given is quite poor. Despite what is popular at the moment we need far more than just lots of fruit and vegetables to have all we need to detoxify properly. Nutritional deficiencies are just as big a cause of disease as a high toxic load and omitting good information on supplementation is vital when discussing disease treatment. Nutrients are lost from the body every time a toxic compound is detoxified and these must be replaced.

This book is okay and parts of it are good but there are far better books than this out there that are far more comprehensive and better researched.

Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds (HHH)