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Lessons from Jon Barron
More on Digestive System Problems
In this week's excerpt from Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, Jon Barron explains how things have gone so wrong with our digestive system. 
"Our modern lifestyle has taken its toll on our digestive and elimination organs. Refined, processed, low-fiber foods, animal fats, a lack of exercise, and an ever increasing level of stress all contribute to our current gastrointestinal health crisis.
Consider that a sluggish bowel can retain pounds of old toxic and poisonous fecal matter (2–3 pounds is common, 10–20 pounds is not as unusual as you might think, and up to 65 pounds has actually been reported in exceptional cases). Often, the real cause behind sickness and disease is this retention and reabsorption of built-up toxic waste. Now, doctors who perform colonoscopies dispute these numbers, saying that they never see any sign of this mythical accumulated fecal matter. But then it has to be remembered that they have their patients drink a purgative the day before a colonoscopy to "blow out" any trace of fecal matter, so that it doesn't interfere with the colonoscopy. Duh!
In the U.S., the average frequency of stool passage is just over three bowel movements per week. Individuals with colonic inertia (a condition of the colon when muscles do not work properly, causing constipation) often do not pass a stool for 7–10 days at a time. There has been a great misconception among the public and most medical professionals about how often a healthy person should move their bowels. For years, doctors have thought that anywhere between one bowel movement a day and one a week was normal. (Unfortunately, that's probably the norm of the doctors who think it.) What we have learned is that it is normal, and necessary, to have one bowel movement a day for each major meal you ate the day before. If you eat three meals, you should have three bowel movements the next day.
A sluggish bowel also has a major health impact on another body system: your lymph system. Think for a moment, if you will, of your colon as your body's drain pipe—the drain that removes waste from your body. If the drain is clogged, not only will waste not be eliminated, but when you flush the toilet, the drain backs up and spills over. And that's exactly the point which leads us to a discussion of waste removal from the body and the lymph system.
The lymph vessels are a network of capillaries that filter blood impurities; they contain a clear, colorless fluid called lymph. Lymph passes from capillaries to lymph vessels and flows through lymph nodes that are located along the course of these vessels. Cells of the lymph nodes phagocytize, or ingest, impurities such as bacteria, old red blood cells, and toxic and cellular waste. Lymph fluid can also collect other impurities such as heavy metals, pesticides, and drug residues stored in bodily tissue. Once loaded with toxic waste, the compromised lymph must exit your body. What can't be eliminated in your urine must pass out through your colon. What do you think happens to all this waste if the plumbing is plugged up or sluggish? It backs up into your bloodstream. Is it any wonder we get sick and keep on getting sicker? Is it any wonder that the incidence of lymph cancer is doubling every twenty years?"
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