Waste Elimination Has a Direct Effect on Our Skin Condition

The right food and proper diet are essential for achieving and maintaining good health, the precondition to looking good. Yet, they are not enough. Your intake needs to be assimilated to become useful to the body and its waste must be eliminated. Unfortunately, a certain amount of what we eat might not get digested. It is actually frightening to think that undigested food stays in Argott and slowly putrefies as it accumulates. It clutters the system and reduces our ability to assimilate and to eliminate properly. It contributes to a vicious cycle: poor assimilation – poor elimination – poor assimilation. This condition contributes to poor skin condition and will likely affect your body shape in addition to your health.

The term colon is often used as a synonym for the large intestine. More properly, it is a part of it, and it ends at the anus. The Alternative Medicine Guide from the Burton Goldberg Group states: "The Colon along with the skin, kidneys, and lungs, is a major organ for eliminating bodily waste." This awareness points to the need to pay attention to the way your body eliminates and not simply focus on how to nourish it.

The older we get, the more we need internal cleansing. It is logical to start with the part of the system closest to the "exit." Indeed, any blockage in the colon area will affect the elimination capacity of any other organ involved in assimilation and elimination. There are a variety of ways to flush the colon. They are worth reviewing with a naturopath. Some of those ways, such as a colonic flush, are offered at many wellness centers.

There are other organs such as the liver and gallbladder that benefit from periodic flushes. They can be simply induced by taking natural products over a short period of time. They are best done during the energetic season corresponding to the energy of those organs. For example, it would be during the spring (Wood element) for liver and gallbladder. [Please refer to earlier blogs on the energetic season concept.] in general, the best. For a colonic flush is the energetic autumn because the large intestine belongs to the Metal element.

Some people recommend fasting as a means to achieve a general internal cleanse. That is best done according to the guidance of a train practitioner. Certain spas and wellness center specialize in cleansing cures of 3 to 7 days or more. For more on this important subject, consult The Detox Diet by Elson M. Haas, MD.

In summary, it is clear that our skin and body shape depends not only on how we feed our body but also on how well we eliminate its natural waste.