How much waste (feces) can the human body potentially hold at any given time?

Hi mjdth,

The Answer is:  anywhere between 5 and 25 pounds at any given time,
depending on your diet, and your weight.

I selected this question because I have had hydro-colon therapy in the
past, and believe a clean colon is very beneficial to a person's
overall health.  I went in for 10 sessions in 5 weeks.  I lost 12
pounds, and I changed my diet.

It has been said that if you eat a traditional American diet, a lot of
processed foods, --that a small portion of the very first meal you
ever had, is still in your intestines, somewhere.

Richard Anderson, N.D., N.M.D. coined a term for this:

Mucoid Plaque ? endangering our health? 
http://www.grainmills.com.au/webcontent29.htm


The Silent Problem Inside You ...

The problem is that the body cannot properly digest and eliminate some
of these foods and the substances they contain--and they can become
lodged or stuck in the lining of our intestinal tract in the form of
old, dried fecal matter and mucus. It is estimated that the average
person can have between 4-25 pounds of this "built-up" intestinal
matter in their colon--and it can just keep accumulating over the
years!

"The intestines can store a vast amount of this partially digested,
putrefying matter," claims natural health expert, Richard Anderson,
N.D., N.M.D. "Some intestines, when autopsied, have weighed up to 40
pounds and were distended to a diameter of 12 inches with only a
pencil-thin channel through which the feces could move. That 40 pounds
was due to caked layers of encrusted mucus, mixed with fecal matter,
bizarrely resembling hardened blackish-green truck tire rubber or an
old piece of dried rawhide."

Dr. Anderson calls this accumulation "mucoid plaque." "This mucoid
plaque," he says, "when it is removed during an intensive colon
cleanse, often shows ropelike twists, striations, overlaps, folds,
creases--the shape and texture of the intestinal wall."  ..."


I could link you to pictures, but they are extremely graphic.  I don't
want someone to click on them and be offended.

If you want to see pictures, go to Google Images:
://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q=

Copy and paste this search string into the text entry box:

Mucoid Plaque

Please don't click SEARCH unless you are prepared to see really gross stuff.


I hope this has satisfied your curiousity, I wish it was better news.


~~Cynthia


Search terms used at Google:
pounds colon intestines fecal

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Clarification of Answer by cynthia-ga on 11 Jan 2005 17:32 PST

mgdth,

Thank you very much for the 5 star rating and the tip!!!

~~Cynthia

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Clarification of Answer by cynthia-ga on 01 Feb 2005 14:31 PST

I sometimes return to Questions I've Answered to add related Questions/Answers...

Did Anna Nicole Smith really lose all her weight by using TrimSpa or
did she lose it another way?
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=467105
..."According to Anna Nicole, the secret to her weight loss is TrimSpa and
a "colon cleanser."

"Anna Nicole Smith says the secret to her stunning weight loss is to
take TrimSpa with a particular kind of chaser. When asked at the
lounge Curves inside the Aladdin Casino & Resort in Las Vegas what she
would tell dieters, Smith told Star they should take TrimSpa and a
"colon cleanser." She laughingly explained: "When I was really thin
but not losing some of the problem spots, I tried the colon cleanser
and that just knocked the pounds off! You take those two together and
you can't go wrong!" ..."  [MORE AT THE LINK]

Republicans or Democrats?

Thats a very funny comment :)

My guess is Cynthia and Dr. Anderson have decribed a rather rare
occurance in which the waste material exceeds 4 pounds, or the total
is more than 7 pounds, the 3 pounds being food and liquids that will
be utillized and/or excreated within 24 hours.   Neil

It's not rare neilzero, I wish it was but it's not.  It's very common.
 No one's colon is clean.  If you eat American food, you are no
exception.  Remember, I have had a course of treatments, I lost 12
pounds..

The average American does not have a healthy colon!
http://user.icx.net/~drherb/colon.html
..."I'll bet you didn't know that the average person -- one who is
neither overweight, nor noticeably allergic to things -- may have 10
to 25 pounds of dried fecal matter in their colon! But that's for
someone who is at normal weight for their height and age..."


Jon Barron Baseline of Health Treatment For Cancer
Chapter 3 - Intestinal Cleansing, Detoxification, and Rebuilding
http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Barron.html
..."Before you can fix a lot of things in your body, you first must
fix the colon. He talks about the 10-20 pounds of decaying fecal
matter in the average American's colon, enzymes, good and bad
bacteria, toxins, parasites, candida, heavy metals, and other things
that exist in the colon. As if all of that weren't enough,
colon/rectal cancer is the number one overall cancer among men and
women. Fixing the colon also allows nutrients to be better absorbed,
etc. The colon is the "first line of defense in the body's immune
system..."

If you're overweight or a highly allergic person... You might be
carrying around alot more than that! The typical American diet,
consisting of high-fat, low-fiber, refined junk foods... including
flour, meat, fat, sugar, alcohol, preservatives and toxins, is the
primary reason the colon becomes so unhealthy..."

Here's a Doctor answering questions about retaining fecal matter.  The
story at the bottom is not unusual.
http://askwaltstollmd.com/archives/lgs/26468.html#26602

~~Cynthia

Let's look at some of these sources, shall we?

"http://user.icx.net/~drherb/colon.html"
An Earthlink home page used to pitch an herb shop!  Very reliable source!

"http://www.grainmills.com.au/webcontent29.htm"
A website selling $500 juicers and grain mills to prevent cancer.  No
conflict of interest there at all.

"http://www.cancertutor.com/Cancer/Barron.html"
Even though this guy can't get his work published he somehow has
"copyright issues" preventing him from providing his evidence that
"the physics and mathematics establishments" are wrong.  How is it
that he can't get published, and yet he apparently lost his rights to
publish his own work?  Yeesh.

"http://askwaltstollmd.com/archives/lgs/26468.html#26602"
For more information about the gems on this guy's website, you can
call him for $2.50 per minute.


Good job researching that issue.  Better to pay $2 for an answer that
just fall for the first thing we read, eh?

xcarlx,

I didn't fall for the "first thing I read" --I looked for those
sources.  You seem to forget that I have had colon hydrotherapy in the
past and lost 12 pounds of mucoid plaque myself.  It seems natural to
me that I would locate the information in web sites that sell products
related to the REMOVAL of same.

I certainly wouldn't look in traditional medical web sites where
Doctors write  prescriptions for disease caused by this phenomenon, or
even worse, advocate surgical removal of portions of the colon, where
simple colon cleansing accompanied with a radical change of diet would
have sufficed.

Guess who recommended that I HAVE colon-hydrotherapy?  MY SURGEON.  He
remarked over 25 years ago --that if people took as much care with
their colon as they do with their mouth, that _he_ --and most disease
specialists, would be out of business.  Why do we keep our mouth so
very clean when everything that goes in is fresh and clean, and yet
ignore the one place that is literally filled with putrid filth?

Go find proof that your (or ANY) colon is a healthy shade of pink with
no mucoid plaque, instead of attacking the sources I provided.  And
when you show me a picture of a healthy pink colon, I want a notorized
statement that the person didn't have an enema first.  Considering I
have had been scoped prior to rectal surgery, I can say with utmost
certainty that you will come up empty handed.

~~Cynthia

You go Cynthia!!!!!!! 

I applaud your response to the thoughtless commenter.

Steph53

Cynthia:

Your sources fail nearly every guideline for general research.  Yet
you expect me to provide the evidence?


> I didn't fall for the "first thing I read" --I 
> looked for those sources. 

It sounds like you knew what you wanted to "learn" before you started
researching it.


> I certainly wouldn't look in traditional medical web sites where
> Doctors write  prescriptions for disease caused by this phenomenon,

Where is the evidence of this supposed disease?


> or
> even worse, advocate surgical removal of portions 
> of the colon, where simple colon cleansing accompanied 
> with a radical change of diet would have sufficed.

An accusation against "traditional" medicine (even though the colon
therapy and other rubbish in your sources is as old as anything). 
This accusation is ridiculous, because you say "traditional" medicine
is prescribing some horrible solution when traditional medicine
doesn't even acknowledge that your hypothetical disease exists.

The truth is that real doctors wouldn't prescribe anything for a
disease that doesn't exist.  You had an enema, good for you.


> Guess who recommended that I HAVE colon-hydrotherapy?  MY SURGEON.  He
> remarked over 25 years ago --that if people took as much care with
> their colon as they do with their mouth, that _he_ --and most disease
> specialists, would be out of business. 

Another one that thinks he knows the one cure for all diseases that
will put doctors out of business.  There is nothing more "traditional"
than the BS cure of the day.  It's been going on for centuries, and
yet you cann doctors with standards of evidence "traditional."


> Why do we keep our mouth so
> very clean when everything that goes in is fresh and clean, 
> and yet ignore the one place that is literally filled 
> with putrid filth?

The digestive process begins at the mouth and is many feet long.  Your
colon therapy, if it even has any benefits, affects a very small
portion of that.  It is illogical to assume that colon therapy has
much affect at all, let alone magical disease prevention.


> Go find proof that your (or ANY) colon is a healthy shade of pink 

Asking me to prove what YOU decided (without reason) was a measure of
health?  Why don't you provide proof that your disease is real, with
something that is more in line with the most minimal of research
standards?

I have to ask--exactly what DO you require of a source for it to be
considered a good source?  Or do you just always have one personal
experience and look for anything that sounds good?

Yes well, denial is pretty powerful stuff. I dont lie, or break the
law, or have weapons of mass destruction, there all in government. The
dude who first postulated germ theory was a surgeon who was ridiculed
by his peers while tring to get his point across. He went mad and
killed himself. At the time, surgeons never washed and their aprons
were left coated with blood and guts, 'a sign' of their expertise!
Infection death rates were around 50%! Was it Galileo who was killed
for saying the earth was round? Witches were known to offer free
herbal help to the masses and got slaughtered for helping the masses.
Martin Luther King, Kennedy, Dianna etc and now you Cynthia, and
possibly now me! Years ago I had colonic irrigation and remember
having a cup of tea and a piece of cake the next day- the taste was so
good, I remember the moment even now. Dont worry Cynthia, there is so
much denial in the world! The action of the moon and planets
gravitational forces are suppressed too! Crazy! Paganism, and all the
olde sciences have been written off by the church long ago, but the
residue remains. Eat the battery chicken--you are the battery
human..... F

scissorhands:

1.  Very good logic you have there.  Some good ideas were denounced,
therefore all denounced ideas must be good.  I ask you the same
question I asked Cynthia...what are your requirements for good
information?

2.  The garbage cynthia presented and you are defending is not a bunch
of new and revolutionary discoveries.  It's the same junk that has
been peddled for decades or even centuries in some cases.

3.  Funny you should bring up Galileo, as he was a victim of
"believers" that objected to his scientific analysis of reality,
rather than just believing in the rumors that were being passed down
for thousands of years.

People that push these "cures" are not intelligent people bringing
good things to light.  They are just recycling scams, and thanks to
people like you and cynthia who have no ability to assess things
logically they can get rich as quick as any doctor who spent years
studying the subject of health and medicine.

Heres some logic. Our big hospital has a macdonalds in it. Money spent
on cancer research usually causes the death of many lab animals while
cancers are increasing. This cure as you call it, involves diet change
and cleaning. Most doctors offer a magic pill, which treats symtoms
and not causes.