Nourishing the Body Post-Colon Cleanse: A Guide to Rebuilding Gut Health

Have you ever wondered why people stress so much about staying hydrated and eating healthy? The core reason for this is to maintain a healthy and fit body¹, which is possible by attaining a healthy gut.

The gut has a lot of connections with our brain and immune system², and that is why many diseases are a result of an unhealthy gut.

Once you have completed a colon cleanse, it is important to reintroduce foods into your diet to support your system and maintain optimal health. A successful cleanse helps eliminate toxins and waste which in turn promotes a gut.

This careful approach will help maintain the effects of your colon cleanse. In that light, let’s explore what to eat after a colon cleanse!

What is a Colon Cleanse?

The health of your digestive tract is essential for happiness, good health, and well-being. The colon, which is also known as the larger intestine, is an essential organ in the digestion system. The health of your colon is an important part of the digestive system.³

Colonic or colonic irrigation is the other name for colon cleansing⁴, which is a procedure that involves removing all the toxins from the colon.

It is often done before certain biological procedures that involve the colon, it is an act of cleaning or flushing your colon.

The Purpose of a Colon Cleanse

Colon cleansing, a practice that has become increasingly popular in times is believed to offer numerous health benefits.

The process involves clearing out built-up waste and toxins from the colon with advocates asserting its effects, on digestion and overall wellness. Let us understand the purpose of colon cleanse:

1. Improve Digestion

A colon cleanse has many ways of improving digestion⁵. It firstly helps in balancing the microbiome of the gut, and secondly improves the strength of the gut muscles.

2. Removes Toxins

Toxins in the body tend to change the structure of the cells, and especially fat cells swell in the presence of toxins. A colon cleansing will help with flushing out all the ingested toxins that affect our bodies and cells.

3. Helps with Losing Weight

Directly, a clonic reduces about 3-4 pounds of the body weight and often makes the stomach flatter than before.

A colon cleanse has been a great help to people who are trying to lose weight. The gut health and the health of the digestive system are the great determinants of how easy the weight loss journey is going to be.

So, the better the gut health, the easier the losing weight process.

Colon Cleansing and Mental Health: Exploring the Gut-Brain Connection

A colon cleanse removes undigested food, yeast, bacteria, some toxins, excess gas, and fecal matter that has been in the intestine for a while.

Before a colon, hydrotherapy can be helpful to put a cold-pressed castor oil pack on your stomach.

1. At Home

There are things and home remedies that can be taken at home orally for a colon cleanse.

Some take apple cider vinegar, or some drink vegetable juice, probiotics, herbal teas, preferably organic chamomile, and other fibre-rich foods.

2. In the Hospital

A professional colon cleanses, or irrigation is done with a special tube that is inserted into your rectum or anus.

A large amount of water is first added into the colon, and sometimes the water might have some other cleansing chemicals to it, such as chlorophyll, which neutralizes the acidic environment.

Not all methods involve irrigation; some do not need water, such as the wood’s gravity, it is a manual and natural way of having a colonic.

And if you are wondering, colonic is not supposed to be painful.

What to Eat After Colon Cleanse?

An important thing to note in a clonic is that you will be flushing everything out, meaning both good and bad stuff in the colon, such as bacteria.

The basic and the most important that you can do to make sure that your colon is in good shape is to watch what you eat.

There are a lot of foods that are friends to your colon, and at the same time, many of them are not colon-friendly.

Therefore, after a colonic, you need to work hard to replace the good that is lost by watching what you eat. Foods to eat after a colon hydrotherapy include are as follows:

1. Probiotic-Rich Foods

A colonic removes even the beneficial bacteria that help with the digestion process; probiotic-rich food helps you restore and replace the good bacteria in your gut that were flushed out. ⁶

You can buy probiotic drinks for the fast effect or eat foods such as yogurt, kimchi, and miso soup.

2. Magnesium-Rich Foods

During a colonic, your gut can get tense; magnesium helps to relax your colon muscles and helps if you feel constipated or bloated.

Foods that may boost magnesium include dark green leafy vegetables, seeds, and nuts. You can also add Epsom salts to water to get direct and fast magnesium.

3. Fruits and Fibrous Foods 

Most fresh fruits or fruit juice will help you hydrate your body and add fibres to your colon. Fibers help to smoothen the normal bowel movement. 

Post-Detox Transition: Gentle Reintroduction to Solid Foods

After a colon cleanse, your body will need plenty of water, so avoid anything that dehydrates the body

1. Coffee

A colonic flushes out a huge amount of water from your colon. Hence, you need to stay away from anything that has the effect of dehydration.

Coffee or any caffeine-carbonated drinks can cause dehydration and irritate the small intestine.

2. Alcohol

Alcohol tends to dehydrate the body, and dehydration is the last thing you need to subject your body to after colonic irrigation.

3. Highly Spiced foods

Now that your colon is empty, the last thing you want is to put anything that will irritate your colon. It is best if you keep spicy foods away after a colonic.

4. Dairy Foods

You need to avoid foods of milk origin, such as ice cream; other foods to avoid include refined sugar foods, processed foods, and any gas-producing foods.

Bottomline

Knowing the function of what you ingest and how it will affect your health is important. A colonic is not just for people who are sick; even healthy people get a lot of benefits from a colonic. Why don’t you try it and let us know your experience?

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Last Updated on February 20, 2024 by NamitaSoren