Has anyone had success with Acai Berry? How about colon cleanses?

Has anyone used the Acai Berry products to lose weight or do a colon cleanse?  Have you tried another colon cleanse product? I would like to know if these products really work. I don't like the idea of toxins in my body and would like to have better health. If you have tried something that worked or didn't work, please share your experience. Thanks!

I just wanted to clarify that I am NOT in favor of coffee or wine enemas. (Or really any enema not forced upon me by a medical professional) I prefer to take both my coffee and my wine the old fashioned way.

My previous post was meant to explain what post #16 put much more clearly, that substances taken rectally go into your bloodstream. 

"My previous post was meant to explain what post #16 put much more clearly, that substances taken rectally go into your bloodstream. "

...but do not metabolize.

the end.

edamame3, Why is it the end? Because your promotion of colon cleanses is being challenged? If you are allowed to present your side, the other side which is also well-documented must be presented -  especially on a site like CC which is all about HEALTHY weight issues.

What do you mean by not metabolized? When something enters the blood stream it will be processed by the liver and kidneys and will ultimately be metabolized....

Here is an article from Mayo Clinic on this topic:

Colon cleansing: Is it helpful or harmful?

I also did some research in the National Institutes of Health literature database. This is generally a database of literature which is peer reviewed (is the reference you posted a peer reviewed publication?). In any case, besides papers published on deaths and injuries due to burning/scalding after enemas and other dangers it turns out the medical community does not believe it to be of any value.

J Clin Gastroenterol. 1997 Jun;24(4):196-8.

Colonic irrigation and the theory of autointoxication: a triumph of ignorance over science.

Ernst E.

Autointoxication is an ancient theory based on the belief that intestinal waste products can poison the body and are a major contributor to many, if not all, diseases. In the 19th century, it was the ruling doctrine of medicine and led "colonic quackery" in various guises. By the turn of the century, it had received some apparent backing from science. When it became clear that the scientific rationale was wrong and colonic irrigation was not merely useless but potentially dangerous, it was exposed as quackery and subsequently went into a decline. Today we are witnessing a resurgence of colonic irrigation based on little less than the old bogus claims and the impressive power of vested interests. Even today's experts on colonic irrigation can only provide theories and anecdotes in its support. It seems, therefore, that ignorance is celebrating a triumph over science. 

I'm wondering if perhaps you and I are not talking about the same thing.

I didn't say anything about colonics.

I was talking about coffee enemas. Coffee enemas are a type of retention enema. Talk to any doctor, and they will tell you retention enemas are generally recognized as safe. They even sell premade retention enemas at every pharmacy. This is a simple thing involving the LOWER part of the colon. This is not High Colonics where they pump large amounts of water into all parts of your colon all the way around to your intestine. Completely different thing. "Burning/Scalding after enemas"? Are you sure that's not coming from you who has never administered one? You're acting as if these people are pouring a hot cup of coffee up their butts. It's a small amount of lukewarm coffee diluted with lukewarm water. It has never been standard practice in the realm of enemas to put something that is not body temperature in one's colon.

By the way, once something is absorbed by an organ and already in the blood stream, it is usually already metabolized, which means 'subjected to the metabolism', the metabolism being the orchestra of organs and cells that break things down and chemically change them. The caffeine that is absorbed by the hemmerhoidal veins is absorbed locally, which is what causes the whole affect.

It is not to 'cleanse the colon of toxins.' That's not the point of the coffee enema.

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"In addition, theophylline and theobromine (two other chemicals in coffee) dilate blood vessels and counter inflammation of the gut; the palmitates enhance the enzyme system responsible for the removal of toxic free radicals from the serum; and the fluid of the enema then stimulates the visceral nervous system to promote peristalsis and the transit of diluted toxic bile from the duodenum and out the rectum. Since the enema is generally held for 15 minutes, and all the blood in the body passes through the liver every three minutes, "these enemas represent a form of dialysis of blood across the gut wall" (Healing Newsletter, #13, May-June, 1986)."

PS, no promotion here...just presenting the alternative viewpoint, since most people don't seem to be familiar with it. I've only done it myself a couple of times and I don't swear by it. I just know a lot of people who do.

i have a very good product that is helping a lot of people health wise!!

I came across free trial programs for the Acai Berry Diet and Colon Cleanse. It was very easy to order and free to try! And, I have to say it has worked great for me, I lost nearly all the weight I gained after having children and I have tons of energy. I wrote a blog about my weight loss story along with links to the free trials I used. You can check it out here: http://loseweightwithacaiberrydiet.blogspot.c om/ Best of luck to everyone!