The medical procedure called a colonoscopy, which is the use of a flexible tube with a camera lens at the end to survey the inside of a person’s colon, is becomming more and more popular these days. You hear the media, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and most everybody else talking about colonoscopies these days. They always say that having one is a good thing and never that it is a bad thing.
Why is this? Actually the doctors and nurses as well as the medical instrument companies have a lot to gain if people start going for these procedures more. The doctors who perform these procedures earn about 2 to 6 thousand dollars for about 10 to 15 minutes of their time. If you ever had one of these you can just check the detailed bill that you will get from the hospital or the center that performed the procedure on you. Even if it was paid by your insurance company, you can still request the detailed bill.
Of course the hospital, the pharmaceutical companies who make the drugs that you are given along with the procedure also benefit. The media obviously gets a lot of advertising business from these guys as well so they will never be heard saying something negative about a colonoscopy. It’s all one sided. The real story is very different from all that. Of course many people have been contracting colon cancer recently due to their own lifestyle choices.
Every person born with a functional colon will never get colon cancer as long as they take care of their colon. This is where the problem lies, taking care of your colon is actually very simple and all you need to do is follow the diet, exercise, sunshine, and other recommendations given on this blog. Most people unfortunately do not do what is recommended here on this blog and instead opt to consume a diet that is similar to the standard western or American diet which is filled with items that are not even compatible with any living body let alone the human body.
Almost all of these items are considered toxins by the body and are tagged for removal. The problem is that the removal organs are overwhelmed with work due to this as well as the usual metabolic waste that comes naturally from life. They can not remove all of the toxins in a timely manner and these toxins end up being stored in many places in the body. Toxins eventually cause changes to cells and these changes can become cancerous. It is really simple, no toxins in and the workload of the elimination organs is back to normal, which means you will not have any toxins stored in the body and therefore no changes to cells and no cancer.
Besides the above, there are many other problems with colonoscopies. For one, these instruments are very complex. They contain lenses and delicate photosensitive devices. These devices are sensitive to heat and they can not be put in an autoclave for disinfection. That means many of the parts of the scope used for a colonoscopy are cleaned by hand. The people who clean them are not the doctors or nurses but they are at a level equal to about a janitor. These people earn very little money and are given the responsibility to clean equipment that can pass on very dangerous microbes from one person to another. This is all a great recipe for disaster.
Another problem is the possibility that your colon may perforate due to the tremendous stress from a piece of equipment that is not expected to be inserted from the rectum. In fact the human body is not designed to accept anything in from the rectum. The colon and rectum is made for one purpose and that is to expel waste from the food we eat to the outside of the body and not for any other purpose. The equipment itself can cause perforation, or it can be your friendly doctor who had one too many cups of coffee or had a big argument with his boss a few minutes before the procedure.
Also there is a force of air that is sent through the scope so that the pictures can be taken of the colon. The air can also cause many problems from perforation to extreme gas pains and other issues. The medications that are usually offered to patients who undergo this test also are very toxic. They can cause many side effects.
The procedure can also cause severe internal bleeding as the doctor will usually take biopsies throughout your colon with a very sharp instrument that he feeds into the scope. This bleeding can be difficult or even impossible to stop and can lead to an unexpected operation right there on the spot or even worse, death. Other problems are the loss of beneficial flora and fauna in your colon which can lead to many other illnesses as well as pain and indigestion when eating.
The risks of colonoscopies (perforation up to 1/139, heavy bleeding up to 1/37, death up to 1/3000) :
http://coloncancer.about.com/od/screening/a/ColonoscopyRisk.htm
If you are consuming a healthy natural diet without the huge toxic load and you exercise and follow the natural hygiene way of life you really should not have a colonoscopy done, no matter what your doctor tells you or the neighbor or anyone else. It can only do more harm than good. If you do not follow the natural hygiene regime then it’s about time to start and stop worrying about unnatual invasive tests done by greedy doctors and endorsed by greedy media tycoons as well as the big pharmaceutical corporations.