Colon cleansing is necessary to restore your body systems to a pure state, but the cleansing process can be rough on your body and spirit. To make the physical and emotional ups and downs of the cleansing experience easier to tolerate, focus on providing what you need to maintain a positive outlook and tempering any negative symptoms or mood swings.

Expect to Feel Worse Before Feeling Better

As your body is releasing toxins to be purged, you will begin to feel their effects. You might feel bloated, tired, have frequent headaches, nausea and a bad taste in your mouth. You can counteract these feelings by drinking plenty of water to help move things through your system and by keeping the right frame of mind. It is normal to feel worse before you begin to feel better.

Colon Cleansing Takes Time

Drinking a gallon of apple juice on a Saturday morning might help you clear out your system that day, but it takes weeks to clear away all of the impacted fecal matter and remove toxins from your body. A supplemental cleansing program is one of the few ways to effectively scrub your colon and large intestine, and the best programs take weeks to get a full measure of results. Combining a cleansing program with fasting will help the process work more quickly, but it has taken years to pollute your body to this degree, it will take a bit of time to see that pollution removed.

Take a Vitamin C Supplement

Be sure you are taking plenty of Vitamin C, preferably in the morning. The immune system benefits from Vitamin C, and it is this system that is helping to fight off damaged cells and other reactions to toxins within the body.

Use Probiotics

Use a probiotic during your cleaning routine and for a bit after the cleansing is complete. Probiotics help to replace the good bacteria in your system as the colon cleansing is removing all bacteria both good and bad.

Consider Exercise

Exercise can be a bit tricky while detoxifying the body. If you are fasting, you might not have enough energy for long bouts of exercise, but do exercise as much as possible. Bouncing on a mini trampoline is one of the best exercises available and also helps to stimulate your lymph system and aids in the removal of toxic materials. Exercising also causes you to sweat which helps to move toxins out through your largest organ – your skin.

Relax

As your body purges material and chemicals stored for months, maybe years, you’ll likely experience mood swings. To combat these, always find ways to relax and reduce stress on the body. Take relaxing baths. Invest in a long massage. Practice meditation, or just rest and focus on deep breathing and positive thoughts.

Avoid Overeating

While you’re not required to fast while undergoing a colon cleaning program, if you choose to eat your regular diet, you might be thwarting the efforts of the cleaning regime. Large meals will simply become additional waste to be removed and rather than removing the stored waste accumulated over time, your efforts will be on quickly removing the meal you just ate.