cleansing the digestive tract (AKA cleaning out the pipes)

[firecracker]

Since I'm new to this taking-care-of-myself thing I'm out of the loop on many of the current trends. My local health food store gave me a couple of free magazines to read. There were several ads for "cleansing" products--to clean toxins out of the body and clean gunk out of the intestines, etc.

Questions:

Has anyone done this? Do you recommend it? Is it a miserable experience?
Is it as helpful for weight loss as they claim in the ads?
Is there a particular product or regimen that you would suggest?

Thanks.

Carmen

P.S. If you reply is graphic, you can PM me. Although making everyone on the board sick to their stomachs would keep us from cheating, right????

 

[jimmytammy]

I have used the GNC Colon Cleanse. I haven't had a bad experience with it. I am not too much up on the products that are out there either, but the lady helped me at the GNC store. I have been using the product for several months now. Hope this helps and I'm sure there is someone else on the board that has some better advice.
Tammy

 

[KathyTX]

Do you mean like laxatives?

Ick, not me.