{"id":4392,"date":"2019-04-21T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eternahealthfood.com\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2019-04-21T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:59:46","slug":"a-well-functioning-colon-is-so-important-for-overall-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/weekly-health-tips\/a-well-functioning-colon-is-so-important-for-overall-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u00a0Well-Functioning\u00a0Colon is so Important for Overall Well-Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The colon is home to billions of microflora (bacteria) that actually make up approximately 70 percent of the dry weight of feces.\u00a0Besides forming stool, the various beneficial bacterial organisms living within the colon and digestive tract are important for proper nutrient absorption, maintaining <a href=\"https:\/\/draxe.com\/balancing-act-why-ph-is-crucial-to-health\/\">pH balance<\/a>, controlling hunger and counteracting potentially dangerous bacteria, viruses, and fungi. This is why a\u00a0well-functioning\u00a0colon is so important for overall well-being. The colon is the longest part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52026-colon-large-intestine.html\">large intestine<\/a>, which is attached to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/human-body-maps\/small-intestine\">small intestine<\/a> at one end and the anus at the other. The role of the colon is to eliminate stool from the body that\u2019s made up of a combination of bacteria, water, unused nutrients, unneeded electrolytes and\u00a0digested food.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are many different methods for performing a colon cleanse, which sometimes go under the names of colonic, colonic irrigation, colon therapy or colonic hydrotherapy. You can also effectively flush the colon doing something like a <a href=\"https:\/\/draxe.com\/fasting-for-health\/\">juice fast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/draxe.com\/salt-water-flush\/\">salt water flush<\/a> , using colon cleansing supplements, or performing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Perform-an-Enema-at-Home\">enema<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLET US BE YOUR DOORWAY TO HEALTH\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know? The colon is home to billions of microflora (bacteria) that actually make up approximately 70 percent of the dry weight of feces.\u00a0Besides forming stool, the various beneficial bacterial organisms living within the colon and digestive tract are important for proper nutrient absorption, maintaining pH balance, controlling hunger and counteracting potentially dangerous bacteria, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eternahealthfood.com\/HealthStore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}