Impacted feces infomercial

[rogue74656]

Flipping channels, I ran into an infomercial for "Dual Action Clense" colon detoxification system.

"I did a little research online...It is said that when John Wayne died..."

The rest, you already know

-rogue

[iam1funnychick]

THere are times that I stay up extra late. And I get bored.

This infomercial cracks (no pun intended) me up.

How do they sit there and talk the way they talk without just laughing themselves to death? Geez, I have Crohn's Disease and can talk about digestive tracts and actions all day long. But the way they talk - it gets me giggling like a schoolgirl.

The lady on there really gets me to giggling. The way she holds her pen, cocks her head and acts like they are friends - just sitting around talking about cleansing their colons.

[We'veBeenHad]

Penn and Teller did a good expose on colonic irrigation. The claims made by it are pure BS; the doctors explained why. A colonoscopy is another matter entirely; very useful.

[Truffle]

Plus the lead guy in that slimy, slick mustache looks none to healthy...surely, I should trust his expertise on "toxins building up in your bowels," right? I've seen 80-year-old men who don't look like they'll be doing the Hades waltz before this dude.

[We'veBeenHad]

Hehe toxins building up in the bowels...the doctors in the Penn and Teller episode said that was pure nonsense, that all that icky poopoo that was flushed out would have come out on its own within the next 24 hours or so. That's how the bowels work. Reminds me of the claim snopes recently debunked on how drinking water "flushed" the body of toxins...that was apparently not true either. The liver and kidneys do that work for us.

[fitz1980]

Wow, I just found a video of that guy selling the dual action cleanse. It's hard to count the logical fallacies in that one. First they talked about toxins building up in the body, than they even got into air based toxins. If you are breathing it in how is flushing all of the crap out of your pooper supposed to help get rid of that?

Than the host said that "people were meant to exist on a diet similar to how people ate 50 years ago, coming home to a meal of fresh cooked vegetables." Wasn't that supposed to be the 'meat & potatoes' era, when men were men and it's those damn hippies who are all into vegis and stuff like that. It's just so hard to keep my glaring generalities straight when someone's trying to sell me pseudi-science.

He also compared the digestive tract to pipes in a house that accumulate gunk. First of all plumbing pipes are non-moving channels that stuff just flows through so stuff does accumulate. Your digestive tract has muscles that expand and contract to push stuff through. Second if you want to keep the plumbing analogy going, if you want to flush out your pipes than take a lesson from the plumbers; put certain things through the system starting from the entry, not the exit. We all know that there are certain things that we can eat that will push everything right out the back door.

Here it is if you want a good laugh.

[Squirt]

Originally Posted by fitz1980

Than the host said that "people were meant to exist on a diet similar to how people ate 50 years ago, coming home to a meal of fresh cooked vegetables."

Yes. He is correct. Coming home to a meal of fresh cooked vegetables was the main way in which our primate ancestors gained their food. The diet of humans and proto-humans, responsible for the development of our digestive tract, remained the same for the last 3,000,000 years, only changing in 1959.