Experts recommend significant changes in what's put in the system in order to improve what's taking place at the other end. We should eat refrigerated whole foods that have fibre. Things in boxes that last for years have had the fibre removed. Fibre helps move the toxins out. P MS and weight gain are often bandied about as problems cured by colonics, neither of which has been proved.
Weight gain is particularly problematic, it's an area open to abuse.
While the numbers on the scale may change slightly after a colonic because waste and fluids have been removed, there's no change in a person's caloric intake. Colonic therapists say their treatments balance the system so that you can lose weight, but, if this is true, there are no statistics to back them. T he lack of regulation in this area means that alternative therapists must avoid making any formal health claims. As one colonicist explains, all she can actually say is that her treatments detoxify, balance and tone the colon. If she claims to diagnose or treat illness, she'll be nabbed for practising medicine without licence.