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Internal Cleansing for Acne
If you've ever searched online for acne treatments, a lot of the time, internal cleansing will be brought up as a method to help clear your skin. You can read more about this stuff on Cure Zone, Ask Shelley, or acne.org forums.
The gist behind internal cleansing is that you clean out certain organs (like liver flushing, colon cleansing, etc) to flush out all the toxins that are backed up in there because if there are toxins backed up in your system, they erupt as pimples and acne on your skin. If you have no toxins in your system, then you wouldn't breakout.
So by internal cleansing, you "clean" out these toxins and clear your skin.
There are various methods for different types of internal cleansing that you can check out at the above websites. If you are going to give yourself a cleanse of any sort, be sure you do it with professional medical guidance because there may be unknown risks and dangers associated with those methods. However, through personal experience, I believe that internal cleansing doesn't really work.
I had to do a colon cleanse before getting a colonoscopy (for medical reasons) and my skin was the same before and after the colon cleanse. I thought and hoped that my skin would clear up after the colon cleanse but that didn't happen and I have to say, I was a bit disappointed.
Even though I had always wondered whether colon cleansing would "cure" acne, I never had the guts to do it on my own. But when I was forced to do it for medical reasons and saw zero skin results from it, I now do not believe that colon cleansing can clear your skin whatsoever. Your body "cleanses" itself just fine.
Also, this is a bit off topic and slightly gross, but if you've ever looked stuff up about colon cleanses on the internet, there will be bits and pieces about mucoid plaque. If you don't want to hear any more about this subject, stop reading now and go back to acne treatments!
Mucoid Plaque Attack
Apparently, mucoid plaque is some nasty stuff you've got stuck inside of you that your body can't get rid of by itself. It kind of looks like Slimer, from the old Ghostbuster movies, but Slimer mixed with chunky brown bits *gag*. (If you are strong, google image "mucoid plaque" for some visual stimulation.)
Most people will take colon cleansing pills or something of that nature and then poo out all this gooey, what-the-F-just-came-out-of-me mucoid plaque. However, I am living proof that mucoid plaque is fake and indeed is a myth, if not a marketing hoax.
When I had to drink a colon cleanse solution, I never ever saw anything like mucoid plaque come out of me. You actually have to go on a liquid or soft food diet for two days before the day you drink the cleansing solution. And before that, you also take laxatives that help "push out" the more solid fecal matter...so essentially, everything that comes out of your during the cleanse is pretty much just butt-pee. (Excuse me for being graphic and sorry if I ruined your appatite)
I am convinced that the people who do see mucoid plaque after internal cleanses, only see it because whatever cleanse they took has some kind of added ingredient that makes things bind together like that in your colon. So it's not that you have mucoid plaque inside of you, it's that the cleanses you take create mucoid plaque and trick you into thinking you are some kind of freak-of-nature for being able to store all that crap inside of you for so long.
The same goes for parasite cleanses that claim that you poo out little squiggly dead parasites. I believe that the "mucoid plaque" and "dead parasite" effects are things packaged into the cleansing pill you're supposed to take so that you see those results and think that the cleanses actually work.
Just my two cents though...
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