Welcome to Cabral House Call. I'm Stephen Caball, board certified naturotic doctor and today we're going to take on your questions on a weight

loss Wednesday.

So on Wednesdays we'd like to collect a lot of the questions that have to do specifically with

weight loss.

Yes a lot of them have to do with wellness as well,

but how can we kind of relate things to the larger picture

that when we're talking about weight loss,

it's not just about losing the weight strictly

from burning calories, whether it's through less food or more

exercise it is sometimes from a detoxification or a wellness-based perspective so let's

get to your questions right now. The first question today is

Julia asks do you recommend colon cleansing for weight loss? So I guess the

specific answer would depend on what colonizer we're talking about.

So we could talk with colonics, coffee enemes, laxatives, or an actual like oral-based colon

cleanse which could be from typically herbs.

So one thing that we use in our practice specifically

is if someone's been constipated for quite a long number of years,

we don't do it in our practice necessarily,

but we might recommend them to go for a series of like anywhere from one to three or four

Maybe even one or two more colonics and that is literally to clean out their colon because it was in such bad shape

for a decade and we want to make sure that the pockets of the colon are also

been cleansed but not just that it's's called colon hydotherapy. The therapy part

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