Field Trip: Ritual Wellness | Tapeworms, Colonics & Coffee Enemas, Oh My!

Sam: 0:00

Hello, beautiful people. Welcome back to What’s Eating U?! We are on a really special field trip today in Franklin, Tennessee at Ritual Wellness with the beautiful Lauren. Thank you. Thank you for having us. My pleasure, my pleasure. We are getting colonics today, open colonics on a Libby table, which they call the Cadillac of Colonics. Very excited. We also are doing infrared sauna and a cold plunge ice bath outside in a beautiful wellness garden space in the sun. She really has put so much love into this center. You can feel it, you can see it. It’s such a special place to be. So we’re so excited to be here. Thank you for having us. Thank you. What got you into this area of life? What got you into wellness and healing and helping others heal?

Lauren: 0:55

Well, I went to school for holistic nutrition. Initially, I was thinking acupuncture and ND and pairing that background together. And then I just due to cost alone, I was I didn’t end up going to acupuncture school, but I found a holistic nutrition program in the same town. And then from there I found the detox therapies and I got really into classical cleansing, like Holde Clark, Hannah Kroger kind of style. Um, and then I was like, why isn’t everybody marrying the detox therapies with um, you know, just everything about, you know, living a holistic lifestyle to prevent disease processes in the body. So that was really my area of interest. It was preventative.

Sam: 1:37

Yeah. Oh, that’s amazing. We talk about that all the time. Being proactive and pre preventative with your practices and with your modalities and with your habits and your lifestyle, opposed to a chaotic tragedy is happening. And now it’s time to clean it up and try to try to try to fix it while you’re going through it.

Kim: 1:54

Yeah, well, because we’re not being a proactive society and allowing our bodies to be helped.

Sam: 2:00

Yeah, totally. Exactly. And like we were talking about earlier, our bodies need assistance. You know, a lot of people go, oh, well, we have a liver, we have a kidney, we have a gallbladder. So I smell bull that you need to do these things, or you need to do a cleanse, or you need to do colonics or whatever. And it’s like, no, first of all, colon hydrotherapy and water therapy in this way is ancient in origin. This has been around forever. In ancient Egypt, they were doing coffee enemas. So obviously, there’s deep wisdom and a long history of using these modalities. What is a colonic and what are the benefits of it?

Lauren: 2:34

In its simplest like definition, a colonic is the introduction of warm filtered water to the colon for the removal of waste and stimulating peristalsis. The reasons that people approach the modality range from, you know, there’s a spectrum of healthy to healing as far as people who come and use this. I would say that yeast, mold, fungus, parasites, heavy metals, um, that crowd and the chronically complex ill crowd, um, who in many ways is like the wheels have come off for them. Uh, they come in and they try to regain health by doing cleansing modalities. And then there’s, you know, everything in between. Maybe somebody who is on a parasite cleanse, but they do it just throughout the year a couple of times because they believe this is, you know, a part of what’s keeping them well. And I mean, to your point, it’s like we’ve also changed as a culture. It’s like we don’t drink black radish and parsley tea anymore. We don’t, you know, make all of our, we don’t grow all of our food and make all of our things from scratch. We’re not using herbs medicinally daily. Many of us are not. And so some of those things that were always a part of, you know, older traditions all around the world of how we treated our bodies, that’s also gone away too.

Sam: 3:44

Yeah, you know, it’s a lost art. I mean, even on how you prepare food, our ancestors used to know to soak sprout and ferment before making beans or rice or grains, like they knew to do that. It’s just mass-produced, highly processed now. So think of what that’s doing to the inside of our bodies and GMOs, even how those cause leaky gut because these are natural bodies and they don’t know what to do with these certain things that get to the digestive system, but the digestive system goes, Okay, I don’t know how to process this because it’s not nature, but I’ll go ahead and let it pass through. And then it does, and it causes holes in our mucus lining in our gut, and that causes so many issues.

First Timer: 4:19

So, how long would you say it usually takes when it’s the water starts going to like feel it? And then how long do you feel?

Lauren: 4:26

You’ll feel it right away. I’ll ask you, do you feel that? Okay, and you’ll go, Oh yeah. And a lot of people will feel like an internal trickle. Some people will say, It feels like a mouse is like running inside of me. You know what I mean?

Kim: 4:38

Another question I had is I’ve heard you’re you want to hold for a while before you release.

Lauren: 4:42

Do you like how long would you say you’re you’re not gonna be so much in control of that? You’re gonna take in an amount of water that stimulates a gotta go sensation, but you won’t be able to control if that’s in 10 seconds or if that’s in 30 seconds, or if it’s in a minute and 10 seconds. Okay. And so the right answer for you is always gonna be taken as much as you can with every fill that you take, knowing that with this system, you’re hooked up to a, like I said, it’s called a gravity-fed system. And what that means is I have a motor that’s in here. It’s not forcibly pumping water into you. So that’s why you’re safe. Like it is a motor that’s refilling what is like an enema bag or bucket so that you can have constant access to it over and over again, versus when you’re at home with an enema, you have like you’re limited to like the confines of the bag or the bucket, and you’re like, well, that was it. So that’s what I got. This is about cleaning the length of your intestines. So we’re gonna go for a longer period of time and we’re gonna give you constant access to that gentle water flow. And your job is just taking as much as you can. And then when you get to the place where you feel like stimulated to go, a gotta go poop pressure. Like if you felt this at home, you would start like booking it down the hallway to the bathroom. You want to do one thing that’s a little counterintuitive. You want to clench your rectum, almost like you’re doing a kegel with your bottom, and you want to resist the urge to go for like five to 10 seconds. So it’s like if you were on a car ride and there’s like one mile left to go to home, and you’re like, okay, I can make it, I can make it. Or just like when you’re going down the hallway, when you have like, you know, when you’ve got the flu and you’ve had diarrhea and you’re like, oh, here we go again. You do something to like clench and hold it in. And it’s gonna be different person to person. Some people have the reptile control and other people are they have to try to like use their glutes, their bigger muscles. And whatever that is for you is fine. You just try to clench and hold, take in a little bit of water, not like 45 seconds of holding, like five to 10 seconds of just like clench and hold, taking a little bit more until you get to the place where you’re like, I gotta let it go. Like maxed out. And then when you’re you’re at that place, you’re gonna go ahead and let go. And then you’re gonna bear down and push. And it’s a low and slow guided push. It’s not an angry, it’s not an angry strain, is like what I say. Okay.

First Timer: 6:53

Does the water turn off or the water still on while you’re pushing?

Lauren: 6:57

It’s on while you’re pushing, but you’re not able to fill and release at the same time. Your release cancels the fill because your release is like much more water than that little nozzle. But keeping the water on is what helps not to have your waist not clog that little nozzle, which has like, if you look at the tip of the nozzle, there’s like you know, one, two, three, four, five, six little holes. Okay, and water is gonna come out of all of those little holes. You’re less likely to clog those little holes with your waist if we keep it on. That makes sense. And then once you’re done releasing, you’re automatically back to filling. I love using colonics.

Sam: 7:37

I’ve been doing them for over a decade. Yeah.

Kim: 7:39

I started off with closed. So the first place I went was really sterile, very medical. And then the second time I went, it was like candles. Oh, that’s cool. She sat and she we played music, I had a red light on me. That’s cool. It was like a whole vibe. That’s cool. And I got to sit and talk with her, and it was really at the beginning of my parasite journey. And so it was kind of fun to have someone be able to tell me, oh, that’s what’s going. But I didn’t pass anything in the colonic that I could see, but I definitely passed something when I left Lauren’s facility. Right.

Sam: 8:12

So let’s break down the difference of the colonics. So we just were talking about closed colonics, which is one style, but Lauren does open colonics. So can you break down the difference in what you specialize in here?

Lauren: 8:24

So all colonic equipment falls under one of two umbrellas, closed or open. With the closed system, the speculum, the piece that actually goes inside the body, is a little bit bigger around and it’s going in you a little bit further, more like four to six inches. And with the open system, it’s a gravity-fed system. So our motor, instead of pumping water into you, is refilling essentially like a bag or a bucket, and you have that gentle enema flow rate, one to two pounds of pressure per square inch of your colon headed into you. With the open system, the insertion gets to be a little bit smaller. It’s more like an enema tip and it’s smaller around. It’s more like the size of a pencil around, so smaller around than my pinky, and it’s going in you an inch, inch and a half, just so that it’s like right past your sphincter muscle. They’re both great systems. They’re both effective. Um, I prefer an open system personally because I like to be alone. Um, I think that once people realize that they’re safe by themselves and that they can do it by themselves, the majority of people can relax and let go a little bit easier. You know, I mean, even if I’m friendly with you, I’m still a stranger. And so there’s a little bit of performance anxiety, I think, that goes along with a closed system. But for certain personalities who are like, I don’t want to be left alone, I want someone else there for me. I think that that’s totally fine. I think that for, you know, I would say like able-bodied, healthy people, once they figure out what an open system can do for them, a lot of people are like, hey, I I kind of like the privacy of like not looking you in the eye when you’re having when I’m releasing. Yeah, when I’m releasing. Yeah, yeah. The most like your nice vulnerable like thing you could be doing. You’re like, uh, can you leave them holding it in? Yeah, it’s like your dog when they’re like looking at you. Yeah, like I can leave, you know.

Sam: 10:07

I love that you named your performance anxiety. It’s so true. It’s so funny.

Lauren: 10:12

Well, think of how many people don’t go to the bathroom when they like go on their first vacation with their boyfriend or something like them.

Sam: 10:18

Or they’re like, I don’t want to go from another reaper and like sneaky and you go find one somewhere. Like the lumby, you know what I mean?

Kim: 10:26

I’m going out.

Lauren: 10:26

I’m gonna go smoke a cigarette and there’s not being anything.

Kim: 10:30

Yeah, I don’t even think they’re like, you so is there’s a clip my nails. You guys are giving away all the girls’ secrets for being behind. How long does the whole process take?

Lauren: 10:39

I so I’m gonna start a timer for you for 60 minutes. Okay. Most colonics are like 30 to 45 minutes long. If you talk with a friend who’s done the closed system, they’re if you talk to them about what you did here, they’re gonna be like, what? That’s totally it’s totally different. I used to work on a closed system. With the closed system, I would fill people up on average, like eight to 15 fills. And then once we didn’t see any waste, we were like, you’re done. With this system, because it’s gravity fed and you’re not, you’re not like pumping water into you, you’re gonna take in a little bit of water and then you’re gonna move that out. So it’s gonna be like what you’re used to, your stool looking like. It should be well formed. And then once that comes out, the water can travel up a little bit further, then it’s gonna hit whatever is next. In an ideal world, in the ascending colon, it’s just like basically kine. It’s it’s broken down food with neutralized stomach acid that gets dumped from your small intestine into your large intestine. You’re absorbing all the nutrients in the small intestine, you’re dumping that split peel soup like mixture of stuff into your large intestine. And now your gut bacteria are gonna take away and eat away whatever fiber you’ve consumed. They’re gonna die off and become a part of your stool. And that happens all along the journey. So it’s liquid kind of on this side, pretty mushy in the transverse. And then once you’re getting it down the descending and into this into the sigmoid, it’s pretty well formed stool. So it looks more solid. So to usually the pattern of this is gonna be you’re gonna pass some solid, then you’re gonna pass some mushy, and then you’re gonna pass just liquid. Okay. And all in between these waste releases, you’re gonna pass a lot of clear water. And I usually tell people if we added up all of your releases over the, you know, let’s say like an hour session, only 20 to 40% of those releases with an open system should be waste releases. The rest of the time it should be clear water, which says, like, okay, a couple of things. We were talking about buildup on the colon wall. Not everybody has the same level of buildup. Some people really don’t have a lot of buildup on their colon wall. And so if you’ve been doing parasite cleanses for a long time, if your bowel movements are really good, if you have two to three movements a day with a well-formed, like a border of your stool that’s regular, it’s not fuzzy or mushy or anything like that, you might not be that person that’s leaving behind and building something up on the colon wall. So you’re gonna have more clear water releases between those waist releases, which is like your meal traveling as one thing out of your body, and then hours of space in between, like from when you ate breakfast to like, I didn’t have lunch till one o’clock today, right? There should be lots of space between those movements for somebody who is struggling with their gut health. Um never done a cleanse. Never done it, never done a cleanse, maybe, you know, or but maybe you’ve done parasite cleansing, right?

First Timer: 13:35

No, I haven’t done one yet.

Lauren: 13:36

Okay. All right. So I mean, you’ll you’ll see what today is like. And what I would compare it to is I wouldn’t compare it to anybody else. I would compare it to the next time you do this. Okay. I would only compare it to like your experience with it, because we’re each different. You stay exactly as you are, you never change your position, you don’t move your bottom because that nozzle is in you only an inch. If you move an inch, it’s out. Okay. Okay, that’s how we get out of here at the end. It’s super easy. But what you want to do is just take it in, clench and hold, let it go, give a push. And then once you feel like you’ve relieved that gotta go sensation, stop clean or stop pushing and go right back to take it in, clench and hold, let it go, give a push. Okay. The fill up part requires nothing. Lay here, let it fill you. Okay. And then you get to the place where you feel stimulated to go. The other thing is it’s not a linear thing. It’s not like I can tell you fill it for 10 seconds. Okay, now fill it for 20 seconds. Okay, now you’re gonna do 30. It’s not like that because peristalsis is also happening when you’re introducing water into the colon. You’re gonna your body is gonna be stimulated to move things through you and out. And so you could take your shortest fill of the day, it could be 10 seconds, and you could have your biggest release. And it might be something that moved from over here slowly, progressively, through your transverse, down your ascending. Now it’s in the sigmoid. And the next little short fill that you do is like your biggest release of the day. So there’s no like, I’m not holding it enough because I only held it 10 seconds and I’m like 30 minutes into this. Why am I not taking bigger fills? It’s not like that with the system. Okay. And then sensations you’re gonna have when you’re on the table, just letting you know it can change. You might be like smooth sailing at first, and then all of a sudden hit some like deep, like diarrhea, like cramping sensations. That’s okay and safe in my world. If it’s new to you and you’re like, oh my gosh, am I okay? You just ring me and I’m gonna come in. Each room sounds different. I will come in and I will make sure that what’s whatever’s going on is okay and safe for you. And if you want to take a break, we can. Um, but you’re probably fine. But diarrhea-like cramping sensations, for some people, they’ll have a wave of nausea. You’re less likely to get nauseous if you create that nice big fasting window before doing this, so that your body’s not working on like active digestion and active elimination at the same time. And if there’s no food in your stomach, you’re less likely to feel that push back on the esophageal sphincter when you’re in here. When you do a colonic, you’re clearing all the stool out of the large intestine so that you’ve really like cleared the pathway to the hepatic flexure where you need the coffee to go so that it can stimulate the gallbladder and get this reaction of this huge bile dump. And so it’s like if we’re in there and we’ve cleaned the pathway, it’s really easy to hold the coffee at the end. And so I always kind of think like, why not? Like, we just did all this work, let’s get the benefits of doing a coffee enema on top of it.

Sam: 16:31

Yeah, clean out the colon, clean out all the waste, yeah, and then hold the coffee in a coffee enema after. And it goes up. The longer you hold it, it gets go through the blood vessels and reach the liver and gallbladder and stimulate them to dump their bile into the colon. Now you’re gonna move out the bile.

Lauren: 16:48

It’s gonna dump into the beginning of the small intestine, to the beginning into the dawodna. Sure. Um, and that’s why sometimes like 12 to 24 hours later, depending on your transit time, you might have like an urgent need to have like a release of either like it could be it, it might not be a liquid stool, but for some people, if if their tract is really clean, they’ll have like you know, a release. Yeah, that they that they know is um that bile.

Kim: 17:14

Yeah, yeah. I like the coffee and a muck. You held it for 20 minutes, remember when we sat there and timed it? Yeah.

Sam: 17:20

So wait, you did a colonic for like an hour, coffee and a muck, and then the ozone gas. Girl, no wonder you had something wild.

Lauren: 17:29

I think we added Tudka to your coffee. Yeah, that’s what it was.

Sam: 17:32

I put it in. Yeah, you gave for the royal treatment.

Lauren: 17:36

It was like a royal treatment for the women queen.

Kim: 17:38

Yeah, it was like, let’s go.

Sam: 17:39

Yeah, sure. They got so trendy, and everyone always talks about coffee emotion, coffee and noise. I’m like, good old water enema, baby. Like, I am such a water enema girl, like, you don’t have to just go straight for the coffee.

Kim: 17:49

Can you explain to us how when you’re eating, things start to build inside and what that what that looks like and what the clonic kind of goes in and helps with that?

Lauren: 17:59

Yeah, so I mean it’s gonna be different person to person. Everything’s gonna come into play as far as the person’s gut health. Do they have leaky gut? Do they have dysbiosis? Is this a person with SIBO? Like, are they chewing their food? Or do they food combined? Like, does this person know how to eat? You know, and then what is their elimination schedule? Of course, if they have parasites, um if they’ve got biofilm that’s built up on the colon wall, there’s a mucus lining in in our intestinal tract, all the way, like all the way out. And mucus is sticky by nature. And so if you’ve got a person who’s having really thin stool, that’s a person that’s leaving something behind. If you have a person who um doesn’t have regular bowel movements and their their schedule, their transit time is really off, sometimes even if they’re going every other day, they don’t realize how old the material inside of them seeping out. Some people might be having regular bowel movements, but they’re not having complete bowel movements, was which is another issue. And then comes into play like the yeast mold fungus kind of piece of like what is in this person’s GI tract and what is built up over time. You’re talking about buildup, yeah. Yeah. And and then, you know, if somebody flushes the toilet and they have the skid marks in the bowl, we say like that’s too much dampness in the colon. That person is usually leaving something behind inside as well. And so there are lots of ways that you can clean out. Um, I I mean, I think, you know, if people don’t have clonics in their town, like I I tell people because people call me from all over, and I’m just like, go get some oxygenated magnesium and like do a really thorough clean out before you start your parasite cleanse or whatever you’re doing, just so that like you’re moving out some old stuff and then giving more access to like what’s actually going on in the spirit. Or the gutty tract. Rogers Hood Gutty.

Sam: 19:47

Yeah, yeah, great three day gut prep to clean out and and it even cleans out mucoid plaque. So, can you explain what mucoid plaque is?

Lauren: 19:54

In the mucus lining of the intestines, when you start to get buildup, it’s it becomes mucoid plaque. Over time. And it can house parasites, in particular, small cell stuff that’s really, you know, as just as detrimental as seeing worms. I know that a lot of people they want to see worms or they want to see on that test. I think it’s very normal that it’s like we want those visual pieces to kind of determine what we’re going to do. It’s validating. It’s validation and it might be an indicator that you need something. But again, it’s like small cell parasites, protozoa and amoeba, can get into the bloodstream and travel to other tissues. They love to eat bone marrow and make our bone spread all. It’s like there are so many other risk factors for not doing regular parasite cleansing because small cell stuff is just as detrimental to our health.

Sam: 20:46

We tell people all the time, most of it is microscopic. So a lot of people will say, Oh, I did the ParaFy  cleanse and I didn’t see anything, but it’s most of it’s microscopic. Yeah. How do you feel? I mean, yeast, you have candida, you have viruses, you have bad bacteria, you have heavy metals and chemicals, you have microscopic parasites and pathogens, you have all of these things that can build up. So even when you’re doing a colonic, and colonics do move out mucoid plaque, yeah? They can. Okay, they can. They can. So it moves out a ton of stuff. So even if you’re not seeing anything when you parasite cleanse, or if you’re doing a colonic and you’re looking down at the tube because the open one, which we’re gonna dive a little more into, you can actually see what’s leaving. If you don’t see something physical, it does not mean you don’t have a lot leaving and it’s not beneficial to do.

Lauren: 21:28

You might have a wave of like chills in your arms and in your legs, like when you have diarrhea, which is a sign of your liver releasing bile. Like you’re pumping out some bile out of your gallbladder. And you’re not gonna see that in the colonic. It has to travel through your small intestine. But once it travels through your small intestine, like tomorrow, if you have like a liquidy, urgent release tomorrow, that can be like some really good bile that was stimulated during the colonic. So the nozzle is gonna be right here. So when you hop on, this is what it looks like. You’re gonna have a seat, it’s already attached. You don’t have to wonder, like, okay, how much is going inside of me, right? You’re just going to pull this wrapper off, choke up on the tip of this. This is very buoyant. You can push it away from yourself. And then you just want it to scoop up inside of you. And only about this much can reach you anch, inch and a half, something like that. And then once you’ve done that, you might, you may come up against a little bit of pressure internally, and that will be your signature muscle. And you just want to be relaxing everything. Don’t be clenching anything about your pelvic floor, be really relaxed. And then you just you can move it, kind of jiggle it from side to side and get it to slip right past. It does not hurt. You’ll feel a definite little like slip, and that’s how you’re like, oh, okay, that’s what she was talking about. It’s in enough for you. And then you’re gonna lay back down, and then you’ll take this towel, you’re gonna open it up completely, cover yourself completely, and that’s when you’ll ding me, and then I’ll come in and I’ll turn the water on for you, and I’ll ask you, like, do you feel it? And you’ll go, Yeah, I feel it. And then this just acts as a delivery system of water for you. And then you’re on like a Cadillac of toilets. That’s all this is. It’s a toilet. And so you’re gonna lay down and you’re you’re just going to allow the water to fill you up as much as you can. And then when you feel that urge to go, you’re gonna like take in a couple seconds beyond what’s comfortable, really tip the scales to feel like I gotta let it go. And then you’re gonna let go, and then you’re gonna bear down and push as it feels good to you. Water and waste will come outside of your body. The nozzle will stay in place, but water and waste goes outside of you, it goes down into the basin through that clear part of the pipe near the floor. And so, if you want to peek over here, I’m gonna run some water through that. So, where I’m running that water, that’s where you can see all of your releases. Okay. And so when you’re filling up, we say you’re on a fill. When you’re letting go of water, whether it’s clear water or water and waste, we say you’re having a release.

Sam: 23:48

Cadillac of toilets. Yeah.

Lauren: 23:50

The Libby system is called the Cadillac of Colonics. Oh, yeah. Do you recommend doing a parasite cleanse like prayer five with colonics? Absolutely. I mean, like I think if somebody could only do one, I would say do the herbs.

Kim: 24:04

Yeah.

Lauren: 24:04

Um, but if somebody had it in the budget to do both, I would say then add this to what you’re doing. If they don’t have it in their budget or they don’t have any colon hydrotherapy near them, I’d say do enemas at home. Yeah. Honestly. Yeah. I think it’s really important. Yeah. And so helpful. And it’ll actually push your cleanse further.

Kim: 24:27

Oh, you get deeper. Oh, you definitely get deeper.

Sam: 24:30

When I’ve done ParaFy , I saw the most craziest stuff when I was on the cleanse, but then I was also doing a water enema or coffee enema. That’s when I saw a foot-long rope worm leave me. Yeah. That’s when I saw a bunch of liver flukes leave. And then after the enemas, there’s always mucus that comes out after a little bit later in the day or like a half hour, hour later. And then I know I really got the waste out because now all that’s coming out is mucus. So I hit that, you know, that clean out phase and all that. But I think to myself, if I would have done the cleanse and didn’t do an enema, water enema, coffee enema, or colonic, I don’t know that that stuff would have necessarily came out. It’s easier dish dislodged. I am in the room. It’s so beautiful in here. She has it set up so relaxing. This soft lighting is so nice. Private, comfortable. So I’m about to change and get going. Okay, so I’m all comfy. I got the t-shirt on so that I don’t get mine wet. And I’m about to hop on to the Cadillac of Colonics. This is one of the most vulnerable spaces you can be in, doing one of the most vulnerable things humans do. And it’s really important to be comfortable and feel safe and relaxed so that you can release. And Lauren is coming in to turn everything on. Perfect. That feels so comfortable. Do you want to do any add up? I want to do coffee and tutka. Just tell me that you feel that.

Lauren: 26:05

I do. Okay, awesome. I’m gonna check on you in 10 plus I hear other words from you. Sounds great, thank you. I’m gonna put you on fruit control. If you didn’t touch anything the entire time, you could just counter the cabin. If you like to like adjust a little.

Sam: 26:20

I like to adjust the flow a little bit.

Lauren: 26:22

This one right here. So water flow control, and it shows you with the little arrows that more than that is off.

Sam: 26:29

Got it.

Lauren: 26:29

Yeah, and so it’s like if you were 20 minutes, 30 minutes into the session, it felt like you were just getting like walked over that you’re like, God, it’s just in and out. I’m having a hard time holding it. If you turn the flow rate down a little bit, you can do that.

Sam: 26:41

Thank you, Lawrence. Okay, I will. Alright, we’re going. So we’re in the middle of it. I’m gonna spare you guys from seeing anything. I’m a lady, I like to keep it classy, but I do want to just show you like dirty. I’m really relaxed right now. She showed me how I can control the flow of water if I want more pressure or less, and I have this heating pad on my stomach that it’s really healthy. Just keep me relaxed so that like I have an easier time with this whole experience. So even for people who are regular or feel like you know they already go and they’re still regular, like you still should definitely check out colonics because there’s more in there that you don’t realize. You get more out than you do just going to the bathroom. And you get way deeper as well. Get colonics for clear skin and a better mood. For real, it’s crazy, but it’s so hydrating and good for your skin. And it really does instantly lift your mood and make you feel better, make you feel lighter, more energized, and I already am only like 10 minutes in. I already am visually seeing clearer. So hot girls get colonics. So obviously releasing comes in waves, and whenever I get a colonics and I have this sensation come over me, you know that feeling if you have a stomach flu or a stomach bug and you need to like go to the bathroom and you get this wave of like kind of almost chills and like this like feeling. Like I have it right now. It means something toxic is about to come out, like bile toxins kind of thing. Breathe through it, and then you will release and feel so much better after, but it always comes in waves and it’ll never last. So any discomfort that you experience during a chronic, know that it will pass. How much more could there be? Like, I’m already so regular. I don’t understand. I’m a smaller human. Where is it all? Like, how is there more? Holding the water in is totally different than just it’s filling you up and you’re releasing and you’re just constantly being in a state of releasing. And that’s something that a practitioner hasn’t necessarily explained to me before with this kind of clonic, with an open clonic, is the importance of holding the water in your by yourself. So an open one, you’re just constantly able to release as much as you want to, but don’t get it. I thought that was a really important tip that Lauren taught us is to hold the water fill and then release. I made a big difference for me for this one. So I’m on the end now. I think I am totally emptied out, which you never know. Sometimes we think that then if we do a few or folds, like there’s more. But I feel like I’ve been doing this now for about 45 minutes and I’m empty. So I’m gonna put more in and we’re gonna do a coffee in a month.

Lauren: 29:54

Okay, and when you clench, one thing that you can do is like you can think about almost like if you’re playing tugbourne trying to clench like grab the right closer to you. You can do that with your bottom, like two bowls like one, two, three, like three, and think about like kind of. Okay, not really that’s our freaking anti-fair sauce, like a spectacle method when you’re doing a coffee and then you wanted to think of like elongator diaphragm so you can like put your hands up over to create that like a space of coffee and just remember. I don’t think I’ve ever got 30 kills. You can do it. Okay, do it my fast.

Sam: 30:46

Okay, I feel like it’s hot a little bit. Oh, it’s waves with the coffee. Or you can break through it and hold it, it’ll pass. Wow, it’s also just a good reminder. You can do hard games, you can break through things that are hard and they’ll pass. Like, you know, when you’re and it and it feels like it’s so urgent, and then you have no choice. It it’s kind of training those muscles. Yeah, and it’s putting your mind.

Lauren: 31:20

Right. Putting your brain in your gut. I feel like I can take more coffee. We need more coffee and then you’re like all the four. I like either a big pillow, like underneath their hips. Because the other thing that you can do besides the context is like get your hips out. Like do like a brick of yoga. You know what I love that? Because if you do this, it has to fall down off of those finger buttons there because you want to push it out. And that is also a very helpful tool for your own. And of course you can do a water flush too. It’s like before you do your coffee if you’re at home. Yep. Because that’s gonna make it easier for you to fold this. I think that coffee enema is actually a ball. Talk about tired. I feel like sluggish. I’m like, coffee enema can help your liver. You’ll feel less tired, you’ll feel less sluggish. There’s like a general increase in like your sense of well-being when you do a coffee enema. Yeah. I’m like, how’s anyone else surviving motherhood without this? I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure they are a cheat coach. Oh, I love that. Alright, I think we can take the rest. She is the best. Wow. Wedding angel. Okay! You are a revolvent. So I like to, once the nozzle is out of me, I put my feet on either foot reps. Yep. I I bent all the way forward and I do like a big stretch of this way. Okay. Um and then I go back to like I’m fully seen on my butt the best. I’m gonna do it. I got to like tall torso, and then I just little twist, and I’m like, oh my cute. And then I do the other sketch of four. I do it maybe four times, and then I just make that love, yep. And I’m really like crunching down forward, trying to like bring out a little bit of my wall. See when you’re back.

Kim: 33:23

So we were just talking about how the gal who created Libby the colonic machine that she used barium enemies as a kid. Okay.

Lauren: 33:35

And so she passed. She she felt like something moved through her. She said it felt like it was ripping through her. It was essentially like a it was like cement. It was a piece of this old barium that had taken like a hold in her flexure. And when it passed, it was still like in solid, you know, solid form. And it showed the shape of the hostrum. It was wild.

Sam: 34:03

And it came out like a like a cement rock. Yes. And then we’ve had older elder people passing coins that they had swallowed as children.

Kim: 34:13

I heard a little army in too when I was looking at it. I’ve never seen that. I mean, I’ve seen some things when I worked in radiography. Oh, I’m sure. And what people shove places and eat, and I think the tapeworms are like always pretty shocking just because of the length of them in the head. It’s real thick with yeah. Yeah, they hook in and then they don’t want to leave. Yeah, it’s always pretty shocking. Do you think if someone has a tapeworm? What do you recommend for them to do? A parasite cleanse.

Sam: 34:45

And if you can afford it, a colonic, too.

Kim: 34:48

When you do the colonic, what do you recommend adding?

Lauren: 34:52

I think that coffee is always helpful just because parasites love to live in the gallbladder. Um, especially like when you start taking herbs, parasites are gonna want to try to survive. And so it’s like many will swim up the common bile duct and actually create occlusion of the duct, and you can actually go into like a gallbladder attack. Um, and so if you can smoke them out by doing the coffee and them and flushing them back into the GI tract so that when you you’re taking your herbs, they’re dying. Like that’s very, very helpful.

Sam: 35:22

That’s awesome.

Kim: 35:23

Yeah, what’s the difference between ozone gas when you’re doing colonic and then ozone water in a colonic?

Lauren: 35:29

Ozonated water during a colonic is great. Um the the place that really made that kind of famous is Angel Farm in Hawaii. They ozonate all their water. When I talk to ozone professionals, they’ve told me that the rate that you can ozonate a water that you can ozonate the water, that you would need something like higher power, like a higher powered you know, ozone generator than what most places are using. So what I like to do instead of ozonating the water and being like, I hope this is good enough, I like to clean the valve first and empty out all the liquid, and then you have clean access to the colon wall. And instead of just sending it in and flushing it out and sending it in and flushing it out, I like to send in just ozone gas so that it really can interact with whatever’s going on.

Kim: 36:16

And you could feel it. Yeah, you can feel it. And when I was releasing that gas, it felt very much like when I have surgeries and they’d fill me full of gas, it would escape out my left ball here, and I felt it. I was like, oh, that’s escaping. Like now, if I hadn’t had surgeries, I’d be like, Am I having a heart attack? It was weird, but as it was escaping out, I started better to full gas at type of you know thing to help kind of calm the gas down. But yeah, my experience was wild. It obviously worked, it worked. Yeah, yeah, I like doing ozone gas after the colonic. I think that’s really powerful. How many times do you colonic a week?

Lauren: 36:54

Me personally, I do short sessions. I kind of like I like doing drink coffee once a week if I can. That’s awesome. That’s I I would say I like doing during the wintertime, I like doing the sauna every single day. Um during the summertime, I get outside the sunshine time, and so I usually like if I don’t use it as much during the wintertime. If I can sauna every day, I do. I’m in more of a maintenance mode with this because I know we’ve been doing parasite cleanses preventatively and doing all of this stuff now for like 20 years. This is where it’s at. Like, this is the prevention instead of waiting for the wheels to fall off and then going in to see a doctor. Why not do all of this stuff and prevent needing to go in and be in a and need to heal?

Sam: 37:38

What about just like staying right so you never get to that tragedy, catastrophic situation?

Kim: 37:46

We’re all kind of mad. And I feel like what we’re doing here with what’s eating you, it’s bringing all of this to the forefront to allow people to see how easy it is, where you can find accessible, accessible, how beneficial they are, being proactive, and even someone like myself, where I’ve been in the field since 2004, I wasn’t very proactive. I thought I was, but then looking back, I think, okay, well, I’ve spent way less money doing it this way. I mean, surgery are expensive, and I would have to go through jobs in order to have good insurance. So I feel like people can switch their mind to think, let’s be preventative, let’s go in and launch our colon. I always say it’s like a pressure washer, and it’s like going in and just really allowing you to absorb nutrients. Some people hold how many pounds of poop do you think that they hold?

Lauren: 38:37

I mean, you don’t want to be this person, but I have I have people get up off the table and they’re like, I weigh eight pounds less. Like, yeah, but that’s not really not ideal. Like, you don’t want to be having eight pounds of waste passed in a session. That’s a lot, yeah. That’s a lot of waste. Yeah, I mean ideal like the theory of cleansing is it’s the accumulation and the stagnation of these channels of elimination that lead to disease in the body. That’s that’s the theory, the terrain theory and the stagnation and accumulation is what’s driving disease. If your liver is ingested, then eventually you’re gonna have an issue with your ball butt I mean, even the even I will say, like we’re having so much talk about carry menopause right now. I think that a lot of people are actually experiencing a metabolic issue and a detox issue combined. Really? Yeah, and I do. And I think that yes, there are some people that lifestyle-wise, they didn’t really know you know what they were doing necessarily. And so maybe they did burn out their adrenals and borrowed from the thyroid hormone for a little bit too long. They end up with a little bit of bio occlusion, and now their health is like really upside down. But I think that if you can before before you allow that to happen, if you can get into preventative mode and really keep like cleansing your body, the rest of it’s just tinkering. It’s a lot easier when you go into the ND’s office. Versus I have leaky gut, I have dysbiosis, I have hormones that you know that are balanced, I’ve got this going on, I’ve had gallbladder attacks, my hair is falling out. Like what’s happening? You know, and I’m putting on weight, like it’s expressing how you’ve been living all these years.

Kim: 40:14

What does this look like? Why are we not knowing about this? It’s been kind of hidden from us, right? And so I think that as the internet, we can use it as just some way to scroll or we’re using it as education.

Lauren: 40:26

Well, I think also it’s like a the standard of care. When we talk about the standard of care in a medical sense, like if you were to go to a doctor or Kaiser, the answer that you’re gonna get is based on a sick populace of people, and it’s gonna be based on insurance and attorneys that work with insurance to say, okay, we’ll give you this implant because you’re only with this company for this many more years, instead of you know really uh addressing an individual as a unique set of okay, you lived in this moldy house and you had this stressful thing go on. The water was contaminated, yeah. Your water was contaminated, you know, whatever. Like here, there’s this other story, and then there’s like the prevention of the story, and there’s really nothing that I would say that system of the medicine is offering as far as prevention goes. It’s either you’re diagnosable or you’re not, here’s medicine or not, once in turn, but the herbs are gone. The herbs are gone. If if the herbs aren’t in that system, that’s yeah, I mean, that’s to me that’s not real medicine. We were headed on a different trajectory.

Kim: 41:30

We’ve just lost our way a hundred million years ago. We lost our way, and it’s really easy to remove that history out of the books as they’re being written for the future. And I was one of the people that could go in and tailor it and remove it if I wanted. I was a subject matter expert in things in the medical field, and it was so easy to go in and go, Yeah, that doesn’t really apply to us anymore. That should be removed. It’s that simple. So I don’t think that it’s a malicious thing for everyone, but I do think that it’s a lost history. It’s lost because we’re really bringing it back in such a cool way.

Sam: 42:06

Let’s dive into peristalsis because when you broke it down to us earlier, I was like, Whoa, that’s so genius. So, what is peristalsis?

Lauren: 42:13

So, peristalsis, just to answer your question, is the muscular contraction all throughout our G RGI tract, moving things from one place to another. And so when we swallow, we initiate peristalsis and we deliver that bolus of food down to the stomach. And when we sit on the toilet to have a bowel movement, we bear down and we push, and that stimulates peristalsis. And we feel, when we feel like the need to have a bowel movement, that’s that’s mass peristalsis. That’s our body, you know, moving things down. And then you have that urge because waste is like right there. It’s called, it’s actually called your valves of Houston. Um, I know, I know. So it’s like why would we would joke in colon therapy certification? Like if you don’t have control of those muscles anymore, like Houston, we have no problem. I was just gonna say, We remembered it that way for our team. Yeah, you know, that we had to take, but you feel that stimulation like right on your rectum, that it’s like, okay, stool is here, it’s like time to evacuate, but you still push, like when you sit down on the toilet. Yeah, and pushing is what stimulates peristalsis or motion, walking that moves things through us, that stimulates peristalsis. And so with the open system, you get to push. With the closed system, it’s it’s an effective system. It’s just that you can’t push because you’ll push that bigger speculum out of you. And so you can’t push. You just really feel like, okay, I have to, I have to go. And then you have to tell the therapist, I have to go.

Sam: 43:41

Stop feeling in the city. Yeah, you have to like ask for permission. Just relax. Yeah.

Lauren: 43:45

Yeah, you have to like ask for permission like from somebody.

Sam: 43:48

We all love the open, we love the open.

Lauren: 43:50

I think if you’re I think if you, you know, need a therapist, you need a therapist in the room, and there would be reasons. But I think that if you get to push and you can bear down and stimulate your own peristalsis, I think that it’s really helpful. Uh, there’s a doctor, Dr. Datis Karazian, who wrote about traumatic brain injuries and how sometimes when people experience like they hit their head in a car accident, they’ll actually get thrown off their bowel movement routine. And it’s a person that was like two to three movements a day. It was always normal. And what they need to do is re-sync their gut brain axis because our gut is lined with so many neurons. And Dr. Karazian said that what you could do is to re-sync that you can hold an enema as long as possible. Think about that. Like when you’re holding an enema, you’re putting your brain in your gut. Like you’re like trying to like think about holding those muscles and and re-like sync it. Just like if you’re in the gin and you’re like really working on like muscle development. It’s like that muscle mind. Yeah, exactly. Connection.

Sam: 44:51

Brain-body connection.

Lauren: 44:52

Yeah. And so tongue depressor is the other one, gagging yourself with a tongue depressor and aggressive gargling and then holding an enema as long as you can.

Kim: 45:01

I now that you’re saying that I do feel like I kind of reconnected in a different way. Yeah. And now I actually go multiple times a day where I used to just be a morning.

Lauren: 45:11

Good.

Kim: 45:12

Yeah. Now I feel it a little bit differently. And I held that thing for 20 minutes. When I say that’s wild for me, that was wild. Of holding. Just patience. And so that really helps. Virgo Manny Manifesto Generator. Yeah.

Lauren: 45:28

I’ve worked on people in wheelchairs on both systems. And personally, I just felt like the open system, if you’re if you’re in a wheelchair, is like so helpful at getting there to be more movement on the days where people aren’t coming in.

Sam: 45:42

What is this beautiful room you have here?

Lauren: 45:44

Infrared sauna and then cold plunge outside. So beautiful. The infrared sauna is great. It heats you up from the inside out like a fever would. So during the wintertime, we call it cold and flu season, right? And it’s the time of year where we have less access to infrared from the sun. And so what I found was that if I used infrared sauna during the winter on a really regular basis, you’re really dealing with like your higher viral load and helping that bucket to empty more often. So instead of like, you know, kind of we talk about our bodies being a filter, instead of walking around and catching, you know, just accumulating and accumulating more things that could potentially lead to your body saying, okay, body intelligence time, we’re gonna spike a fever, we’re gonna have diarrhea, you’re getting sick. Like you’ve got to get, you’ve got to shed some of this viral and bacterial load. You can use the infrared sauna to do that for you. And then you’re less likely to kind of be like victim to I’m getting a cold, it’s cold and flu season. The kids are bringing in things to the house and I’m catching everything. It’s a true detox sauna, so it’s helping you get rid of toxicity. When people do get in the infrared, I always tell them to like get up afterwards and look at the towels because you’ll see that you’ll have like black sweat that will come out of you sometimes. Whoa, is that mold heavy metals? It can be any of those things. Most of the research, actually, that’s been done on infrared has been done on firefighters. It’s great for helping with environmental toxins. It’s great for mold, it’s it’s a really great tool.

Kim: 47:15

That’s what we bought, the Pacific Palisades firefighters in Talbasis. Yeah. Uh Rogers had actually donated them uh an infrared sauna because they were first on the scene. We made sure that they were better. They, I guess now they’re like the coolest fire station.

Lauren: 47:32

And like glutathione ivines, and you can bring those guys back from the deck. Oh, that’s so real. That’s amazing. So I I wanted you to actually do like an ice bath. I think it’s really refreshing to actually come out into the sun, to have that full like sun exposure, and to be able to benefit from a little bit of sunlight in your eyes and just on your skin. Hopefully, you’re I mean, when I come out, I’m like that naked. Nice. You just hop in and it’s awesome. The contrast therapy of cold and hot is incredible. Just that vascular dilation that you get from the infrared, and then that constriction from the cold, it really gets things pumping, which is so important. Even it’s like if you’re thinking about running herbs through your system, doing these things, it’s it makes it all more effective. And it’s tolerable if you’re having die-offs.

Kim: 48:25

This I use this for pain. She put ice in it because I’m coming that I was coming here.

Sam: 48:30

The cold queen has entered Franklin, Tennessee. A ritual wellness, so we had to add ice. Yeah, Lauren added ice. It’s my favorite modality.

Kim: 48:39

It I love the cold, it just really helps with inflammation in my body, and I do have some hip issues, and I just get in and I’m like normal. Yeah, again. Like, oh, this is how you have to feel. Yeah, yeah, and it’s this natural thing. I don’t have to pump anything into my body.

Sam: 48:55

Using what nature gave us, you know, to assist our bodies in detox. I think it’s a beautiful thing.

Kim: 49:00

Okay, I’m gonna call plunge now. How’d you feel? I don’t know, things felt weird, but it like quickly changed. So then it was just easy.

Lauren: 49:14

Good deal.

Kim: 49:15

Good job. Good job, ladies. Your first time.

Sam: 49:19

We’re at the other facility.

Lauren: 49:21

Marin, California.

Sam: 49:23

Is it also called ritual wellness?

Lauren: 49:24

No, it’s called Cleanse Marin.

Sam: 49:26

Oh, nice, nice, nice. And then you came out here.

Lauren: 49:28

I came out here.

Sam: 49:29

Nice and opened ritual wellness in Franklin, Tennessee. Lauren’s amazing. She’s taking such good care of us and our whole crew, our whole team is here today, feeling good after a long week of working and eating a lot of food. We’re cleaning out today, we’re grounding, we are detoxing and cleansing our bodies and just making sure we continue to feel good on this work trip. So thank you so much for taking such good care of us. Yeah, thank you for it. So knowledgeable, so informative. And I really do feel like this is getting a lot of education out, but also removing the taboo around it and letting people know like it’s normal, it’s safe, it’s so helpful, it’s beneficial, and it’s not weird to do, and there’s nothing to be afraid of, but it is natural to feel a little fear if you’ve never done it. But I still recommend that you try it anyway, because if you can find someone as amazing as Lauren to help guide you through it, you will definitely experience the benefits. We have some people that are a little nervous, and they’re in there right now crushing it, crushing it because Lauren is not good at just being, you know, holding space for people and making them feel comfortable and knowing that they are in a safe space to heal and release and let go. And there’s something on a deeper level than just physical in that for me, because I know what it feels like, and it’s spiritual and it’s also nervous system healing. Yeah, so you’re doing amazing work. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming. Yeah. How do you feel after your colonics?

Kim: 50:46

I feel totally better. My gut is way calmer. It was just a great experience. I love doing colonics and I just love Lauren. It’s why we came down here so that we could showcase what she’s doing and what a great healer she is. And we’re just so appreciative of your time today.

Lauren: 51:05

So I love nerding out with you. I know. And I’m like, it’s just so fun to that somebody has brought parasite cleansing like into the forefront of people’s minds when they’re thinking about health. Um, and I have so many young people, young families, young married couples that are like in their 30s or whatever, coming into the office and like they heard they heard of Colonics because of Roger’s Hood. I mean, it’s amazing, it’s really amazing. Thank you. Yeah, it’s like you’re you’re embodying like all of that work of like old work of like Holda Clark, Hannah Kroger, and like putting it in young people’s minds. It’s pretty incredible. It’s really incredible.