The following is the current chapter 5 program information from Prostate Health in 90 days.  BCN has worked with Dr. Clapp to continue improving his 90-Day Healing Cleanse program, and this version of chapter 5 reflects the latest program updates.  If you have an older copy of the program, please note the BCN has developed Herbal Energies™ PC-1›2›3 - Parasite Cleanse formula with Immune System Support  specifically for this program. (Note: PC-1›2›3 replaces the TheraClear, which appears in earlier editions. TheraClear was was previously used in the program while PC-1-2-3 was being developed and tested for this program.  PC-1-2-3 is a non-laxative parasite cleanse, superior to any other over-the-counter product available today, and formulated to be used with the Nature's Pure Body program.) 

Please refer to the Suggested Usage Chart that comes with the 90-Day Healing Cleanse Kit for additional information during the 90 day program. 

CLEANSING THE COLON
AND BODY with
Larry Clapp's
90-Day Healing Cleanse

from Prostate Health in 90 Days without drugs or surgery,  by Larry Clapp, Ph.D., J.D.

The process begins with an 8 day fast.  Fasting is a time-honored approach to physical health and spiritual enlightenment. Although it has been utilized for ages (primarily by spiritual seekers), many people are afraid to even think of going hours – let alone days – without food because they get a headache if they skip just one meal. Their fears may also be based on stories of people who felt generally lousy while fasting, and because most Western physicians discourage the practice.

Other fasts may be draining, but this 8-Day Fast is invigorating, giving you increased mental and physical energy as it cleanses your body of the physical and emotional toxins as well as the parasites that have made or will make you sick. Many alternative medicine practitioners and healers, more open to new ideas, have seen positive results from fasting. Dr. Bernard Jensen and others have shown that almost all illnesses can be cured by fasting and colon cleansing, and I have found that my 8-Day Fast is a very quick, comfortable way to "jump-start" any healing regimen.

Fasting is the first step in addressing prostate health, as well as many other health issues for both men and women, because it clears out toxins and parasites while cleansing the colon, the unwitting source of many diseases. A long tube running between the small intestine and the rectum, the colon acts as a kind of processor and "extractor" in the body. About 90% of digestion has already occurred before food, now called chyme, enters the colon, but important steps remain. For example, bacteria break down certain types of fiber into sugar (glucose) in the colon, while other bacteria release critically needed vitamin K, which is absorbed into the body.

Food moves from the stomach into a long, coiled tube called the small intestine, then into the colon. Also known as the large intestine, the colon is a tube about five feet long, roughly 2½ inches in diameter, sitting below your stomach like an upside-down "U." The partially digested food passes from the small intestine into the first part of the colon, called the cecum, then up the ascending colon, across the body through the transverse colon, down the descending colon, through the curves of the sigmoid colon, and out the rectum. Food, called chyme as it enters the colon and feces as it exits, is propelled forward by rhythmic contractions of the colon. (For excellent pictures of clear and blocked colons, and material that comes out of blocked colons, see Bernard Jensen's Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management.)

While the food we have eaten moves through the colon, any remaining nutrients are digested. Then the residue is moved along for elimination via the rectum, ideally leaving nothing behind and damaging nothing along the way. Unfortunately, in all too many of us the colon acts more like an open sewer than a sanitary "disassembly line," becoming a holding place for garbage and an ideal breeding ground for disease and parasites.

When we eat processed foods that have been stripped of fiber (and many nutrients), the colon has difficulty moving the chyme along. Processed foods tend to make for a dry, sticky chyme that does not move well through the colon. (The muscles wrapped around the colon can easily squeeze down to push fibrous, bulky chyme along, but have a great deal of difficulty with fiberless, gooey, sticky chyme.) When chyme sits too long in the colon, it becomes harder and dryer. If that was all that happened – chyme turning into hard and dry feces – we would only have to worry about constipation (from which millions of Americans suffer). But there's much, much more. After the chyme/feces plasters itself onto the walls of the colon, it begins to ferment and: rots and hardens, becoming a breeding ground for parasites and a storehouse for toxic chemicals that can eventually poison the body.  Forms a barrier that prevents the colon from interacting with and absorbing nutrients from chyme.  Restricts movement of the colon walls, making it impossible for the colon to rhythmically contract in order to speed the chyme  along its way. (How well could you do your job if you were covered with thick sludge?)

Now, with rotting bits of chyme/feces "gunking up" the works, the colon becomes much less efficient. Even if it's only slightly gunked up, the colon's ability to absorb the necessary nutrients from the chyme is hampered. An unfortunate cycle is set in motion: Small amounts of stale, hardening, and rotting chyme make the colon less efficient. The less-efficient colon cannot prevent still more chyme/feces from sticking to its walls, and further damaging the colon. The muscles that normally propel chyme through the colon and out of the body are less and less able to do their job, increasing the risk of constipation and a host of other ills. The specialized cells lining the interior of the colon cannot absorb nutrients from the chyme. Without these nutrients, the immune system and other parts of the body weaken, leaving us open to numerous diseases.

Meanwhile, the toxins, parasites, and bacteria that have been growing in this sludge that lines the colon wall begin to eat into the tissue that makes up that wall, and eventually they eat their way right through the colon. Now the bloodstream and tissues surrounding the colon are flooded with toxic substances, harmful bacteria, and parasites. The body swings into action, activating the immune system to battle with the bacteria and parasites, signaling the liver and kidneys to cleanse the toxins, and instructing the lymph system to clear away both toxins and debris from the immune system's battle with the poisonous substances.

But the body's defense and cleansing mechanisms are often overwhelmed. They simply can't keep up with routine cleansing plus the onslaught of poisonous substances. And the prostate, which lies right next to and touches the colon, is especially vulnerable. Assaulted by parasites and toxins, it swells in size and is increasingly vulnerable to disease. This is particularly true if the surrounding tissues and the lymph system are tight or blocked, preventing the prostate from flushing out the toxins. At the same time, the onslaught of toxins upsets the body's pH balance and turns it more acidic, which is dangerous in and of itself. (See Chapter 3 for more on pH.)

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