WEBVTT - Ep 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.360 Throughout the history of man, there have been constant epidemics 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.200 of many diseases. Little has been known or understood as 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:11.200 to why these things happen. In recent times, it has 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.560 been believed that these many diseases are contagious and that 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.720 germs have spread them. This belief has created a monster 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.120 as the medical field has steadily found stronger and more 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.479 potent drugs, poisons, and antibiotics in their constant effort to 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.000 destroy what they believe to be the cause. A large 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.199 variety of vaccines and antitoxins have been developed because of 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.720 the belief in a large variety of bacteria and viruses. Yet, 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.760 in spite of massive research, manufacturing, and wide use of 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.480 these items, mankind still goes on suffering from an ever 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.519 increasing variety of disease and disorders with no let up 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.880 in sight. Disease, old age, and death are the result 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.800 of accumulated poisons and congestions throughout the entire body. The 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.280 toxins become crystallized and hardened, settling around the joints, in 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.479 the muscles and throughout the billions of cells all over 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.559 the body. Germs and viruses do not and cannot cause 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.720 any of our diseases, so we have no need for 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.880 finding various kinds of poisons to destroy them. All diseases, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.040 regardless of their names, come within this understanding, as only 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:28.800 varied expressions of the one disease of toxemia. Basically, all 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:33.240 of our diseases are created by ourselves because we have 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.800 never taken the time to discover the true foods meant 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:42.440 for man's use. Very often an epidemic occurs after holiday feasting. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.880 Even the very best of foods in excess can create problems. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.760 Since germs do not cause our disorders, there must be 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.520 another logical reason for the triggering of an epidemic. This 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.160 is a matter of simple vibration. The better the physical 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.280 and mental condition a person is in, the higher becomes 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.120 his vibration. But as he steadily becomes clogged with more 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.440 and more waste matter, his vibration goes constantly downward until 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.600 he is ready and in need of a change. If 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.160 he then comes in contact with one or more who 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.240 have already started the cleansing process, he picks up the 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.799 vibration of change, and all his functions are triggered into 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.640 the same action. The person with a toxic free body, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.880 an undisturbed mind is the one unaffected by the epidemic. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.160 It was so hard for me to not make noises, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.840 I know, for me to listen to that, I know. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.200 I okay. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:35.760 Was that from like twenty two hundred BCE, I hope? Oh, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.160 I mean, I can tell by the grammar that it wasn't. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.600 Thou art No. In many ways yes, and in many 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:44.040 ways no. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:44.640 Okay. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.080 That was from a book by Stanley Burrows called The 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.560 Master Cleanser. And this book I think was published in 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.320 the nineteen seventies, but the original Master Klen's diet was 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.800 introduced by Burrows in the nineteen forties. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.120 That's from a little. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.240 Chapter of the book called a word about quote unquote 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.280 epidemics and quote unquote germ cause diseases. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.320 Sorry, that book was published in. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.640 The seventy Oh, Aaron, as if there aren't similar ones 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.720 today debunking germ theory. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.880 Okay, we usually should not take this much of dismissive tone. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.240 Already, but it's challenging, I mean. And the reason I 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.599 say it's from older two is because like the same 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:28.880 message has basically applied since humans have formed concepts surrounding 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.640 disease and health. It goes back to the humoral theory. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:34.559 Right, humors, et cetera. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:42.000 But I just yeah, yeah, so that's still getting Goodreads reviews. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.800 A lot of people are still rating it has a 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.840 four out of five on Goodreads. I didn't look at 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:53.440 how many reviews, but as an example, yeah. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.159 Oh so, okay, I'm going to take a lot of 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.040 deep breath. Yeah, cleansing breath, cleansing breath. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:57.800 Yeah. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.440 During this episode, we're we're on the same page. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:02.760 Hi, I'm Aaron. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.400 Welsh and I'm Aaron Allmann. 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.279 Update and this is this podcast will kill. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.560 You Today we're detoxing. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:19.960 Oh boy, talking about detox Yeah, what is it mean? 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.160 What does it mean? Does it mean the episode? 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:24.000 That's the episode? 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.200 Yeah, yeah, can you do it? 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:28.640 Happy New Year? 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.800 Yes, Happy New Year. First episode of twenty twenty six. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.599 We're coming to you from the past. We're time travelers 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.680 here and predicting that we have all, you know, indulged 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.160 and eaten some delicious foods and maybe had a little 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.279 bit of drinks here and there, and you might be 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.360 feeling like you're getting a lot of ads for detox. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.760 Tease and need to cleanse somehow. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.080 Purifying, et cetera. Impurities. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:58.880 So we're here to. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.599 Tell you about that and whether you should or not, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.480 except we won't tell you that, because again, this is. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.600 Is not antical podcast. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.760 But we'll tell you so you can make you up 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:10.480 your own mind. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:11.440 I guess. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.320 I am so excited for this. There is so much. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.080 This took me in the very the most unexpected directions. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:21.560 I love it when it does that. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:22.599 Me too, me too. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:28.520 But before we get into like everything, it's quarantiny time. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:29.600 It's quarantiny time. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.520 What are we drinking this week? We're drinking water. That's right, 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.680 that's right, we are drinking water. The easiest recipe so 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:44.560 far and for yourself, one of the tastiest and one 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.480 of the best for detalks. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.320 I mean, I think we're kind of getting a little 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.000 bit ahead of ourselves here with the punchline being water. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.960 But yeah, detox tease or not, Like, there is no 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:00.080 such thing as a detox drink that effectively will detalk 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:04.960 to you from toxins quote unquote whatever that means. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.000 Quote can't wait to talk about what that means. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:11.080 Yeah, I guess, well, thats the recipe. But like it's water, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.560 it's water. So subscribe to our social media anyway, and 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.080 you know, we don't even have to put it on 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.000 our website because it's water again. But if you want 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.880 to go to our website anyway, you can find all 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.880 sorts of cool things. We've got transcripts, we've got the 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:28.080 sources for each and every. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:28.680 One of our episodes. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.840 We've got links to music by Bloodmobile, who's now on Instagram. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.840 We've got links to our bookshop dot org affiliate page, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.080 our Goodreads list. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:40.040 What else do we have? 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.920 Oh, merch Patreon, contact us form that's now working again 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:48.480 after a spell of not sorry about that, everyone, and 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.600 a submit your first hand account form. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:52.200 Good stuff. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:52.800 Check it out. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.720 I really nailed it, Aaron. Thanks, great job. Thanks well, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.080 we've got a lot to cover. Indeed, now we get 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:01.640 into it. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:02.360 We shall. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:21.440 Let's take a quick break and start detoxing, Aaron. We're 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:22.160 gonna play a game. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:23.400 Oh love it is you? 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:23.720 Ready? 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.880 Okay, it's easy, don't worry, don't sweat about it. It's 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.080 not It's just a little pop quiz type of game. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:30.520 Oh, just a pop quiz. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:36.120 Sorry, just a little bit of adrenaline rush right there. Okay, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.240 I want you to guess the name of the website 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:45.600 that these blog post titles come from. Ready, does detoxing 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:52.080 really work a heavy metal detox my personal favorite. You 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.839 probably have a parasite. Here's what to do about it. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:09:00.680 Oh okay, I'm supposed to guess what website those came from. Yeah, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.920 I'm really worried that it's something that you would think 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:03.520 is legit. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.480 Like, I don't know, don't. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:07.319 Worry too much about it. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.600 Okay, good, I don't know dtodiet dot com, Maaron. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.360 When we think of pseudo cures and people who promote 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.719 the spread of pseudo cures, do you want to take 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.199 a is there one name. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:20.880 That comes to mind? 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.160 Doctor oz God? 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.800 There are so many, Okay, I think that the fact that, like, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:28.719 to me, I was like, oh, this will be like 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:29.720 an obvious answer. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:35.120 There oh goog goopop it is goopy goop. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:36.840 Yeah, goopy goop goopy goop. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:37.440 Uh. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.920 Yeah, there are And those are just a sampling. There's 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.240 there's lots more where that comes from. Those are the 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.680 ones that were more detox related. And by the way, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.719 do you want to know about what you're supposed to 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.640 do for your alleged parasite? 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.040 Is it ivermectin It's not. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.360 According to the author of that blog post quote. In 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.360 my experience, an eight day mono diet goat milk cleanse 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:02.679 accompanied by a specific vermifuge made of anti parasitic herbs 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.400 is the most successful treatment. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.160 End quote for what. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.000 The Fairer site that you probably have your. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:11.959 Friendly neighborhood parasite. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.679 Right, but really you're just pooping out the lining of 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:14.520 your intestines. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:15.400 When you see that. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.040 Little toilet milk mono diet. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:20.839 It means just goat milk. 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:21.880 I can guess that. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.880 I'm just saying, I know, I know, but yeah, I mean. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.800 I called out Goop because they're one of the biggest 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.120 offenders in promoting these pseudo cures, but they are far, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.040 so far, far far far from the only ones profiting 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.760 off of this fear mongering and snake oil. In twenty 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.000 twenty five, the detox products market was estimated at nearly 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.360 seventy billion dollars globally. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.319 Just for detox detox. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.880 Yeah, and over the next five years is predicted to 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.960 grow substantially, with a forecasted revenue of ninety five billion 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:01.160 by twenty thirty. Sounds like a lot, right, Like ninety 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:01.880 five billion. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:02.400 Dollars is a lot. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.319 That's just a tiny sliver of the global wellness industry, 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.160 which in twenty twenty three was estimated at six point 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.719 three trillion, predicted to hit eight point five trillion by 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:14.720 twenty twenty seven. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.480 Wellness, Yeah, yeah. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.120 What detox means or what constitutes a detox product, It's 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.760 not always clear cut by design. But think of you know, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.800 your master cleanses, your calonics, your chlation therapies, books promoting 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.400 detox diets, skin care products that claim to rid you 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.640 of wrinkle causing toxins, whose stickers you put on the 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.400 bottom of your feet that are supposed to leach away 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.000 heavy metals from your body. I don't know, like magnet 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.800 bracelets and stuff, green juices and superfoods, supplements that allege 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.880 to eliminate harmful waste. I mean, like we could spend 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:54.520 the rest of the time just talking about the products. Yeah, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.679 but what is it that these detox products, what are 0:11:58.679 --> 0:11:59.720 they actually selling? 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:00.520 Yeah? 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.960 Right, they're not selling you ways to detox. They're not 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:10.439 selling you some you know, active ingredients. That's that's doing 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.800 anything at all. What they're selling you is an opportunity 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:18.280 to reinvent yourself, a sense of protection from the dangerous 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:23.240 world outside and absolution from the unwise, indulgent choices that 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.920 you have made. Essentially, they're selling you hope and rebirth. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.199 And with this, detox products are carrying on a millennia 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.000 old tradition spending money on products that at the best 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.400 do nothing and at the worst do harm, so that 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.120 you can feel like you have made the optimal choice 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:47.520 for your health. Detox is such a vague term that 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.120 tracing its history or the history of the idea of 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.960 detox it's a slippery beast. But if we think about 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.280 a detox product as something that you know, restores the 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.000 body's balance or quote unquote flushes out waste or jump 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:04.560 starts your metabolism or enhances your liver's detox capacity, then 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.800 the history of these elixirs, purgatives, teas, diets, cleanses, enemas 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.480 goes back millennia. And I want to distinguish here, just 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.840 right off the bat, between like detox as in for 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.560 you know, certain drug and alcohol programs. This is like 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.400 we're talking about detox in the wellness industry. Yes, I know, 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:26.480 you'll talk about the difference. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.600 Yeah, I will, because I do think it's a really 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.800 interesting part of how we view the concept of detoxification. Ye, 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.400 Like the way that we use that word in medicine 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.840 can mean multiple different things, and I do think that 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.200 that's such a so we'll talk a little bit more 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:39.880 about it later. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.080 Right, And it has been co opted by like the 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:49.000 wellness industry to sell meaningless scam products. Yeah, okay, I 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:50.800 haven't said these words in a while, so I'm excited 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.040 I get to say them. The Ebers Papyrus, Ebers Papyrus, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.800 I still don't know the right way to say it. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:02.559 Some years later, Each in Egypt, written around fifteen fifty BCE, 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:08.280 describes various spositories, purgatives, anemas, and emetics, all to rid 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.240 the body of the disease causing agent. Diet and impure 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.920 foods were considered to be the primary drivers of disease, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.880 and so these formulations were intended to basically like clean 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:22.440 out your guts, thus evacuating the impurities and preventing them 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.960 from reaching your bloodstream where they would cause disease. And 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.600 maybe these various you know, recipes would be administered orally 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.200 like a mixture of milk, sycamore fruit and honey which 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.280 was guaranteed to open the bowels, or they might be 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.080 delivered another way, like via a cow's horn with the 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.160 end cut off. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.160 But stuck into your butt. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:53.960 Okay, yeah, sorry, this was like I was expecting, like 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.080 an enema type, but the cow's horn really threw me off. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.560 Oh well, that's that's the tip of the iceberg. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.760 That's the cow's horn, tip of the iceberg. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:04.880 Okay. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.360 Bile salts and ox file were often common enema ingredients 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:15.800 delivered interesting this way, Yeah, hundreds of recipes. Hundreds are listed, 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.240 and the evers papyrus for medications to be administered via 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.560 the rectum. The legend goes that the ancient Egyptians invented 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.960 enemas after watching the ibis, the bird you know. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.440 Like that that bird legs yeah, beat storky thing. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:40.200 Yeah, sorry, ornithologists ibises that they, after watching the ibis, 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.880 draw up water into its beak and then insert it 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.080 into its butt to wash out decaying poop. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.360 Ibises do not do this, like, they do not self 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:53.400 administer enemas. Let me just say that we clarify, but 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.680 apparently they do splash water on glands near their butts, 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.160 and so it's probably like they saw that and then. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.560 They use their own little bidet. They've made their own 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:03.920 bidet exactly love it. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.080 But also I don't know, like, is this just like 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.200 somebody ad just so story that somebody was like, oh 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.000 and then Galen was like, by the way, the Egyptians 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.120 saw the ibist doing this and that's why they thought 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:22.520 about enemas. So anyway, okay, but however, people came to 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.640 use animas also. Animals were widespread all over the ancient world, right, yeah, yeah, everyone, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.080 everyone came up with animas. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.320 Honestly, it makes sense, right, Like you've got two main 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.520 routes exactly, you're gonna. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:33.840 Use them both. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.280 You're gonna you're gonna use them both. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:36.160 Yeah. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:41.280 Uh. And animas were popular, very popular in ancient Egypt, 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.200 and in ancient Greece, and in ancient Rome and really 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:52.680 across the entire ancient world. Animas everywhere. Ancient Babylonians used animata, 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.200 which is the plural for enema or is like you 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.160 can use that one of the plural animata. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:57.920 Yeah. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.960 As early as six hundred BCE, this recipe was thought 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:06.199 to expel the disease causing demons from the body. Right quote, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.760 mix rock, salt and ammonia with unmixed wine. Let him 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.040 take it without food through his mouth as well as 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.399 by his anus and sprinkle him with it and he 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.440 will recover, just covering all the bases. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.080 There, just everywhere, everywhere. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:25.639 In ancient Greece, there were literally enema doctors. Later clusters 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.800 clisters was the much more common word used until the 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.960 nineteenth century, but it was not specific to the rectum. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.560 It was also like included vaginal douches and like bladder 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:41.359 levage and stuff like that. Hippocrates and Galen loved animata 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.800 and also enema comes from the word the Latin from 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.960 meaning throw it in, throw it in, just toss. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:50.720 It in there, toss it in. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.479 They were used as a standalone like just just to 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.680 like clean it out, kind of like you're just purging, right, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:02.280 or to administer medicines. Some physicians opted for straight up 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.719 water or saline, while others preferred a more complex mixture 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.560 with like oil and honey and milk and other ingredients. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.600 Biles bile was a really common ingredient from various animals 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:17.080 from ancient China. Quote secure a large pigs bile and 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.480 mix with a small quantity of vinegar. Insert a bamboo 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.919 tube three or four inches long into the rectum and 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:28.359 insert the mixture. End quote Yeah well, yeah, yeah, don't 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.560 really know what bile will do up there? 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.200 A large A large pigs bile is also an interesting 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.480 like what does that mean exactly? 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.440 Oh, like the bile from a large pig. Oh, that's 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:40.560 just my interpretation. 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:47.560 That might have been my battery, a large pigs bio. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:48.000 Got it? 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:48.480 Got it? 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.520 Okay, that's my bad. 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.240 The reverence that these physicians held for enemas is evident 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.800 in the way that they about them. There are entire 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.240 books or chapters dedicated to their use. Who they recommended 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.719 receive an enema like this was everyone unless you were 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.840 already had a fever, in which case like maybe lay 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:17.040 off the anima. But everyone anemas for everyone, for all. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:18.920 And then what they thought animas. 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:23.440 Could cure everything again everything animals for every one and everything. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:28.879 You know, there's kidney stones, gout, jaundice, weight gain, malaria, indigestion, 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:32.560 I mean, you name it. Animals were really just another 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.560 very popular tool in the toolbox of humoral medicine, whereby 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.200 a build up of some substance was at the root 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.760 of disease. R. Galen in the second century A. D. 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.359 Basically described it as like every organ in your body 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.640 produces waste products that need to be fully eliminated, otherwise 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:52.960 they will cause disease. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.480 Yeah, and they apparently cannot do it themselves, so we must. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.280 And we must do something. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:00.560 We must action. 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:05.040 Yeah, Okay, And so this idea over the years kind 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.240 of changed a little bit here and there, but it's 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:12.240 very similar to this idea called autointoxication or intestinal auto intoxication, 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.600 whereby like it's in these toxins are coming from inside you. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:20.960 The call is from coming from inside the house. The 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.879 Persian physician Avicenna from the eleventh century CEE also endorsed 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.280 enemas for this purpose. Quote the anima is an excellent 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.480 agent for getting rid of the superfluities of the intestinal tract, 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.320 as well as for allaying pains over the kidneys and bladder, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.680 and for relieving inflammatory conditions of these organs, and also 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.680 for relieving pain and for drawing superfluities from the vital 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:41.240 organs of the. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.600 Upper parts of the body. Everything, everything, everything. 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.920 This idea of autointoxication is actually a really interesting one, 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.400 not just because of like how long it lingered in 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.879 medical you know, the medical realm, but also for the 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.680 fact that there might be some truth to it based 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:05.360 in like our gut, brain microbiome axis and like there 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:09.120 are some dyspiosis that actually can cause major issues, blah 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:09.760 blah blah. 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:11.680 And that's kind of all part of the same idea 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.440 that like, sometimes things are off balance in our own bodies. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.680 Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah right. 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.920 But I also find this idea so fascinating because it, yeah, 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:25.000 it sounds exactly like or very similar to the ads 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:26.520 for detox teas. 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.960 Just replace enema with cleansing. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.480 Tea, right, like, this will restore the balance, This will 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.719 get rid of those impurities that have built up in 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:39.000 your body. And I did not plan to take us 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:44.440 down through the history of enema of an Amata'. 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.640 So thrilled that you did, though me too. 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:50.159 There are such so much fodder. It's incredible, it's incredible. 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.719 But I think that, like, first of all, enema's were 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:57.960 not the only tools out there, right, there was bleeding, purgatives, emetics, saunas, 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:01.920 fasting water, meditation, rbs, like everything. So many different cultures 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:06.800 practice many different methods to rid the body of what 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.120 they perceived to be impurities and whatever that meant. Sometimes 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:12.479 it didn't involve any physiological thing at all. It was 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:18.600 just like meditation, right, impure thoughts, impure thoughts, Graham and 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.560 Kellogg and all that. But but I think that animas 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:26.399 really stood out to me because of the language used 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:28.200 to describe, you know, what they do. 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.240 Very specific of like the build up, the impure, the 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.480 right toxins or the like. 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:39.920 Yeah it's yeah and like interesting, the vague explanations as 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.000 to why they do what they do, what they're actually doing, 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:47.240 who should have it? Everyone again and yeah, and it's 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:52.320 just like also fun. So anyway, they were incredibly popular. 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:56.960 So these animata, you're like, Okay, cow's horn that threw 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:59.720 me off. Yeah, that's the least of it, all right, 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.840 All shapes and sizes, all different delivery systems, made up 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.600 of all kinds of materials, from cane stalks to bamboo, 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:12.800