Colon Hydrotherapy & Gut Health

Episode 67

Podcast Drop Date: 

10/1/2025

In this episode of the Functional Medicine Foundations Podcast, Amber Warren, PA-C, sits down with Monica Blough, founder of Wellness Within Colon Hydrotherapy, to explore the transformative power of colon hydrotherapy. Monica shares her personal journey overcoming autoimmune conditions, chronic inflammation, and decades of gut health challenges and how colonics helped her regain her health.

They discuss:

• What colonic hydrotherapy is and how the open system works

• How many sessions are needed and who benefits most

• Myths and misconceptions about colonics, including gut bacteria and electrolyte concerns

• The benefits of ozone therapy and how it enhances colonics

• Practical tips for improving gut health through diet, fermented foods, and lifestyle

• How colonics can complement functional medicine protocols and even help with colonoscopy prep

  
  

Whether you’re curious about colonics or looking to optimize gut health, this conversation offers valuable insights into supporting your body’s natural detox pathways and improving overall wellness.

Transcript:

Amber Warren, PA-C: Welcome to the Functional Medicine Foundations podcast, where we explore root cause medicine, engage in conversation with functional and integrative medicine experts, and build community with like minded health seekers. I'm your host, Amber Warren. Let's dig deeper.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Hi, everybody. Welcome back. Today we have Monica Blough. She's an Idaho native. Her life has been shaped by the loss of her father to stage four colon cancer at the age of 17, and her mother, who suffered through multiple types of cancer throughout her life, eventually passing away from bladder cancer. Determined to break the cycle of illness in her family, she took control of her health through diet, lifestyle and environment, discovering that habits often outweigh genetics in shaping wellness. Her journey led her to colon hydrotherapy, transforming her health and igniting her passion to help others detox, support gut health and overall improve wellness. What began as a personal quest has become her ministry. Today, she proudly serves clients at her clinic, Wellness Within Colon Hydrotherapy, both in Eagle and her newly opened Twin Falls location, giving all the glory to God for placing her in this role. I love that welcome.

Amber Warren, PA-C: We're so glad to have you here.

Monica Blough: Thank you for having me.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Okay. I'm so excited for this conversation because even, like, my whole crew, who knew you were coming tonight was like, oh my gosh, this is one of your favorite topics. I'm like, I know. And I have been to your clinic and even just have posted a few things on social and even just been sharing with family and friends and have gotten so many more questions about what colonic hydrotherapy is. So I'm, I'm excited to just share with with my friends and family this conversation. So let's just start with your personal journey and how you found your way kind of into this arena.

Monica Blough: Well, I call it a beautiful accident. I kind of stumbled upon colon hydrotherapy, and I was kind of the guinea pig. I was going to have a session to convince my husband that he needed a session because I'm perfect and he's not. And so it was, uh, radically life changing for me. Um, I had just been diagnosed with three different autoimmune things. Uh, all these arthritis and lupus and so inflammation, the umbrella with the inflammation. And throughout the process of colon hydrotherapy, I actually lost 70 pounds. So isn't that crazy? So much of that.

Amber Warren, PA-C: What was that timeframe?

Monica Blough: Um. Oh my gosh, probably a year.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Okay, wow.

Monica Blough: Probably a year. Yeah. So much of that was inflammation.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Oh, I'm sure.

Monica Blough: And just, i just knew nothing. I knew I was so I had had some back surgeries. There were so many steroids on board. I just knew nothing. I was just so ignorant to things.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah.

Monica Blough: So, um, so it was life changing for me. Um, and it became important to us to start our clinic and set a standard so that people could come and get colonics in a clean, healthy, um, proper environment. Yeah, that became really important to us, my husband and I. So that's where it began.

Amber Warren, PA-C: I mean, we should start with just defining what, a colonic. What colonic hydrotherapy is, right? Because, yeah, it's a little bit out there, and there's not everyone in our, even our area of integrative wellness that agrees with it or sees the benefits of it. Um, so you nailed it. Just talking about a clean, um, clinic in which to do these colonics in. So why don't you define for our audience what a colonic hydrotherapy session consists of?

Monica Blough: So I have the open system. And what that means is it is a gravity fed non-pressurized system. Uh, the the rectal tube is the size of a number two pencil. It's completely private. The water is going through a filtration system, and then it's UV treated. So it's just a continuous flow of warm water that's gently flushing the colon. The entire process is private. You're in there by yourself. The lights are off, the curtain is pulled. It's just a relaxing, enjoyable event. But what you're doing is you're you're it's kind of rinse and repeat. You're holding that water, allowing it to fill up into the large intestine and then releasing it. And the best part is, is you get to watch through a little YouTube and see what you're passing, which is pretty crazy. Um, when I see a new client, I like to see someone start with like three the first week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday kind of thing. Because the average person is hauling around 5 to 20 pounds, you can have up to 30 pounds plus sitting in your large intestine, and you can literally haul that around for decades. So it becomes caked in there, dehydrated. And I use the analogy of soaking a baked on lasagna pan. So Monday's session is preparing you for Wednesdays, and by Friday your mind is blown because so much more just with each one is is moving out. It's just crazy.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Wholeheartedly agree. Yeah. I could not agree more with with everything you're saying. Um. How many, and this is data that I don't know because I've heard a couple different opinions on this. How many colonics does it take to completely clean out your colon?

Monica Blough: That's such like that's $1 million question, right?

Amber Warren, PA-C: Because everyone's anatomy and their size of their colon and how they.

Monica Blough: Yep. Every body diet goal is different. I would not have a client doing back to back to back to back sessions. Yeah. By the third we're having a conversation and just kind of seeing where that individual client at every every like person is so different and unique. And the struggles are, are very unique. Um, I see a lot of people who I had two last week who left the ER and came to me, um, because the magnesium citrate that they prescribed them did not work. I see people all the time and it's so and I actually one of them, um, the doctor told her go get a colonic because she was on the schedule.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Oh, cool.

Monica Blough: Thought she had a blockage, canceled, went to the hospital and the doctor said, go and get one. And I talked to providers a lot because there, you know, there's the mixed reviews. And oftentimes, um, what I do is getting lumped into the closed system, which is a lot more invasive. It's a pressurized system. The rectal tube is large. It's the size of a roll of quarters, and you're lying on your side on a table having this procedure done where you're being filled up and everything is being suctioned out. And when you need to pass something larger than that roll of quarters or urinate, they're taking everything out. You're running to a toilet.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Oh, wow.

Monica Blough: And then hop back on the bed, reinsert. And so the.

Amber Warren, PA-C: There's clinics that still are doing that that way.

Monica Blough: Yep.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Oh wow. I didn't know that okay.

Monica Blough: Yeah that's the old school way of doing it. And so oftentimes, um, a lot of doctors or providers don't really know the difference. They lump them together. And um, and yeah, there's a there's a significant difference. It's another word for what I do as a high enema. But what's interesting is, um, one colonic is equal to 30 enemas.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. When you told me that, I was like, it makes sense. I mean, once you've done a colonic, you're like, yeah, that completely makes sense. As someone who's been doing coffee enemas for several years, it's like, yeah, you come in and do the colonic. So I'm curious who you feel like is the best candidate. I mean, I know you would probably say everyone's a great candidate, but I want to talk through who are the best candidates. That should be thinking like, I need to get to your clinic right away. And then who? What individuals out there might not be good candidates for doing colonic hydrotherapy?

Monica Blough: Well, so a great candidate is a middle aged man who has this belly, who's struggling with methylating. Um, and he's just chronically backed up. He has a diet, that's awful. Um, I see a lot of men who really struggle with constipation, but women too. Um. I see a lot of providers that come and see me, chiropractors, dentists. I mean, everyone is a good candidate. But then there's the others, I mean. And so a lot of chronic constipation who just. People just don't move. And so it's kind of a process of like cutting things out of their routine and, um, and making changes. Um, someone who might not be a great candidate would be someone with, like Crohn's or colitis, someone who has a compromised colon. Um, a pregnant gal, um, you can do it in the very beginning of a pregnancy and then right before they deliver. But I if I have someone who's pregnant coming to see me, I have a doctor's note, on board. It just makes me feel better.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. Yeah, that's that's a good that's a good plan. Um, how about people with hemorrhoids? Some significant internal or external hemorrhoids? Does that make you not a good candidate?

Monica Blough: That's a tricky one. I guess it depends on. It's a tricky one. So again, we we talk to them about the provider. What do they have going on there? Um, I feel like more women than not have some sort of hemorrhoid, but if they're..

Amber Warren, PA-C: Agreed. Yeah.

Monica Blough: Yeah. So they most a lot of women have had children. And so there's something going on. Um, when was the last like. Are you flared up right now? Are you actively bleeding? What? You know, how does your doctor feel about it? So it kind of.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Those are the conversations that you have.

Monica Blough: Yeah.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. I and I have a lot of clients I've sent over to do Colonics, and they come back and saying, I did one and it didn't do anything. Therefore, either it didn't work or I'm already completely empty and I'm like, I have to like revert back to that conversation and say, well, let's talk about the colon and what happens and what. So what is your response to somebody who says, I didn't see anything that was passed on my first my first session?

Monica Blough: Well, so, um, a couple of things. One, something went past. It ebbs and flows. So you have times where you're laying there and you're like, okay, so ten minutes has of clear water has passed and you've probably seen this yourself.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah.

Monica Blough: Um, and then a bunch more or, you know, you'll have some break loose. You might in the beginning and then midway. My answer to that and what I tell my clients always prior, is your first session is your least productive session. Your first session, it will be productive, but it will be your least productive. The other conversation that.

Amber Warren, PA-C: And why is that, Monica? Is that just because your colon isn't used to that fluid passing by?

Monica Blough: We hydrate through our bowels and so, so much of that. If you think of like a slinky stretched out and all of these bands have just built up, caked on, caked in their old poop. It's dehydrated. It's it's rotten, it's yucky. And so it's a process of softening. Like I said, that soaking that baked on lasagna pan. So Monday's is setting you up for for Wednesdays and Wednesdays is preparing you for Fridays.

Amber Warren, PA-C: And so that's a really good way of explaining it.

Monica Blough: Yeah. It's really so I always, always, always say that, you know, at some point you really need to consider doing a package and kind of approaching it that way.

Amber Warren, PA-C: It's so interesting to me because I feel like in functional medicine we are so good, well, we have so many clients that come to us constipated, whether they're coming to us constipated or whether or not they know it. Right? Because when we do our intake forms or ask the questions or talk to me about, are you having daily bowel movements? Uh, no. Not daily. How often are you having, um, every 2 to 3 days. And I'm like, okay, we have to spend some time on this, on this question. Right. Um, because a lot of people don't understand what it, what having normal bowel movements and normal gut health is actually like because they've never been asked the question. They've never been educated on how they should be emptying their bowels properly. So it's so interesting to me because of course we start there with gut health, and it's our bread and butter and functional medicine, and we try to get their bowels moving, but no one goes up more upstream to say, how do we empty what has been gathered? I mean, I have clients that have been constipated since they were it started with trauma as children. Right? Um, and there potentially is multiple decades of chronic constipation where their bowels have never been fully emptied. Right. And I know that me getting them on a gut healing protocol is not going to do the job. And that's where, in my mind, a colonic is the only solution to that. Yeah, it really is.

Monica Blough: It's crazy.

Amber Warren, PA-C: I know.

Monica Blough: Um, so many people it is. It's just such a common thing. And I hear that all the time from childhood on. Or someone will say, well, now I'm just like, I struggle with a lot of diarrhea. And I a lot of times I'm like, I will ask, well, I'll always ask, but, um, it was there a point in your life when you were constipated? Did you struggle with chronic constipation? And they're like, yeah, actually I did. And so oftentimes chronic diarrhea can be a symptom of chronic constipation because your body is trying so hard to make something happen. It's pulling water. And even like the supplements and different things, you've got to get that that junk out before you can bring the other things really on board and for them to be effective.

Amber Warren, PA-C: So you said the average person carries 5 to 20 pounds of backed up stool in their.

Monica Blough: Backed up stool. Yep.

Amber Warren, PA-C: I mean wow.

Monica Blough: It's crazy. I tell my clients, um, when I'm talking to them about the the you know, first is the, the least productive and the, the consecutive sessions. Um, I like my clients to really think of this as a therapy, especially if they're chronically constipated. There's a goal in mind, and that goal is to restore the colon down to its proper shape and size so it can do its job on its own. You know, so that they can get there. And that is achievable. And it's exciting when it happens. Oh yeah. Absolutely. It takes a little longer than others. And um. Yeah.

Amber Warren, PA-C: What is your response to that? Because I've heard a lot of the critiques. I'm sure you've heard many more, but, um, my first question would be, uh, it causes electrolyte imbalances. What's your critique to that? Yeah, it just in mechanistically I don't I don't see how it could.

Monica Blough: It's not as much water as people think going in.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Okay.

Monica Blough: Now I'm not familiar with the amount with the closed system, but it's not.

Amber Warren, PA-C: That's a good point.

Monica Blough: It's it's not as much as people think. I always, you know, provide a electrolyte drink at the end. Makes people feel good. It's a healthy drink. So it's not you know, it's it's a good they're good salts with the trace minerals, things like that. But it's not we're not doing it to the point where we're disrupting someone's electrolytes.

Amber Warren, PA-C: How much is too much as far as doing a colonic. Like what's your limitation on your clients? I know that first week you say three times a week. Do you let people continue to do it three times a week? Would you ever let somebody do it every day? I mean, there's really interesting data on coffee enemas and treatment of colorectal cancer, like coffee times six times, six times a day, but totally different.

Monica Blough: Totally different. And we do coffee enemas and also wormwood, different things there, which through the system, which makes it amazing because a lot of times people buy the coffee enema and it sits up on the shelf because they're like, what am I doing with this?

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. Or it's intimidating for them.

Monica Blough: It's yeah. And it just doesn't happen. But no, I wouldn't um, it depends on the client. I've had people do maybe once a week for a little bit.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Okay.

Monica Blough: Um, but not more than that. No. I'm not, um, we're not doing.

Amber Warren, PA-C: How about your response to people saying that it will. I've also heard this. It will deplete you of good gut bacteria.

Monica Blough: Well, my answer to that is is what good gut bacteria? If you have 5 to 20 pounds of old waste, you.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah, that's bad gut bacteria. Inevitably, there's something in there that you want out.

Monica Blough: It's, it's so funny to me because I'm like, let me show you a picture. And I have pictures. I'm like, let me show you a picture of what the human person like person has going on inside of them. And I always get the two mixed up, but I think it was John Wayne. It was either. So John Wayne had 40 pounds in his colon when he died in his autopsy. Elvis had 20 pounds so. Or 30 pounds. One of the two. Anyway, it's it's crazy. So when you're looking at this impacted distended colon, what good gut bacteria you have to get the old junk out to put the good stuff back in. And that's the goal. You get the old stuff out and then you repopulate everything. So my husband, um, works in wastewater in microbiology. We were talking about that earlier. Yeah. And it's so interesting. The wastewater plants, they're designed and they're ran very similar to, like, the human digestive system. And so it's the same thing. It's the good bugs. And then if they have some things off here or there, or however it happens, I don't know the intricacies, but, um, they'll sometimes have like an influx of bad bugs and they can order good bugs, they can purchase them and bring them in, and they will and they'll dump them into the plant. But if they don't very quickly change the environment, the good bugs kill the or the bad bugs kill the good bugs because.

Amber Warren, PA-C: They're just.

Monica Blough: They cannot thrive.

Amber Warren, PA-C: It's a crowding issue.

Monica Blough: They cannot thrive. And when and when you really dig into it and you're looking at an impacted colon, parasites absolutely love that they thrive in that environment. So what is is that telling you? Like it's just like you got to really chip away at stuff to to get that balance in that good gut bacteria restored.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. No that's a really that's that's a that's a fabulous answer. Okay. So we got the electrolyte issue I always like when I, when I come to your clinic and do a colonic I am blown away how well hydrated I am for the 24 hours after. And you're absolutely right. It's all those inner foldings and how thin the lining of our colon is, and that is passively, how we absorb nutrients and push toxins out. And it. Yeah, it's it's pretty amazing you even thinking I go in just like I do when I come in and do an I.V. therapy session, I'm like, I do a good job of staying hydrated. And I'm like, nope. Because you realize how much better you feel and how much better your skin looks and and everything when you truly get intracellularly hydrated.

Monica Blough: It's crazy. Your skin. I always say you will age in reverse. When I started getting colonics. So one of one of the first things that I noticed was so I'm going to back up a little bit. People will ask me, what are the, you know, what are a couple of things I'm going to notice right off. They're going to notice increased energy and better sleep. Those are the first two things. But for me, I had those. But I also had these bags under my eyes and I'm like, well, I guess that's just my new norm because I'm getting older, I don't know. It was really they were very prominent and, um, three colonics and they were completely gone. They never came back.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Wow.

Monica Blough: So it was just toxins? Yeah, it was just toxins.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Absolutely. So, um, I want to hear other myths and misconceptions that you hear about Colonics besides the handful that I've mentioned. Anything else I didn't mention?

Monica Blough: I don't know if this is a myth or a misconception, but I do have people that will say I moved to nothing. All the while they have brown water moving through the tube.

Amber Warren, PA-C: So that's still something.

Monica Blough: So I always explain to them, you know, if you took a garden hose to a pile of dog poop, yeah, it's going to be brown water. So that's a common thing that people are like, I'm not moving. They call me and I'm not moving anything. And I'm like, well, that's that's stuff happening. You're moving, you know? Um, it really is. I like people to write it out, like trust the process. Get to the third. I'll have people even call me back into the room and they're like, I didn't believe you. Oh, my gosh. You wouldn't believe what's coming out of my body right now. It's wild. Literally. Yeah.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Um, how about when you add ozone?

Monica Blough: Ozone is amazing.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yep. And why? What does ozone do? Especially within the colon.

Monica Blough: Well, I'm going to tell you what it does. And then you tell me what you think of it.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Okay, I love it.

Monica Blough: I'm interested to.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Know.

Monica Blough: Your take.

Amber Warren, PA-C: On it. Okay. Yeah.

Monica Blough: Um, so ozone is wonderful, as you know. Um, when we add it into the colonic, it ups like it. So it's great for cell regeneration, inflammation, all the things, the healing we have, there's so many healing benefits. It can kill parasites, all the things. Typically, though, I have a dentist who calls it his Scrubbing Bubbles. Typically, right after that, ozone goes in you really, it helps unearth the old stuff. You really have a really good release. You have a great movement after. Yeah, we put the ozone in.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Couldn't agree more. You talked me into adding it to one of my sessions and I was like, okay, that was life changing.

Monica Blough: That was life changing!

Amber Warren, PA-C: And I know that. So. Right. I mean, we we know we do a lot of ozone here in our clinic, mostly intravenously, but also rectally. Especially for now. We do rectal ozone for inflammatory bowel disease, inflammatory bowel syndrome, um, and just inflammation in general, um, because it's so much more potent when it's delivered rectally than even when it's delivered intravenously or having I mean, I have a lot of clients, I get them to drink ozone water or we do ozone insufflation in the ears for sinus issues. Um, but yeah, the rectal ozone, because of how it directly goes into the portal vein. It has the, the best, um, action on the body. Yeah. So we use it. Oh my goodness. Yeah I agree anti-parasitic it's antiviral antibacterial, anti-inflammatory like we mentioned. Um, I don't I think it's one of the most powerful anti-aging agents.

Monica Blough: It's it's amazing.

Amber Warren, PA-C: It's amazing. And it's so safe and so benign. Um, yeah. I think ozone is something that is kind of an old school treatment that we don't talk about enough. Oh, I totally agree.

Monica Blough: I can't believe, like, it's not just more of a popular thing.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Like a gold standard for so many different, for so many different conditions and symptoms. Yeah, even just watching our, uh, talented I.V. nurses, watching them, um, draw blood like 100 cc blood and then adding, um, ozone to the blood, seeing how magically that blood turns from a dark, deep red to a bright, vibrant live red, just alternating that blood before they put it back into somebody's body, it's like, okay, we should all be doing it every few weeks. That's pretty amazing. So yeah, I agree. And I never even thought because before I was coming to your clinic, I was going to a different clinic for colonics and that was not never an option. I never thought about. Yeah, of course, why wouldn't you add ozone into your colonic? So that to me. Yeah, that's just amazing. Um, how I'm curious, your other recommendations for gut health that you share with your clients because you're I mean, you're that's that's what you do. You you eat, breathe and sleep gut health. So obviously there's so much more than just doing a colonic that we can be doing. So what are your other recommendations?

Monica Blough: Well, I mean, probiotics, all of those things are great, but I am huge. I really highly recommend fermented foods. Um, that is the best way to to like, start repopulating, rebuilding, clean eating. It's so easy to clean your diet up. It's so I hear a lot. Well, it's expensive and it's this and it's that. And I'm like, no, it's not. You literally go into the grocery store and you find yourself only purchasing fresh fruit, vegetables, and if you eat meat, a meat or dairy and you walk away, you don't have to buy all the processed crap that's out there.

Amber Warren, PA-C: And by the way, let's try being sick and see how expensive it is. Pay for your pharmaceuticals and to have doctor's visits every eight weeks. And that's really expensive, let alone the loss of quality of life.

Monica Blough: It needs to be a priority. Yeah, it needs to be a priority because it's disease causing. And then you have if people who have all that sitting in their gut and they're eating like that, it's like a ticking time bomb. It really is.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Well, we wonder why the rates of colon cancer. I mean, I feel like I just continually get new emails and guidelines about, you know, risk of colon cancer and lowering the age in which we should be screening people for colon cancer. And very, very rarely do I hear more information or more people talking about why only in our industry are people talking about why we're seeing these increased rates of colon cancer, and our colon does so much of our detox in our body. So we have to start thinking about, um, taking better care of our colon. Which leads me to another one of my favorite uses for, um, colonic hydrotherapy. And I think this is okay to say on air, um, when my clients have to go get colonoscopies because that is colonoscopy is still the gold standard for colon cancer screening. I don't love them. They are invasive. Um, but my, My biggest issue with colonoscopies is the toxic soup they have to drink to prep their bodies to fully eliminate. Um, so, I mean, I learned from one of my wonderful colleagues years ago that colonic hydrotherapy is a great replacement for that colon prep. Now, I know you can't recommend that. Um, especially over the advice of a gastroenterologist that's doing the colonoscopy. But I've never had a client who hasn't succeeded using a colonic as opposed to that toxic prep.

Monica Blough: Well, so personally, I do have a testimony about that.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Great. I want to hear it.

Monica Blough: I've had two colonoscopies. Um, again, I was ignorant to some things. Not saying you shouldn't go get your colonoscopy. I'm just saying my dad died of colon cancer.

Amber Warren, PA-C: So of course you're going to start screening early.

Monica Blough: Yeah, they did a screening really early. Um, the first one. And I was so sick. Um, I just could not get through the. It's like it was crazy. I was so sick.

Amber Warren, PA-C: I was oh, it's wild what they put into your body. Yeah.

Monica Blough: So the second one, I did some colonics and I did. Other than fasting, I did absolutely nothing. And what was funny was my husband did his was like a Wednesday. Mine was a Thursday. So he's like, they're going to ask you these questions. What is your poop look like? Like if he gave me the cheat sheets because I'm like, I'm not telling them that I didn't do any of the things I fasted and did colonics. So afterwards. And I'm loopy, I'm like, was I was.

Amber Warren, PA-C: I empty clean?

Monica Blough: And they're like, yeah, you were as clean as a whistle. I'm like, let me tell you what I did. And so all the techs were coming into the room and they're like, I want to know, like, that's all you did. But yeah, I do. So that's like a double edged sword, a little bit like, um, when someone calls me and they're like, can I do this? So I'm like, you know, I always have to say, check with your doctor, check with your health care provider, all the things. But then I also have to talk to them about why, why are you getting the, the colonoscopy in the, you know, in the first place, what's happening in your body that that requires that right now other than this obviously the screening. But you know, I do get a lot of people with some.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Oh yeah, they're getting it for diagnostic reasons, not for screening reasons. Yeah.

Monica Blough: Um, but yeah, it I, I do see people um, I haven't checked with their doctor and I can't guarantee results, but it's a fantastic alternative. And some people just cannot. People have allergies. People are allergic to things in the prep, you know, or whatever the case. So they just can't do the traditional prep.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah, that's a good point. I didn't even think about people with allergies.

Monica Blough: I had a gal today that said she did the over-the-counter prep, um, which was I don't know which one that is.

Amber Warren, PA-C: There's a couple.

Monica Blough: There's there's one that's less invasive or less invasive. It's not the word, but less horrible than the other.

Amber Warren, PA-C: The less toxic, ingredients are slightly better.

Monica Blough: Yeah. And she said that they told her that she was so full of stuff they couldn't see.

Amber Warren, PA-C: It didn't work.

Monica Blough: Yeah, it just didn't work. So she was really bummed.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Especially for people who are already backed up. Usually it's just. Sometimes it's just not enough. Oh, my gosh, it's so good. It's just gold. All this information. Anything else you would like to share with our audience? Our listeners?

Monica Blough: I see a lot of people. So, um, I love. So our gut is our second brain.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yep.

Monica Blough: And it's all tied together. So a lot of times and I, I get through, I go through my day and I'm giving out hugs and I have people cry and it's emotional and that's daily. That is daily.

Amber Warren, PA-C: I believe it.

Monica Blough: Um, a lot of people have really have a hard time letting go.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah.

Monica Blough: Um, I have a person that I work with. He's a high functioning autistic, um, individual, and he is so sweet and he's nonverbal, and his mother comes and helps him and he moves just massive amounts out of his body. Massive. He understands that he needs to release. When he needs to release. He can't handle the sound he puts on his headphones. And his behavior after is just. It's like night and day.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Wow.

Monica Blough: It is so cool though. I mean, he actually clogged the system at one point and that just can't. Doesn't happen. So that's like really cool testimony. I feel like for, um, it's just a neat it just talks a lot about, like what, how much the brain and the gut are connected. And also, I have a lot of clients who do like EMDR therapy or go to their therapists for different types of appointments, even ketamine. Um, and then they wrap their day up with doing a colonic as part of their therapy, their therapy.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Part of the protocol. Neat. Yeah, it's to me, it's also just a phenomenal way to do nothing. I put on my Nervous System app. When I do it, I really try and force my body into parasympathetic, because there's not a lot of times in my life besides like getting a massage, which I'm not very good at doing regularly, where I'm able to just have 40 to 45 minutes of like pure parasympathetic, parasympathetic state. And when you're able to get there through breathing or using my app that I use like that, the colonic is going to be so much more successful, right. Rest and digest. That's when you can release.

Monica Blough: That pressure on the vagus nerve that getting that off of there. That's huge. Yeah that is huge. So yeah.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Oh yeah. We could go on and on about just the nervous system and the vagus nerve and just that connection. Yeah, well, it's just so cool. So how can people find out more about you?

Monica Blough: They can go to my website, wellness within.com. Our business number is (208) 575-6379. And we're on Instagram Wellness Within Colonics. So check us out.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Cool. Thank you Monica we really appreciate your time.

Monica Blough: This is really good.

Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. Good. Thank you!

Monica Blough: Thank you!

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