Most health professionals and other natural health practitioners agree you should ideally pass 2 to 3 bowel movements each day. A healthy person will eliminate food and waste 16 to 24 hours after eating. The average American takes 92 hours.

To test your bowel transit time, eat corn and see how many hours before it shows up in your feces. Or if you don't like corn, eat a large serving of beets and wait for a red stool to arrive.

If your bowel movements are not regular and frequent, you could be slowly poisoning your body from within. You may start to feel run down, bloated and windy in the gut. You may also get headachy, feel slight nausea and be constantly tired.

So how do you cleanse the colon?

Take the recommended serving of your colon cleansing product two times a day until your eliminations return to a lighter color. Continue this rotation until you feel lighter and "cleaned out." This feeling of being clean is hard to describe, but you'll know it when it happens.

At this point, your stools will become lighter more quickly after maintenance and you will take the cleansing serving less often.

We often see comments such as "Do you believe in colon cleansing" in various places around the net. It's not something to believe in or otherwise.

The point is whether you feel better after having done a cleanse or not. A vast majority of people will experience a positive difference compared with before the cleanse. That's the whole point at the end of the day.