The Trials of a Four-Cup-a-Day Coffee Habit

There was a time when after the supper dishes were done,  I would head over to Starbucks to meet a friend and chat over a cup of coffee. I still have my coffee, but these days I brew a 4-cup batch and head over to the washroom for a coffee enema.  Same coffee; different experience!

If ever you'd like to try it out, here's the scoop:

1. Bring to a boil 4 cups of filtered water.
2. Add 2 tablespoons of caffeinated  coffee, preferably organic.
3. Let boil for another 5 minutes.
4. Leave it on the burner, turn off the heat, and let it cool to body temperature (~15-20 minutes.)
5. Filter (not paper) the coffee into an enema bag.

Some lay (on their right side) on a plastic sheet placed on the bed. I find it simpler to just use the tub where, if there's an accident, it's easier to clean up. 

The goal is to introduce to the sigmoid colon (the curved part of the large intestines just before the anus) a couple of cups of coffee and to hold it for 12 to 15 minutes. This is not as easy as it sounds. The body, quite rightly, perceives this intrusion as toxic and does its best to eliminate it.  

It's all relative of course, but 15 minutes of clenching one's cheeks feels like a long time. It requires a certain, je ne sais quoi, to hold on. Having done it once, you are invited to do it a second time.

It's right about here that I expect you to be asking yourself, "why would I want to do such a thing?" Well, it's a long story, but you're in luck as I'm going to give you the Coles Notes version. 

Apparently, there's a pathway that goes directly between the sigmoid colon and the liver. The presence of the coffee stimulates the liver to produce more glutathione-S-transferase, an enzyme that is critical to the production of glutathione. Gluathione, in turn, enables toxins to be eliminated via bile into the small intestines.