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- 02:23 Why are coffee enemas an integral part of a nutritional balancing program?
- 03:49 How do they detoxify you?
- 08:11 What are the other benefits of coffee enemas?
- 14:09 How often should you do coffee enemas?
- 18:02 What kind of coffee is best to use?
- 21:13 What is the purpose of caffeine in coffee enemas?
- 23:18 Should you filter the coffee or not?
- 24:42 Which is more recommended: enema bag or bucket?
- 26:40 How does one do a coffee enema?
- 41:01 Where to find instructions on how to do coffee enema properly
- 43:57 Are coffee enemas safe?
- 47:42 Timing for Doing Coffee Enema
- 53:06 Quality of Food and Food Choices
Wendy Myers: Welcome to the Live to 110 podcast! My name is Wendy Myers and I’m a health and nutrition coach and nutritional balancing practitioner. Today, I’m interviewing Nikki Moses of MosesNutrition.com. She is a nutritional balancing practitioner in the Los Angeles area. And nutritional balancing science is very much a detoxification program that uses several methods to detox heavy metals and chemicals that are making us sick. And we’re going to go today into painful detail about everything you never wanted to know about coffee enemas. So, get ready.
I had to do a little disclaimer. Please keep in mind that the Live to 110 podcast is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease or health condition. This podcast is solely informational in nature and is not a substitute for medical advice. So please consult your health care practitioner before attempting in any treatment you hear on the show.
Personally, I think that coffee enemas are one of the best ways of cleansing the liver, the colon, and speeding up detoxification processes in the body. Because all toxins must be processed by your liver which is a near impossible job in our toxic world today. Coffee enemas provide a means for your liver to dump its toxic load of chemicals and even excess estrogen and heavy metals into the intestines for elimination.
And today, Nikki is going to get into the nitty gritty of coffee enemas. Our coffee talk is going to span their benefits, how often should you do them, what kind of coffee is best, how should you make the coffee, what kind of equipment is best, are they safe, which is a big question and concern people have. We’re going to talk about how to do an enema. Basically, we’re going to cover it all.
So hello, Nikki! Thanks for being on the show again.
Nikki Moses: Hi Wendy! Thanks for having me.
Wendy Myers: Well let’s turn our talk to coffee enemas. This method really seems to freak people out, especially the guys. But why are they an integral part of a nutritional balancing program, or really, any detoxification program?
Nikki Moses: Well, as you mentioned earlier, the liver has to process all the toxins that are being dumped by the body. And so, when you’re doing a detoxification protocol, you’re moving toxins from all kinds of tissues in the body. Usually if you’re doing a correct detoxification protocol, things come out of the bones, they come out of the ligaments, the organs, fat tissue, all of that has to be sent through the liver. So when you’re trying to heal the body and these toxins are starting to dump, the liver gets worked very hard. It can get a little bit overloaded. And so, the coffee enemas really assist in moving those toxins out and releasing some of that burden on the liver.
They have a lot of other benefits as well. But that’s one of the key reasons if you’re doing any type of detoxification, why they are so important. They are optional when you’re doing a nutritional balancing program but very highly recommended. And in some cases, it’s fairly essential. Some people moving through the detoxification aspect of a nutritional balancing program really find that they need the coffee enemas to smooth that process along.
Wendy Myers: Well, how exactly do they work to detoxify you?
Nikki Moses: Well, one thing is they do increase bile flow. Bile is a substance released by the liver. It’s stored in the gallbladder and released also by the gallbladder. And bile is one of the means in which the liver releases toxins. It’s the way the liver moves toxins out into the small intestines, which then it filters down and is carried out by the feces. So increasing bile flow helps the liver to release more of these toxins. The bile is transported more quickly out of the body when doing coffee enemas so you don’t get as much re-absorption of the bile, which then you may re-absorb toxins if you were to re-absorb that bile. So it really pulls that out very quickly. When you do a coffee enema, you usually get a pretty instant release of bile. So these toxins that are built up just flush right out of the liver. It has other benefits as well, too.
Your toxic colon is a big issue today. Most people, the colon is one of the most diseased organs in the body, and their toxins do build up. Fecal matter gets impacted. Mucosal linings get old and they should be shedding, and they’re not. They’re full of toxins. You get infections in the intestines. So the coffee enema actually, directly, clears a lot of that out of the colon, and the more you do, usually, the cleaner the colon gets.
We have a lot of people over the years who have gone in for their colonoscopies as they get older. And when they’ve been doing coffee enemas for a number of years, we get rave reviews from the doctors. They’re amazed at how clean their colons are. So part of the detoxification is just directly in the colon but it’s important to remember that’s really not the main purpose. It really has to do with the liver. It also has to do with increasing glutathione activity in the body, which is a very important part of your detoxification systems. Something in the coffee stimulates better utilization of the glutathione. So it’s not just the liver cleanse, really, we find that the whole body cleanse is also while doing a coffee enema.
Wendy Myers: Why do we need increased glutathione for detoxification?
Nikki Moses: Well, it’s just one of the components of the processes of elimination in the body, and it’s an important one. Truthfully, what the coffee enema seems to upregulate is the glutathione as transphase. And it’s part of that glutathione system that attaches certain things to the glutathione. So it’s not necessarily that we’re creating more glutathione but we’re allowing that whole process to function a little bit better with coffee enemas. And truthfully, there is a lot about coffee enemas we don’t know.
When drug companies go to release a medical drug, they spent billions of dollars sometimes, and definitely millions, doing research because they can then recover those expenses when they start selling the drug or a medical device, for example. With coffee enemas, there’s no money to be made to recover a lot of the research expenses, so there is a lot more to be done. We don’t really know all the reasons why it enhances detoxification and this is mostly empirical evidence spanning over 30 years. At least with Dr. Wilson, he’s been doing coffee enemas for more than 30 years, and he’s the founder of Nutritional Balancing Science, right? So some of what we see, we’ve just seen. And other researchers and physicians have noticed, and having their patients do coffee enemas.
Wendy Myers: I’ve heard actually that the glutathione, it helps attach to the heavy metals to take it out because the body just can’t. This is from what I understand, that the body just can’t release heavy metals. They have to be attached to the glutathione molecule or alpha-lipoic acid molecule, or vitamin C, in order to come out.
Nikki Moses: Exactly. They’re attached to a number of different things. A lot of that is what the liver does. It enzymatically processes the toxins. They talk about phase 1, phase 2, phase 3 liver detox, it’s all these processes that alter these toxins or attach them to something so they can be carried out. Some are released into the blood and carried out to the kidneys, a lot go out through the bowel, some go out through the lungs, some to the skin. So all of that processing is part of how these things are removed and even what system removes them.
Wendy Myers: So what are some of the other benefits that the coffee enemas have? I know, for me, I had period for about a month where I stopped doing them and my skin got really congested. All my pores got clogged and I thought, “What is going on?” And then I was just busy writing my book on weight loss, and then I started doing them again, I got to get back to my detox program. My skin instantly cleared up.
Nikki Moses: Yes that’s a common report. The skin is an eliminative organ. It’s one of our major eliminative organs. What happens when the liver gets backed up, is the toxins tend to start pushing out through the skin, and then it can cause acne and other skin conditions. There are other links between liver, health, and the skin as well. So keeping your liver clean, keeping it healthy is actually a very big component in skin health.
So a lot of people report improvements. I have a client who started coffee enemas. Actually before she came to me, she had severe hives, severe chronic hives. We are talking the level where people go to the hospital, very swollen, welting, head to toe. And she credits coffee enemas with saving her life. She didn’t even do the full program at that point. She just did the coffee enemas and it actually got rid of the hives.
Wendy Myers: Well, I’ve heard they’re amazing for headaches and pain disorders as well.
Nikki Moses: They are. Coffee enemas have a great impact on pain relief. It’s one of their benefits, headaches as well. Sometimes a headache is caused by toxins circulating around in the body, and when you do the coffee enema, you help remove those toxins and so it can ease a headache. I’ve many clients who use coffee enemas for migraine prevention. They start to get a little touch of that migraine and they go do a coffee enema, and very often the migraine is stopped right there. It doesn’t fully express itself and it just goes away. So it has a lot more benefits than you would imagine. Anything related to toxicity in the body, any symptom which is pretty much any disease date today, those are all benefited by the coffee enemas.
Wendy Myers: Yes, nausea too. Every time I get nauseous, I do an enema and it’s gone. It’s amazing.
Nikki Moses: Yes, that’s another one, exactly. So anything from arthritis to even cancer has shown benefits with doing coffee enemas.
Wendy Myers: How does that affect cancer? That’s something I’m really interested in because I know in the Gerson protocol and the Kelley protocol that nutritional balancing recommends for healing cancer that they use coffee enemas as a major part of the protocol to detox the liver. Can you explain that? Why is that good method to address cancer?
Nikki Moses: Well, I can get into that a little bit. As you know, Wendy, we don’t really promote nutritional balancing science as a cancer therapy. It isn’t. But the Gerson method definitely is, and they still use it to this day. They recommend currently about five coffee enemas per day for a number of years for cancer patients. And the reason for this is the liver is responsible not just for detoxifying in the body. It has so many functions, so many, thousands of chemical actions it does. And when you’re dealing with cancer, the liver is very important. And when you’re killing off cancer, those are all toxins that are released from those dying cells. All the by-products of that have to be carried out of the body. And that’s where the liver really comes into play, especially in cancer therapies, the liver is worked extremely hard while you’re killing off cancer. And it needs to be kept in good health to continue that process safely and effectively for the body. So when you do the coffee enemas, it stimulates the liver, it helps clear the debris out which then allows the body to better fight the cancer.
Wendy Myers: I really like that explanation because I think it’s something people really need to hear. There are so many other ways to assist the body in healing cancer, other than the standard treatment your doctor recommends.
Nikki Moses: Yes, exactly. Coffee enemas by themselves are not full cancer therapy. They are part of that Gerson method.
Wendy Myers: And also, I’ve heard some people mention that they worry about probiotics being washed out of their colon by an enema. And I’ve heard many different kinds of health practitioners recommending against coffee enemas or any kind of enema or colon therapy for this reason. Do you find it plausible that when you do a coffee enema that it’s washing out all of the good bacteria and probiotics?
Nikki Moses: I haven’t seen that in my experience and neither has Dr. Wilson in his 30 years of doing this. A lot of it depends on how you’re doing your coffee enema. Colonics, for example, are very different. There’s a lot of inflow of water with the colonic, and then it goes out, and then you feel more and it’s in and out, in and out, through the whole colon, right? A lot of volume of water.
Wendy Myers: Yes I know. I’ve done this and then they fill you until you’re about to explode. And then they empty out. So it’s very different.
Nikki Moses: It is very different, yes. We use about two cups of liquid total. And it’s not in out, in out, in out, which, if you do that too often, can strip some necessary things in the bowel. That’s when people may report more problems, or if they’re doing coffee enemas incorrectly. There are a lot of methods out there that will have a person fill with a quart of liquid and then released and fill again and release. I’ve had people come to me doing coffee enemas on their own before coming to me. My coach threw two gallons of liquid doing one enema. And that can be a little bit too much. But truthfully, your bowel is designed to pass through fecal matter and fluids, all of these, without losing those probiotics.
Wendy Myers: Yes because they are in the mucosal lining of the intestines. They’re not gonna be just washed away that easily.
Nikki Moses: They aren’t. Otherwise we wouldn’t have any left just from our normal body functions.
Wendy Myers: How often should you do them?
Nikki Moses: Well, it depends on what you’re doing. With our protocol, we recommend at least one a day, generally, is beneficial. Sometimes, more often than that. You can do up to four a day. Sometimes you’re going through a major detoxification that day. I’ve even had clients occasionally do five in a day, occasionally when they really need it. So ideally, one a day is great. Any time you do it is helpful. Some people can only do them on the weekends. Well great, do them on the weekends. Don’t think that because you can’t do it every day that you shouldn’t do it. Any amount that you do, even once a month is beneficial. They are beneficial on the individual basis. Of course, doing them more often is better though.
Wendy Myers: And how long does someone need to do them? Do they have to do them forever, their whole life? Or do they need to do them a year? Pretty frequently, every day. How long does that need to be sustained for detoxification?
Nikki Moses: Well, everyone’s different and everybody comes to their healing process with a different toxic load and other factors. So it’s a matter of how far you want to go. Also, the body can remove toxins at very deep levels. We think of toxins often in terms of chemicals that you ingest from the environment, toxic metals. But there are a lot of other toxins in the body, many of them made by the body itself. And most people are so overloaded with external toxins that that internal debris doesn’t get to be released because the body is too overloaded. Things like damaged proteins that the cells have generated. Eventually, as you continue your healing, those start to come out too. So sometimes you’re dealing with other types of toxins, the typical toxins you would think of, and that happens usually later on in the healing process. The coffee enemas are very helpful for that too. So people can continue coffee enemas for years if they want. I haven’t seen any negative effects from continued coffee enemas. I’m talking about people who’ve done them for 10-plus years. I’ve been doing them myself off and on for 13 years.
Wendy Myers: Oh, wow.
Nikki Moses: Yes, I’ll take a break sometimes, and my bowel movements come right back. They’re not addictive in that sense. You don’t become dependent on the coffee enemas. You do go back to normal bowel function. In fact, for many people, the coffee enemas actually tone the bowel. They have trouble going to the bathroom normally, and after doing a series of coffee enemas, because the enema actually forces a contraction in there. It helps tone those muscles so that they actually have better bowel movements after stopping the enemas.
Wendy Myers: Yes, and I’d definitely recommend it to any of my clients that have constipation or IBS. They’re invaluable. And even myself, if I ever find myself constipated, that it’s really a tremendous relief.
Nikki Moses: Absolutely! It really does assist that and it helps to heal the colon. They really do. You’re pulling out that impacted fecal matter out, you’re getting rid of debris that’s been stuck in there for a really long time, all these things that interfere with the natural processes of the bowel. Another factor, actually, that I didn’t mention earlier but probably should have, is that the alkaline acid balance in the intestines is very important. Your small intestine is generally alkaline and when the bile dumps from doing the coffee enema, bile is alkaline. So it assists in creating the proper environment in the small intestines. Now, the bowel should be slightly acidic. When you get down to the large intestine, that’s where it turns acidic again. Well, coffee is acidic. So when you’re implanting that coffee, you are now helping the bowel to become a little bit more acidic which the good probiotics in there, all of the greatest tissues in the bowel. thrive better in that environment. So again, that has a healing effect on the large intestines when you do a coffee enema.
Wendy Myers: And there’s another big question that I always hear on Facebook groups or other questions people have. What kind of coffee is best to use? I know Dr. Wilson, he likes dark coffee and other people say you have to use organic. I personally like S.A. Wilson coffee. It’s specifically for coffee enemas. Some people say use Folgers in the red can if you’re on a budget. What is your opinion? It’s very confusing.
Nikki Moses: Yes, generally, I’ve tried all different coffees. I’ve tried the fancy enema coffee, and I’ve tried just regular coffee. I’ve been at hotel rooms, and use Starbucks coffee.
They all generally work as long as you’re using a caffeinated coffee. You do not want to use decaffeinated coffee. Ideally, you do want organic just because you are implanting this in your body, and it is best to avoid pesticides where possible. But yes, the red Folgers canned coffee is a very popular choice for budget-friendly reasons. And if you can’t find an organic coffee, so many are available online. It’s actually very easy to get a hold of that. S.A. Wilson coffee is popular because it’s designed for coffee enemas or it’s promoted that way. I have clients who like it and I have clients who don’t respond as well to it. Sometimes it’s a matter of trying different kinds of coffee. Dr. Wilson likes coffee from South America, which may be better.
Wendy Myers: That’s very specific.
Nikki Moses: Yes, very specific. But that’s where a lot of our coffee comes from, historically.
So it’s a matter of personal choice. The darker the roast, the less caffeine. But we’re talking very small percentages here when you’re dealing with reduction in caffeine as you roast that coffee. It’s almost negligible. Although dark roasting may bring out other compounds in the coffee. So I do tend towards the medium to dark roast when doing it. But again, the important thing is just to get started with these. It can get very complex and you can think “Oh, my! I have to go and find the perfect enema contraption and the perfect coffee.”
No, just get started. As long as it caffeinated, definitely do not use decaf, and ideally try to find a high quality organic coffee.
And then there are issues, if you want to take it further, such as getting whole coffee beans that tend to be more fresh, less rancid. You can grind them yourself or buy them whole. Trader Joe’s sells a lot of whole coffee beans and you pour it in their machine and they grind it for you on the spot, and then you put it back in the can. That’s more fresh. So options like that can be better. But again, it’s best just to get started.
Wendy Myers: I like what you told me when I first started working with you. You’re my nutritional balancing practitioner when I first started and you told me you can’t screw it up. You can’t screw up the coffee enema. Just do it. Don’t overthink it. You just do it.
Nikki Moses: Yes. They’re very hard to mess up and almost everything is normal. You call up and go, “I didn’t release the enema.” That’s normal. All these things, it happens. So yes, you just want to get started. Really, the one thing you want to be careful of is not to use coffee that’s too hot. That’s the one way you can really mess it up.
Wendy Myers: Ouch.
Nikki Moses: Yes.
Wendy Myers: So I tend to think of the Arabica beans, that’s the beans that are in Folger’s and typically, the beans that have gone in South America, or the cheaper coffees are Arabica beans. And these have higher caffeine amounts in them. So what is the caffeine doing? Why do you have to have caffeine in the coffee that you’re using for a coffee enema?
Nikki Moses: That’s a good question. It definitely is one of the components in increasing the bile flow. And when they were first doing research in coffee enemas in, I think it was about 1917, they were actually not using necessarily coffee. They were researching the effects of caffeine when used in that manner. So caffeine does seem to be one of the key components. I’m not sure why it does what it does. They are absorbing these things through the wall of the bowel. That is what’s happening. You do absorb it, the blood flow straight to the liver so the caffeine is moving to your liver. And of course, there are caffeine effects when you’re doing a coffee enema. If you’re very sensitive to caffeine, you should start really slowly. Some people need to use just a pinch of coffee grinds in their enema. And occasionally, people are too sensitive to caffeine to actually do coffee enemas. But that is the big active component, one of them, in increasing that bile flow.
Wendy Myers: Well, I’ve read that one of the reasons you have to have the caffeine in the coffee is that the portal vein that connects the liver to the intestines, what coffee does is that it makes your blood vessels expand.
Nikki Moses: Yes, dilates.
Wendy Myers: Yes, dilates and then that helps the liver dump into the colon.
Nikki Moses: Yes, that is true as well. Definitely. Yes. So it just doesn’t work when you don’t do the caffeine. That’s really what the research was centered around. Now, coffee has a lot of other compounds in it. Again, research is still continuing as to why these are so powerful, why they create the observable benefits that practitioners have noticed. But caffeine does appear to be one of the main components in that, in moving things to the liver and getting the liver to dump that bile.
Wendy Myers: And so, after you brew the coffee, should you filter it or not? That’s why I like the S.A. Wilson because it’s a large grind, and I just have to pour the liquid off. But if you grind it too fine, then you find you’re gonna have to filter it.
Nikki Moses: Yes, it really isn’t damaging to put coffee grinds into your colon, right? It’s not really harmful to do that. The problem is that they clog up the enema too. So it is a good idea not to have grinds in your enema because that’s the risk. You go do your enema and nothing comes out of the tube because it’s clogged with the grind. So you use a thicker grind, it’s a larger grain. So like you said, you can just slowly pour it and the grinds tend to stay in the bottom of whatever you’re pouring out of and into the enema bag or bucket. I generally tend to strain it. I’ll use a metal strainer. If you have a coffee pot, which is one of the easiest ways to make the coffee, just use a regular drip coffee pot, they come with filters. Now, I don’t recommend using the white filters. They’ve been bleached. You generally want to use unbleached filters, or for most coffee pots you can actually buy a washable filter. It’s mashed in plastic and you can just wash that. So it really doesn’t matter as long as you get most of the bigger grinds out so it’t not clogging your bag.
Wendy Myers: Okay. And what about the enema bag or bucket that you recommend? A lot of people are torn. What do you think is best to use or recommended?
Nikki Moses: Honestly, it’s a matter of preference. I prefer an enema bag. It’s easy for me. It has a little hook on it, and it’s easy for me to hang from any surface. And I like that. Some people don’t like that you can’t see through the bag, but for me, I just watch it flatten out and I know that the coffee’s out. You give it a little shake or you can lift it, you feel the weight of it, you know that it’s been emptied into you.
But it’s not as easy to clean. Generally, with coffee enema bags, just when you’re done you just run some hot water in there, give it a shake, rinse it out a couple of times and you’re pretty good. They’re inexpensive. You can replace them as often as you like. I don’t find the need to get too involved in the cleaning of the bags. Some people find that they feel like they need to clean the bag. But there is no flow of coffee or any substance from your body back up into the bag. It’s just coffee residues that are in there. So it’s pretty easy just to give it a rinse and clean that out. With the bucket, what’s nice is that it’s open on the top and you can easily get a sponge in there and clean it out. Plus, many of the buckets are see-through. Basically, you can be laying there and looking at the coffee level comes down. So some people prefer that. It’s really hard to travel with the bucket.
Wendy Myers: Yes, it’s big.
Nikki Moses: It’s big.
Wendy Myers: It’s a two-core bucket.
Nikki Moses: Exactly.
Wendy Myers: Yes that’s a little embarrassing going through security.
Nikki Moses: Oh, I bet. That’s very funny. Yes, I know the bags are great for travel. They’re flat, they easily go into a suitcase, and they also easily store in a smaller bathroom. You can tuck them away in a drawer something much more easily than you can tuck away a bucket. But really it’s a matter of personal preference. They both work great and I have clients who like either both of them or one or the other. It’s really a matter of their preference.
Wendy Myers: Okay, so let’s get into the nitty gritty details, a little TMI here. What is the procedure to do an enema? How does someone go about doing an enema?
Nikki Moses: Well, first you got to make the coffee. Generally, two cups is plenty of fluid. Some people use a little less, some people use a little bit more. So you make your coffee. Start with a very small amount of coffee grinds. If you’re very sensitive to caffeine, like I said, just try a pinch of coffee grinds and you make your coffee. Ideally, you want to use either a coffee pot, like a drip coffee pot. So you would put the grinds in the filter section of the coffee pot and you pour maybe about a cup of water into the coffee pot and just hit brew, and that will filter down through to make a very weak coffee.
Or you can do it on the stove, in a pan. So, you take the coffee grinds, you put it in a pan on a stove, you add some water, a cup or less. You don’t really need a lot for that purpose. You bring it up to a boil, and then you turn it down on low, and you let it simmer for about anywhere from 6 to 13 minutes. And in that case you may want to pour it through a strainer when you’re done because you’re not using the coffee pot.
So now you have your hot coffee concentrated liquid, and you can now add either ice cubes or another cup of room temperature water to bring it up to your two cups of liquid. Generally, you want to use good water. You want to use very well-filtered water. So distilled water is a wonderful option. It’s very clean. It does help to extract some of the nutrients and other things that are inside the coffee that are part of what makes the enema effective. So distilled water is very good. You can use spring water but generally a filtered water is fine. You can buy bottled, filtered water. You’re not using this to drink and it’s used to make the coffee. We don’t recommend drinking reverse osmosis water, for example. But you can use it to prepare an enema.
So now you have your two cups of liquid and whether you have a bucket or an enema bag, you would then pour it into the bucket or the bag. And each device works a little differently, but in general there’s what holds the coffee and there’s a long hose that comes off of it. And at the end of that hose is a clamp, and beyond that is the tip, that’s the insertion tip.
Now, people get a little freaked out about the idea of the insertion tip. I’m sure you’ve run into this, Wendy.
Wendy Myers: Yes.
Nikki Moses: So generally, they’re small and I would say about the size of your pinky. They have larger ones but you don’t need the larger ones. The enema bags, they’re very easy to buy. There are combination enema douche system, with the red bag and the white hose that comes off. They have two attachments that come with that. One for women, for douche, which is a longer attachment. And then you have the smaller attachment that you would use normally typically for an enema. And it’s very small, so it’s quite easy to insert. You definitely want to use some type of lubrication on it, an oil of some kind. You can use olive oil even, to lubricate but it’s very easy to insert. So it’s not a large insertion tube.
For example, when you go do a colonic, it’s very wide. It’s probably about an inch and a half, being an inch and a quarter wide. It’s large. So this is very easy to do with that. The enema bags or buckets, you pour your coffee and now you got air in that long tube coming off of this thing and if you happen to do the enema right then and there, the coffee will come down, it’ll push the air out of the tube into your colon. That’s okay if that happens. Everybody forgets every once in a while to clear the air out of the tube. So don’t worry if that happens. The air will come back out. But generally, what you want to do is you want to elevate the bucket or the enema bag and you release the clamp or you hold it over the sink. And you open the clamp and the coffee flows down to the long tube and it pushes the air out of the tube. And once you see coffee spurt out of the end of the enema tube, you then clamp it back closed.
And you hold it, walk over to where you’re going to do your enema, and hold it with the bucket or bag, slightly over the end of the enema tube so that the coffee stays in that tube.
So now, you’re ready to go. You just put oil on the end of the insertion tube and you can do it anywhere. For the first time, you might want to try it in the bathroom, in an environment where you happen to make a mess is okay. But I have people who do where they lay on their bed, they lay on the sofa, you can do it lying in the bathtub.
Wendy Myers: That’s what I do. I make a little nest in the bathtub. I put a couple of towels down and a pillow, and get my book.
Nikki Moses: Yes, exactly.
Wendy Myers: Make myself comfy in the bathtub. Because it does get messy. I mean, for me, at least there’s always leakage or you have trouble holding it and a little bit leaks out. And so, I just personally wouldn’t want to do it on my bed but some people are better at holding it.
Nikki Moses: Yes, some people are. Some people have no issue. I mean I have people who, even though I don’t recommend it, they walk around while holding their coffee enema. They have no problem retaining it. And then there are others where you get some leakage. Generally, with leakage you do want to do it in the bathroom or the bathtub. I have told people who have a hard time getting on to the floor, which is an issue for some people, where it’s much easier to get on to a bed. You can just take a very large garbage bag and you lay it on the bed and put maybe a towel on top of that, so that protects from any leakage.
So you can pretty much do it anywhere. What you do want to do is you need to be able to elevate the bag or the bucket above your body because gravity is what pulls that coffee down. The higher you elevate it, the more flow you have. So you might be able to lay on the floor and hang it from a doorknob. People have all kinds of ways they set this up, something that they hang it from. Or you can hold the bag up in the air and if you can hold it high enough with your hand while you’re lying there, the coffee will flow.
So you basically want to lay down. Generally on your back is best. And you insert the tube all the way. You want to get it all the way in, which is about at least three inches. And I generally find it’s best to hold on to that so it doesn’t move around or slip back out. And then you open the clamp, and the coffee will start to flow if you’ve got the bag elevated. Be careful if you elevate the bag a lot. Say you have three feet up, you can get quite a flow of coffee. So open the clamp a little bit and judge it based on what you feel happening. So the more you open that clamp, the further you allow that flow, the more coffee goes in at one time.
And this is where everybody is different. Some people can feel very quickly, some people they have to feel slowly, and you can close that clamp any time. So you can let a little bit in, close it. Let a little bit, close it. You’re going to feel, especially in the beginning, some cramping which is your body going “Oh, there’s stuff here, I have to go to the bathroom now.” Of course, you’re trying not to go to the bathroom then. This is really a retention enema. The idea is to retain it, to hold on to the coffee. You want to hold it inside the body for a little while. So ideally, you don’t want to get right up and go to the bathroom. It’s okay if you do. Again, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s hard to mess this up. But generally, you want to be able to retain it. So if you start to feel some cramping, close the clamp, take some deep breaths, you can even massage your lower abdomen area. The colon wraps around from the right side. It’s where it meets the small intestine. So everything enters the large intestine on the right side and down by your pelvic area, and then it wraps up. And it curves up and around, either at the belly button level or above it. And then it goes all the way over to the left side and then it comes down and curves its way out.
So I find when massaging to hold the enema, it can help to massage upwards from the bottom left area near the pelvic bone there and massage up. And then over to the right and around the belly button to keep that coffee from coming out. So fill as slowly as you need to, and once you filled it up, you do want to hold the coffee enema for about 15 minutes. Some people like to hold it up to about 30 minutes.
It’s okay if you forget and fall asleep. I’ve had clients go to sleep with an enema in them. It’s okay too. You’ll just absorb a lot of water which hydrates the body. That’s okay.
Wendy Myers: I find sometimes I absorb most of the liquid. I’m like, “What happened? I was supposed to eject it.”
Nikki Moses: Yes, the body was very thirsty or slightly dehydrated. The bowel is intended to be a place where the body absorbs water. The digested food when it spits out into the large intestine, it’s full of all these liquids. So as to not have you have diarrhea, a part of the function of the colon is to absorb water. It’s one of the reasons that your body absorbs the coffee. That part of the body is designed to absorb those things and definitely water. So if you’re dehydrated, you will absorb a lot of that water. Again, that’s okay. It’s good. You just hydrated yourself as well as having the benefits of the enema. But in that case when you go to the toilet afterwards to release the enema, you won’t have much come out.
One of the things I want to mention as well is that some people find it easiest to do a water enema first to clear some of the fecal matter out of the large intestine before doing the coffee enema. This is not a necessary step, meaning the coffee enema is effective whether you do this or not. But for some people, it helps them to retain the coffee longer if they do the water enema first.
Wendy Myers: Yes that’s what I found. Usually, when I have fecal matter in there, I first started using water. But then I just started making it easier and just filling up my whole bucket full of coffee. And then I do one little two-minute enema and then expel it, and then fill up again, and then I’m ready for my 15 minutes.
Nikki Moses: And that works too. And it’s really an individual thing. Everybody could go try it both ways. It’s faster if you don’t have to do the water enema first or like you do, using the coffee as that initial cleaning enema. Remember, if you do water enema, you don’t have to retain it for 15 minutes. All you’re doing is using it to loosen up some of the stool that’s in there and help it flow out of the body so that you can then do the coffee enema where you then try to hold it for 15 minutes.
By the way, you will still get benefit if you all you can do is hold it for three minutes. Don’t give up. It’s still worth doing that. And like Wendy does, you can do multiple coffee enemas in that situation. You fill the bag a little bit more, do one, hold it for a few minutes, release it, do another one, hold it for a few minutes and release it. You’ll still get benefit that way.
Wendy Myers: Yes that’s what I did. When I first started, I can only do a five, five and five. But now, I’m an old pro so now I can do the whole 15 in one shot.
Nikki Moses: Yes, you do it better as you go. It’s true. You become more proficient, the body gets used to it, you learn all the tricks, you learn how your body responds to these things, and if all you have time for is a five-minute coffee enema, do it. I have client who was raising children. She had a toddler and another baby, and it was very hard for her to get half an hour to herself. And I told her that’s okay. Do an enema and hold it for five minutes. And if that’s all you can do, great. It’s still going to be beneficial.
So yes, that’s the idea. You want to hold the enema. When you’re laying there holding the enema, you can close the clamp and remove the enema tube, which many people do. Usually, it’s good to have some tissue handy. You just wrap the end of the the whole tube with some tissue and set it aside. As long as that clamp is really closed, it shouldn’t leak. Although sometimes they do, yes, and that’s a faulty enema clamp. Or sometimes, the end tip is not screwed on very well to where it’s supposed to be, and you can get some leakage. That should be corrected. That’s faulty. Once it’s clamped, it shouldn’t leak and you can set it aside, and you can lay any position that’s comfortable. You can lay on your back, you can roll on to your right side, you can lay on the left side. Some people turn over and bend down on their hands and knees, or their elbows and their knees, the butt elevated a little bit. Any position that helps you retain that enema is okay to do. There is no wrong way to do that.
So when you’re done, then you get up and you go to the toilet and you release the enema. Some people have a hard time retaining the enema. Wendy was mentioning that some people have leakage. That is a factor for some people. You can leave the enema tip in, after you filled up, and you leave the clamp open. And as long as the bag or bucket is elevated, the body actually will be pushing sometimes gas out. And that’s part of the problem. You’ll feel that pressure and that cramping because of the gas bubble there. And sometimes that can release out through that little tube and up into the bag or bucket. So that can help. If you’re having trouble, you can leave the enema tip end. Another choice is to use a slightly damp wash cloth. And you press it to the rectum while you’re holding the enema. And that can help prevent the leakages as well.
Wendy Myers: Yes, it is forced to stay in.
Nikki Moses: Yes, you just hold it there. Exactly, it forced it to stay in. And like I said, most people don’t have trouble with that but some do, so you’ll have to see where you fall in that category. And then once you’ve released the enema, there is some clean up. So you want to wash the tip with soap. Again, we don’t have to go crazy with this and try to disinfect it and apply rubbing alcohol over everything. Usually, soap and water work just fine.
I don’t disassemble the whole bag. That takes a lot of time. So what you do is you just remove the hose part from the bag or the bucket. With a bucket, you probably don’t have to. You can just run water down through the bucket and it’s going to run down that hose, and do that in the shower, over the top or over the sink. You just run water through inside of the hose to remove any coffee that might be left in the hose. And you give the bag or the bucket a rinse. And that’s really the simplicity of the clean-up.
Wendy Myers: So where can someone find instructions on how to do a coffee enema properly? Or if they need it jut all spelled out for them on paper?
Nikki Moses: Well, I imagine you might have something on your website. I certainly do on mine at MosesNutrition.com. Dr. Wilson also has instructions on his website, DrLWilson.com. Generally, you’re going to hunt around to find all kinds of different instructions.
I find what we do fairly safe. I don’t like people filling up with large-volume coffee enemas. The goal really isn’t that you need to fill up the entire large intestines. What happens as you dump that bile. is that it comes down and enters the large intestine. It moves pretty quickly and has a cleansing effect to the deeper parts of the large intestines, right? So this isn’t a colonic. So I find where people run into trouble with enemas, stripping the bowels of necessary things or causing some other problems, is when they overfill. And they do it with too much volume of liquid in and out of the body. So generally, you just use less water.
So instructions where you go online, if you’re poking around, and has stepped with high volumes of enemas, I would be leary of that. I wouldn’t do those.
Wendy Myers: Yes, I do have instructions on my site on myersdetox.com. If you search for coffee enemas, I have a blog post appropriately titled Coffee Enemas. All kinds of info about how they’re beneficial and procedure to do that.
Nikki Moses: How to do them, yes. On my website, I do have a video on how to assemble the enema bag. Shockingly, the instructions do not come with almost any one of those I’ve ever bought, no matter the brand. They don’t seem to have the instructions. And I was surprised when I put up that video, how many views it has gotten on YouTube, because people can’t figure out how to put those bags together. So I do have that video. Eventually, we will have more videos on all the various components of doing a coffee enema.
So between your website, Wendy, mine, and Dr. Wilson’s, you are pretty covered. And I also have a very long questions and answers section on my website about coffee enemas.
Wendy Myers: Yes, i’s funny, my video on YouTube on coffee enemas is the most popular one I have. It’s the most viewed one. Interesting.
Nikki Moses: It is. I think with the experience of Dr. Wilson and other practitioners, I have a lot of experience with them on myself and with my clients, I think we’ve got this pretty well taped. So you’re going to know what you need to know if you use the various resources we’ve listed. Like I said there are a lot of different things that come up, a lot of questions, almost everything is normal. If you get loaded up afterwards, that is okay. If you don’t let all the coffee out, that’s okay. If you let some of it out and six hours later, more comes out, that’s okay. Almost anything that you’re going to experience is going to be normal.
Wendy Myers: And I’ve read on the Wikipedia that coffee enemas can cause brain lesions, and even death, and a bunch of really ridiculous claims. I actually tried to rewrite the Wikipedia post about it because that’s what it says on the Wikipedia coffee enemas post. But of course, they didn’t allow me to rewrite it.
So are these claims valid and are coffee enemas safe? Because I think this is most people’s concern.
Nikki Moses: Yes. We’ve had quite a safety record with these. And Dr. Wilson’s 30 years of having tens of thousands of people do these coffee enemas. He has not had any negative reports back. So it’s very safe. Again, it depends on what you’re doing. One of the cases that is referenced off, and this person was doing, I think 12 coffee enemas in a day or something. And as I’ve recalled, it was an elderly individual.
So you have to do them properly. You can drink too much water and die, so would you say water isn’t safe? It really depends on how you’re doing the enemas. So when you follow our instructions and, of course, be smart about it, if you noticed yourself feeling faint or feeling a little strange, check in to that. And generally, it is a good idea to be working with a practitioner who understands coffee enemas so that you can ask questions if you’re encountering an issue. But we haven’t had any trouble with them in any safety regard which is actually very nice.
There are a couple things that one can keep an eye on. There are reports that coffee enemas can cause anemia, and people who are already prone to that. I haven’s confirmed that. That might be an issue. So of course, be smart about how you’re doing things. Obviously if you are noticing problems, check in to it.
But it’s very funny, I didn’t see this but my office manager here was watching that show called, My Strange Addiction, where they show people who do various things. They like to eat paper or toothpaste or something. She happened to see an episode where this couple was “addicted to coffee enemas.” They were doing four or five a day, and for a long time. They have been doing this for years. And they felt fantastic. And of course, doctors who don’t have a lot of familiarity with these, while it was in the medical manual, which is the most used medical textbook. It was in there actually. Coffee enemas were in there, I think I’ve been told. I am not sure when they were removed, maybe the ’70s or ’80s. For some reason, they were taken out. But basically, doctors don’t really have a lot of familiarity with this. So they get a little nervous sometimes. And so the doctor they had on the show was admonishing them for doing so many enemas and telling them how bad it is for their health.
And so they said, “Well, show us it’s bad for our health and we’ll stop.” So he ran all kinds of tests up and down, all over, anything he could find to test on them, and everything came back normal. So they, of course, said, “Well, thanks but we’re going to keep doing these.”
So I thought that was a very funny one. I don’t know where everyone can access that but that was My Strange Addiction on Coffee Enemas.
So they do appear to be generally quite safe.
Wendy Myers: Yes, find that after I do one, I get pretty low blood sugar, and so I usually find that I have to have a little snack or something afterward because I can feel lightheaded, or just low blood sugar, a little bit weak.
Nikki Moses: That is one component. Some people do have that. Sometimes eating a little bit beforehand, definitely eating a little something afterwards can assist with that. I think you’re going to find that as the body gets healthier, that happens less.
Wendy Myers: And also about the timing. Since this does involve caffeine, should people not do them after a certain time? They say don’t drink coffee after 3 p.m. because it keeps some people up.
Nikki Moses: Yes. That is a factor, and each person’s individual there. Some people, it relaxes them, and they fall asleep more easily. So you have to play with this. But I generally recommend starting early in the day, either first thing in the morning or some time by maybe 1 or 2 p.m., in the afternoon. So that you see how your body responds. There is caffeine. There is a lift. It often provides a really nice mental clarity. I don’t know if you’ve experienced this, Wendy.
Wendy Myers: Absolutely.
Nikki Moses: Yes, it’s very nice. It’s not like a coffee buzz that you get from drinking coffee. There’s a little bit of a lift in energy and a certain kind of waking up feeling to the brain. But it does give you that energy boost. Some people have trouble falling asleep at night. I usually say to my clients to play around with it. Some people wake up in the middle of the night with headaches or something, or they don’t feel well. And in that case, sometimes a coffee enema is exactly what they need to be able to go back to sleep.
So that can be individual. But generally, you are right. You want to do it earlier in the day.
One thing that I didn’t mention that I meant to earlier is that when you are doing a coffee enema, again, it’s not just the liver that’s cleansing. The cells of the whole body sometimes go into a cleanse. And there are times when you do a coffee enema where afterwards you don’t feel well. You get really tired, some people feel really cold, and you might feel some other negative symptom. And what I found is that if you follow that enema with another one, when you don’t feel well afterwards, that second enema usually mops out what’s been released by the first enema, and then you actually feel better. So keep that in mind when you’re doing coffee enemas. If you don’t feel well after the first one, the best thing to do is go do another coffee enema. That usually takes care of it.
Wendy Myers: Yes, what I found really interesting about coffee enemas, and I was researching my blog post about them, was that it’s almost like a blood cleansing, like a blood transfusion because when you are holding this enema for 15 minutes, your blood filters through your liver four or five times. So all the junk and the chemicals, and heavy metals and stuffs that are perhaps floating around in your blood are then dumped by the liver into the intestines for elimination.
Nikki Moses: That’s right. And it’s a very strong dump by the way. You can get nauseous afterwards. If something very toxic comes out of your liver and into your small intestines that can happen and that usually passes. But yes, it does do that. And I think there’s a mechanism in the body somehow where the body knows that the liver can now handle more toxins. It’s like a signal goes out, “Okay, we’re clean. We’re ready for the next batch.” And the cells then dump more toxins now that the liver has been cleaned up and can handle it. So it creates more stages of detoxification that follow the enema.
Wendy Myers: Yes, I love it. I really love doing coffee enemas and I’ve been doing them for a couple of years now. I have a friend that’s been doing it for 20 years. Every Saturday morning that’s her little date with her coffee enema bag.
Nikki Moses: I can’t believe it. People get to like these things. They actually get to look forward to your enema. It’s very funny how that works. At first, there’s some repulsion. “You want me to put coffee where?” As you do them, eventually, you get to looking forward to them. It’s a quiet time for yourself. You get to lay there, read a book, watch TV, read your favorite magazine, and you don’t feel you’re just lying around doing nothing. You are doing something very helpful for yourself. And then you feel those positive benefits. And so most people who do these regularly actually start to look forward to that time of their day.
Wendy Myers: Yes, a lot of my friends whom I introduced the coffee enemas to are totally into them now, and they couldn’t be without them.
Nikki Moses: Yes, exactly. And a lot of people feel that way. I love them. I actually enjoy doing my coffee enemas. I could probably stop now but I don’t know that I want to.
Wendy Myers: Yes, why stop? You don’t need to.
Nikki Moses: Yes got it. It continues to provide benefit.
Wendy Myers: Well, is there anything else that you wanted to add to our conversation?
Nikki Moses: I think we’ve covered everything fairly thoroughly.
Wendy Myers: Yes, I think people are really going to love this podcast. They’re going to eat it up.
Nikki Moses: I hope so. They’re very beneficial. Coffee enemas in and of themselves, do provide a lot of benefits. Of course, you want to make sure you are drinking plenty of good water. We do recommend spring water or carbon filtered water, not reverse osmosis. You want to stay hydrated. You obviously want to eat healthy food, lots of cooked vegetables, good proteins. So there are other components. It’s not a cure-all, right? You do want to combine it with other smart choices when it comes to nutrition. But generally, almost anyone can do them. There are a couple of people who may have anal fissures or very severe hemorrhoids where it’s not a good idea, or can aggravate that. But pretty much anybody can do them.
Wendy Myers: Okay, great. And definitely coffee enemas are a wonderful single component of a complete detoxification program like nutritional balancing.
Nikki Moses: That’s right.
Wendy Myers: And so I have a question that I like to ask all of my guests. What do you think is the most compelling health issue facing the world today?
Nikki Moses: I think if I were to narrow it down to one thing, it would have to be the quality of our food and choices people are making about what they eat. We have very poor quality food today. It’s full of pesticides. It’s full of chemicals. Our soils are depleted. So even if you’re getting organic food, a lot of it doesn’t have the most dense nutrients, and it really should be there if the soils are healthy. So we get very depleted, even if you’re trying to eat healthy.
Now, of course, many people, they aren’t. They are eating at fast food restaurants. They do a lot of pre-prepped processed food. They’re drinking sodas. All of these not only provides toxins to the body but it’s depleting the body of nutrients that the body needs to handle toxins. So as that rolls forward, we get more and more toxic, more and more depleted.
So food and proper food choices, and being responsible for what you put in your mouth, I think is one of the most important things. And schools don’t teach this. It’s not addressed very fully. We should be taught, part of growing up is how do you eat properly to keep your body healthy.
Wendy Myers: Yes, I absolutely agree. I think it’s a huge, huge problem. And even when people think they’re eating healthy and eating organic, they are more than likely to still be eating a nutrient-deficient diet.
Nikki Moses: Exactly, that’s the problem. And that’s just part of all the other issues. When your body is deficient in the correct foods, you absorb more toxins from the environment. There is a relationship there. So all of it really hinges around getting the right nutrients into your body.
Wendy Myers: Well, thank you so much, Nikki. And thank you for that really informative show. And can you tell the listeners more about you, and where they canfind you, and what you’re up to?
Nikki Moses: I am a nutritional consultant in Los Angeles. I do work with clients all over the world because nutritional balancing uses a sample of hair, anybody can mail hair from anywhere. So we send them to the lab and we look at the biochemical blueprint of the body in order to supply you with the right diet and nutrient suggestion, so your body can start healing itself. So I’ve been doing this for about five years, working very closely with Dr. Wilson, who is probably the main teacher of this particular science. He has many practitioners who have trained under him. And I actually now teach this to other practitioners. So I work very closely with him. And I have gotten into this through my own health journey. I was very ill actually since I was a baby and searched everywhere just to find something that would correct my health. And this is what worked for me. So I am very happy to be a practitioner delivering this program now.
My website is MosesNutrition.com, that’s M-O-S-E-S-NUTRITION dot com. I have a contact form there, and all the information on what I do and how to reach me. I also have questions and answers about coffee enemas which can be very helpful as well.
Wendy Myers: And thank you for helping me in my first year-and-a-half on the nutritional balancing program and answering the thousand questions I had about supplements. I was hell-bent on adding supplements to the program. But I really appreciate the contribution you made to me and my health and the listeners’ knowledge about how to truly achieve the level of health that we deserve.
Nikki Moses: Well that was my pleasure, Wendy. You are a joy to work with.
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