I didn't see any forum related to this product, which is interesting since it's been around for many, many years.

Website: http://www.holistichorizons.com/index.html

It is based upon Robert Gray's excellent book: The Colon Health Handbook. Which, I highly recommend to anyone going through any kind of colon cleanse program and whoever wants to understand more about this vital organ and how it plays into our overall health. I do not know the status of the author, Robert Gray, whether he is alive or not, but his book is quite excellent.

I've personally used this program many years ago when I used it to transition from my western junk food style diet to a living food, raw diet. (I have unfortunately deviated from that pinnacle of health for several years now...) It worked very well, but was a bit of a hassle to follow if you got to go to work everyday...which includes most of us. Lots of powders that were a challenge to mix, etc. and take at various times. Not sure if the current program is any different or not. I do remember wishing that there were more tablets instead of powders to take, but I suppose that would reduce the effectiveness perhaps...

However it did give results and, for me anyway, it was rather mild on my system. One problem I had at the end of the program was that after stopping all that psyllium fiber with herbs, I ended up a little constipated/ slowed down bowel movements for a while until my system got back up to speed. But please note that I did this program almost 20 years ago on the original formulas, etc. I think they have improved the formulas and am not sure how the current versions compare.

During the program I had only one instance of passing a difficult stool and I recall clearly what i ate prior to it happening... One banana (yep...only one banana the whole day) and the tablets and powder(I'd mix it with V8 juice for palatability) and ended up going to bed. It was next morning sometime at work when I had a very difficult bowel movement and passed a very dark, hard stool.

From reading Robert Grays book, it made sense to me what happened; First I only ate the banana so my digestive tract wasn't dealing with a large load of mucoid forming foods and the herbs and started work at dissolving the old fecal matter in my intestines and with the pysillium started to move it on out. I really had no other events like this because I always ate more food after that time.

This program must have really cleaned out my small intestine very well because I had excellent nutrient absorption from it. The amount of energy I got from eating even just small amounts of food (well chewed of course) was incredible compared to before. This I noticed after using the program for many weeks however.

The part of the program I had the most difficultly with was the lactobacteria food. I just couldn't take it no matter what. It was like I was swallowing chalk. I wish that i could have taken it so that I could have realized the full benefits but unfortunately I didn't do that part. Now I notice that they have Intestinal bulking agent III which seems to avoid the problem I had with the original product. And perhaps this was what caused me to have some constipation upon stopping the program those many years ago...the lack of lactobacteria in the colon, etc.

Well, I hope that sharing this will give folks yet another choice in colon cleanse products.

All the best,
John