Based on 60 years of patient studies, Dr. Jensen's Guide to Better Bowel Care gives you all the information you need to improve and monitor your gut health.  Inlcuding charts, photos, and Dr. Jensen's decades of expertise, this classic book provides specific dietary guidelines for proper anti-inflammatory bowel maintenance that will enhance your microbiome and address leaky gut, along with a colonic cleansing system and effective exercise program. Bernard Jensen, D.C., Ph.D., known as the Father of Holistic Health, has practiced natural healing therapies for more than 70 years, lectured in more than two dozen countries, and counseled and taught more than 350,000 patients. He is the recipient of the President's Award by the National Nutritional Foods Association, the Golden Carrot Award by the Center for the Advancement of Cancer Education, and the Pioneer Doctor of the Year Award by the National Health Federation. A true legend in the field of natural health, Dr. Jensen has helped millions achieve a better quality of life in body, mind, and spirit. What This Book Is About . . .    • This book shows you how to revolutionize your health and well-being by using a simple, safe, and effective means of bowel cleansing.    • This book explains how the underactive condition of your elimination organs influences the development of illness and disease in your body.    • This book reveals the intimate connection between the bowel and internal organs in the development of the embryo and how this connection determines future disease and dysfunction in the body.    • This books describes the role of the neural-arc reflex in the generation of disease and what you can do about it.    • This book presents the amazing Ultimate Tissue Cleansing Program for cleansing the bowel directly and other tissues indirectly.    • This book contains a wealth of practical ideas on how to improve your lifestyle, nutrition, personal habits, and thinking in order to work your way toward better health. Acknowledgments I must give foremost credit to Sir Arbuthnot Lane, physician to the British Royal Family, for helping me realize the relationship between the bowel and disease elsewhere in the body. Max Gerson, M.D., opened my eyes to the value of bowel cleansing in ridding the body of chronic and degenerative disease conditions. He proved it could be done. I appreciate John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., of Battle Creek, Michigan, for teaching me the importance of proper bowel flora. I have Drs. Denis P. Burkett and Neil D. Painter to thank for their writings on the importance of dietary fiber, not only to improve bowel health and quicken bowel transit time, but to reduce the incidence of bowel-related diseases elsewhere in the body. I am grateful to the homeopathic physician Constantine Hering for formulating a law of cure that emphasizes that healing takes place “from the inside out.” I would like to thank William Welles, D.C., for his contributions and research concerning bowel health and proper elimination. Alan Immerman, D.C., has also graciously allowed me to use some of his bowel research. My relationship with Dr. V.E. Irons in bowel-care work goes back many years. Donald Bodeen, D.C., and his wife, Joyce, made important contributions to this book. Joyce has conducted tissue-cleansing programs on the East Coast. My long-time girl Friday, Sylvia Bell, has helped in many of the tissue-cleansing programs here on the Ranch. As always, deep appreciation goes to Marie Jensen, my wife, for her faithful support in all my work. The quote here is from Kurt J. Isselbacher, et al., editors, Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, © 1994 by The McGraw-Hill Companies. Reproduced with the permission of The McGraw-Hill Companies. The original illustrations here, here, here, here, and here are by John Wincek. The illustrations here, here, and here are used courtesy of Dr. William Welles. The table here is from E. Lanza and R.R. Butron: “A Critical Review of Food Fiber Analysis and Data.” © 1986 by The American Dietetic Association. Reprinted by permission from the Journal of the American Dietetic Association , Volume 86 (1986), page 732. The photographs here were taken by Dr. Bernard Jensen. Preface My father was a chiropractor. I, too, sought to be a chiropractor, for I knew from my observations that this system of carefully examining and adjusting the spinal vertebrae produces results. Painful conditions are alleviated. Sick people get well, the lame walk, and the bent-over are able to again stand erect. Upon graduation from chiropractic school, I was anxious to open my office. It wasn’t long before I developed a busy practice. But I soon came to see that something was missing in my work. Although most of my colleagues were satisfied with their office practices, I was becoming increasingly dissatisfied. I noticed that the great majority of people who came to my office seemed to be content with the relief I was able to afford them with spinal adjust