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One part medicine, one part urban legend, the mucoid rope has taken on near-legendary status within holistic health circles. A mucoid rope, or mucoid plaque, is said to be a thick coating of plaque in the colon. It develops from an unhealthy, usually Western, lifestyle. Factors contributing to its build-up include: eating meat and processed foods, taking pharmaceutical medicine, caffeine, and stress, among other things.
The mucoid rope inhibits the body's ability to properly digest food and metabolize toxins. The rope physically blocks normal digestion of food, and constricts the path stool has to travel before it leaves the body. By the same token, toxins go from the mucoid rope into the bloodstream, through the large intestine. As a result, one suffers from one or more of a host of symptoms, such as constipation, lethargy, and weight gain. Pharmaceuticals can also become lodged in the mucoid rope. Active ingredients in pills slowly leach into the body years after they were taken. The same is said to happen with meat, causing rotten meat to poison the body.
The only known cure for the mucoid rope is a rigorous combination of fasting and holistic herbs. The rope is so-called because, after undertaking treatment, one is said to expel a rope-like, rubbery sheath. The mucoid rope is described as matching the shape and length of the large intestine, and can grow to impressive, if unlikely proportions.
While the existence of the mucoid rope is contested - scant scientific literature, photographs, or even first-person accounts of it exist - one thing is certain. The rope is a powerful metaphor for the internal toll our modern way of life exacts upon the human body.
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