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How to prep: Driven by our culture's food fetish, you think you can't go without it for more than a few hours. The doctor needs an empty bowel to examine; your task is to make sure it's so. Hence, standard prep recommendations call for powerful bowel-clearing laxatives and suppositories and diarrhea.
There's an easier way: just stop eating for three days prior. "But I can't do that!" you say. Of course you can; we homo sapiens evolved to handle long periods without sustenance. Think cavemen in wintertime. It's easier than people believe. After three days of fasting (clear liquids are OK as long as they're not red), your bowel will be nicely empty and you won't have poisoned yourself with those noxious chemicals.
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