Aaron Rodgers returned to The Pat McAfee Show this week for his regular Tuesday appearance. As many hoped, he did not have an announcement regarding his future plans, whether it was to play for another NFL team or retire.
Yet Rodgers did reveal that he hadn’t stopped by since the Green Bay Packers season ended because he’d been on a 12-day cleanse. A Panchakarma cleanse, to be more specific. Rodgers knew that would prompt questions and encouraged viewers to do some research, only saying that “it originated in India and has been going on for thousands of years,” involved a “specific diet,” and is something he’s done in previous offseasons.
On WEEI’s The Greg Hill Show Wednesday morning, Courtney Cox included Rodgers’ cleanse in her report and went into some detail on what it entails. After doing some research, she said she wished she’d never looked it up and wouldn’t do the cleanse for a million dollars.
“It begins with a special massage, using specific oils that move toxins into the GI tract. You can probably guess where I’m going once I say ‘GI tract,'” Cox explained. “The cleanse then moves into the therapeutic vomiting stage to help cleanse the lungs and remove mucus from the body. Next up, take laxatives to rid the body of excess bile and improve the digestive system. Then comes the enemas, which remove feces, urine, bile, and other, uh, stuff from the body.
“Then you go into nasal therapeutics that help clean the sinuses. Now, I think about any type of sinus situation, I get that spray. In this, someone dips their pinky finger into butter and inserts the finger into the nose and gives a nasal massage… And the final step of this cleanse is the detoxification of blood, which is done through blood-letting. If you don’t know what blood-letting is, that is when one would get a leech and place it on their body to remove a small amount of blood from the veins.”
“The guy is a freak,” Cox concluded. “He is an absolute, certifiable freak.” Jermaine Wiggins then joked that this was the opposite of Tom Brady’s “TB12 Method.”
Cox, Wiggins, and Hill then discussed the more conventional practice of using colonics to clean out old debris and undigested food that may have accumulated in the body, and could actually be an enjoyable experience. Rodgers’ cleanse, however, does not sound pleasant.
Hey, to each their own, right? Rodgers spared the Pat McAfee Show audience of the gory, explicit details. And since it’s a 12-day endeavor, we could presume that McAfee and his crew aren’t going to try it for themselves any time soon. Fortunately, we have sports radio hosts and update anchors, along with numerous articles on sports websites, that can satisfy our curiosity.
