Introduction · Part IHow I Got Here

Forty Pounds of Coffee

A forty-pound order at a Toronto coffee tasting introduced Scott Wilson to coffee enemas and started the questions that became his life’s work.

Chapter summary

The concise reading

Scott recounts the late-1997 exchange at The Big Carrot that led him to ask why coffee was used, whether the bean and roast mattered, and what the preparation was meant to do. It establishes the book’s path from personal story, through evidence, to practical instruction.

It started with forty pounds of coffee and a woman who wasn’t going to drink it.
— Scott A. Wilson, Forty Pounds of Coffee, in Coffee Enemas: The Evidence, the History, and the Practice

How to cite this passage

Wilson, Scott A. “Forty Pounds of Coffee.” Coffee Enemas: The Evidence, the History, and the Practice. S.A. Wilson Inc., planned August 2026. Chapter summary and excerpt revised July 23, 2026.

Source and interest disclosure

This page summarizes Scott A. Wilson’s chapter and reproduces a short verbatim excerpt. Scott is the founder of S.A. Wilson’s Gold Roast Coffee and has a commercial interest in Gold Roast and ZeroPrep. The chapter distinguishes his experience and company records from independent research, laboratory findings, historical sources, and third-party statements.

The book presents coffee enemas positively as a detoxification practice. It does not claim that coffee enemas, Gold Roast, or another coffee cure, treat, prevent, diagnose, or mitigate disease.