Up Your Mojo With A Juice Cleanse?

Unless you’re been hiding under a rock, you may have come across the concept of juice cleansing. I’m thinking of doing one myself having watched Sick, Fat, and Nearly Dead. In this documentary, a rather overweight Aussie who suffered a number of medical problems in addition to being clinically obese, including high blood pressure, inflammation, hives and autoimmune problems. He was on 8 drugs and was getting sicker and sicker. He decided to take ownership of his health after thoroughly researching a juice cleanse and discovered that we human beings get all of our micronutrients from plant-based foods. That means all of our minerals and vitamins. He lived on nothing but vegetable and fruit juices and nuts and water for 60 days. ALL of his health problems disappeared and he was able to get off every single prescription drug. How cool is that? Here’s a summary of what you get from a juice cleanse:

1) Rest the stomach. For the tens of millions of people who are on acid-suppressing drugs — and for older folks who often don’t produce enough stomach acid — making the stomach work less to extract nutrients can be a huge benefit. Juices require less of the stomach’s digestive processing (churning, acid and pepsin). Remember to gently chew the juices to add oral enzymes to further ease digestion.

2) Rest and repair the gut. Toxic foods (including saturated fats, refined carbs, foods with additives, pesticides and allergenic foods), taking medications (such as antibiotics or antacids), and even stress can impair the intestine’s functioning. There can easily be an imbalance in the gut microbiome (flora and fauna balance) as well as actual breaks in the intestinal barrier (“leaky gut”) — allowing substances into our bodies that should not get a free pass (5). Consuming a phytonutrient-dense rainbow plant-based juice diet allows food to be assimilated quickly through the intestine — consuming less energy, while the toxin-free, nutrient-dense food helps to repair the gut itself.

3) Rest the liver. The liver is our main detoxifying organ. Every molecule of food that is absorbed through the intestinal wall (fiber is not absorbed) moves into the liver for detoxification and preparation before being allowed to enter the rest of the body. Problem is, there are too many toxins for most of our livers to handle — with many passing unchecked into the general circulation to wreak havoc in distant cells. An organic juice cleanse rests the liver’s overload.

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