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Have you ever gone to the bathroom only to become bothered by the rather vivid red color of your bowel movements? I wouldn’t be surprised if some of you found it odd or concerning, I know when I first started out and had my first glass of beet juice I had thought I was becoming very ill and bleeding from the inside. However when the cause of this rather odd coloring stems from beets the dark red and almost purple bowel movements along with a darker colored urine are perfectly natural and innocuous; and is sometimes known as “beeturia”.
The reason that beets and bowel movements go hand in hand are seen in the dark shade of reddish purple colors found in your stool because of a variety pigments known as betalain. These collectively in the red and purple beet varieties are known as betacyanins, and as is typical with many darkly colored fruits and vegetables, this is not only a sign of being healthy but also the reasons for the coloring of waste in both fecal form and through urine. The reason you can handle a beet as is, in its natural form, and not have any stained hands, is because these healthy pigments are located within the cell sections known as “vacuoles”, which when chopped into or heated naturally start to “leak”. This is also the case when you simply touch a portion of a peeled beet as well.
Now let’s get to the heart of the matter of beets and bowel movements, what does this have to do with cleansing? Well, beets are one of the best vegetables especially in vegetable form to combat and deal with constipation. Simply munching on these little wonders will give you ample fiber to help pass bowel movements, remember to keep in mind that raw beets have twice the fiber content relative to their cooked counterparts, so if you’re going to munch on these for digestive and cleansing health reasons, just eat them raw, raw is always the way to go with produce of most sorts. However if chewing them doesn’t float your boat, beet juice can be a great alternative, and as such can help with diarrhea since beetroot juice has cleansing properties.
These cleansing properties are big reasons why I include that in nearly my entire total cleanse routines and regimens, as they help clean the liver so that the liver can then go and clean the rest of your body, neat eh? They also deliver a lot of potassium as well which people often lose in bouts of diarrhea. These wonder roots are fantastic at preventing osteoporosis, heart disease, and some cognitive diseases like Alzheimer’s and some cancers as well, so eat up or drink up and enjoy those beet juice benefits!
There are a lot of different types of detox programs out there, many use a ton of different exotic fruits and vegetables either because it may sell a product, or give the appearance of a more potent or exotic flavor to a total cleanse product or regimen. While these fruits and vegetables in their most natural form do in fact carry great benefits and nutritional density, they are often too difficult to find raw or fresh, and even rarer to find in organic and untainted states. Having said all that, it may simply be better to use everyday vegetables and fruits for our juice detox plans and needs.
Consider the lowly beet for a moment, it’s cheap, it can be grown in most climates, and you can find it at reasonable prices while staying local and organic. While eating beets is plenty healthful, most will not do this either because you would have to eat too many to gain the benefits or because it simply is unpalatable to most people’s tastes, especially these days. A great solution to this is to Juice, Juicing beets alone to make a cleansing beet juice concoction in and of itself is very potent in helping to clean out the liver and kidneys, thus detoxing your blood. However straight beet juice can upset peoples stomach’s sometimes, so I always advise mixing this beetroot juice with either carrot or cucumber, and if possible both, the added nutrients of the other veggies will synergistically work together with the beet nutrients and enzymes and make everything much more potent then taken by themselves.
Some Beet Juice benefits are that it contains high amounts of Iron which is often lacking in many diets especially vegetarians and vegans as meat eaters often get plenty through meat products which have a tendency to have more bioavailable iron. It is a general rule of thumb that red veggies and fruits are good for the heart in particular, so it’s really easy to remember when shopping, RED=good for the heart, so eat up!
If you don’t have access to a Juicer, I recommend checking out various detox programs and seeing what they offer, but you can also purchase not from concentrate beet juice in organic quality from health food stores. Keep in mind these are typically imports from places like Norway, and are not local, so these bottled drinks won’t have live active enzymes as they have to be pasteurized for safety and storage, and are thus much less effective, hence a detox program may be more appropriate.
