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Assuming you have followed the guide thus far please know there is wiggle room within this guide for your own tastes and what your comfortable with, but there is a minimum amount of various juices you WILL have to take in order for the total cleanse to be the most effective. The three core vegetable juices that you should consume throughout the fast (and frankly in your regular diet if possible) are beet juice, carrot juice, and cucumber juice. The fruit juices can be a matter of taste although you should generally stay away from the higher sugar and citrus juices as they are gentler on the body and have less sugar for your body to process. You can also have other veggie juices as well if you like but you MUST consume the three core veggie juices daily.
You should generally have a few glasses of each veggie juice per day spread out throughout the day but that can vary depending on your physical size. The fruit juices you should have more sparingly and should keep it at a minimum. Many people I’ve helped have used a small amount of fruit juice as a chaser for the veggie juice as the taste can be unpleasant. I cannot stress enough how beneficial making your own juice can be to the total cleanse, especially when fasting. If you do not have a juicer, at some point I whole heartily recommend you buy one because bottled juice is missing much of the enzymes and vital chemicals that allow all those nutrients to be absorbed in the first place, I will address my personal recommendations for juicers in another article.
If you need to buy your juice, cucumber may be difficult to find but it can be found at the smaller independent health food stores. I have found organic carrot and beet juice (not from concentrate) at places like whole foods and trader Joes before as well, so no excuses everyone! I want you guys to be healthy. DO NOT BUY VEGGIE OR FRUIT JUICE BLENDS! The veggies blends like V8 have tons of sodium and are not good for you, and fruit blends are often way too high in sugar and are from concentrate, only buy the straight non from concentrate single juices, please. The fruit juice I recommend are Apple, Pear, smaller amounts of grape, and a little orange juice here and there. And don’t forget the most important rule…Drink 4-6 liters of water a day, this will truly clean your system out and give you a total body cleanse.
3-4 glasses of veggie juice: Cucumber,Beet,Carrot-at minimum.
1-2 glasses of fruit juice: apple(cloudy),pear, and smaller amounts of grape and orange.
4-6 liters of pure drinking water (no tap water please, it’s too toxic).
This total cleanse diet is not easy to do at first but as long as you go into for your first time, but its very important you give it time to work for any of this to be effective.
Before I begin the guide I must let you know that should you decide to perform this detox cleanse during the process of the actual juice fasting you will experience some possible side effects. Some of these are headaches, tiredness, hypoglycemia, constipation, acne, increased body odor, and bad breath. These are signs that the cleanse is working and your body is being allowed to naturally release and expel toxins from your body through your skin, breath, and waste. Often people will complain of light headedness and the general sense of feeling ill, generally the worse it is- the more your body needed to have a total cleanse in the first place.
Step #1: The day before you start your juice fast be sure to keep your meals light and healthy mostly veggies and grains if possible. Do not eat late so as to give your body an easier time passing what waste you have inside your colon.
Step #2: At some point before the juice fast you need to purchase a natural and gentle Laxative this is KEY to facilitating and removing much of the waste. My recommendation is Oral Solution Magnesium Citrate Cherry; this is one of the gentlest laxatives you can by and therefore is gentle on your body but still accomplishes the task of removing waste. You can purchase this at a drugstore like CVS for 2 dollars typically. At some point in the evening before you go to bed you should consume the whole bottle (it’s 10oz) you’ll be going to the toilet frequently so prepare to go during the night and waking up having to use the bathroom.
It may not be attractive to talk or think about but you need to know that when your defecating it should be liquid essentially coming out and it will sound as if you are urinating but your obviously not. This process should last through the evening/night and into the morning whereas sometime in the morning to early noontime you should be slowing down if it does not that’s ok too, everyone is different and some have much more to get rid of then others.
Step #3: During the late evening and into the morning and noon hours of your first day of fasting and detoxing you should start to drink lots of water and various veggie and fruit juices which I will detail in greater depth in the next article about Day 1. Please be sure if you do have a juicer to juice your veggies and fruits instead of buying bottled. If you cannot get or do not have a juicer yet please try and buy organic and whole juices-not from concentrate from your local health food store if possible.
The body is clogged with a lot of buildup in the colon from years of poor diet with high fats, sugar, and a lack of fiber. This is common knowledge now but despite knowing this when people try to get the most out of there supplements and health foods they often feel let down by the results even after regular and steady intake. The reason for this is the blockage in the colon mentioned earlier, this often prevents and weakens the body’s ability to maximize nutrient absorption from your food and often makes the best supplements nearly useless.
Naturally we can conclude then that removing this blockage will remove this impediment and should allow for the various health foods and products to truly go to work and start the process to provide a total cleanse for the body.
Many forms of a naturopathy treatment are available to you and I will describe many of them in detail in future articles. The gentlest form of Cleansing is a food based diet where you simply consuming mostly high fiber grains, vegetables, and mostly water with light amounts of veggie and fruit juice. The most Extreme is simply fasting completely and only consuming water, I would never recommend this because your body is not getting any nutrients whatsoever and can be very harmful to the body. The most commonly used method and one I personally live by is the Juicing Fast or Cleanse. This involves consuming many liters of water a day along with Pure and Whole Fruit juices and Vegetable juices. As a result, your body is not taxing itself and is able to expel fecal matter blocking your colon but still allow for all the nutrients you need to survive and ultimately make the natural detox much more effective.
When someone is just starting this for the first time the fasting should only be for three days. Anything beyond this and you should consult a Physician first. There are people who should not try juice fasting. Pregnant or Nursing women should not try a juice fast or cleanse. People should not attempt a juice fast either before or after surgery. People with chronic conditions should only do so under medical supervision. Juice fasting can reduce blood proteins and change the way prescription drugs react with the body and therefore should consult a medical professional skilled in detoxification before trying a juice fast and should never reduce or modify their medications on their own.
