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There a ton of different total cleanse methods out there, and there are equal amounts of various cleansing products and different methodologies to essentially achieving the same goal and it can be a little confusing sometimes which one is the most effective. And that’s really because while there are certain routines and methods that are technically more effective it really comes down to what you feel comfortable doing it the end of the day. My favorite type of cleansing method is simply doing the juice cleanse, this is also known as a juice fast. I have a much more detailed set of articles on this website that go into the very specifics of how, when, and why you do choose cleansing, but in this article I’ll basically be going over why in general a juice cleanse is one of the best ways of not only cleaning out your body but improving your overall health and bodily function.
A juice cleanse can generally comprise of either vegetable juice or fruit juice, I tend to find and often advocate as well that people use both kinds of juices but that they lean towards the vegetable juice side of the scale. This is primarily due to the fact that the vegetable juice has much lower sugar content overall and as such is much healthier for your body and greater doses than fruit juice would be. The reason I advocate using fruit juice as well is because many people simply find the taste of many vegetable juices, especially vegetable juice blends, to be too unpalatable and that mixing the vegetable juice along with a fruit juice like apple juice or pear juice tends to mask the flavor of the vegetables much more and make the juice much more pleasant to the taste buds. Vegetable juices tend to act as the nurturers, while fruit juices tend act as the cleansers, so by doing both you get the benefits of both types of produce while also making the juice that you’re going to be drinking on a regular basis for your juice cleansing diet much more palatable.
The core reason why a juice colon cleanse is the most potent type of cleanse is because there is no fiber and because while doing the juice cleansing whether its a lemon juice cleanse or any other type,you’re not eating any solid food for a few days, and its this food and fiber that can sometimes get in the way of nutrient absorption. So as a result all of the juice nutrients that would normally pass rate for your system or simply not get absorbed all a way become much more bioavailable to your colon and those more available to your whole body. I generally always advise using a juicer and juicing your own vegetable juice and fruit juice, as this kind of juice is a “live” juice with active enzymes and more bioavailable nutrients than thus much more nutritionally beneficial. But if you’re unable to do juicing yourself, be sure to always use pure organic and on concentrated vegetable and fruit juices when bought from the store, and always make sure to put a preference in glass bottle packaging over plastic bottles to avoid plastic leaching and worsened taste.
A lot of folks these days are suffering from different ailments and diseases, and others are simply feeling sluggish and not at 100% and simply want to improve their overall health both for the short term and the long term. This can easily be achieved with proper diet along with exercise and an occasional total cleanse, the right kind of diet would allow for a more gentle and casual daily cleanse while doing more intensive cleansing every so often as maintenance. The acai berry has become very popular for not only its taste but its nutritional benefits and as such has become common place in the juices and smoothies that people see and buy for themselves which are often used for cleansing. As such, a lot of people are looking into an acai juice cleanse to use in addition to their normal juice fasting and dietary routines.
Acai berry supplements can be very expensive and difficult to determine which ones are really the best for you. In addition to this, there are lots of various cleansing products out there that include acai berry and while I don’t endorse any particular product i do advise at least looking at the different products out there to see which ones might be appropriate for you if buying the supplements or the juice is simply too difficult or too expensive to do. Never give all of your personal information away on any website that offers these products and make sure you read all the fine print head of time. The reason these products are offered is not only because of the acai berry’s popularity but because the berry is impossible to get outside of where it’s grown which is the Amazon rain forest. The reason for this is because the berry is extremely perishable and goes bad after 24 hours, so people have to get there acai berry fix either through supplementation, frozen purée, or acai juice. The most common means that people get their acai berry is through juice form.
An acai juice cleanse alone is simply not enough, however, when it is used in combination with other juices and smoothies it can be a great addition to a cleansing routine to really help you clean your colon, they’re also really tasty drinks as well. There isn’t any one particular brand that I tend to favor over another, but probably the easiest acai juice you can find is from sambazon. This particular brand of acai juice can be found in most supermarkets and is generally superior in terms of its fatty acid content as well as the very important fiber content which is crucial to an acai juice cleanse. I also recommend the purée from Amazon thunder as well which comes in a bottled form; this too along with the frozen purée that you can get from either company is one of the purest forms and can be mixed in with your juice or smoothie.
Cleansing can often be a very difficult and confusing thing to do especially if you’re new to this. But even veterans who are very experienced in detoxifying their body, cleansing their colon, and overall alternative health and raw lifestyles can sometimes not be sure what types of juices or ingredients would be best for either a juice cleanse or any sort of total cleanse in general. While I won’t be addressing every type of ingredient and juice out there, I will be talking about one of the healthiest and also one of the most commonly used vegetables used for both eating and cleansing with juices, and this would be the carrot. A lot of different people have tried a carrot juice cleanse solely with carrot juice itself while others use it as an ingredient in a vegetable juice blend instead.
Let’s first discuss a carrot juice cleanse using only carrot juice. While I’m all for having cups of whole carrot juice each and every day I do not believe that doing a carrot juice cleanse where all you drink his carrot juice and water is healthy for you. This is not only because of the fact that the body needs a variety of different nutrients from a variety of different produce but also because of the high levels of beta carotene which is then converted to vitamin A. Carrots are so rich in vitamin A or beta carotene that drinking too much of this juice all the time every day during a cleanse could lead to vitamin toxicity which is a real threat and is very common amongst people who are cleansing for the first time or simply are ignorant of vitamin toxicity’s existence. This does not however mean that I believe that carrot juice can’t be used in conjunction with other juices on a regular basis.
In fact, a carrot juice cleanse done alongside other fruit juices and vegetable juices can be one of the best means of detoxing the body. My personal favorite is to drink a mixture of carrot juice, beet juice, cucumber juice, and celery juice. When a glass of juice is divided into equal parts among these various vegetables and taken on a regular basis during a juice cleanse this could be one of the most effective and potent detoxifying beverages that you can drink. As always, I recommend if you are going to juice do so with organic and properly washed and cared for produce don’t skip good hygienic procedures as you’re concentrating not only vitamins and minerals but possibly pesticides and chemicals as well so be careful.
There are tons of different cleansing products, diets, plans, and methods out there that you could spend many weeks if not months investigating what might be the best option. In reality, if you’re looking to detox your body the quickest and most effective method is a whole body juice cleanse. There is a reason that juicing is the most effective means of cleansing your colon and detoxing your body, and this is primarily For two simple reasons; fresh juice has like active enzymes which actually help to facilitate proper absorption of all those vital nutrients and vitamins, but also the juice itself has little to no fiber, and this allows for the body to have to use minimal energy to obtain the nutrients and thus it benefits more.
The first point that needs to be made here is that a whole body juice cleanse will be vastly more effective if the juice that’s being ingested is fresh and organic. As stated above enzymes are what help to allow your body to absorb all the nutrients in the juice itself. Bottled juice has to be pasteurized by law (and for good reason) to prevent harmful bacteria from staying present or growing due to unsanitary conditions at the facility in which it was made and processed, unfortunately this process kills the good bacteria and enzymes along with the good, and as a result, not only does the juice taste subpar, but most people expel the vitamins and minerals through waste due to poor absorption, this obviously defeats the point of cleansing which is to minimize the workload on your digestive system while still delivering higher and more pure doses of the much needed nutrients our body craves.
The second reason why juicing is widely considered to be superior to using other methods like making smoothies, is because of the removal of the fiber during the juicing process. The removal of the fiber is key to drastically reducing the workload on the digestive system, and it means that more juice passes directly to the lower intestine where much of the absorption takes place. This can’t happen with smoothies because you’re getting the fiber along with the nutrients, but the fiber takes up a lot of the real estate and reduces the absorption rate along with also making the body SPEND more energy (using all the nutrients you’re trying to take in to process the smoothie). This is inefficient and a much slower and less effective cleanse, many choose it because it is gentler, and fiber IS important to have, but when you’re trying to get the quickest results, juicing is the only way to go.
Cleansing can be done a variety of ways, and through a variety of systems and programs. Generally cleansing is done by taking a natural laxative and flushing a large portion of the waste stuck in you colon out of your system which then allows for not only better digestion but also the absorption of nutrients you would receive through diet and cleansing agents as well. This delivery system is usually through juice, and it can either be through the process of selecting fresh fruits or vegetables and juicing them through a machine, or buying organic not from concentrate bottled juices and using that as an alternative to the preferred method of juicing.
This form of body detox or colon cleansing can sometimes be too much for certain people to take, and they may need to start out slower and build up to a juice fast or juice cleanse as it were. This alternative method is known as the green smoothie cleanse. A green smoothie cleanse is just as it sounds its mostly a mostly green fruit smoothie because you add greens to it, such as but not limited to, kale, collard greens, spinage, chard, and other dark leafy greens. Leafy greens are different form standard “vegetables” as they are considered to be a “green” or “leaf” and as such can be mixed with virtually any other kind of food. There are no set rules for what fruits and greens you have to use, and that’s one of the green smoothie benefits, you can mix and match what feels and tastes right for you. A green smoothie recipe I generally recommend is one that consists of mostly berries as the base fruit and kale and spinage as the leafy greens. I advise using frozen fruit for a thicker consistency but fresh is always great too, blueberries, blackberries, aronia berries, and cranberries always make a great and healthy base, along with a banana or two for thickness and sweetness, you have a great fruit smoothie base to ad greens to.
The Reason this cleanse works so well is that you are getting the WHOLE food not just a fraction of it like juicing, and you also get lots of fiber often 10-20 grams or more per glass. This fiber does two things: one, like all fiber, this fiber within the smoothie helps keep you regular and allows your body to naturally do what a laxative does for you. Reason 2, the fiber slows down and evens out the absorption of sugar contained within the fruit, which unlike juice which has no fiber and can spike your blood sugar levels, which can be very dangerous for many. If you are going to try the green smoothie cleanse, and I hope you do, because they are great to do every day, I recommend getting a high powered blender so you can really get an even consistency and so you can also really break down the fibers and unlock the nutrients contained therein. A standard blender simply won’t cut it, and you will likely ruin the blender as a result, the two models or brands I recommend are the vitamix models or my personal favorite-the total blender from blendtec. The total blender is super easy to clean, is very durable, and had automatic smoothie settings so you don’t have to guess what works, it really gets the job down and I highly recommend it.
