The first, second and third days of your juice diet will be the most difficult. Have all your supplies prepared in advance, such as fresh veggies, a juice extractor, some juicer recipes, lots of water, a variety of teas – diuretic Senna or natural stimulants and soothing mint or chamomile blends. You’ll also want ground flax seed to mix with warm water for a morning drink.

In order to detoxify the body with a juice diet, the first day should start with a liter of water and a fiber drink, then an 8 ounce glass of celery juice, wheat grass or something light and purifying, perhaps with apple; then more water during the first hours of the morning and another juice, perhaps carrot, mid-morning, then more water until lunchtime. At lunch, a variety of leafy veggies can be extracted.

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Some people enjoy a heartier juice with tomatoes, cucumber and green or red peppers; while others prefer to keep the heartier juices for the afternoon. The juice diet is very versatile, especially in terms of flavor and richness because you can add spices like cayenne, garlic, parsley, lemon, a little sea salt, and combine veggies to make a sweet beet-carrot combo or a spicy gazpacho. If you’re accustomed to a larger meal in the evening, then save your spicy / savory drinks to the time of day you most need it.

The main idea of drinking juice, water, fibers and diuretic teas is to detoxify the body, therefore you MUST be having regular bowel movements to flush out the waste. If you’re not, you’ll need to increase natural laxative tea dosage and fiber drinks, or perhaps give yourself an enema or go for a colon hydrotherapy cleanse.  In the end, in order to detox your body properly, you need to rely on the natural ability your body has to remove toxins and waste:  breath, sweat (exercise), urine and bowel movements.

One thing is for sure, we spend millions of dollars on treating and dealing with health problems that are most likely related to this increased toxic load whether directly or indirectly.  Who knows exactly what types of cancers, autoimmune diseases, neurotoxicity problems and other hormonal dysfunctions are due to such agents?  Well, there is something that you can do to at least mitigate the potential of these things accumulating in your body and stagnating.  You can detox your body.   Toxins are not good for us in any concentration.  We have simply been guided to believe or understand that if the levels are below some threshold that has been set, then we should be fine.  Well, I don’t know about you, but I don’t want any more than zero toxins in my children’s bodies or my own.

It is understandable that we should know at what level these toxins cause obvious signs and symptoms of disease or problems, but it shouldn’t take that much for us to change the way we see taking care of our internal cells, tissues and organs.  Modern medicine has come a long way, but it still can’t compete with your body’s own natural detoxification process.  There are several organs that function as your body’s cleansing organs.  They are your liver, kidneys, lymph system, lungs, skin and colon.

Colon Cleaning And Function

This is an illustration of your large intestine.

The colon is the last several feet of your digestive tract that is used by the body to absorb water, nutrients, electrolytes and prepare waste for elimination.  Part of this waste material is toxins that have been processed by your body for elimination through your feces.  A colon cleanse, combined with specific detox diets and proper organic food choices can go a long way toward putting you back on the road to optimum health.  This is not medical advice, it’s just common sense.  If your colon is stagnating and not moving waste through your body as it once did, then it will cause you physical health problems or challenges at some point.  Does this necessarily mean that you are destined for colon cancer or some other horrible disease, who knows.  There is no definitive answer on what causes any diseases.  While there is continuous research aimed at finding genetic markers and the like, clinicians still know that food choices as well as environmental factors still play a major role in determining overall health.

Colon hydrotherapy is the term given for the procedure whereby a licenses and skilled professional colon hydrotherapist uses water to gently flush your colon.  It is more thorough and complete than an enema.  This procedure washes and cleans your whole colon and facilitates the detoxifying your body greatly needs.  Colonics cleanse the colon by helping to break down toxic excrement so it can be more easily eliminated.  In some senses, the cleansing helps to rejuvenate your colon.  The gentle flushing of your colon also stimulates the muscles of your colon walls to stretch and contract.  This gentle movement is what the muscles do ordinarily to move waste through your bowels.  So, this is like a massage for your colon.  The addition of this extra volume of water into your colon also allows your body the opportunity to absorb more of what it needs to keep you fully hydrated.  This will assist your overall cellular hydration and body function.  All in all, colon hyrdotherapy is a wonderful addition to a body detox program.