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.

Don’t Confuse Fasting With Detoxing

Fasting has been a part of not only many diets but spiritual traditions as well.

This is a common problem or distinction that needs to be made.  And the distinction is quite a simple one, just important.  Fasting implies that no food is being consumed as part of the detoxification.  This is not what this is about as a way to detox your body.  We offer advice and info about how to detox using proper organic foods, supplementation with teas or even doing an herbal detox which involves specific plants and herbs to help you clean out your system.  With the right dietary choices, you can do a proper detox without fasting.  Sometimes, a fast is recommended for a person who has a tremendous amount of ambition, or weight to lose and has less information.  Often times, a fast is not the best way to lose weight or detox your body.  The best way can vary person to person, but usually includes hydration as a key component.  So, fasting can be part of a detox, but it may include supplements and any number of a variety of drinks or teas.  So, in this sense, it isn’t like you are eating and drinking nothing in order to lose weight or otherwise detox the body.

Detox Your Body One Choice At A Time

Basically, as you learn how to detox, you will be faced with many challenges emotionally as well as physically.  It isn’t strictly your body that will be going through this cleanse.  Your mind will be going through it too.  In fact, many in the health care professions use the term body-mind now, to indicate how there really is no separation. In any case, a body detoxification process is both a challenge and opportunity for you to pay attention to other ways in which you live your life.  The toxins you are trying to eliminate from your body got there somehow.  What types of choices do you (or did you) make that got you to this point in the first place?  Part of learning how to detox your body is that many of these old behaviors and patterns will show up again and again for you to address in your life.  The more completely you address them, the more beneficial each future cleansing process will be for you.

Is Colon Cleansing The Most Common Type of Detox Program?

Here a colon hydrotherapist is helping cleanse this woman's colon.

It’s hard to say with any degree of authoritative accuracy, but it would be fair to say that most people when searching for ways to cleanse their body think of ways of cleaning out their colon – or at least starting there.  Because there is a lot of media attention given to the merit of colonics especially in more health conscious cities, this is the most common and most sought after way for most people to begin their detoxification program.  Does this mean that it is the only way to detox your body?  Absolutely not!  It’s just that there are professional colon hydrotherapists that perform this service in offices designed specifically for this type of procedure.  This way, you know that you know there is a certified professional that knows how to detox your body, at least in so far as colon hydrotherapy goes.

Colonics, sometimes mistakenly referred to as enemas, are much more thorough and provide a more vigorous, yet gentle cleaning of your colon.  How they work is that there is a machine that serves to heat water, a pump, and a few different hoses.  The basic idea is that you should have followed a specific type of colon cleansing diet for the day or so prior to your appointment.  At your appointment, you will be led to a private room where you shall have walked with (hopefully) no shoes or atleast bootie-covered ones that help keep germs at bay.  Then you will lie on your side on the treatment bed while the colon hydrotherapist inserts a not-too uncomfortable tube into your rectum.  This tube will serve to both fill your colon with the warm water and remove the waste.  The pump on the machine continues to fill your colon to a comfortable but full level.  Then, you may have your abdomen massaged gently to help loosen any material lodged in your colon.  As the pressure is released by way of the water pressure, you will have the feeling of urgency like when you have diarrhea.  Many machines have a ‘viewing window’ as unpleasant as that sounds, it actually helps the hydrotherapist to analyze your diet and what may be going on.  As the pressure drops, you will see the matter from your colon coming through the hose into the waste removal area.  This process is repeated several times during your visit.  Typically, it is recommended to receive ten to twelve colonics over a period of time for maximum colon cleansing results.

Are You Still Wondering How To Detox The Rest of Your Body?

This process can take several forms.  Your colon is where much of the absorption of water and other materials enters your bloodstream, so this is where many programs focus or at least direct most of the attention to detox your body.  Many sources stop here.  They figure that this is the most significant way to go about your detox.  But, there are other ways as well.  Some of these include methods of fasting and drinking specific detox teas.  These teas may be pre-packaged or you can find recipes for them online.  Other detox programs offer advice on eating more vegetables and fruits to up your fiber intake and literally push some of that buildup through your body.  You’ll notice that this method is also a colon cleaning type idea.  With any of these strategies you can achieve a more clean and alive colon and body.  Again, remember, do yourself a favor and learn how to detox right.  If you don’t find the information you’re looking for here on this site, visit others.  Maybe you’ll find that each one has it’s way of providing just the right missing piece of information for you.