Day Fifteen

Today is day 15 of 'My Big Fat Juice Cleanse'.
Do detox diets really work?  Marketplace, on the CBC is doing a show on Friday at 8pm, 'debunking' the detox diet as a marketing ploy.  I don't know what angle the show plans to take, but I'm sure they're not going to come out in favour of the detox.  Detox is extreme, it is not for everyone.  It is not something you do, and then return to your bad habits (drinking, smoking...eating raw hotdogs).

Some say the detox does not work, that the term itself is restricted in the medical community to be used for addictions and poisoning.  Well if this body of mine hasn't been poisoned...I don't know what you'd call it.  Also, I've never been a big fan of the medical community and their narrow minded way of looking at things (this of course does not include all med professionals).

I am aware that our bodies have a natural detoxing ability...hell, if it didn't...we'd all be dead!.  However, I cannot ignore the 'unproven scientifically' fact (for me), that adding rich dark leafy greens into my diet via juice will repair liver function.

At the end of my cancer treatments, my liver was a wreck...enzymes way too high.  I wasn't given any course of action to repair this by the doctors I was seeing.  No one told me to lose the 60 excess pounds.  No one asked me about my diet.  I was simply left with the knowledge that I had a messed up liver.

I took this information into my own hands.  I did as much research as I could, and talked to people who treat illness naturally.  I developed a protocol for myself to turn my health around.  It started simply enough, I added a glass of lemon water to my day each morning (lemon does wonders for the liver).  I also began taking 'milk thistle' drops daily, and I began a short juice cleanse.

After a couple of weeks, I had my liver enzymes repeated.  They were normal.  My liver had repaired itself.  No more elevated enzymes, no more fatty liver.  My 'diet' healed my liver.  Although my liver was okay, the rest of me still felt like shit.  I was still overweight, my joints ached constantly, my acid reflux was out of control, and my mood was usually neutral or depressed.  I realized that what I had done so far was not enough.  I wanted to feel better as well ass be better.

This is when I began my 30 day juice cleanse.  At the end of 14 of the 30 days, not only have I lost 13.5 lbs, but I feel amazing!.  No acid reflux, no joint pain...nothing...nada.  My 'diet' has relieved my ailments.  Now tell me that a juice cleanse/detox is hocuspocus.

I know there are detox diets out there that are crap and doing a lot of damage.  There are also people profiting from them.  This is not one of them.  This is fresh, raw, organic produce.  Nothing gimmicky about that.



As Hippocrates said: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"

Hippocrates

Juice recipe of the day!

I'M FEELING 'MELON'CHOLY TODAY

1/2 sm Watermelon

1/2 Cucumber

2 Celery Ribs

Sm handful of Fresh Mint