“A safe cleanse is one which doesn’t make you starve yourself or perhaps take fancy pills, potions or perhaps extravagant drinks.” ~Mark Hyman, MD., Institute For See details – a fantastic read, Functional Medicine
I do not juice-only cleanse. Ever. I do not take up a cleanse without preparing. Ever.
A good friend informed me 2 days ago she was going on a cleanse to jumpstart healthy eating as well as weight loss. As she was speaking I thought, “it’s not traveling to work.” But when she said,”It just feels as though the right move to make. And, I’m ready,” I assumed to myself, “Don’t be so fast to dismiss it, perhaps it will work.”
For a couple of days the friend of mine sent me photos of what she was eating, with updates, “Oh my gosh, I think very great!” On day three the texts stopped. The following week when I asked her the way the cleanse was going, she replied, “I stopped. I could not do it.”
Juice cleanses are all the rage — a celebrity-driven $5 billion (yes, five dolars billion) industry and growing — promises losing weight, detoxification from food and green chemical substances, clearer skin, improved digestion, mental clarity, and a jumpstart to healthy eating.
Juice cleansing is not a panacea to good health.
My private opinion is the fact that all juice cleanses are another fad diet plan. And, actually, juice cleansing can come with short- and long-term detriments to long-term wellness.
There are an assortment of washing and detox plans — from 3 day juice only detoxes to 21 day applications and anything in between. While a 3 day juice-only cleanse maybe don’t have lasting negative effects they are not the remedy for jumpstarting weight reduction or a new healthy way of living either.