Juice Cleanses? Are they worth it?

Juicing only, will definitely make your pancreas very overworked. Nothing to slow the glucose entering your bloodstream. It's also extremely expensive and a waste of good food. if you need to consume to get you to take your veggies then do smoothies. Takes less produce to make, contains all the fiber and if you use fruit, they can be a good sub for milkshakes, but too much fruit might still negatively impact blood sugar and therefore weight loss.

misskitty2018 wrote: »

you'll never know until you try it....I don't see the harm as long as you are not starving yourself. go for it! Sometimes you need to give your body a little kick start.

What makes you think your body needs a kick start? What exactly needs kick starting and how does it work?

psychod787 wrote: »

I say this JOKINGLY..... If you want a real cleansing add a few tablespoons of Epson salt to your juice for a real..... Cleanse! No I would not juice cleanse.

even regular salt will do the trick. chug some warm salt water and prepare to be cleansed and flushed. do not make plans.

I'm waiting for the chocolate cleanse.

3 days won't do a lot and if it's just to lose weight it's pointless. My wife developed Fibromyalgia 3 or so years ago. An important part of her healing (she's pretty much recovered now) was fresh juicing. When people think of juice, they think of fruit. We used mostly veggies. Cabbage is amazing for stomach health. For years, prisons used cabbage juice to heal ulcers. Cabbage juice kills h Pylori, which causes peptic ulcers (so does potato juice, oddly enough). We used cabbage, cucumbers and celery for the "base" - so much for raising glucose - very little sugar or calories. We'd add in fresh ginger, turmeric root (both fantastic for inflammation), cilantro for heavy metals (mixed science on it but we've had luck with it), and spinach or kale. We might add in a bit of pineapple core (a natural digestive enzyme).

We try to eat a WFPB (whole food, plant-based) diet. We strive for six/seven cups of veggies a day, which is really hard to do without juicing adding three/four servings of vegetables. There are also a lot of specific benefits things like cabbage give you (sulforaphane is amazing for you and been proven to assist in the activation of the Keap1-Nrf2 Pathway -- which is a major factor in reducing oxidative stress and DNA damage). Also, fresh juicing reduces the amount in landfills. We juice broccoli stems, cabbage cores, beet greens, pineapple cores and many things that people normally just throw away.

Most will say eat the fiber, but there's honestly no way we could blend all of these veggies up and drink them (four servings is around 3 lbs of veggies). Plus, we get tons of fiber any way throughout the day. Fresh juicing serves a purpose and it certainly doesn't have to be loaded with sugar. We'd also sometimes add lemon or lime to make it more palatable. Losing weight loss quickly isn't a great reason to fresh juice if you only are planning on doing it a few days. Not a difference maker. Perhaps helping a damaged microbiome heal? Perhaps if done for a while (like a couple of months). I'd say it's better than breakfast cookies, pop tarts, and all the other horrific garbage out there. I've tried to make our green juice in a Ninja and a NutraBullet. Not drinkable. Nasty. It does taste good, though, juiced. Find me a Nutrabullet recipe that doesn't have a ton of fruit. We don't use apples, bananas, etc. in our juice.

As for price, we juice for around 5 days a week (2 decent sized servings each for two people) roughly for around $25. Much less than Starbucks.