Celery Juice
TheJenJen78
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So I’ve read an article by the Medicinal Medium and I agree with him in terms of the liver being our central processing unit to help filter and detox our bodies.
However he is adamant about using celery juice to help aid the liver from being sluggish and restoring it to its optimal working condition - - which helps with weight loss.
I plan to start this “liver detox” with celery juice on Monday, to see if I feel any of the effects he explains.
Anyone out there have any experience with celery juice? Advice? Ideas? Comments?
However he is adamant about using celery juice to help aid the liver from being sluggish and restoring it to its optimal working condition - - which helps with weight loss.
I plan to start this “liver detox” with celery juice on Monday, to see if I feel any of the effects he explains.
Anyone out there have any experience with celery juice? Advice? Ideas? Comments?
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How much "help" with weight loss will an optimal liver give you (versus its current state)? If you don't have any idea based on what you've read, I would only do it if you like celery juice. Do you like celery juice?
If the source doesn't tell you how, doesn't give concrete studies, and has its own brand it may be selling, I would run the opposite direction.21 -
Here is a link to one of the many articles and videos out there one this....
http://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/celery-juice
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TheJenJen78 wrote: »So I’ve read an article by the Medicinal Medium and I agree with him in terms of the liver being our central processing unit to help filter and detox our bodies.
However he is adamant about using celery juice to help aid the liver from being sluggish and restoring it to its optimal working condition - - which helps with weight loss.
I plan to start this “liver detox” with celery juice on Monday, to see if I feel any of the effects he explains.
Anyone out there have any experience with celery juice? Advice? Ideas? Comments?
Medical Medium is, frankly, quackery of the highest order. You don't need to drink celery juice. Your liver functions just fine. If for some reason it isn't, celery juice is not the answer.
I'm baffled as to how anyone can take this seriously (straight from the Amazon description of one of his products):
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Do you really want to embark on a weight loss program that starts with advice from a Psychic? This individual has absolutely no medical background and regardless of how many books he has sold or people he has convinced, it still doesn't stack up.
Yes, a healthy liver is key to good health but you can say that about the heart, the brain, the colon etc.
There is no denying the fact that plant foods can be incredibly healthy but I find it ironic that this guy doesn't mention to use only organic celery. Non organic celery has some of the highest content ratings of pesticides and herbicides used to grow it. And you want to drink that everyday?
Forget the gimmicks. Eating more fruits and vegetables overall will improve not only the liver but all the other organs in the body.
Think of it this way...if Celery Juice was so powerful, especially for weight loss, why hasn't it been flying off the shelves everywhere it is sold? Doctors and medical professionals the world over would be prescribing it. Do you honestly believe that something as simple as 16 ounces of celery juice a day is going to improve your health and help you lose weight?14 -
Detoxing is a myth and it sounds like a load of *kitten* to me... I suspect this medium guy sells celery juice.12
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The best thing about celery, nutritionally speaking, is it's fiber. It's one of the few foods out there where more than half of its carbs are fiber. Americans (don't know about other countries) notoriously don't get enough fiber for a healthy microbiome. I just don't get the whole "juicing" thing. Why waste the fiber in ANY food?22
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The best thing about celery, nutritionally speaking, is it's fiber. It's one of the few foods out there where more than half of its carbs are fiber. Americans (don't know about other countries) notoriously don't get enough fiber for a healthy microbiome. I just don't get the whole "juicing" thing. Why waste the fiber in ANY food?
Yes to all this
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I really don't understand how so many people can be swayed by someone who calls himself " The Medical Medium". He's daring you to see that he's a snake oil salesman, and probably as amused as anyone that his shtick is catching on.
If you like celery juice, I'm sure there's no harm in drinking some. But your liver isn't a big factor in weight loss, and as long as you are eating a well balanced diet, and you aren't overloading it with too much alcohol or medications, there's no reason to think it isn't working optimally anyway.
Just don't buy anything from the guy, seriously. Drink celery juice for a few weeks until you get tired of it. Then start logging accurately and consistently and hitting your calorie goal because that's what's going to get you weight loss success.
Read the Most Helpful Posts threads pinned to the top of each forum. There's lots of great info there, from people who aren't too busy giving themselves corny nicknames and building fake wellness empires to just tell you how it works.15 -
If your liver isnt working properly you need medical attention, not celery juice.27
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Sorry you've been taken in by this fraud. Calling him a quack is an insult to other quacks like Dr. Oz, he's that bad.
I'd you find celery juice tasty or refreshing, by all means drink it. It's not doing anything else for you, however, especially not for your liver.17 -
TheJenJen78 wrote: »However he is adamant about using celery juice to help aid the liver from being sluggish and restoring it to its optimal working condition - - which helps with weight loss.
He's also full of crap.5 -
How do you think DR. OZ makes so much money, he buys a product to sell, then blasts its miracle behavior on TV then saps buy into his product and he makes millions by slapping his face on some generic crap.4
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MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »TheJenJen78 wrote: »However he is adamant about using celery juice to help aid the liver from being sluggish and restoring it to its optimal working condition - - which helps with weight loss.
He's also full of crap.
Maybe if he ate the celery, with its fiber, instead of juicing it, he wouldn't have all that crap backed up.21 -
Psychic dude is also tied into Gwyneth Paltrow and all of her "Goop" woo bs, so OP, please, don't be suckered into believing crap like this.
As others have said, if you like celery juice, drink it. But know that you are not doing anything special or insider-y for your liver or any other part of your body by doing so.
You would honestly get way more benefit from celery if you simply ate some, instead of removing the great part by juicing it. Celery has really good fibre content - all of which is removed by juicing it.4 -
TheJenJen78 wrote: »Here is a link to one of the many articles and videos out there one this....
http://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/celery-juice
And here's a link to one of the many articles and videos out there that show he's full of it.
https://www.inverse.com/article/40096-medical-medium-anthony-william6 -
Helpful tip;
When it comes to fruit and vegetables your body will benefit more from eating the whole lot (skin included where appropriate) than it ever will with juicing. This is because juicing strips the produce of many of their nutrients, especially fibre. That and drinking calories has a habit of not filling you up which can easily result in overeating.
If you enjoy celery juice then go for it, but you are kidding yourself if you believe it will help your liver to detox. If your liver is in that bad a state you need a doctor and not some celery juice.4 -
I'd put it this way: Odds that your body benefits more from eating some common food in a different form than the natural-selection-tested way humans have eaten it for centuries or millennia? Near zero.2
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snickerscharlie wrote: »TheJenJen78 wrote: »Here is a link to one of the many articles and videos out there one this....
http://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/celery-juice
And here's a link to one of the many articles and videos out there that show he's full of it.
https://www.inverse.com/article/40096-medical-medium-anthony-william
Great article.
Very suspicious that Amazon shows so many 5 star reviews. And at the bottom of the page of Anthony William's books are how to set up an Amazon giveaway to promote your book. I emailed the author of the article you linked to see if Amazon got back to her.2 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »TheJenJen78 wrote: »Here is a link to one of the many articles and videos out there one this....
http://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/celery-juice
And here's a link to one of the many articles and videos out there that show he's full of it.
https://www.inverse.com/article/40096-medical-medium-anthony-william
Great article.
Very suspicious that Amazon shows so many 5 star reviews. And at the bottom of the page of Anthony William's books are how to set up an Amazon giveaway to promote your book. I emailed the author of the article you linked to see if Amazon got back to her.
??? I see those announcements on Amazon about giveaways to promote the book all the time. I'm pretty sure those are routine messagesfrom Amazon to authors and publishers, not the other way around.0 -
"Neither Anthony William nor Anthony William, Inc. is a medical doctor or other licensed healthcare practitioner or provider"
Right in the disclaimer at the bottom of the blog.... pardon me if I call bull!4 -
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Celery juice, beetle juice. They all have their purpose. What does a human liver do when it is at "optimal working conditions"? When is it at 100 % ? At age 8 or 10 or 12 ? Our bodies start to die the moment we are born - and start getting seriously worn and old from age 20 onward or thereabouts. Shouldn't we ask ourselves WHAT (if anything) makes our liver "sluggish" ? Livers of animals don't last forever either - compare the liver of a 6 week old chicken (tight, dark blood red, firm) to the liver of an old soup hen of 18 to 24 months. Whitish in colour with dark gray spots, loose to the touch, jelly - like). Put a piece of liver into celery juice for a couple of days, for a week: it will start to stink like any other food.8
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I drink celery juice (mixed with cucumber and apple) almost every day. I suffered with really bad psoriasis and cutting out dairy and drinking this every day has completely gotten rid of it. If I feel a flare up coming a few days of celery juices for breakfast and lunch stop it from developing. Don’t let everyone put you off!14
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neugebauer52 wrote: »Celery juice, beetle juice. They all have their purpose. What does a human liver do when it is at "optimal working conditions"? When is it at 100 % ? At age 8 or 10 or 12 ? Our bodies start to die the moment we are born - and start getting seriously worn and old from age 20 onward or thereabouts. Shouldn't we ask ourselves WHAT (if anything) makes our liver "sluggish" ? Livers of animals don't last forever either - compare the liver of a 6 week old chicken (tight, dark blood red, firm) to the liver of an old soup hen of 18 to 24 months. Whitish in colour with dark gray spots, loose to the touch, jelly - like). Put a piece of liver into celery juice for a couple of days, for a week: it will start to stink like any other food.
Of course our livers, like all of us, deteriorate with age. Surely nobody expects the liver (heart, lungs, kidneys etc etc) of, say, a 70 year old to be the same as a 20 year old.
You know, natural process of aging.
Yes we should be asking what causes damage to the liver and try to avoid such things - smoking, alcohol in excess , untreated hepatitis C, for example.
But lost as to what point putting a piece of liver in celery juice for a week would serve?????
Is hardly a scientific experiment.
If credible scientific data supports the idea that a particular food is of crucial importance to the liver - then sure, discuss that.
(seems unlikely to me, since humans are evolved to manage fine with a diverse variety of foods)
But silly quack ides not supported by science - Nope.
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neugebauer52 wrote: »Celery juice, beetle juice. They all have their purpose. What does a human liver do when it is at "optimal working conditions"? When is it at 100 % ? At age 8 or 10 or 12 ? Our bodies start to die the moment we are born - and start getting seriously worn and old from age 20 onward or thereabouts. Shouldn't we ask ourselves WHAT (if anything) makes our liver "sluggish" ? Livers of animals don't last forever either - compare the liver of a 6 week old chicken (tight, dark blood red, firm) to the liver of an old soup hen of 18 to 24 months. Whitish in colour with dark gray spots, loose to the touch, jelly - like). Put a piece of liver into celery juice for a couple of days, for a week: it will start to stink like any other food.
How...depressing.4 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »TheJenJen78 wrote: »Here is a link to one of the many articles and videos out there one this....
http://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/celery-juice
And here's a link to one of the many articles and videos out there that show he's full of it.
https://www.inverse.com/article/40096-medical-medium-anthony-william
Great article.
Very suspicious that Amazon shows so many 5 star reviews. And at the bottom of the page of Anthony William's books are how to set up an Amazon giveaway to promote your book. I emailed the author of the article you linked to see if Amazon got back to her.
??? I see those announcements on Amazon about giveaways to promote the book all the time. I'm pretty sure those are routine messagesfrom Amazon to authors and publishers, not the other way around.
I wasn't saying they were the other way around.
It's easy for authors to promote their books on Amazon and link to social media.
I'm curious how easy it is for him to manipulate that system.2 -
Celery juice (or powder) is what "natural foods" manufacturers use instead of sodium nitrate. IT's got huge amounts of nitrates in it.
Now, I have very low nitrate woo, but I feel like someone has mixed up the word "Cure." Just because something can be used to "cure" a sausage or a ham doesn't mean it will "cure" your liver.
(The actual issue of whether anything "Cures" or "detoxes" or "Tones" or "Reboots" or "restores" or "replenishes" or "flushes" or "empowers" or "renews" or "kickstarts" .... your liver? Totally different issue and deserving of a whole dissertation on the role of the liver in food woo).7 -
I think I'll continue to do as I've always done, eat the whole celery. I'd much rather have celery sticks with my sandwich than chips, but that's me. I love the stuff. The only manipulating I want done to my celery, is when my teeth are chewing it.1
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Why do you think you need to detox your liver? Your livers purpose is to remove toxins from your body. It doesn't need to be detoxed. It IS the detox.
There are people out there who have discovered that if you look good and speak with big fancy words, there's are enough people out there who will believe literally anything you say that you can make enough money off of it. It's the snake oil salesmen of old but with a worldwide reach.
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Found this in the Star Metro News on the subway today. It's reprinted from the Washington Post: https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjL2O2YutzgAhUHPa0KHWepCrIQFjAKegQIBhAB&url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20190227/282102047963666&usg=AOvVaw1GAn9UlzAdCKsliHLeKMQZ2
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