Juicing restores your immune system

“Vitality and beauty are gifts of nature for those who live according to its laws” - Leonardo Da Vinci

Juicing serves as a form of instant, abundant nutrition that can pass almost directly into the blood stream and begin feeding the cells and restoring the immune system.

Fresh, green juices provide:

• Chlorophyll and magnesium which alkalinize the body
• Chlorophyll that improves oxygen transport in the body
• Enzymes, enzymes and more enzymes
• Easily assimilated, abundant vitamins and minerals
• Water
• Amino acids

Animals fast when they are sick. This is nature’s way of letting the body rest, recover and heal. Since 70% of the immune system is linked to colon health, fasting allows the digestive tract to rest, heal and strengthen. Since the body is not spending its energy digesting and eliminating new toxins in the system, it is able to direct all its energy toward the elimination of accumulated toxins. Thus the eliminative systems of the body – the skin, lungs, liver, kidney, and bowels – become more active.

Fasting benefits the body by:

• detoxifying cells
• allowing for repairing of damaged cells
• freeing body of abnormal changes in tissues
• lowering blood pressure and cholesterol
• losing excess weight and stored toxins
• increasing energy
• improving mental clarity
• improving digestion
• regulating bowel action
• slowing and reversing aging
• activating youthing gene expression
• increasing metabolism
• preventing damaging changes from occurring in vital organs
• improving efficiency of organ functioning
• relieving tension
• teaching new eating habits
• providing spiritual revelations

Fasting for short periods of time such as seven to ten days is considered completely safe by most fasting experts. During a juice fast, you have to stay full of juice. Drink as much juice as you can.

For the first 4 or 5 days, there will be a battle going on within you known as appetite. We cannot distinguish between appetite and hunger. Hunger is easily satisfied and appetite is never satisfied! That is why we eat when we are full and drink when we are drunk. Once appetite goes away, you become rational because you are no longer hungry. You will find that true hunger is no longer painful.

You know when you wake up in the morning feeling hungry, it is not hunger but gastric irritation because you are finally emptying the stomach. Hunger is never painful. Like any physiological need, there is a longing, but it is not painful. The initial feeling of a physiological need is a longing, not a requirement. Like eating, when you first start to get hungry you get an empty feeling and it is a positive feeling.

The most important thing to know about any juice cleanse is how to break it, because if you break it in the wrong way you might as well not have done it. It will do more damage than good. A general guideline is to allow one day of breaking the fast for each three days of fasting.

It is important to break a fast appropriately. While fasting the digestive system has been shut down and it must be restarted carefully. The first foods you put in your body will be absorbed much more easily, so what you choose to eat should be what is needed to rebuild and nourish the body. This is the time to reorient yourself around a new quality of diet.

Strict water fasts are not safe unless closely supervised, nor are they recommended for those who are critically ill. Juice fasting is a much safe alternative for fasting, as it actually provides abundant nutrition through the time of cleansing. It is truly a powerful tool for healing.