Hello there, Eric Bakker, thank you for coming back.
Got a question today from a subscriber, asking what a juice cleanse is.
Well a juice cleanse is ... well it basically says, you're drinking juices and you're going
to run [inaudible] cleanse.
Many people believe that this is the ultimate form of detoxification, used to go on some
kind of a juice fast.
It could be with vegetables, could be with fruits.
I've got plenty of people who even believes that drinking fruit juices all day long helps
to eliminate Candida.
Doesn't work that way, guys, I'm sorry.
Your liver and kidneys and lungs and skin are organs in toxification.
You're always detoxifying to some degree.
The burden, however increases when we smoke, we drink, we're under high stress, or we live
shitty lifestyles.
This is what adds to our toxic burden.
Toxins also come from the emotional stress.
Now, people don't realize that.
They think the toxins come from mercury in the mouth and cigarette smoke, but there were
a lot of other toxins as well.
Toxins that are unseen and hidden, that are produced in the body through thoughts and
feelings.
Nobody thinks about that.
So juice fasting or juice cleansing is very popular.
Look at NutriBullet, look at a lot of companies that are really promoting this now.
In my opinion, it's crap.
Okay, thinking that you can undergo a period of a cleanse with juicing to lose weight and
to clean up.
Because invariably what happens is you're going to go back to what you were eating before
anyway.
You're going to go back to a solid diet.
You can't live on juices all your life.
That's stupid.
You're drinking a lot of fluid there, there's no fiber, there's lots of sugars.
What you are doing with the juice cleanse is you're supplying your liver with a lot
of antioxidants and also enzymes, and that helps to facilitate detoxification.
Juices don't detoxify the body.
They allow the body to improve, or facilitate and improve the ability to detoxify.
But you don't need to do juices to do that.
You can just eat the whole flipping food.
Why would you throw everything through a juicer and drink that and throw will the fiber out?
In my opinion, a Vitamix is better, or a blender to blend up the food.
Carrot fiber, the beetroot fiber and have that in your gut as opposed to just the liquid.
I don't think juicing is necessary at all for most people, and if I drink a juice it's
more for enjoyment of the taste, but it's not for cleansing action.
So to me, cleansing is all about eating the right food longterm permanently for you.
You'll keep the colon clean, you keep the liver clean, but the key thing is not to put
that crap in the body in the first place.
Lots of alcohol, lots of toxins, lots of junk food.
If you don't do that for a long time, you might need to detoxify.
If you've still got toxins in your body, you can do some testing to find out what you've
got, an eliminate that.
Most people have got this crazy notion that everyone is full of toxins, and they're walking
half dead, and they need to detoxify all the time to clean their body up.
That's not true.
That's a total fallacy.
There is so much misinformation on the Internet about detoxification, it's actually a joke.
But, however, there are many toxic people out there, as I mentioned in previous videos
that work in very toxic occupations.
Now those people however, in my opinion, especially if you'd been working with metal like welding,
or silver soldering or working with spray painting or junk like that.
Those people need detoxifying on a different level than a ma and pa, like you and I am
sitting there peeling potatoes, watching TV or something.
You're not probably welding, you probably haven't got the same kind of chemical burden
that many people have got.
So, just eating a really healthy diet and focusing on antioxidants, focusing on apple
cider vinegar and fermented and cultured foods.
Living a low stress lifestyle and drinking water like we were designed to drink.
You're going to eliminate most of the crap out of your body, especially if you don't
keep putting it back.
That's the key thing, right?
I've seen all too many people undergo cleanses and detoxes, and then six months or a year
later they've got a cigarette in their hand, or they got a can of beer in their hand again.
So you keep emptying the swimming pool, filling it back up again.
It's up to you how you want to live your life.
So juice cleansing can be quite an efficient process as used as a preparation for the Candida
Diet.
If you're reading Candida Crusher in candy to crush up my book, I wrote right a lot about
that.
That there are three different types of juices, the beginners type juice, the intermediate,
and the advanced juices which are more bitter like the brassicas for example.
These are great adjuncts to include in a candida diet, because they allow you to cleanse more
efficiently and keep you away from other foods that you shouldn't otherwise be eating, Spirulina,
barley grass, these are great things to add to juices.
Very, very powerful cleansing agents.
But just making up orange juice and having a glass of that, not really a good idea.
If you aren't going to have juices, focus on the cleansing kind of vegetables, like
the beetroot and carrot.
I think they work quite well.
My favorite combination would be celery, Granny Smith apple, beetroot and carrot.
It's a wonderful drink.
Then I always add the fiber back in there again.
But when I have those kinds of drinks, I don't have them purely with the detoxification purpose
in mind, because my diet is very clean as it is.
I don't do things with chemicals, I have no chemicals in the house or in the garden or
anything like that.
So I didn't consider myself having a very high toxic burden, and likely you haven't
got the same either.
You may think you're toxic, but it may be something entirely different.
So if in doubt do a test and get it checked out.
At the very least, if you're concerned, do a functional liver detoxification profile
to see where your two stages of liver are.
Are they efficiently detoxing, or are they not efficient?
You can actually just do your own test to determine that.
Thanks for tuning in.