A juice fast is great way to nurture your body, rebuild your immune system and restore yourself to a healthy way of living.
Raw fruit and vegetable juice contains many cleansing elements such as minerals, vitamins, enzymes and antioxidants to heal and detoxify the body safely.
Little energy is used by your digestive system during the cleanse, allowing the body to focus on rebuilding, renewing and healing. You might be surprised by how much energy you have after the first few days!
Since juicing fulfills most of the body's nutrient requirements, your energy levels should remain high enough on this cleanse to continue working.
Ideally a juice fast should be done on a break in countryside or at the beach Getting in touch with nature while cleansing is the ultimate purifying and revitalizing experience. Its certainly possible to fit a juice cleanse around your everyday life too though.
If you can manage it, 3-10 days on this cleanse is enough to detox and heal the body. If you to plan to do longer, it is advisable to get professional supervision.
You must only use freshly squeezed fruit, veggies and herbs. Try experimenting with combinations of beets, celery, carrots, apples, cucumber, garlic, ginger, cilantro, wheatgrass and cayenne pepper. All are excellent for cleansing. See our recipes page for some ideas.
It’s actually best to use a variety of different ingredients and vary your juices as much as possible - they all contain different important cleansing properties.
If you are juicing at home, you can add the also pulp from the juiced vegetable to make a broth. Just add water to a pot with the pulp and simmer for 15-20 minutes, then season the broth with cayenne pepper.
If you don’t have a juicer, you can buy the juice in your local health supermarket or juice bar.
Here are a couple of ideas to get you started. See more on our juice recipe ideas page.
Ingredients:
3 celery stalks
2 tomatoes
1 lemon, peeled
2 carrots
Water
Ingredients:
1 Cucumber with skin
1/2 bunch Fresh Parsley
1 4-oz. tub Alfalfa Sprouts
4 Sprigs Fresh Mint
Water
Ingredients:
2 bunches Grapes
6 Oranges
8 Lemons peeled
1/4 cup Honey
Water