Juice Fasting Benefits
Generally, juice fasting provides two major benefits:
- Nourishment. Provided that our bodies are healthy, we can get all the nutrition we need from fruits, vegetables, and other foods we eat—provided that they too are healthy. However, our digestive tracts are often inflamed from overeating, food additives, stress, and the use of medications. As a result, our bodies are not able to efficiently absorb all the nutrients they need. Fasting improves absorption of nutrients. Juice, a food in predigested form, is like a healthy blood transfusion, where you fill the blood with enzymes, vitamins, minerals, sugars, proteins.
- Cleansing. Actually, juice fasting itself does not cleanse your body. Your body cleanses itself. Fasting just gives your digestive system a rest, allowing your body to redirect the energy normally used for digestion towards taking care of “house cleaning chores.”
Here is a list of more specific benefits you can achieve through juice fasting:
- The body and internal organs have an opportunity to rebuild. The whole body becomes cleaner.
- Mental clarity improves.
- You are getting rid of excessive weight without flabbiness.
- Your energy increases.
- You will most likely need less sleep and will feel more refreshed in the morning.
- Immunity is strengthened.
- Healing is accelerated.
- The skin becomes soft and silky.
- You’ll experience a greater ease of movement.
- Breathing becomes fuller, freer and deeper.
- Taste buds clear up and taste senses are retrained back to more healthy food.
- Metabolism improves; cell oxygenation is being restored.
- Fecal matter in the colon is being dissolved and passes out of the body more frequently.
- The digestive system gets rejuvenated and becomes more effective; the peristaltic action of the intestines becomes stronger.
- Detoxification that occurs during a detox is eliminating those things that allow disease to set in: fat cells, arterial cholesterol plaques, mucus, tumors and stored up worries and emotions.
- Body fat is breaking down and releasing fat-stored chemicals (such as pesticides, drugs, etc.), which will re-enter the blood and then be eliminated.
- Elimination of toxins will speed up and the rate of incoming toxins will be reduced —with a net result of accelerated reduction of total body toxicity.
- Fats in body fluids decrease and, as a result, the blood becomes thinner and the oxygenation of tissues and movement of white blood cells becomes more efficient.
One very important specific benefit is that enzymes, powerful metabolic chemicals used for all bodily processes, become available for all the backed-up metabolic operations that were put on hold because of lack of enzymes.
The problem with pasteurization
Pasteurization kills all the living nutrients that can help to heal your body! All the benefits noted above are available from fresh-squeezed, unpasteurized juices. When juice is heated, it is called pasteurization. All juices are pasteurized as part of government regulation.
There is no way to overemphasize enough how important it is to drink only freshly squeezed and unpasteurized juices when you are doing a whole body detox and juice rejuvenation. Otherwise, you will be drinking what we call “dead food.” Your body will be getting liquids, but absolutely no nutrition.
When you come to the Abundant Life Wellness Centre, you will get many “bursts” of nutrition throughout the day. You will drink an exotic blend of fresh juices, all of which have been squeezed right in front of your eyes. These juices are so colorful and rich because many of the fruits and vegetables have been grown in our private garden and hand-picked just for you!
Nearly all of our fruits and vegetables are organically grown. They are so important to us and to the physical healing of our clients.
What is the end result? It is your story to finish!
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