Juice Fasting | Healing and Building, Body and Mind

What exactly is unique about a fresh juicing detox that heals and builds the body? When we fast, our bodies go through successive stages of cleansing, energizing and regenerating that happen in no other way. Fasting is Nature’s pathway to physical, mental and spiritual renewal!

Body Benefits

When we eat a regular diet, we store energy from the calories we consume. For the first two or three days of a fast, the body runs on glycogen (glucose stored in the liver). After all stored energy is depleted, the body switches to rapidly burning its own fat through a process called ketosis.

This, in turn, creates stem cells, which have an amazing ability to promote profound healing throughout the body.

Fasting gives your digestive system the signal to reset and switch from digesting to detoxing. After years of eating three meals a day, we all store up toxins from processed, dead foods – and even from whole foods treated with pesticides and herbicides.

Every day of fasting allows the digestive system to push a little farther and cleanse a little more. And fasting with juices gives your body the energy it needs to sustain this process.

Busting Bad Stuff

One of the biggest breakthroughs in history is the discovery that we can naturally reverse and heal ourselves from chronic disease through fasting.

Dr. Herbert M. Shelton has pioneered research on autolyzing tumors. He discovered that when the body is lacking protein (from fasting), it can actually deconstruct the proteins that make up tumors, polyps, cysts, abscesses and viruses. These essential amino acids can then be re-metabolized to rebuild clean body tissue! The body will do this before it burns good, lean muscle or clean tissue.

But Fast for How Long?

In the documentary, “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead”, Joe Cross fasted on juice for 60 days to lose 100 pounds and recover from a debilitating autoimmune disease. I have seen MANY people absolutely thrive on a 30 to 60day juice fast.

But don’t let that intimidate you.

If you’re not suffering from chronic diseases and haven’t fasted before, try seven days. Then if you feel great, try 14 days… then 21! Each seven-day fast compounds the effect of great things happening in the body.

Brain Food, Soul Food

Even one day of fasting stimulates neurons in the brain. If you go beyond two or three days, the brain actually forms new neural networks. Your brain literally grows and you become more intelligent! For thousands of years, every major religion has promoted fasting. This likely contributed to why great minds like Plato, Aristotle, Pythagorus, da Vinci and Gandi were so brilliant and their name and fame have endured.

Fasting presses the limits of human experience and creates a divine connection. It gives space and time to expand the self-knowledge of who we really are.

I believe the kingdom of heaven is truly found within.