I am writing this section of my Master Cleanse experience in response to a couple of emails I have received and other resources I have looked at. Most being on the negative side of what I am doing.

The question I keep getting (a couple emails but mostly people I know!) is why am I doing the Lemon Master Cleanse even though the "medical" society does not acknowledge it as being a "real" thing. The same way many (most) of society has a very strong opinion that the medical community is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I have the same strong opinion that our medical community is the number one killer of Americans today.

Now please let me explain. First that is not just a saying, it is a proven fact that the number one killer in the US today is Medical Mal-practice. Hands down the medical community kills more people through errors than anything else! This includes Heart Disease, Diabetes, etc.

Secondly I see our medical community as being a major portion of the problem instead of a solution. Most medical doctors are paid by the pharmaceutical companies to prescribe their medications (that is where doctors make most of their money actually, I was a personal assistant for years and saw it first hand). The US today takes over 75% of the prescription medications in the world... That is just insane to me. The medical community is more concerned with covering our symptoms than teaching us how to get where we don't need the medication, after all covering is much easier than actually correcting the problem.

So in short that is why I have chosen to live my life outside the "norm." By this I mean I fully believe in Doctors of Chiropractic and that my body can and should work correctly if I take the time to take care of myself. I believe that real food is better than processed plastic that I was eating before. I don't think that fast food is an appropriate food choice (though I do get it sometimes).

In general, every time I have gone to a Medical Doctor they have attempted (and often succeeded) to give me either medications to mask my symptoms or surgery to "try and figure out what was wrong." I am sick of these options which are the only ones a Medical Doctor seems to want to give. (If you have a Medical Doctor who doesn't thank God every day and NEVER leave them!)

With all that negative I will re-state as I have in the past, while I think for wellness our Medical community is atrocious, for emergency care there is no where else in the world I would rather be!

Another point I would like to make at this point is that I currently have not had food for the past 9 days. Yet when I go to the bathroom, "stuff" is still coming out, that is not liquid even though that is the only thing that has been put in my system. Something is cleaning out of my system and it is mucus, slimy, and putrid. Yes, this sounds gross but that is exactly why I am doing this, NOT to lose weight, as I have said many times if you do this to lose weight you WILL gain it back twice as bad!

This cleanse is to detoxify my body which it has done. I can no longer handle the smell of smoke much less try and have one myself after 15 years of smoking! That alone tells me that this was worth it even if I wasn't seeing the other "results".

Now that I have taken the time to give my rant, this also gives me a chance to also say if you have a negative comment please feel free to leave it! I allow every comment sent about a blog to go up, I don't stop anything! If your view is contrary to what I said it will if nothing else get a nice debate going. I do not believe that we all have to believe the same things or that we will all make the same choices in the same situations, that is what makes life fun!