If you want to do a detox cleanse on your body then there are several options available to you.  This is an area in which there is no exact science just yet and so there is conflicting information out there on what is the best way to treat our bodies.  Some people believe for detox cleansing the best way is a commercially developed program such as the master cleanse diet.  Then there are others such as the colon cleanse detox or the lemon diet.  With such an exact formula for what to consume in order to cleanse our system, are we confident that this is the winning formula?  Or are the principles involved more important?  Let's take a look.

The basic principles behind flushing the system is that we have to fast.  This means that we have to stop putting junk into our bodies for a period of time and flush it with lots of fluids.  We could do a water fast but that is a bit extreme and also has a lot of disadvantages.  One of the major disadvantages of water fasting in my opinion is that you cannot really push yourself to exercise much while water fasting.  When you do a juice fast you are still getting enough nutrients to be able to push yourself a bit and burn up some extra calories.  This goes a long way in accelerating the fast and in cleansing your system deeper.

The principles of a body cleanse detox not only include that we turn our digestive system off through fasting, but also that we use live, strained fruit juices so that the enzymes in them can aid in digestion and help to clean our system.  Once we stop eating solid food, the enzymes from the fruit juices will help our stomach to digest any remaining food, and then our digestive system will basically shut itself off completely. 

People have also found that they have collected waste that is basically stored and lodged within their system that gets flushed out during a juice fast.  This becomes evident during longer fasts when there is normally no way for solid waste to be produced, yet it is still occasionally excreted.  You know you are cleaner and lighter when you get rid of this excess waste that has been sitting there all along!

So whether or not you believe in the idea of toxins or not, you have to admit to yourself that juice fast really is cleaning your system to some extent when you see solid waste being passed after several days of no eating.  It is one thing to talk about this side effect but once you experience it you will realize just how beneficial the fasting is at cleansing your system. 

Now what I would recommend for the beginner is to go and buy a manual juicer for about 5 dollars at the store.  This will be an orange colored plastic cone device that screws on to the top of a glass jar.  The idea is that you can cut an orange in half and then push it down on to the plastic cone, and the juice will run out of the orange and be collected in the glass jar.  You can spend several hundred dollars on a juicer but this little device is really all you need if you follow these instructions.

If you are rich and can afford to do so, go buy about 50 pounds of organic fruits and vegetables for your juice fast.  What I do is to buy about 30 dollars worth of V8 Fusion and then modify each glass of juice that I drink.  What I do is to simply juice a single lemon into each glass of juice that I consume.  Do this by cutting the lemon in half and juicing it using your cheap plastic juicer.  Strain the lemon juice through a paper towel into a full glass of the V8 Fusion.  Drink as much of this stuff as you want every day for 3 days.  That is the juice fast that I follow and it works awesome for cleansing the system.  I recommend that consume 3 V8 Fusion containers each day, mixed with about 10 lemons.  I also recommend a 3 day juice fast for anyone starting out, and you can increase by 1 to 2 days for every time you try to do another fast in the future. 

If you are interested in the cleansing effect of a juice fast, doing what I suggest will not disappoint you.  Make sure you get lemons and not just oranges, though you can feel free to mix in limes, lemons, oranges, or anything else that suits your fancy.  Just understand that you cannot have any pulp whatsoever in the juice or you will screw up the entire fast. 

Good luck to everyone out there and have fun with your detox cleanse.....you are going to feel awesome!