Juice fasting

[davidk]

interesting article
JUICE-FASTING:
The powerful healing therapy that no-one ever uses.

"When you don't feel well, stop eating and go to juices."

SCHULZE: The first thing an animal does when it is sick is stop
eating. They fast themselves.

Likewise, the first thing we need to do when we don't feel well is:
stop food.

There are a lot of reasons for that. Food takes a tremendous amount
of energy to digest--and that's blood and energy. Our digestive
system, basically the muscles and the tissues, fill with blood. When
you stop eating, your digestive system rests, and all that blood and
energy can be put somewhere else to heal you.

People have said to me, "What do I do for this particular disease?"
Juice fasting. "What do I do for degeneration?" Juice fasting. "What
do I do for heart disease?" Juice fasting.

Juice fasting is for the incurables. Juice fasting is the answer,
because it allows your body to rest - and it lets your body choose
what it wants to heal.

If you just keep cramming food down your mouth, you'll just get more
tired. Your body has to digest large amounts of food, and it's the
opposite of what you should do when you're not well.

"One of my first patients had lost a tremendous amount of blood from
surgery--and doctors wanted to do a transfusion. In 24 hours on
juices, I brought her blood levels back up."

BISER: What does juice fasting do?

SCHULZE: Food has nutrition in it, but it takes a lot to break those
nutrients down.

Juices are like a blood transfusion.

A glass of fruit and vegetable juice takes very little digestion, if
any. It goes right into your body. We look at juices in the same way
a doctor would look at an I.V It's something that can go right into
your bloodstream.

One of my first learning experiences was a woman patient who was
undergoing a surgery, a female surgery. The doctors nicked an artery, and she had tremendous hemorrhaging and bleeding. By the time they got her patched up, she was in intensive care, and had lost a tremendous amount of blood.

The doctors wanted to do a transfusion. She was scared to do a
transfusion and the doctor said, "You're very anemic and your
hemoglobin count is at the lowest end for a woman."

She said, "Is there anything you can do?"

And I said, "Sure," and I got the juicer out and juiced some juices.
I made some carrot juice and some beet juice. I took it to the
hospital and said, "Just let the doctors give you 24 hours."

They did, and, in 24 hours on juices, they said that her hemoglobin
count was over the top end of the scale for a man, not even a woman,
and men's hemoglobin counts are higher.

This was my first realization of the power of what juices can do to
build the blood up.

BISER: Wait a minute, you gave her juices. How did she get juices
when she went into the hospital for 24 hours?

SCHULZE: Oh, I went to the hospital too. I juiced the juices, put
them in quart canning jars. Fresh beet juice, fresh beet greens,
fresh carrot juice. I took it right to her hospital room and she
drank it.

That's all she had for 24 hours and not only did her blood hemoglobin go up, but it went over the top of the scale for a man. The doctors said they were shocked, they had never seen anything like that.

"Man cures his colon cancer by juice-fasting. The cancer came out in
the toilet."

SCHULZE: I had a man who had a colon cancer and he basically refused
to do anything, but he said he would stop eating and go on juices.
This was early on in my practice, too. These were learning
experiences.

He started on a multitude of fruit and vegetable juices and, I
remember it was about a month later into his long juice fast, he
pooped his cancer right out. It was 18" long.

It looked like a rope with figs attached to it. I had seen things
like that before in pictures and books - but that was the first time
I ever saw one come out.

BISER: A rope?

SCHULZE: Yeah, it was like a rope with sacs on it, they were about
the size of figs. And, he actually eliminated his cancer just through juice fasting. He wasn't using any herbs or doing anything else, something I wouldn't recommend.

Juice fasting, through my experience and his, is more powerful than
just water fasting. Juices not only fill you with nutrition - but
they empty you out.

If you have any doubt about that, go home and drink a quart of prune
juice and you tell me what happens.

Juices are flushing and cleansing to organs of the body.

Juices are enzyme therapy.

SCHULZE: Juices contain gigantic amounts of enzymes. And a lot of
people nowadays are taking enzymes because of the benefits, but you
don't have to, they're in the juices.

Enzymes are heat sensitive, meaning that when you cook food, you
destroy all the enzymes. Now, when you eat that food or juice, it's
okay. Your body will produce enzymes in order for you to digest that
food. But when your body does that - it can't do something else. It
only has a limited amount of energy.

So, one of the things that juices do, because they are loaded with
enzymes, is they give your body a vacation.

Most of us live enzyme-free diets. If all we eat is cooked food,
there are no enzymes in it. By supplying your body with high doses of enzymes, it gives many of your organs like your pancreas, your liver, your digestive system a holiday, because they don't have to try to manufacture chemicals that are coming in through your juices.

BISER: So it's an enzyme holiday!

"Thinning the blood is one the most important things you can do when
you are sick, and juices do that."

SCHULZE: Yes, an enzyme holiday. And it also thins your blood. This
is a major key. Most of us who are ill are trying to do something to
get blood to the area that is sick.

But our body is trying to pump around mud - and it can't get there.
Thinning our blood is one the greatest keys to getting healthy. It
increases our circulation because the blood becomes more like water
than molasses. The bottom line is, juice fasting thins your blood.
That allows your circulation to get deeper in your body into the
vital areas, into the capillaries that were filled with fat and all
clogged-up.

"Juice-fasting allows your body to balance its hormones and replace
chemicals it is deficient in."

SCHULZE: Many people are sick because they don't produce enough
insulin in their body. Or, they don't produce enough thyrox in their
thyroid. Or, they don't produce enough interferon or immunoglobulin
for the immune system to be strong. They don't produce enough
estrogen or progesterone or testosterone.

Those chemicals are all built from nutrition. One of the things that
juice fasting does is, it supplies your body with a tremendous amount of nutrition. So it balances your metabolism, balances your hormones, balances your endocrine system, your thyroid, your pancreas, and your reproductive organs. And it does one other important thing: It allows you to get more work done.

"Juice fasting clears the mind."

BISER: How can you get more work done when you're hungry? Because
you're not eating solid foods?

SCHULZE: Let me tell you, it's just the opposite of what you think.
If you want a gigantic change, stop eating for a couple days. It will feel like the fog is cleared.

You will be amazed at your sense of smell, your sense of taste, your
eyesight, your perception, your thoughts.

All through history, from the Greek and Roman writings, to the
Egyptians, from Jesus to Shakespeare, people talked about fasting for better mental clarity.

One thing I can guarantee you is that if you have a confusing
problem, or a stressful issue that you don't know the answer to, stop eating. It enhances mental clarity.

We are drunk on food. Overeating makes you dull. Your blood, instead
of going to your brain, is going to your digestive tract. You read it in the Bible, Jesus going to the woods for his fasting.
Everybody, throughout history, would go out of the city and go onto
juices and water, and fast. Fasting clears the mind, and so it is a
physical and emotional cleanse, and maybe even a spiritual cleanse
when you stop your food from coming in.

"No-one realizes how powerful juice-fasting is- until they do it.
Then they will never live without it. "

"Everybody should do this periodically. I guarantee everybody who is
reading this, if they just do a fast, for a couple of days, they will be amazed."

BISER: When you worked in Hollywood, you had all those people in the
movie industry, did you give them the same advice?

SCHULZE: Yes, in fact many people came to me and they were worried
about the first week, or a difficult part of the movie that they were having a problem with, or that they were worried about, "Can I do this?", or, "Is it going to go okay?", and I would suggest the five-day program.

The five day program is 2 days of light eating of fruits and salads
only, with 2 days of juice fasting in the middle, and one day of
fruits and salads at the end. They would say to me, "Oh, God, I can't do that, that would even be more stress."

And, I would say, "Yes you can. It will be less stress when your body is using all its blood and energy to help you do what you need to do, and figure it out, and not be loaded down with food."

And those that would do it came back to me and said, "Oh my God,
thank you." I had one woman who hadn't worked in a couple of years, a quite famous actress. She had to go out for four interviews during
the week and these were the most interviews she had been to, in a
long time. She said, "What should I do?" and I said "Fast." She
said, "That sounds horrible. I need all my strength and energy." I
said "Believe me, fast."

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She fasted and got all four parts that she went out for. I've always
seen it happen with all my clients.

I remember as a kid, I used to eat a big meal, thinking it was going
to make me feel stronger. I felt more tired. So, I'd eat more and I
felt more tired. And I'd eat more, then I felt more tired.

I've done many fasts - short fasts. I've done two thirty day fasts
and one sixty-day juice fast. We can go months without food

BISER: But did your body get run down without it?

SCHULZE: Oh no, in fact, in the last couple days of my thirty-day
juice fast, I kick-boxed 17 rounds and I was better than ever before. No one could come near me and touch me. I had better vision, I had better reflexes, I had better timing.

Get away from - the idea that fasting weakens you. It's not true.

"When you fast, there are some things you need to be aware of."

SCHULZE: Sometimes when you fast, you have a little less body heat.
So take a sweater with you when you go out. Every once in awhile, you may feel a little colder and it's because it is calories from heat units in food that warms up our body.

So, since you are reducing your food and you're on juices only, dress a little warmer and have a little blanket in the car or a sweater with you. That's one thing I tell people.

The other thing is, you have energy lows. And what that is, when
you're fasting, is all of sudden, you might feel, especially if
you're doing a longer fast, like a week or more, you might feel like, oh my gosh, I have no energy at all.

Don't pay any attention to that--because it will be gone in ten
minutes. This is very common as your body is used to a solid fuel and now it's on a liquid fuel. And just like a machine, if you change its fuel, it adjusts a little bit. We have to make adjustments and once we make those adjustments, it's fine. So don't pay any attention to that.

A couple other things I'll throw in here. One thing I always tell
people is, you get hunger pains when you're fasting.

Most of the time they're not real. All of a sudden, you have a dream
or a vision of a baked potato covered with sour cream and chives. If
that's real, you'll still have the urge in three or four hours. So,
one of the ways to get by that, is just to ignore it and it will go
away.

Most people think a fast means deprivation. I see it differently. A
fast is a flush - a flush with liquids. Okay? You are only going
without solid food - but you are getting liquid food that does you
more good.

"A fast is a flush and people need to consume a gallon a day of
liquids: juices, water, herb tea. Most people make a mistake by not
consuming enough - and if you're hungry drink more."

BISER: What juice do you use when you want to detoxify heavily?

SCHULZE: Wheat grass is great. It can detoxify when some people don't get a detoxification any more from anything. Or, when they've used a few herbs and they think they are clean.

I remember my own story. I thought I was very clean. It was after I
spent six months at Dr. Jensen's eating only raw food and juice
fasting and years after I had healed my heart.

I started drinking wheat grass, an ounce a day, then two ounces a
day, then three ounces a day, and then four ounces a day, and I got
up to eight ounces one morning and I remember feeling horrible - and
I started vomiting.

It was just too strong of a dose, but at that point, wheat grass
started creating all sorts of cleansing in my body - of old things I
remembered I had. It finally cleaned them out and brought them to the surface.

BISER: What do you mean "old things'?

SCHULZE: Well, when I started cleaning out my bowel years earlier, my hemorrhoids went away and I hadn't noticed any hemorrhoids for years. Then - in the middle of this wheat grass purge, the hemorrhoids flared up again - and it wasn't because I was having diarrhea or straining or anything.

I think it was because there were small capillaries there that were
still blocked, and that wheat grass was cleaning them out. I started
noticing things with my bronchials and my sinuses, and all sorts of
problems that I had cleared away. But now they were kind of coming
back again. When you do a really good final cleansing and healing, a
lot of your oldest problems come back, but just for a few days - as
you clear them out.

So I noticed some tremendous differences in my skin, and to this day
I still drink wheat grass. People always come up to me and say, "Your skin looks so great." I get this comment all the time, so I know that it's really done some good work inside me.

How to make wheatgrass juice to detoxify yourself.

BISER: What does a reader have to know to get going on this? It
sounds powerful.

SCHULZE: They might have to grow their own wheat grass, and actually
purchase a wheat grass juicer, or something they can juice with. If
they don't have a wheat grass juicer, just soak the wheat grass in
water and blend it up in your blender and drink it, grass and all.

Anybody can grow wheat. You grow wheat and it just grows into grass. You can grow it yourself. It's very easy to grow yourself. You just
buy wheat, and you take organic wheat kernels, and you soak them for
a few days until they actually sprout.

You can soak them for about 24 hours and then put them into a damp
cotton cloth for another two or three days, until the wheat sprouts,
and then you can just make them like other sprouts. Rinse them in
water two or three times a day until they have tails on them about an inch long, and then you can go ahead and plant them right in the soil.

Some people plant them right away and then just keep the soil damp
the first couple of days, and you grow your own wheat grass. Now you
have what looks like your front lawn in a tray in your house.

What do you do with it? Well, you can run it through your juicer. A
lot of people think you have to have a wheat grass juicer. A wheat
grass juicer just gets more juice out of the wheat grass. There are
hand-operated ones and there are electric ones. The hand-operated
wheat grass juicers are about $70-80, and the electric ones are
usually $300, but you could run the wheat grass right through your
Champion juicer. (Not in my experience- Misty.)

You can just cut it up and even soak it with water and put it in a
blender. I've had many patients in areas just take the wheat grass,
cut it up and put it in a blender, fill that blender with water and
blend it up and you'll get a greenish water.

Or, you can run it through your juicer with other things like
carrots, and it gets caught up in your juicer.

So wheat grass is something that everybody should consider as a
medicinal cleansing and building juice, very bitter tasting. Start
out with a little bit. I suggest people start out with an ounce a day and don't take it on its own. I like an ounce of wheat grass with 16 ounces of fresh carrot juice. It just gives the carrot juice a little greenish tint and it's very palatable.

There is also what I consider the wheat grass cocktail, which is a
base of apple juice with, say, about 12 ounces of apple juice, a
couple of ounces of lemon juice, a thumb size piece of ginger and an
ounce of wheat grass. One thing that is very interesting, is that
lemon and lime tend to cover up the taste of wheat grass, which is
good because a lot of people find it very strong to eat or drink, and emon especially seems to cover up the taste.

"The watermelon flush for the kidneys. If you need it, you will be
urinating fire."

BISER: What do you do with juices for the kidneys?

SCHULZE: I use two different things, one a vegetable, parsley, and
the other, a fruit, watermelon. I tell my patients to sit down for
dinner and instead of dinner, crack open and eat a whole watermelon.

QUESTION: Is this one of those wellness things or does it really cure?

SCHULZE: Oh, my gosh. I was down at Dr. Jensen's and they had some
organic watermelon and I said "Okay, I'm just going to have
watermelon tonight." I cracked open one, about the size of a
basketball, and I ate that really quick, and I thought I want another one, so I ate one of those red-meated ones, and I basically went to bed. The next morning, I woke up, and when I urinated it was like urinating fire. It burnt my prostate, my penis- it was so painful I was moaning in the bathroom. Watermelon juice, watermelon itself and watermelon seeds are all diuretic and disinfecting. When you're juicing the watermelon, a lot of people just juice the meat, but you want to juice the rind too.

The rind has the minerals. You run it through the Champion juicer.
You run the watermelon and the rind right through there, and it is
delicious. You can taste the salt, the sodium, in the rind, and the minerals in the rind - very cleansing to the kidneys.

BISER: Why do people eat watermelon and not get any kidney cleansing, or kidney cures?

SCHULZE: I think because they don't juice the rind, and I think that
a lot of the watermelons today are seedless. And I would suggest that people do not buy the seedless. Juice the watermelon, seeds and all.

[Eric Persson]

Maybe there's a reason no one is using it?