Master Cleanse or Master Scam? By Dr. David Dahlman, DC ©	Ê Print this article ? Email this article Digg this article
Summary: Master Cleanse is a new fad from Hollywood. The master cleanse diet, as it's called, consists of the master cleanse recipe of lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper, to be taken as you sole source of food. The Master Cleanse diet assists in detoxification and weight loss, or so say the Stanley Burroughs master cleanse proponents.

Master Cleanse, huh? So, it's all the rage in Hollywood.  The master cleanse is a proported method to detoxify yourself consisting of drinking lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. As much as you want! People are doing it for the detoxification and weight loss...Oh, and by the way...don't go too far from a toilet.

This fad is not only dangerous, but really of very limited value if you truly understand how detoxification works in your body. There's actually a very easy concept to understand if you wish to detox....and really, it is a good idea to do a couple times each year.

True detoxification is done with nutrients.  The liver is doing it 24 hours each day by finding nutrients in the bloodstream and using them to complete the detoxification process. If you voluntarily restrict your nutrient intake...just lemons, sugar and cayenne pepper??....your detoxification reserves are depleted in less than 48 hours. Detoxification stops.

The concept of fasting, using the Master Cleanse, water fasts or juice fasts can be helpful for short periods of time...because without the burden of processing food...the body concentrates on detoxification for a short while, but after that...

  The toxins may very well come out of your tissue, but with no nutrients to combine with to change them into other molecules for excretion, when the body runs out of nutrients to use in the detox process, the detox is over and the toxins are simply are placed back into your tissue waithing for the day the body can actually complete further detoxification.

The danger is all about not having proper nutritional staus for any period of time.  Why do that to yourself?

More modern, science based methods focus on eating healthfully and also providing additional nutrients...glutamine, glutathione and/or the herb Silymarin (from milk thistle) so you are assured you have proper nutrient status to continually complete the task.

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