The Master Cleanse is a 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 your sole source of food. Does the Master Cleanse diet assist in detoxification and weight loss as say the Stanley Burroughs master cleanse proponents?
So, it’s all the rage in Hollywood. The master cleanse diet is a purported method to detoxify yourself consisting of drinking this concoction 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 master cleanse diet 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 and not those in the master cleanse recipe. The liver is detoxing you 24 hours each day by finding nutrients in the bloodstream, combining them with toxins and completing the detoxification process. It’s necessary for a number of steps to be taken in the liver…all using nutrients from your diet…to change toxins into molecules that can be excreted.
If you voluntarily restrict your nutrient intake as the master cleanse diet suggests you do…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 diet, 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…
Master Cleanse Diet Danger
Even with the master cleanse diet, 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 placed back into your tissue waiting for the day the body can actually complete further detoxification.
The danger of the master cleanse diet is all about not having proper nutritional status 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. Master Cleanse diet? Nope, master scam!
