Types of Fasting

Fasting in the strict sense is simply avoiding any type of food. In that sense, juice cleansing or apple/cucumber cleansing are not fasts but mono-diets.

Unlike apple or cucumber fasts, juice cleansing is a lot more beneficial. It not only expels accumulated toxins from your body and allows it to rest (unlike mono-diets, the digestive system rests during liquid fasts), but it also allows more intense cleansing, and it also provides a variety of nutrients that supply energy and vitality. Mono-diets on the other hand are limited in their nutrient supply to a particular fruit or vegetable that is consume.

This is why I always prefer juice cleansing to mono-diets.

Water fasting is very effective when it comes to healing severe or chronic diseases. However this is not recommended for inexperienced fasters and cannot be combined with regular daily activities. It’s always recommended to start a juice fast plan and “slip” into a water fast to make cleansing and body reactions less intense.

If you are fasting for less than a week, then it would be known as a short fast. While a 1-day fast, if done regularly each week, can strengthen the immune system and provide vigor and vitality, 3-day fasts will give your body a real opportunity to “get to work” and make general “arrangements” in your “house.” In 3-day fasts (including juice fasts), the body will have the time to thoroughly clean itself of the years of accumulated toxic wastes.

General Fasting Guidelines

Finding the Time and Place

The ideal time for fasting is a time of relaxation when you are not under a lot of pressure or stress, or when you do not have to put in a lot of energy. This is why a vacation is an excellent and effective time for fasting.

Do keep in mind that you cannot be healed if you are fasting and under a lot of emotional or mental stress. The fasting should be done when you can save your energies. You must also make sure that you are fasting in a place where there are minimum or no distractions.

Another important factor to consider is the weather. Transition seasons are best for fasting, whereas fasting in cold weather would be ill-advised as the body temperature when you are on a fast decreases due to a lack of calories. It would also be easier for you to catch a cold when the temperatures are low.

Best sessions from Friday to Monday on the warm holiday season.

What to Eat Before the Fast

Fasting is a challenge as you will have to prepare your body for the extreme transition between solid foods and liquids. You must also prepare yourself mentally for the change.

Pre-Juice Cleansing Diet

An effective pre-juice fasting diet spans over a period of at least 3 days before the actual fast. An optimal pre-juice cleansing diet will consist of salads, juices, and fruits. You should avoid consuming refined carbohydrates, refrain rom Grain meals. It’s also important to drink a lot of water.

On the first day of your pre-juice cleansing diet, you should eat cooked vegetables in addition to raw salads, fruits, and juices. On the second day, you should stick to plain raw salads and raw fruits and you must drink plenty of juices. On the third day, it’s recommended that you eat only fruits and drink juices.

Be sure to follow the guidelines for optimal digestion.

Another option is to have the mono-diets in your pre-fast program. You can eat just apples strictly one day and grapes for two days. If you replace the apples or grapes with sprouts, you can achieve even better results as all these foods are very effective cleansers.

Fast-Breaking Diet

Our hunger instinct is extremely powerful, and it can be deceiving. You need to develop the instinct as you become more experienced when you are breaking the fast, especially if you have fasted for more than 3 days. It’s very important to really feel and know when the time is best to stop fasting. It’s very hard to guess. You must not only know when to stop, but you must also know how to do so. g to Burger King and having a Whopper at a time when your liver, kidneys, heart and bowels are in a very sensitive state can lead to stress, and this may even be fatal. You don’t want to stretch the fasting period beyond your needs as well. You must control your ego here.

The rule of thumb is to listen to yourself, and listen to your needs. Try to distinguish between a false hunger urge and a real craving for food. The main difference between the two is that hunger is more gradual and starts as mere curiosity with thoughts of food and develops slowly. False hunger is more like a temporary panic attack. This is not hunger; it’s your mind fooling you. When you get hungry, you’ll know it. Trust me on this.

The gradual craving for food has typical forms such as cheating a little bit and developing a curiosity for food-related subjects, etc. If it’s your first long fast, it’s recommended to stop the fast at that point.

The gradual cravings for food will be followed by real hunger. When you experience it, you’ll know, and when it comes, you must always stop. Otherwise, you’re simply starving yourself.

When you are breaking your fast, start off by consuming foods that are rich in water (lemons, limes, cucumbers). You can then consume rich protein nut milks. Start eating soups and plenty of non-starchy vegetables and some whole non-gluten grains. 24 hours later, you can start eating fats and grains as normal.

Important Guidelines

• Eat like a baby in small doses, and eat slowly.

• Stimulate the digestive glands by adding celery and clover to your

• Broaden your menu with green leaf salads with avocado, tamari, and

• Eat nuts in small quantities only.

• You should broaden your menu only after 2 or 3 days with whole

  • Take an Epsom salt bath.

  • Meditate.

  • Turn off the TV.

  • Go for walks by yourself.

  • Switch off your cellphone.

  • Limit your conversations with people.

  • Get a good night’s sleep.

The Psoriasis 3-Day Juice Cleanse

1. Introduction

A juice cleanse is a liquid diet consisting of only vegetables, fruit juice, other liquids, and water. The juice extracted from raw fruits and vegetables is rich in phytochemicals, alkaline elements, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and natural sugars that are all absorbed directly into the bloodstream. It requires no effort from the digestive system.

When you do juice cleansing, you mix a lot of different concentrated and powerful fruits and vegetables such as carrots, parsley, celery, green peppers, and lemon into one glass. By doing this, you allow the digestive system to easily absorb most of the vegetable/fruit value.

Juice cleansing is much safer and easier than water fasting because it supports the body nutritionally as it gently and safely cleanses and detoxifies it, allowing it to focus entirely on healing itself. Only after you have practically cleansed years of toxic buildup can you take a step forward and start water fasting, which is far more intense.

Juice cleansing operates on two levels. It expels accumulated toxins from your body, and it supports it with a variety of nutrients that supply energy and vitality. Juice cleansing supplies the body with sufficient nutrition and calories, giving you enough energy to work, study, or do anything else you want to. Although you don’t really need to change anything in your routine while you are on juice cleansing, I recommend that you relax during this time and refrain as much as you can from hard physical activity.

Juice cleansing has freed individuals from most diseases, even chronic diseases such as leukemia, arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure, liver and kidney disorders, skin infections, infertility, and hormonal disorders.

During juice cleansing, a lot of metabolic changes occur and a great quantity of toxins are released from the colon, bladder, liver, kidneys, lungs, and skin. The lymph and blood gets detoxified. By the third day of your juice cleansing, you’ll lose the craving for food, and your digestive system will be at rest, allowing your colon to expel years of disease-causing toxic buildup.

If you find it really hard to keep going, you may eat some slices of banana or avocado, though it’s not recommended as it will slow down the healing process.

How much can you drink? I can only say that you should drink as much as you please; however, you must minimize acidic and high-sugar fruit juices. They may urge the pancreas to produce excessive levels of insulin, which may lead to yeast infection that can aggravate psoriasis in some cases.

One last recommendation: Try to buy certified organic fruits and vegetables instead of regular ones. Vegetables, especially leafy ones that are not organic, contain a high level of pesticides that get absorbed into your system (see also “Cleaning Your Vegetables And Fruits”). It is a good idea to make your own juices. By no means should you replace freshly squeezed juices with pasteurised juice or V8 bottled juices or any other readymade cold pressed bottled juices.

The Psoriasis Juicing Plan

The only way to maximize the effect of juice cleansing is by following the guidelines below. Do this to the best of your ability.

• Consume as many “green” drinks as possible while minimizing fruit and starchy or sugary vegetables. Don’t forget wheatgrass.

• Drink a lot of water (not tap water) and herbal teas, and try to minimize nut milks.

• If you must, take only water-soluble vitamins. Take your EFAs and Primal Defense daily, but don’t take any minerals.

• It’s crucial to stimulate the organs of elimination and help them discharge toxins during the fast (liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, and skin).

Cleaning Your Vegetables and Fruits

Vegetables and fruits that are not organic usually contain high levels of bacteria, pesticides, and parasites. Some vegetables and fruits are, however, available in organic forms. For example, it’s much easier to find organic carrots in a local supermarket or health food store. However, finding organic beets or celery is almost impossible.

Agricultural chemicals are hard to get rid of, and some of them are even found in organic vegetables. With proper means and techniques, however, it’s possible to clean vegetables from some of their chemicals and parasites.

Use 4 teaspoons of salt and lemon juice in a sink full of cold water – this is the most common method. The vegetables are then soaked in water and rinsed. You can also put your vegetables in boiling water. It will kill most of the germs, but this method isn’t suitable for the more fragile vegetables such as lettuce.

Basic Juice Blends

Fruit Combinations

• Watermelon, grapefruit

• Apple, watermelon

• Apple, pear, pineapple

• Apple, grape

• Apple, cranberry

• Apple, pear

• Pear, yam

• Watermelon, lemon

• Pineapple, sweet potato

Carrot combinations

• Carrot, beet

• Carrot, beet, green pepper

• Carrot, beet, green pepper, parsley

• Carrot, cabbage

• Carrot, spinach

• Carrot, apple, alfalfa sprouts

• Carrot, spinach, kale, red pepper

• Carrot, celery, cilantro, garlic

• Carrot, parsley, cucumber, radish

• Carrot, mango

• Carrot, apple, ginger

• Carrot, celery stick, potato, radish, beet

Warning: Never take beet juice alone. Always mix it with other fruits or vegetables. Beet is a very powerful cleanser and if taken alone, it can make the symptoms more intense.

Green combinations

• Celery, spinach

• Celery, spinach, tomato

• Celery, spinach, tomato, cabbage

• Celery, spinach, tomato, cabbage, lemon

• Celery, spinach, tomato, cabbage, dill, garlic

• Celery, spinach, tomato, cabbage, cayenne, dill, ginger

• Celery, fennel (anise), cucumber

• Tomato, cabbage, garlic, lemon

• Lettuce, cabbage, celery, lemon

• Lettuce, spinach, cucumber

• Lemon, radish, beet, slice of Spanish onion, sweet potato, celery

Note: Green vegetable combinations are excellent nerve tonics, detoxifiers, and blood cleansers. One drink of such a combination in a day will be enough

However having said that, it is also true that there is virtually no limit on the green vegetable juices you can take. I usually drink between 1 to 2 liters of green juice daily when I am on a juicing fast.

Wheatgrass – The King of Greens

Wheatgrass is probably the most powerful juice available on Earth. It has tons of chlorophyll, the green pigment found in plants (this is also called the blood of the plants) that has great healing powers.

Wheatgrass cleans the colon, alkalizes the blood, heals wounds, purges the liver, increases enzyme activity, and has lots of vitamin E and antioxidants.

The recommended serving is 50 grams daily on an empty stomach. Don’t drink too much or too soon. It can lead to hyper-detoxification, which can cause nausea.

During The Juice Cleanse

What to Look out for During Juicing?

Be on the alert for any allergy symptoms. If you have diabetes or low blood sugar, refrain from sweet juices as you do with sweet foods. These are symptoms that may be similar to the symptoms of flu (fever, yeast infection, muscle aches, weakness, bronchitis, asthma). Do keep in mind that this is simply the reaction of your body to the large amounts of toxins that are present in your blood stream, which need to be flushed out. Wherever these toxic materials pass, the organ they’re passing through will show the symptoms of that organ-related disease. For example, if they are trying to get out through your lungs, you’ll get asthma, if it is the skin, you’ll get rashes and yeast infection. But don’t panic. These healing events are short-lived, and the more intense they are, the better your reward will be later.

Important note: If your symptoms are truly extreme (for example, if you have a very high fever), it may be time to break the fast. When you consume food, you’ll dilute the toxics in your blood and feel at ease.

How to Drink Your Juices

Particularly when it comes to vegetable and fruit juices, it’s highly recommended that you “chew” your drink and warm it in your mouth so that it can reach your body’s temperature. Your juice will get mixed with saliva, and this will allow your body to absorb all the nutrients of the juice.

Also, leave your vegetables outside your fridge for half an hour before you juice them. It will help the enzymes work even better.

Exercise

Exercise is always good for the body. It provides oxygen to the skin cells, and by increasing the flow of blood, it is able to shorten the healing process of the skin and cleanses it from within.

During fasting and a detox diet, it’s important that you exercise too.

Aerobic exercises such as swimming, walking, jumping on a trampoline and biking are the best because they require an effort from the respiratory system, without too much stress and energy outflow. The lungs are able to increase their activity and expel the toxins. The lymphatic system is also able to get rid of the waste.

Yoga is an exercise that is very effective in releasing the toxins, oxygenating the blood, and relieving accumulated tension.

Note: Do not participate in a very extreme physical activity. This includes running, jogging, weightlifting and others like this. You must keep in mind that you’re on a strict diet, and it can cause fatigue and nausea.

If you are on any medication or supplements Then;

please consult with your medical professional prior to committing to the fast.

Waiver:

Fasting is a personal decision that should be made at the discretion of the individual. If you have any health concerns, please consult with your medical professional prior to committing to the fast.

Your Acceptance:

I have read the waiver, and I accept full responsibility for my own actions