And since I was pre-making juice for the whole day (about 70 ounces), I needed to use produce that yielded a lot of fluid, such as cucumbers and apples. It was a simple recipe, and it tasted pretty decently. The mix of fruits and vegetables that I used during most days were kale, cucumber, carrots, green apples, and ginger. For my juices, I used kale, spinach, pineapples, apples, carrots, oranges, lemons, ginger, beets, cucumbers, grapefruits, and dandelion greens. ![]() Second step, it was time to get some produce. In any case here’s my juicer: click to see on But really, I don’t think it matters too much since it worked for Joe really well. The difference between centrifugal juicers and slow masticating (or cold press) juicers, is that the slow juicers tend to maintain the integrity of the veggie/fruit nutrients better than the centrifugal juicers, where the blades spin so quickly that it heats up and burns out some of the vitamins and enzymes essential to the food. Joe Cross used a Breville brand centrifugal juicer, which works fine, and is relatively affordable. A clear and relaxed mind helps prevent making bad diet decisions! This, on top of my daily meditation/Qigong practice to help me center my mind and body in order to maintain the clarity that I’ve gained. So now that I’m finished, I’m going back to drinking my green smoothies, eating a largely plant-based diet, and exercising regularly. I haven’t felt this good since I was 20 years old (over 22 years ago)! I can’t wait to get another blood test to see how much my cholesterol level has gone down, and to see if it’s affected my celiac disease! I no longer feel heavy and bloated, my blood pressure normalized, my mind has cleared, my energetic Qigong meditations have been out of this world, I can “listen” to my patients’ bodies with more clarity, and my energy has gone up tremendously. I started Jand just finished yesterday August 9, 2016. Because I’m a practitioner of holistic medicine and lead a life of meditative health practices, I’m very sensitive to what my body is telling me (though sometimes I don’t listen), so I was fully prepared to stop the reboot if I knew I was hurting my body. I could have done the 5, 10, or even 15 day fast, but decided “what the heck,” I’ll just go for the full 30 days. That’s when I decided to buy myself a juicer and to try the Juice Reboot myself for 30 days just to try it out. So not to spoil the detailed results of the movie, as predicted, Joe’s Juice Reboot had completely changed his life (otherwise he wouldn’t have released his movie, duh!!!). ![]() Juicing then facilitates the natural healing of your body. In short, the idea behind juice fasting is that juicing extracts all the fiber from the veggies/fruits and allows your body to absorb the vitamins and nutrients much faster and more directly than smoothies or simply eating a plant based diet. The premise of the movie was that Joe Cross was severely overweight and on a large cocktail of prescription medication for various conditions that he’d been suffering for several years, including autoimmune disease. But over the course of 4 months, I felt no changes, as a matter of fact, I gained even more unwanted weight. That’s when I knew that my entire digestive system was full of inflammation. So after re-watching Joe Cross’ movie “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead,” on Netflix, I decided to give his “Juice Reboot” a go. So I cleaned up my diet even more and started working out 6 days a week. However, by then, I had already ballooned up with even more water retention, and was feeling more fatigued, foggy-headed, and water-bloated than ever before. When this last February came around, I decided to clean up my act and cut out gluten completely. Hey, I’m only human, right? Plus being gluten-free is what I call a “severely anti-social diet.” So for a time, I maintained my plant-based diet and cut out bread…. This was on top of my high cholesterol which runs in my family. ![]() ![]() And just as I suspected, I not only was gluten-sensitive, but the doctors diagnosed me with celiac disease. So back in September of last year (2015), I had a blood test done to check my levels and to see if I was gluten-sensitive. Look how puffy I was just 31 days ago! This is embarrassing for me because I’m not very big with posting selfies, but I feel I have to share, as other people may actually benefit from this!įor quite some time, I’ve been feeling overall weak, fatigued, water-bloated, and foggy-headed, and I couldn’t understand why.
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