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Juice Fasting?

Unread postby jasonraymondson » Thu 05 Mar 2009, 23:39:39

have any of you tried fruit fasting? what has been your experience?
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby oxj » Fri 06 Mar 2009, 09:18:10

Parasites may be good for you, anyway.

Nobody should get infected, but interestingly, my psoriasis cleared up immensely this year, after getting cryptosporidiosis.
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Fri 06 Mar 2009, 18:55:41

Negative. Juice fasting is hippy BS IMHO. I started the paleo diet a month ago though. I'm loving that.
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby MD » Fri 06 Mar 2009, 20:25:01

My Recipe:

One bag carrots, 20lbs or so. One box apples. Eight quarts strawberries. Six bunches parsley. Six bunches spinach. Five-eight beets, depending on size. One-half box collard greens. Five to eight broccoli, depending on head size. three whole pineapple.

Process all through and industrial juice extractor. Makes about 30 quarts of juice, which lasts about three weeks held at a carefully controlled 31 degrees.

We make a batch about every three weeks, and two of us consume it.

We also enhance it with "Green Vibrance", which contains various herbs and bee poop and stuff in powder form.

When you first start to drink the stuff it'll go through you so fast you could...well...squirt it through a screen door without hitting a wire.

Once your system acclimates though it's power food. You can live off two quarts a day and shed a pound of fat a week and have boundless energy in the process.
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby Narz » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 01:19:08

My GF did a couple weeks once.

I'm just not that into juice. I think water fasting (maybe with some chlorella or wheatgrass on occasion) would be better. The idea of fasting to to minimize any/all calorie intake & trigger ketosis & rapid detoxification. If you wanted to detox quickly I'd imagine juice "fasting" + salads (for the fiber) would be a quicker approach.

Pretty much the #1 way we've found to increase lifespan & overall health in animals is Intermittent fasting. Fasting rats half their lives (and letting them gorge but not too much) is pretty much the best thing we can do for them (so far).

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')ossible medical benefits

A number of studies have shown beneficial effects of IF in animals, including:

* a study finding "reduced serum glucose and insulin levels and increased resistance of neurons in the brain to excitotoxic stress"[2]

* a review of previous research that found that IF "enhance[s] cardiovascular and brain functions and improve[s] several risk factors for coronary artery disease and stroke including a reduction in blood pressure and increased insulin sensitivity" and that "cardiovascular stress adaptation is improved and heart rate variability is increased in rodents" and that "rodents maintained on an IF regimen exhibit increased resistance of heart and brain cells to ischemic injury in experimental models of myocardial infarction and stroke."[3]

* a review of research on ADF and CR found that ADF "may effectively modulate several risk factors, thereby preventing chronic disease, and that ADF may modulate disease risk to an extent similar to that of CR"[4]

* a study suggesting that IF may "ameliorate age-related deficits in cognitive function" in mice[5]

* a study suggesting that IF significantly improves biochemical parameters associated with development of diabetic nephropathy[6]

* a study showing that serum from humans following an IF diet had positive effects (reduced triglycerides in men and increased HDL in women, as well as reduced cell proliferation and increased heat resistance) in vitro on human hepatoma cells[7]

* a study showing resistance in mice to the effects of gamma irradiation[8]

* a 2008 study showing lifespan increases of 40.4% and 56.6% in C. elegans for alternate day (24 hour) and two-of-each-three day (48 hour) fasting, respectively, as compared to an ad libitum diet.[9]

* a 2009 study on rats showed markedly improved long-term survival after chronic heart failure via pro-angiogenic, anti-apoptotic and anti-remodeling effects.[10]

It is possible that IF may function as a form of nutritional hormesis.[11]


Of course no rat would do this on his own & 99.9999% of humans wouldn't have the discipline so we do what we can. A good half (1/3.5 anyway) measure would be to fast one day a week but this is hard socially (unless you can completely set your own schedule) cause most people are retards about stuff like this "What do you mean you don't eat on Wednesdays, are you nuts? You're toenails'll fall off if you do that, the rep for Phizer said it on the phone!".

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'N')egative. Juice fasting is hippy BS IMHO. I started the paleo diet a month ago though. I'm loving that.

I'd be willing to bet that almost nothing you ate today existed in similar form 100,000 years ago.

To do it right (high quality pasture raised organic meat, including organ meat 100% organic & wildcrafted vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs, etc.) you'd have to be pretty damn rich. Seeing as the world we live in is pretty damn toxic & toxins travel up the food chain I steer clear of most meat and the kind I'd consider ingesting is far outside my price range so I abstain for the most part.

Like with the rats how humans would like to eat (ad libitum, to use the new phrase I just learned from wiki) isn't necessarily the best way for them to. Going backwards (even if it was the answer) isn't possible. A fat grain fed cow is not wild prey nor does a sedentary lifestyle remotely resemble a hunter-gatherer's lifestyle.
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby Daniel_Plainview » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 01:27:51

I embark on a 10-day "Lemonade Diet" (lemon juice; cheyenne pepper; pure maple syrup; spring water) once per year, with salubrious cleansing results.
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby Narz » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 01:39:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DoomWarrior', 'I') embark on a 10-day "Lemonade Diet" (lemon juice; cheyenne pepper; pure maple syrup; spring water) once per year, with salubrious cleansing results.

Ok yeah, my girlfriend's done that one before too. She's done 'em all really. :-D There's pretty much no doubt in my mind regular cleansing regimes (whether they're "the best" or not) are extremely important in today's world (as long as your systematic about them). For all Roccman's rantings I gave him props for fasting a week a year like clockwork. People look to pills, potions, lotions, "diet products" & the like to give them health, I think a better approach is just to give your system a rest once in awhile & cut out crap that's bad for you (and get out of toxic locations, workplaces & relationships if you can).
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby MD » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 05:24:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '.').. People look to pills, potions, lotions, "diet products" & the like to give them health, I think a better approach is just to give your system a rest once in awhile & cut out crap that's bad for you (and get out of toxic locations, workplaces & relationships if you can).


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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby vision-master » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 09:43:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'h')ave any of you tried fruit fasting? what has been your experience?


Try coffee instead, that an smokes. :lol:
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 10:44:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', 'I')'d be willing to bet that almost nothing you ate today existed in similar form 100,000 years ago.

To do it right (high quality pasture raised organic meat, including organ meat 100% organic & wildcrafted vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs, etc.) you'd have to be pretty damn rich.


Whatever. It's all about degrees. I'm not really interested in turning it into a fetish.

And fasting. Yeah sure. I'm good with fasting. I usually fast a couple of times a year for four days for spiritual reasons. Fasting means not putting anything in your mouth except maybe water. Juice "fasting" is just a way to pretend you're fasting when what you're really doing is using a machine to chew your food for you. And honestly juice is super unhealthy for you. It's concentrated sugar. You'd probably do about as well living off classic coke and popping a multi-vitamin once a day.
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby 3aidlillahi » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 11:33:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', 'I')'d be willing to bet that almost nothing you ate today existed in similar form 100,000 years ago.

To do it right (high quality pasture raised organic meat, including organ meat 100% organic & wildcrafted vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs, etc.) you'd have to be pretty damn rich.


Whatever. It's all about degrees. I'm not really interested in turning it into a fetish.

And fasting. Yeah sure. I'm good with fasting. I usually fast a couple of times a year for four days for spiritual reasons. Fasting means not putting anything in your mouth except maybe water. Juice "fasting" is just a way to pretend you're fasting when what you're really doing is using a machine to chew your food for you. And honestly juice is super unhealthy for you. It's concentrated sugar. You'd probably do about as well living off classic coke and popping a multi-vitamin once a day.


What if it's juice that you make yourself? Or just the fruits and veggies unjuiced?
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 12:06:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('3aidlillahi', 'W')hat if it's juice that you make yourself? Or just the fruits and veggies unjuiced?


Fruits and veggies are essentially all carbohydrate calories. There's very little protein or fat in them, and your body does need those. In their normal state, the cellular structure of plant foods slows the absorption of the carbs. Your body has to break down and digest that stuff slowly. When you make juice, all that cellular structure is the pulp that the machine removes. There's nothing to prevent all that sugar from getting absorbed really quickly. It's an instant jolt of sugar to your blood stream. Juice, nutritionally is pretty much in the same boat as sodas - liquid candy. Granted it has vitamins that are good for you, but so does a Coke and a multivitamin. So yeah, IMHO, throw away the juicer. Take your fruits and veggies, maybe mix in some lean meat and some nuts and you've got a nice balanced diet. If you're gonna fast, suck it up and fast.
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Re: Juice Fasting?

Unread postby 3aidlillahi » Sat 07 Mar 2009, 15:20:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you're gonna fast, suck it up and fast.


I was just asking about the science/medicine behind it. I fast anyway (Muslim and all). Thanks
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