Is wheat grass or juicing good for detoxification ?
This question relates to wheat grass and juicing and this is a question I get very often whether I support wheat grass juicing, wheat grass or other juices and I am always very cautious, I personally do not use wheat grass or juice any juices, I use food as my source of nourishment and cleansing, purification.
Obviously there is an advantage sometime when the body is very toxic, to use juices to cleanse the body, but there is a limit as to how much you can accomplish when you use juices to cleanse the body.
Typically I ask people to think about cleansing the liver during the liver and gallbladder flush, to cleanse the liver bile duct to remove any impediments, stones, so the body can detoxify itself on a regular and effective basis. And I also recommend keeping the colon clean which is one of the ways to keep the rest of the body clean. If the colon is congested and there is strictures or holdups then waste matter that is passing into the intestines will back up and will partly be reabsorbed and it can go into the blood and into the lymph and it can accumulate toxins elsewhere in the tissues of the organs and systems.
So, once again keeping the organs of elimination clean and healthy, that includes the kidneys of course, which help to get rid of excessive plasma of the blood, that also eliminates uric acid, urea, another metabolic waste product that we should get rid of every single day otherwise they will start backing up and once they are backing up they can cause injuries to the body like uric acid, that is not completely eliminated, can pool around joints it can cause gout, it can also damage blood vessel walls which them can become inflamed and when they are inflamed the body uses cholesterol to patch them up, that helps to prevent blood clots from escaping into the blood. So the body is always very vigilant in this way to make sure that no heart attack or stroke can occur.
But, in effect, you are using wheat grass and juicing that can temporarily sort of undo the burden of toxins that may have accumulated in the body but, I personally prefer making sure that the organs of elimination are cleansed out, there is a kidney cleanse tea that I recommend in my book the “THE AMAZING LIVER AND GALLBLADDER FLUSH” and that helps to break down uric acid crystals, stones of all kinds in the kidneys, the liver flush gets rid of the stones that are in the bile ducts, sometime hundreds and thousands of stones that impede the bile flow and bile is the transportation substance that removes toxins from the liver, which takes these toxins, noxious substances out of the blood stream. So your colon gets much of all of that and it needs to get rid of waste that comes out via the bile and of course the undigested foods, the fiber in the foods, all of that has to be removed. When you have wheat grass it does have a blood cleansing effect, it has a intestinal cleansing effect, and also helps to some extent with the kidneys. So if you do that for short term I have no objection to that but, if you do it in the long term there are side effects that you may develop from drinking a lot of it, and those side effects are related to the toxins that are in themselves contained in such things like wheat grass.
Wheat grass is the first plant growth from the seeds of wheat and so, wheat grass in that stage… when it is harvested for juicing… contains a huge amount of antibodies, plant antibodies and these antibodies are very toxic and they need to be toxic because that is how the wheat is protecting itself against predators like insects eating up the wheat grass. So in order to develop wheat, the wheat grass wants to survive, which is a natural drive of nature.
But when you juice that and you ingest all those antibodies which are part of the wheat grass immune system then eventually you may get a lot of irritation. Initially irritation is good for you because it will stimulate the intestines to get rid of waste matter. So it has a cleansing effect and the body reacts to the antibodies by producing antibodies itself, it considers these plant antibodies to be antigens. So you do not however want to make the body to make too many antibodies because when you do that, you can create inflammation, you have an inflammatory response, the immune system can get tired constantly having to defend itself against these highly… high concentration of plant antibodies or plant toxins. So that is when the situation can have a counter effect.
And one has to sort of observe oneself when you are… when it does not feel good anymore by taking the wheat grass or you simply go by the taste, do not mask the taste, do not put other things that are sweet in the wheat grass because then, the taste buds will no longer will be able to tell you when you have a saturation of those antibodies in you system. And typically when you just drink the wheat grass juice, you soon find I cannot drink that any more, it is too much, it is bothering me, I do not like the taste anymore, because there can be bitter substances in the wheat grass that your taste buds… that are recognizing bitter taste, that means usually poisons, poisons are bitter… that the body signals to the brain, hey, I do not want this anymore, and you definitely do not want to mix it with other sweet juices therefore… so if you take it, take it plain and see where it takes you and be vigilant, make sure that you do not overdo it and if you do it sometimes there is no problem but if it is everyday, you may have a strong reaction in the body’s immune system which is not desirable.
Now this applies to other juices as well. When you juice, you basically extract the cellular juice content and you are leaving behind the other substances that are in the cell membranes of those plant foods, and when you do that you are missing out on neutralizing agents for example, you get a lot of vitamins that are free floating when you juice your foods and there are natural antidotes to the toxins that are contained in vitamins. Vitamins are naturally toxic, so that is why they are called antioxidants, so they can destroy things, they can be very irritating and they should not be allowed to enter the body in an isolated fashion but they should be combined with the natural ingredients that keep the toxicity of vitamins at a minimum or very low, and they are contained in the whole fruit. So if you eat a fruit, like in an apple or a grape or a banana, obviously juicing banana is not as easy but anything that has like high liquid content, vegetables or once again wheat grass, there are natural antidotes to the toxins contained in the grass and if you do not want to eat the whole grass, it will be better than the juicing of the grass but obviously we are not meant to be grass eaters or cows, so it would be better to eat the foods, that instead of juicing the foods, to actually eat them.
Another consideration is that when you drink juices, you are not secreting the appropriate or needed required amount of salivary enzymes that is very necessary in order to digest the carbohydrates, particularly the sugars, contained in these juices. So by drinking juices as if it were water, without moving it around, swishing it around in the mouth, you are not going to digest most of these sugars contained in the juice that will require that your body’s generating or allowing the generation, proliferation of the Candida bacteria which can lead to a proliferation of Candida which can then spread to other parts of the body.
So it is good to be cautious about drinking too many juices and if you do make sure you swish it around many times before you swallow the juice. That is basically the idea that I would want to convey to you with regards to drinking juices or juicing.
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