Power of Juice Fasting- Part 1

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Misty L. Trepke

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This is quoted from

http://www.curezone.com/schulze/herbal_news_juice_fasting.asp

This is an interview conducted by Sam Biser ( " Biser " ) and Dr.

Richard Schulze, N.D., M.H.

 

JUICE-FASTING:

The powerful healing therapy that no-one ever uses.

 

" When you don't feel well, stop eating and go to juices. "

 

SCHULZE: The first thing an animal does when it is sick is stop

eating. They fast themselves.

 

Likewise, the first thing we need to do when we don't feel well is:

stop food.

 

There are a lot of reasons for that. Food takes a tremendous amount

of energy to digest--and that's blood and energy. Our digestive

system, basically the muscles and the tissues, fill with blood. When

you stop eating, your digestive system rests, and all that blood and

energy can be put somewhere else to heal you.

 

People have said to me, " What do I do for this particular disease? "

Juice fasting. " What do I do for degeneration? " Juice fasting. " What

do I do for heart disease? " Juice fasting.

 

Juice fasting is for the incurables. Juice fasting is the answer,

because it allows your body to rest - and it lets your body choose

what it wants to heal.

 

If you just keep cramming food down your mouth, you'll just get more

tired. Your body has to digest large amounts of food, and it's the

opposite of what you should do when you're not well.

 

" One of my first patients had lost a tremendous amount of blood from

surgery--and doctors wanted to do a transfusion. In 24 hours on

juices, I brought her blood levels back up. "

 

BISER: What does juice fasting do?

 

SCHULZE: Food has nutrition in it, but it takes a lot to break those

nutrients down.

 

Juices are like a blood transfusion.

 

A glass of fruit and vegetable juice takes very little digestion, if

any. It goes right into your body. We look at juices in the same way

a doctor would look at an I.V It's something that can go right into

your bloodstream.

 

One of my first learning experiences was a woman patient who was

undergoing a surgery, a female surgery. The doctors nicked an

artery, and she had tremendous hemorrhaging and bleeding. By the

time they got her patched up, she was in intensive care, and had

lost a tremendous amount of blood.

 

The doctors wanted to do a transfusion. She was scared to do a

transfusion and the doctor said, " You're very anemic and your

hemoglobin count is at the lowest end for a woman. "

 

She said, " Is there anything you can do? "

 

And I said, " Sure, " and I got the juicer out and juiced some juices.

I made some carrot juice and some beet juice. I took it to the

hospital and said, " Just let the doctors give you 24 hours. "

 

They did, and, in 24 hours on juices, they said that her hemoglobin

count was over the top end of the scale for a man, not even a woman,

and men's hemoglobin counts are higher.

 

This was my first realization of the power of what juices can do to

build the blood up.

 

BISER: Wait a minute, you gave her juices. How did she get juices

when she went into the hospital for 24 hours?

 

SCHULZE: Oh, I went to the hospital too. I juiced the juices, put

them in quart canning jars. Fresh beet juice, fresh beet greens,

fresh carrot juice. I took it right to her hospital room and she

drank it.

 

That's all she had for 24 hours and not only did her blood

hemoglobin go up, but it went over the top of the scale for a man.

The doctors said they were shocked, they had never seen anything

like that.

 

" Man cures his colon cancer by juice-fasting. The cancer came out in

the toilet. "

 

SCHULZE: I had a man who had a colon cancer and he basically refused

to do anything, but he said he would stop eating and go on juices.

This was early on in my practice, too. These were learning

experiences.

 

He started on a multitude of fruit and vegetable juices and, I

remember it was about a month later into his long juice fast, he

pooped his cancer right out. It was 18 " long.

 

It looked like a rope with figs attached to it. I had seen things

like that before in pictures and books - but that was the first time

I ever saw one come out.

 

BISER: A rope?

 

SCHULZE: Yeah, it was like a rope with sacs on it, they were about

the size of figs. And, he actually eliminated his cancer just

through juice fasting. He wasn't using any herbs or doing anything

else, something I wouldn't recommend.

 

Juice fasting, through my experience and his, is more powerful than

just water fasting. Juices not only fill you with nutrition - but

they empty you out.

 

If you have any doubt about that, go home and drink a quart of prune

juice and you tell me what happens.

 

Juices are flushing and cleansing to organs of the body.

 

Juices are enzyme therapy.

 

SCHULZE: Juices contain gigantic amounts of enzymes. And a lot of

people nowadays are taking enzymes because of the benefits, but you

don't have to, they're in the juices.

 

Enzymes are heat sensitive, meaning that when you cook food, you

destroy all the enzymes. Now, when you eat that food or juice, it's

okay. Your body will produce enzymes in order for you to digest that

food. But when your body does that - it can't do something else. It

only has a limited amount of energy.

 

So, one of the things that juices do, because they are loaded with

enzymes, is they give your body a vacation.

 

Most of us live enzyme-free diets. If all we eat is cooked food,

there are no enzymes in it. By supplying your body with high doses

of enzymes, it gives many of your organs like your pancreas, your

liver, your digestive system a holiday, because they don't have to

try to manufacture chemicals that are coming in through your juices.

 

BISER: So it's an enzyme holiday!

 

" Thinning the blood is one the most important things you can do when

you are sick, and juices do that. "

 

SCHULZE: Yes, an enzyme holiday. And it also thins your blood. This

is a major key. Most of us who are ill are trying to do something to

get blood to the area that is sick.

 

But our body is trying to pump around mud - and it can't get there.

Thinning our blood is one the greatest keys to getting healthy. It

increases our circulation because the blood becomes more like water

than molasses. The bottom line is, juice fasting thins your blood.

That allows your circulation to get deeper in your body into the

vital areas, into the capillaries that were filled with fat and all

clogged-up.

 

" Juice-fasting allows your body to balance its hormones and replace

chemicals it is deficient in. "

 

SCHULZE: Many people are sick because they don't produce enough

insulin in their body. Or, they don't produce enough thyrox in their

thyroid. Or, they don't produce enough interferon or immunoglobulin

for the immune system to be strong. They don't produce enough

estrogen or progesterone or testosterone.

 

Those chemicals are all built from nutrition. One of the things that

juice fasting does is, it supplies your body with a tremendous

amount of nutrition. So it balances your metabolism, balances your

hormones, balances your endocrine system, your thyroid, your

pancreas, and your reproductive organs. And it does one other

important thing: It allows you to get more work done.

 

" Juice fasting clears the mind. "

 

BISER: How can you get more work done when you're hungry? Because

you're not eating solid foods?

 

SCHULZE: Let me tell you, it's just the opposite of what you think.

If you want a gigantic change, stop eating for a couple days. It

will feel like the fog is cleared.

 

You will be amazed at your sense of smell, your sense of taste, your

eyesight, your perception, your thoughts.

 

All through history, from the Greek and Roman writings, to the

Egyptians, from Jesus to Shakespeare, people talked about fasting

for better mental clarity.

 

One thing I can guarantee you is that if you have a confusing

problem, or a stressful issue that you don't know the answer to,

stop eating. It enhances mental clarity.

 

We are drunk on food. Overeating makes you dull. Your blood, instead

of going to your brain, is going to your digestive tract. You read

it in the Bible, Jesus going to the woods for his fasting.

Everybody, throughout history, would go out of the city and go onto

juices and water, and fast. Fasting clears the mind, and so it is a

physical and emotional cleanse, and maybe even a spiritual cleanse

when you stop your food from coming in.

 

" No-one realizes how powerful juice-fasting is- until they do it.

Then they will never live without it. "

 

" Everybody should do this periodically. I guarantee everybody who is

reading this, if they just do a fast, for a couple of days, they

will be amazed. "

 

BISER: When you worked in Hollywood, you had all those people in the

movie industry, did you give them the same advice?

 

SCHULZE: Yes, in fact many people came to me and they were worried

about the first week, or a difficult part of the movie that they

were having a problem with, or that they were worried about, " Can I

do this? " , or, " Is it going to go okay? " , and I would suggest the

five-day program.

 

The five day program is 2 days of light eating of fruits and salads

only, with 2 days of juice fasting in the middle, and one day of

fruits and salads at the end. They would say to me, " Oh, God, I

can't do that, that would even be more stress. "

 

And, I would say, " Yes you can. It will be less stress when your

body is using all its blood and energy to help you do what you need

to do, and figure it out, and not be loaded down with food. "

 

And those that would do it came back to me and said, " Oh my God,

thank you. " I had one woman who hadn't worked in a couple of years,

a quite famous actress. She had to go out for four interviews during

the week and these were the most interviews she had been to, in a

long time. She said, " What should I do? " and I said " Fast. " She

said, " That sounds horrible. I need all my strength and energy. " I

said " Believe me, fast. "

 

She fasted and got all four parts that she went out for. I've always

seen it happen with all my clients.

 

I remember as a kid, I used to eat a big meal, thinking it was going

to make me feel stronger. I felt more tired. So, I'd eat more and I

felt more tired. And I'd eat more, then I felt more tired.

 

I've done many fasts - short fasts. I've done two thirty day fasts

and one sixty-day juice fast. We can go months without food

 

BISER: But did your body get run down without it?

 

SCHULZE: Oh no, in fact, in the last couple days of my thirty-day

juice fast, I kick-boxed 17 rounds and I was better than ever

before. No one could come near me and touch me. I had better vision,

I had better reflexes, I had better timing.

 

Get away from - the idea that fasting weakens you. It's not true.

 

" When you fast, there are some things you need to be aware of. "

 

SCHULZE: Sometimes when you fast, you have a little less body heat.

So take a sweater with you when you go out. Every once in awhile,

you may feel a little colder and it's because it is calories from

heat units in food that warms up our body.

 

So, since you are reducing your food and you're on juices only,

dress a little warmer and have a little blanket in the car or a

sweater with you. That's one thing I tell people.

 

The other thing is, you have energy lows. And what that is, when

you're fasting, is all of sudden, you might feel, especially if

you're doing a longer fast, like a week or more, you might feel

like, oh my gosh, I have no energy at all.

 

Don't pay any attention to that--because it will be gone in ten

minutes. This is very common as your body is used to a solid fuel

and now it's on a liquid fuel. And just like a machine, if you

change its fuel, it adjusts a little bit. We have to make

adjustments and once we make those adjustments, it's fine. So don't

pay any attention to that.

 

A couple other things I'll throw in here. One thing I always tell

people is, you get hunger pains when you're fasting.

 

Most of the time they're not real. All of a sudden, you have a dream

or a vision of a baked potato covered with sour cream and chives. If

that's real, you'll still have the urge in three or four hours. So,

one of the ways to get by that, is just to ignore it and it will go

away.

 

Most people think a fast means deprivation. I see it differently. A

fast is a flush - a flush with liquids. Okay? You are only going

without solid food - but you are getting liquid food that does you

more good.

 

" A fast is a flush and people need to consume a gallon a day of

liquids: juices, water, herb tea. Most people make a mistake by not

consuming enough - and if you're hungry drink more. "

 

BISER: What juice do you use when you want to detoxify heavily?

 

SCHULZE: Wheat grass is great. It can detoxify when some people

don't get a detoxification any more from anything. Or, when they've

used a few herbs and they think they are clean.

 

I remember my own story. I thought I was very clean. It was after I

spent six months at Dr. Jensen's eating only raw food and juice

fasting and years after I had healed my heart.

 

I started drinking wheat grass, an ounce a day, then two ounces a

day, then three ounces a day, and then four ounces a day, and I got

up to eight ounces one morning and I remember feeling horrible - and

I started vomiting.

 

It was just too strong of a dose, but at that point, wheat grass

started creating all sorts of cleansing in my body - of old things I

remembered I had. It finally cleaned them out and brought them to

the surface.

 

BISER: What do you mean " old things'?

 

SCHULZE: Well, when I started cleaning out my bowel years earlier,

my hemorrhoids went away and I hadn't noticed any hemorrhoids for

years. Then - in the middle of this wheat grass purge, the

hemorrhoids flared up again - and it wasn't because I was having

diarrhea or straining or anything.

 

I think it was because there were small capillaries there that were

still blocked, and that wheat grass was cleaning them out. I started

noticing things with my bronchials and my sinuses, and all sorts of

problems that I had cleared away. But now they were kind of coming

back again. When you do a really good final cleansing and healing, a

lot of your oldest problems come back, but just for a few days - as

you clear them out.

 

So I noticed some tremendous differences in my skin, and to this day

I still drink wheat grass. People always come up to me and

say, " Your skin looks so great. " I get this comment all the time, so

I know that it's really done some good work inside me.

 

How to make wheatgrass juice to detoxify yourself.

 

BISER: What does a reader have to know to get going on this? It

sounds powerful.

 

SCHULZE: They might have to grow their own wheat grass, and actually

purchase a wheat grass juicer, or something they can juice with. If

they don't have a wheat grass juicer, just soak the wheat grass in

water and blend it up in your blender and drink it, grass and all.

 

Anybody can grow wheat. You grow wheat and it just grows into grass.

You can grow it yourself. It's very easy to grow yourself. You just

buy wheat, and you take organic wheat kernels, and you soak them for

a few days until they actually sprout.

 

You can soak them for about 24 hours and then put them into a damp

cotton cloth for another two or three days, until the wheat sprouts,

and then you can just make them like other sprouts. Rinse them in

water two or three times a day until they have tails on them about

an inch long, and then you can go ahead and plant them right in the

soil.

 

Some people plant them right away and then just keep the soil damp

the first couple of days, and you grow your own wheat grass. Now you

have what looks like your front lawn in a tray in your house.

 

What do you do with it? Well, you can run it through your juicer. A

lot of people think you have to have a wheat grass juicer. A wheat

grass juicer just gets more juice out of the wheat grass. There are

hand-operated ones and there are electric ones. The hand-operated

wheat grass juicers are about $70-80, and the electric ones are

usually $300, but you could run the wheat grass right through your

Champion juicer. (Not in my experience- Misty.)

 

You can just cut it up and even soak it with water and put it in a

blender. I've had many patients in areas just take the wheat grass,

cut it up and put it in a blender, fill that blender with water and

blend it up and you'll get a greenish water.

 

Or, you can run it through your juicer with other things like

carrots, and it gets caught up in your juicer.

 

So wheat grass is something that everybody should consider as a

medicinal cleansing and building juice, very bitter tasting. Start

out with a little bit. I suggest people start out with an ounce a

day and don't take it on its own. I like an ounce of wheat grass

with 16 ounces of fresh carrot juice. It just gives the carrot juice

a little greenish tint and it's very palatable.

 

There is also what I consider the wheat grass cocktail, which is a

base of apple juice with, say, about 12 ounces of apple juice, a

couple of ounces of lemon juice, a thumb size piece of ginger and an

ounce of wheat grass. One thing that is very interesting, is that

lemon and lime tend to cover up the taste of wheat grass, which is

good because a lot of people find it very strong to eat or drink,

and emon especially seems to cover up the taste.

 

" The watermelon flush for the kidneys. If you need it, you will be

urinating fire. "

 

BISER: What do you do with juices for the kidneys?

 

SCHULZE: I use two different things, one a vegetable, parsley, and

the other, a fruit, watermelon. I tell my patients to sit down for

dinner and instead of dinner, crack open and eat a whole watermelon.

 

QUESTION: Is this one of those wellness things or does it really

cure?

 

SCHULZE: Oh, my gosh. I was down at Dr. Jensen's and they had some

organic watermelon and I said " Okay, I'm just going to have

watermelon tonight. " I cracked open one, about the size of a

basketball, and I ate that really quick, and I thought I want

another one, so I ate one of those red-meated ones, and I basically

went to bed. The next morning, I woke up, and when I urinated it was

like urinating fire. It burnt my prostate, my penis- it was so

painful I was moaning in the bathroom. Watermelon juice, watermelon

itself and watermelon seeds are all diuretic and disinfecting. When

you're juicing the watermelon, a lot of people just juice the meat,

but you want to juice the rind too.

 

The rind has the minerals. You run it through the Champion juicer.

You run the watermelon and the rind right through there, and it is

delicious. You can taste the salt, the sodium, in the rind, and the

minerals in the rind - very cleansing to the kidneys.

 

BISER: Why do people eat watermelon and not get any kidney

cleansing, or kidney cures?

 

SCHULZE: I think because they don't juice the rind, and I think that

a lot of the watermelons today are seedless. And I would suggest

that people do not buy the seedless. Juice the watermelon, seeds and

all.

 

" Make parsley juice - not parsley tea. It's a whole lot more

healing. "

 

BISER: I thought parsley was just one of these feel good, wellness

herbs. Not for heavy curing.

 

SCHULZE: No, it's an intense one. The problem is that people only

make tea out of it. When you just pour boiling water over dried

parsley you're going to get a little bit of the essential oils.

Now, if you use fresh parsley and grind it in a Champion juicer,

it's a lot more intense. It's like the herb plantain. Dr.

Christopher talks about plantain for blood poisoning. You can make a

little plantain tea, or mash up a plantain leaf. Or, you can take

plantain and run it right through the juicer. If you've got blood

poisoning, who the heck wants to worry about making plantain teas

with a little boiling water over it? Get it through the juicer and

get yourself two or three ounces of plantain juice. I've done that.