Miracle Enzyme Lemonade

[Lindsey13]

A friend of mine has been on the "miracle enzyme diet" for 7 days now to "cleanse" her body.  She has had no food for 7 days.  Today she tried to eat but could only eat a piece of toast.  She is about 5'3" and thin.  Can this be healthy?  And why does she need to "cleanse" her body?

[undercoverangel]

I was interested in this diet and i wanted more information on it. because i mostly get hungry at night and throught this diet can i eat at all? am i only aloud to drink this stuff and what it says to do or can i drink it with a meal? im really confused

[caregiver222]

I might add the number of deaths from electrolyte imbalance secondary to fasting are well documented in the literature. On the other hand I am aware millions of people do periodically fast without apparent injury. Fasting will lower blood sugar. You can document this yourself with a diabetic blood meter. It is also a fact that with the lowered blood sugar levels there is a loss of situational awareness and judgement that makes it hazardous to operate a motor vehicle, fly an airplane, or operate heavy equipment. This is not anecdotal, or made up fiction. So in my opinion blood sugar levels should be monitered if you are going to fast. Fasting affects different people in different ways. Humans fasted for thousands of years, but they didn't have to drive automobiles.

[caregiver222]

Yes, fasting has been around for a long time, but it remains a dangerous protocol. There is an argument that fasting, together with proper hydration and intake of electrolytes has value. But for my two cents, fasting is a protocol that requires a thorough understanding of body processes and should be done only when supervised by someone who knows that they are doing, and then not for extended periods.

[natureluver]

What is considered fasting is not nonsense.  And in my opinion is one of the important aspects of health that is not promoted by western medicine.  Most of the rest of the world's religions and healing has a very long history of fasting to treat disease.  It is much easier to disprove something with short accusations, which is unfortunate.  How about backing up your negativity???  Do a little reading on it before you publically dismiss.  I would suggest anyone interested in creating your own health, avoiding prescription drugs, fumbling science, and lots of doctor visits to look into fasting.  Fasting is a very powerful tool that has created far more good than bad.  Very sadly it is considered dangerous in our myopic American minds.  

The "Miracle Enzyme Lemonade" is actually known as the "Master Cleanser" diet and has been around for over 60 years.  Look up the book on Amazon.com, you can read reviews there from the public.  And there is more info on it here... http://www.humblebeehealth.com

    

[caregiver222]

Good advice, Star Queen.

[wutthechris]

Everything you just said is unfounded, incorrect, and potentially harmful to someone.  It's ok if you want to be naive and believe nonsense but you shouldn't spread it to others.

[esoulc]

One time I did a cleanse called Dr Christopher's mucousless diet cleanse-a theory invented by a man, who after being ill his entire childhood (at a time in England when bloodletting was a medical "cure") and at 15, being told he had about another year, went to southern france to hike his life away. He lived on berries and figs....and found that, rather than dying, he got better! He went on to become a doctor based on this odd discovery and realized (at the time meat and milk were said to be curative) that many of the foods he was eating were what was making him ill due to their production of mucus in the system...he decided it wasn't allergies or cancer or other illnesses making us sick, it was the mucus in our systems which made the tumors grow, caused the allergic reactions. On this diet for three days a cleansing process occurs(8oz glass of prune juice in the morning, apple juice/water through day), then afterward you aren't hungry because the impurities in your system were what made you crave food rather than any nutritional need. A growling stomach is simply your body helping you by filching and processing impurities out of your system to digest and excrete. The sicker you feel on an empty stomach, the more impurities you have being sucked out of your tissues during this natural process. Supposedly, if everyone were on this diet you could feed an entire city on a plot of wheat since we really can actually survive on a grain of wheat a day. If Jesus really did survive in the dessert for 40 days, this diet would make it possible. Dr Christopher survived a lifetime by downing 2-3 lbs of figs and fasting for 28 days. I tried it to get rid of allergies to my newly acquired cats (after the cleanse there are herbal combinations for whatever ailment your'e curing) and it worked! I had to remind myself to eat because my body was able to process nutrients from my vegetarian diet so affectively, I neither gained nor lost weight. It is said on this diet if your are underweight, it will take you to the weight your body should be. If you are overweight, the same. I felt better than ever, too. Societally and socially it's hard to keep it up so I went back to my old ways...but didn't have an allergy attack for three more years....until the toxins came back to my system. Dr Christopher says "dis-ease" is caused much by the foods we eat (for instance cheese and tomato, the foundation of many ethnic diets is actually a poison!)and by changing your diets (eating should never be a social enjoyment but a chore like filling your car and done in small amounts through the day)you can live a much more beautiful life. I seriously recommend it to your friend...at least research Dr. Christopher....just type his name with mucousless diet cleanse into your search engine.

[star queen]

Not eating is NOT a good thing.  Any diet that advocates not eating food is BAD.  Get your friend off the stuff at once.  The theory behind cleansing is that there are toxins present that need to be removed.  The toxins that are thought to be there are making you ill, or fat, or may be causing whatever is wrong with you.  Clean yourself out and you will be all better.  Enzymes "eat" stuff, the theory that they will "eat" the toxins and in some instances, they will "eat" the food you eat preventing the calories from going to fat cells and you will lose weight. If your friend is losing weight it is probably muscle weight and when she get off this crazy starvation thing she will gain it all back plus some. If she stays on it for long, she will probably end up in the hospital. good luck