How to Juice Feast

What can I consume besides green juice?

While on the juice feast, you consume ONLY non-sugar liquids. 

• Green juice
• Wheatgrass shot
• Other healing shots, such as ginger carrot, beet turmeric and garlic lime
• Water (consider adding electrolytes or 1 tsp of Himalayan pink salt per quart of water daily, especially if drinking purified or distilled water)
• Herbal teas
• Green tea (although we want to avoid stimulants, the beneficial effects of green tea for chronically fermenting cells, highly outweigh any negative effects)

Useful Tips

1. Although freshly made juice is always better, if you like to drink your juice first thing in the morning, you can consider saving some juice from the day before in the refrigerator. At least one quart is a good amount to start your day with!
2. Try different green juices. Making your own green juice recipes is totally acceptable. However, strive to maintain sugars low by using mostly green vegetables, and a very small amount of low-sugar fruits (green apples and pears), beets, carrots, or other root vegetables, since they are high in sugar. You can also use these foods in small amounts to make the healing immune-boosting shots we have shared with you https://www.anoasisofhealing.com/immune-booster-shots-red-beet-turmeric-anti-tumor-shot/
3. If you tend to get bloated when drinking green juice, taking digestive enzymes before/ during/ after drinking may alleviate those symptoms.
4. For variety, and especially if you are doing a long juice feast, adding a little bit of pickle juice, sauerkraut juice, olive juice, stevia, or hot sauce to your green juice, may provide you with just enough diversity to be able to continue enjoying your feast and even extending it.
5. When drinking your juice, visualize all the positive benefits. Feel the life-giving energy from the organic veggies filling your body and all your cells with the healing vibration of lots of nutrients and enzymes.  Positive thoughts and feelings about the juice will increase the potency and healing effect of the juice in your body.

Possible Detox Symptoms

As your body starts to get rid of toxins accumulated in fat cells, it is normal to experience some symptoms of detoxification. Again, each individual is unique, and while some people have little to no symptoms, others may feel some uncomfortable effects. Focus on the journey and the benefits, knowing that those symptoms mean that your body is doing what it’s meant to be doing, and that you are getting rid of all the things that are not beneficial to you. Some of these symptoms may include:

• Headache
• Nausea
• Lightheaded or weak
• Diarrhea
• Tired
• Skin rash

If the symptoms become too intense or do not subside after a day, consult with your health practitioner and/or consider stopping your juice feast.

How to Help the Body Detox and Reduce Symptoms

Symptoms of detoxification are normal, and our body’s innate intelligence will know how to detoxify and eliminate the toxins that are being released. That said, there are things we can do to stimulate and help the detoxification process. (if approved by your health practitioner)

Basically, we want to support the body’s natural detoxification processes through:

• Sweating
• Urinating
• Expelling Feces
• Breathing air

We can enhance these processes through:

• Colon Hydrotherapy or Colonics
• Coffee or Water Enemas
• Drinking more juice and/ or water/ tea
• Sleeping
• Resting
• Stretching and movement (not strenuous or exhaustive)
• Manual Lymphatic Drainage massage or Deep Tissue Massage
• Infrared Sauna or
• Exposing a large portion of your body to sunlight
• Deep breathing
• Meditation/ prayer

How Long to Juice Feast?

Under our medical supervision, most of our patients do a 10–21-day juice feast. However, this is a very personal journey, and while some people feel the need to stop early, others extend their juice feast for weeks.

Extending your initial proposed duration for a juice feast is fine, and it is also fine to stop early if the circumstances require it to be so. Communicate with your health providers for support and if it is considered safe and beneficial, you go as long as you can.  Our experience has shown that at least a 21-day juice feast gets the best results. 

Each day you are on the feast is a positive step toward helping your body get rid of toxins and saturating it with the vital nutrients it needs to heal.

For extended periods of juice feasting i.e., 14 days or more, you may experience some lightheadedness.  If so, inform your health practitioner.  Adding 1 tsp of Celtic Sea salt to a quart of water and drinking it throughout the day will usually alleviate these symptoms.

When to Break the Juice Feast

It is time to break your juice feast if:

• You have reached the number of days you have agreed on with your health practitioner and you do not want to extend.
• You were advised to stop earlier for medical reasons.