The Mas­ter Cleanse Diet

When first embark­ing on the jour­ney of achiev­ing opti­mal health and well­ness, I kept hear­ing that the process of a mas­ter cleanse was the best way to clean my slate and begin mov­ing ahead. Learn­ing about cleanses was over­whelm­ing at first– too many to choose from! But with­out fail, the one cleanse that ALWAYS showed up in my searches– and prob­a­bly yours– was the Mas­ter Cleanse.

Cleanse Diet

What is the Mas­ter Cleanse?

Also known as the “Lemon­ade Diet”, is a 10 day diet cre­ated by Stan­ley Bur­roughs in the 1940s. The cleanse con­sists of con­sum­ing six to twelve glasses of a lemon­ade mix­ture made with lemon juice, grade-B organic maple syrup, cayenne pep­per and fil­tered water. This cleanse has been around for some time, but has become notably more pop­u­lar in recent years (espe­cially since Bey­once announced she lost 20 lbs while on The cleanse to get in shape for her role in “Dream Girls”!)  The cleanse claimed to help peo­ple detox­ify and purge away toxic buildup, how­ever,  it has been mainly used for rapid, short-term weight loss.

What are the ben­e­fits of the mas­ter cleanse diet?

Peo­ple who pro­mote the cleanse diet claim there are numer­ous ben­e­fits asso­ci­ated with their approach; not all of these ben­e­fits hold up. These pur­ported ben­e­fits include:

·      Detox­ify their bodies

·      Boost their energy

·      Relieve symp­toms of chronic health issues

·      Cleanse their colons

·      Lose weight quickly

·      Strengthen their immune system

What are the dan­gers of using the mas­ter cleanse detox diet?
Since the diet does not allow for the con­sump­tion of food, it is actu­ally a fast and not a diet. Again, while on the  diet, you are only allowed to drink this lemon­ade drink, as well as a salt flush and a lax­a­tive tea.Starving your body of nec­es­sary calo­ries, vit­a­mins and min­er­als for an extended period of time and boil­ing your caloric intake down to noth­ing is not a healthy way to lose weight. Abstain­ing from eat­ing solid foods for 10 days in hopes of los­ing 20 pounds seems like a small sac­ri­fice to some “dieters”, but there can be many short and long-term con­se­quences which result from such an extreme program.

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As you may know, star­va­tion can and will lead to a loss of lean mus­cle mass, which actu­ally results in a slowed-down metab­o­lism. To pre­serve the most basic bod­ily func­tions, the cleanse actu­ally sends you into star­va­tion mode, caus­ing your body to break­down it’s own mus­cles and tis­sues. The more mus­cle you have, the more calo­ries your body will burn. If you dras­ti­cally cut your calo­rie con­sump­tion your metab­o­lism WILL slow down.  There­fore, when you go back to con­sum­ing food again, you will regain the weight you lost and pos­si­bly more pounds because your body will add weight faster at a lower caloric intake. In addi­tion, with the mas­ter cleanse pro­longed peri­ods of fast­ing can be quite tax­ing and can lead to per­ma­nent organ dam­age.  Ten days is the min­i­mum amount of time rec­om­mended for the cleanse, but a week and a half is a sub­stan­tial amount of time to deprive your body of solid foods and with­out the appro­pri­ate amount of calo­ries needed for the body to func­tion at a nor­mal level.

Another poten­tial dan­ger of engag­ing in a fast­ing pro­to­col like the cleanse is the pos­si­bil­ity of dam­ag­ing your thy­roid. The thy­roid is a butterfly-shaped gland that wraps around the wind­pipe and is respon­si­ble for con­trol­ling your metab­o­lism. The main pur­pose of the thy­roid is for hor­mone release to con­trol our metab­o­lism. It is vital to have the right bal­ance of hor­mone lev­els because when your hor­mone lev­els dip too low, your body will burn less energy. When you engage in a regime like this, depri­va­tion causes the thy­roid to slow down in hopes of sav­ing energy, caus­ing a slower meta­bolic rate. This causes weight gain and inter­feres with the body’s abil­ity to detoxify.

Instead of turn­ing to dras­tic and unhealthy mea­sures to detox­ify and lose weight, you should con­sider imple­ment­ing the ProBal­ance 7 Day Cleanse, a reg­i­men that eases your bur­den and rebal­ances your gut bac­te­ria– all yield­ing weight loss while still allow­ing you to eat. After 7 days on the ProBal­ance Cleanse, you will be pro­vided with guide­lines on how to rein­tro­duce  your favorite healthy foods back into your diet while tran­si­tion­ing to a new lifestyle.  Instead of wor­ry­ing about putting on any weight that you lost, you can look for­ward to hav­ing renewed energy and can enjoy liv­ing a health­ier way of life through a mas­ter cleanse.

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