Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff from how Stuff Works. Hey, brain stuff,
Speaker 1: Christian Sager. Here, let's talk about purity because we are
Speaker 1: surrounded by toxic stuff in this modern world. Car emissions
Speaker 1: in our air, factory runoff in our water, herbicides and pesticides,
Speaker 1: and our food trolls and our comments sections. If our
Speaker 1: bodies are temples, every pizza role is a desecration. How
Speaker 1: can we become pure again? Well? Juice cleanses supposedly rid
Speaker 1: our bodies of toxins and restore our digestive systems. Depending
Speaker 1: on the specific and sometimes copyrighted cleans you spend a
Speaker 1: couple of days to a couple of weeks consuming nothing
Speaker 1: but liquefied fruits, vegetables, and maybe some nut milk. Since
Speaker 1: lots of people are pretty bad about eating enough fruits
Speaker 1: and vegetables to begin with, this may mean that during
Speaker 1: a juice cleanse you'd be getting more vitamins and minerals
Speaker 1: than usual. Wool. These are substances that your body needs
Speaker 1: to turn food into energy and to grow and maintain cells.
Speaker 1: Some even have antioxidant properties, which means that they can
Speaker 1: help prevent cellular damage under particular circumstances. The benefits of
Speaker 1: these vitamins and minerals are real, but keep in mind
Speaker 1: that your body can only process a certain amount of
Speaker 1: them at once. After that, you're just going to excrete
Speaker 1: the rest. Research does show that eating fruits and vegetables
Speaker 1: rich in these substances can decrease some risk of some
Speaker 1: diseases in the long run. The key phrase here is
Speaker 1: in the long run. The best way to reap these
Speaker 1: benefits is to consistently eat five or more servings every day.
Speaker 1: One juice binge isn't gonna do much. Consuming nothing but
Speaker 1: juice for a few days also means that you'd get
Speaker 1: a lot less fiber, fat, and protein, and way fewer
Speaker 1: calories than normal. Fats and proteins are just as essential
Speaker 1: for healthy cellular function as vitamins and minerals, and fiber
Speaker 1: in the diet is actually part of your colon's normal
Speaker 1: cleansing system. It absorbs water and water soluble waste in
Speaker 1: your intestines and moves everything on out. Plus fiber can
Speaker 1: slow down your body's uptake of sugar, keeping your blood
Speaker 1: sugar levels more stable without it, and considering the high
Speaker 1: levels of fruit sugars and the limited calories involved in
Speaker 1: a juice diet, you will feel extra hungry and may
Speaker 1: experience dizzy and blood sugar spikes and crashes. A day
Speaker 1: or two of this shouldn't do any harm to the
Speaker 1: average person, but restricting calories and nutrients from much longer
Speaker 1: than that can trigger starvation mode. Your body doesn't know
Speaker 1: when it's going to get more food, so it slows
Speaker 1: your metabolism down. When this happens too often, the change
Speaker 1: can be permanent, so is it worth it Psychologically? Maybe
Speaker 1: you'll probably lose a little weight to the decrease in calories,
Speaker 1: which might be what you're looking for, and people around
Speaker 1: the world have been using short asks to practice mindfulness
Speaker 1: for hundreds, if not thousands of years. But physiologically, juice
Speaker 1: cleanses don't help clear toxins out of your body. The
Speaker 1: thing is that your liver and your kidneys are natural detoxifiers.
Speaker 1: They filter bad stuff out of your body all the time,
Speaker 1: but they need the full complement of nutrients provided by
Speaker 1: a healthy diet in order to do so. Check out
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