To Cleanse or Not to Cleanse, That is the Question

Have you been hearing about detoxes and cleanses and wondering WHY anyone would want to do a detox or a cleanse and WHY they are so popular ? Have you ever had the sneaking suspicion that a cleanse may be the ideal tool to begin detoxing your body and regain your health. A quick trip to the health food store can make you recoil in confusion at the plethora of choices. Is it best to begin with a boxed mix readily available at the HFS, a combination of herbs, some expensive formula from some cool website, or with whole food juices and smoothies? Should you start with an organic cleanse, a liver, gallbladder, kidney, or bowel cleanse? What about heavy metals, pesky parasites and chronic candida? Is there a cheap way to cleanse or do they all have a hefty price tag? Have you wondered where to begin in the ever expanding world of cleanses? And finally, the little question we are all afraid to ask, precisely WHAT happens to real people when they do a cleanse?

Rest assured, before you pull the covers over your head and decide to hide, we have tried many different detox cleanses over the years from beginner to all out, at the Prudent Wife. We have experimented with boxed mixes from the HFS, herbs, juicing, whole juicing, tried bowel, kidney, gallbladder and liver, cheap cleanses and expensive and can give you some insight into your best options based on your budget and current health desires! A full report follows to set you on the safe and gentle path to cleansing, detoxification and better health.

These are some of the benefits of cleansing I have recieved just in 2007

Whole Juice Cleanse along with Bentonite Clay and Psyllium Husk Drinks

• Skin is beginning to glow, wrinkles diminishing, eyes very bright and teeth look bright (that cleaning?)
• Feel pretty good on the cleanse, energetic, optimistic
  
•  I get the sensation that my natural buoyancy is coming back (after months of sluggishness/exhaustion)
• Excercising twice a day (during cleanse which further helps eliminate toxins)
• Endurance is better
  
• Sleeping like a LOG - which is very abnormal for me, what a praise! That midnight cortisol rush that wakes me up each night  is gone! No small thing.
• Hubby says my legs are getting thinner (who wouldn’t want that)
• Studying some instances of fasting in the Bible….