The Master Cleanse Diet Review

During The Master Cleanse (also called The Lemonade Diet), you are not allowed to eat ANY FOOD AT ALL! You drink a special lemonade mixture and herbal laxative teas along with a salt water flush. The cleanse lasts for at least 9 days and can go up to 40 days. It is supposed to cleanse you of toxins in your body.

In our day-to-day lives toxins build up in our system. The Master Cleanse, by Stanley Burroughs, claims that by not eating, you will allow your body to get rid of this waste without adding any more waste to it. The drink consists of lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. They say that all the nutrition you need is in this “lemonade” (but I find that a little hard to believe).

Here’s the recipe for the lemonade:

The Master Cleanse Recipe

* 2T lemon or lime juice (about 1/2 lemon)
* 2T genuine maple syrup
* 1/10t cayenne pepper (or to taste)
* water, medium hot or cold

Mix all of the ingredients in a glass. It should be a glass and not a plastic bottle. This tastes better if it’s made as needed, not in bulk. It’s best to use fresh lemons, preferably organic.

You can drink from 6-12 glasses of the lemonade in a day. NO FOOD SHOULD BE EATEN!

At night, you should drink a laxative tea and in the morning you should drink another cup of the laxative tea, or use a salt water flush.

To prepare the salt water flush, mix 2t of uniodized sea salt into a quart of warm water. Drink it quickly in the morning on an empty stomach. It will stay together and flush through your system very quickly. This tastes nasty. A friend of a friend used salt capsules and drank plain water and this seemed to work just as well, without the bad taste.

Warning! The first time you do this, you may need to be near a toilet for the next two hours.

Do this for at least 9 days, up to 40 days. Some suggest doing The Master Cleanse a few times a year to cleanse your system of it’s toxins.

When you are ready to come off of it, you must be very careful of what you start eating.

The first and second day, you should have nothing but orange juice. Drink it slowly. This will prepare your stomach for digestion.

The third day, drink orange juice in the morning, have raw fruit for lunch, and raw fruit or a raw salad for dinner.

You are now ready to begin eating normally.

The Master Cleanse isn’t meant to be a diet, though many people use it as such. It’s meant to be taken as a way to cleanse your body, both physically and mentally. As you go through the days, you’ll begin to realize how much time you usually spend thinking about food.

During the first few days, you may feel sick. You will probably feel week and have headaches. This is supposedly clearing your body of toxins. After three or four days, many people report feeling full of energy and life.

If you’re thinking about doing this solely as a weight loss method, I suggest you look elsewhere.

However, many people do have a lot of toxins built up in their body from a lifetime of bad eating habits. If you have been thinking about changing your eating patterns and following a more healthy eating plan, then this could be just what you need to break old habits and get your body ready for a healthy lifestyle. Really, it’s up to the person.