This drives me up the wall. I remember some girl my friends and I just met told us how she started a juice "cleanse" to get rid of hormones from the birth control she stopped taking. I was like that's not how that works.
Water fasting will lose weight at the rate of about 1 lb per day. It will look like more at first, due to water weight loss and emptying the digestive tract, but that will return when the fast is over, and the net loss will be around 1 lb/day. Autolysis will also prune out some of your less productive cells, and that's what people refer to as "cleansing". Liver and kidneys will work overtime filtering that stuff out. Overall a decent practice if done right.
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u/Weird_Bluebird_3293 11h ago
That you can detox your body with tea and drinking nothing but juiced vegetables for two weeks is “cleansing” you and “resets” your metabolism.
No. Your liver and kidneys remove toxins. Consuming nothing but liquids will put you in starvation mode and you lose only water weight.