Master Cleanser diet

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DeadHeadHorn

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So my roommate's been sick for a while and she's decided to try Stanley Burroughs' "master cleanser" diet. Essentially you give up all food, and instead you drink 10-12 glasses of a water, lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper concoction. It sounds a little crazy, but after reading a lot about it, it sounds like the real deal.

Anyone every try it? Supposedly the mixture contains all the essential vitamins and minerals your body needs and the only weight you lose is waste, toxins, and mucus.

I'm going to start it on Monday for 10 days and I'll post my results.

I'm curious if anyone else here has had it and with what results.
 
I predict that after day 3 or 4 you become very lethargic as you will have used up most of your glycogen stores and you run out of energy. Then your body will go into catabolic mode and begin breaking down your muscle tissue for energy. Have fun with that.
 
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I did a lot of research about it because I considered doing it for a while. A guy in one of my classes did it and he said he liked it a lot. This isn't a program designed to lose weight, you will lose weight, but it's just water weight...the program is designed to "cleanse" the body. As a result for not eating for a while though, your stomach shrinks so you'll eat smaller portions of food when you start eating again.

The reason in I ended up not doing it is because of the herbal laxative tea you have to take at night and something else in the morning. I just don't have that much time to sit around and wait to blow the toilet up after drinking the tea.
 
Oh, and about feeling lethargic, everything I read, and what the guy in my class told me was quite the opposite. He said he felt more energized and felt great. He's a pretty healthy type anyway, so junk food wasn't too appealing to him when he couldn't have any.
 
So by not eating and shrinking your stomach you "cleanse" your body? I don't get it. I bet if you just ate clean and drank alot of water, you'd feel as good.
 
10 days seems pretty long. My parents fasted (water only) for 10-14 days, and they had to seriously change their daily patterns, it was a pretty big deal. But they were in their 60's.

How is it going?
 
There is some information that would lead one to believe that brief fasts may have some beneficial effects, but I didn't even have to read past your post to know that what you are talking about is yet another goofball regimen in the campaign of diet disinformation.
 
Ever see the show Survivor? They basically go through a few weeks of this diet. They sit around all day and do basically nothing.
 
I had a friend from the north who did it for 7 days, and bet me I couldn't do it for 5. He said he started off everyday with a "sea-salt water flush" where you chug a big glass of sea salt and distilled water. I was unaware salt water was such a laxative and spent the entire day pissing out my 2-hole. Needless to say I didn't make it past day 1.
 
I am right there with you DWP, in regards to all the fad diets. This **** is not that hard. Eat right and exercise. Cut back on processed foods, drink lots of water, eat enough veggies, sub whole grains for bleached carbs, and don't eat **** that's fried. Combine that with four or five hours of exercise a week and you will feel and look better.

But I have heard about this. I don't think it is a diet to loose weight, but more to cleanse your body. From what I have heard, though, you only do it for three or four days.
 
Fasting is not some brilliant new scheme. It's been done for centuries if not millennia, and it does have some beneficial effects. Clearly there are benefits to not putting lots of weird chemicals and processed foods in your body. The maple syrup is to prevent hypoglycemia and ketosis I suspect so that you don't go through the typical lethargic phase of fasting (that you also get when starting diets like the Atkins). You could probably do just fine with cane sugar for that matter.

That said, I'm completely with the eat healthy and get enough exercise crowd.
 
I totally agree with you DWP. I drink a huge smoothie every day for breakfast and ride my bike to and from work five days a week. I avoid processed foots and hydrogenated oils as much as possible, and eat fresh fruit and veggies daily. I try to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle as best I can.

This "diet" is basically a spring cleaning for your body. I'm certainly not going to do it more than 10 days (if I make it that far) and I might do it once a year. And it's not a new fad; Burroughs has been preaching this diet for decades.

The reason I'm doing it is because I've had several friends try it recently with great results. I'm normally not one to mess too much with what I put in my body, but the testimonials have all been very positive.

I start on Monday (I've got some drinking to do on Sat. night before it gets started) and I'll let ya'll know how it goes.
 
Your body does not need a "spring cleaning" as there is nothing there to clean away. All of these mysterious "toxins" are ******** to get you to try some ridiculous fad diet. They don't exist. People who are calorie restricted frequently DO feel good, even euphoric, but it has nothing to do with "flushing out toxins" or other pseudoscientific CRAP, but stems from two main sources: Their blood sugar is low, and (drumroll please) THE POWER OF SUGGESTION! The placebo effect has a potent influence over the gullible. If you believe this stupid fad diet will make you feel energized, it probably will, but if were to race a coupla miles, I would smoke you after eating a bacon cheeseburger with extra bacon and some french fries fried in animal fat.
 
Fasting has been around since the beginning of recorded history, and was often part of a spiritual cleansing process- you cleaned the body and the spirit by fasting (so it's not some new-fangled fad). Many claim that fasting is also a natural way to help cure illness like colds. They claim that the loss of appetite while you're sick is one way that your body is telling you not to eat (or to fast).

I've read about fasting but have been reluctant to try it, since I run a lot. I don't think that you would be able to run well without food for energy, although I've read that you are supposed to be able to (and should) do yoga while fasting. I also know that you need to be very careful when you start eating again after the fast and introduce food slowly and in a certain way. Robin from Howard Stern swears by the Master Cleanser diet and says that it has helped her with a lot of health problems.

I would need to learn more about fasting before I would try it, and I'm not sure if it's for me. I'm be interested in hearing how this goes for you.
 
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