The master cleanse diet has reached great popularity through the internet as an effective cleansing and reducing diet.
The hype could also be attributed to how the diet has helped a number of popular celebrities lose weight. But the appeal is also strengthened by how the regimen is really easy for ordinary people to follow.
Designed by alternative medicine practitioner Stanley Burroughs, the master cleanse diet basically operates on one principle which is that the dieter may only consume the lemonade within the entire duration of the diet.
Together with the lemonade, dieters should also take laxatives to help them effectively cleanse their system of toxins and wastes.
The lemonade is a special concoction of lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper in water. The lemon has special cleansing properties and can help loosen up your mucous linings.
The lemon has active cleansing properties and also allows the mucous linings to loosen up. These properties are quite similar to that of the cayenne pepper in that it allows for the cleansing of the digestive, respiratory and circulatory tracts and also loosens the mucous linings.
The only ingredient that is of secondary importance is the maple syrup. The maple syrup is only there to increase the calories of the drink. This is especially important in that the people going through the master cleanse diet will not be able to take in any kind of solid food. For this matter, they will need to get their caloric requirements from the lemonade so that they still get the energy that will make them last throughout the day.
If you are overweight, you may even lessen the quantity of the maple syrup that you use to help you lose more pounds.
One thing that you should never skip because it is an integral part of the diet is the consumption of laxatives that will allow for proper excretion of toxins as part of wastes. The diet will last for 10 days and that means that you will have go through the entire time without any fiber in your system. Your fiber will allow for natural movement of bowels and will be replaced by your laxatives.
Dieters have two options with regards to the laxatives. The first option is the intake of tea. Tea that contain senna are very effective laxatives. The more popular option though that most dieters take is the salt water flush. The salt water flush is prepared simply by adding organic (no iodine) sea salt to water. The diet will then have to drink this mixture.
The effects happens somewhat immediately so make sure that you have easy access to a bathroom when you decide to do this.
