Just Juice. 2016 is Your Year

This is my favorite time of the year, a time to hit the reset, renew, rejuvenation and realign buttons.  It's a time to reflect on what working in your life and what needs to be realeased.  As a doctor, I witness patients everyday pushing and surpassing their perceived limitations in their health and wellness and that's what keeps me inspired!

One of my favorite ways to hit the reset button is through detoxing. Detoxing is vital to your health and wellness by cleansing your body, mind and spirit for a fresh perspective and energetic body moving forward throughout the year. One of the best forms of detoxing is through juice cleansing. I was introduced to juicing via Joe Cross' documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, one man's journey in completely transforming his health through juicing.  After watching, my Fiance and I loaded up on organic produce and juiced for the next three days, both losing 8 lbs each and feeling an energy level and glow I hadn't accessed in years. We have made the commitment to juice every year since. Here at Back To Health, we just finished a juice cleanse through Simple Science Juices in Overland Park last week and all feel re-energized and most importantly, more mindful about clean, conscious eating moving forward.

The benefits alone are enough to ignite your own juicing wellness journey:

Floods our body with super nutrition: Being on an all-produce diet gives us not only the vitamins and minerals but the all-important phytonutrients that are powerhouses for the clean-up and healing process. Juices are by nature raw foods -- and retain nutrients that would be destroyed by cooking, including some B vitamins and especially digestive and anti-inflammatory enzymes.

Improves Energy: After the first day's adjustment period (mostly missing crunching, and any coffee/alcohol cessation symptoms), most people begin to feel much more energy and clarity than they ever did with frequent caffeine drinks.

Lose Weight: As you are feeling better and having more energy, you also naturally lose weight. A juice cleanse is a great way to jump start a diet. It not only helps control appetite and cravings, but is naturally lower in calories, while supplying the body with more concentrated, beneficial, energizing and healing nutrients than it has seen before.

Start today! We will be juicing for our patients on this coming Monday, February 1st so stop by the practice then! On your own, you can find a juicer online or at Target, write our your recipe game plan; Pinterest has a plethora of the or follow Joe Cross; weekend cleanse featured on Dr. Oz; see link below. You can either juice straight forward or modify with a juice for breakfast and lunch then consuming an organic salad with a low glycemic vinaigrette dressing for dinner and snacking on almonds or cashews in between juices. Start with a one day cleanse and work to three, ideally. As always you can consult us here if you have any questions. You have the power to be the best version of yourself--this is your year!

Resource: http://www.doctoroz.com/article/joe-cross-3-day-weekend-juice-cleanse