You know probably the best thing I have done so far to improve my detoxing process is buying a decent juicer. I bought it only two weeks ago and already I have noticed a major difference in my health! More energy, less anxious and depressed, better sleep, and dreams are so much more vivid and pleasant. Feel so much better when I wake up. My skin has really cleared up exellently, and in general is smooth soft. Handle stress so much better. The benefits are just amazing!

I dunno what it is, maybe I was lacking something that is contained in the vegetables and fruits I have been juicing. The best I find to juice are carrots, celery, spinach, lettuce and cucumber. Also juice apples, tomatoes and oranges on occasion..

Great advice. I'm glad to hear it's working for you.

I also love to juice organic carrots with an apple. Tasts really good and is very good for you.

I think i finally figured out what i want for my belated fathers day present.
BTW,are ther any brand specific juicers you prefer?

IMO the 2 major juicers are the champion and the vita-mix ...
then you have others that are usually cheeper and do a mix of the above.

champion extrats the pulp and you drink the juice; vita mix tears everything up and you drink everything ...

I have a champion and like it; but it takes awhile to make juice and to clean; I would think a vita mix would be alot quicker.

Champions run about 225 and vitas I think 400~? been awhile since I looked; of coure you can get cheeper brands.

I have a Vita-Mix and a juicer.

The Vita-Mix is excellent. It's a large, powerful blender and is used in many restaurants for making smoothies or iced coffees. You can also use it to make vegetable soups by just throwing in some veggies and water. It comes with an additional container for grinding grains or making peanut butter, etc. I think it was over $200.

I carefully researched before purchasing a juicer and eventually choose the "Green Star".

It uses stainless steel gears to smash the material into juice, which is better than spinning ones because the spinning ones oxygenate the juice as it's sprayed out in a mist which can adversely affect some of the enzymes. It's not a huge deal, but it does noticeably affect taste and nutritional value a little.

The only juicer that produces higher quality juice is a table press type that requires you to put the item you're juicing in and turn a bar on the top like an old printing press.

The juice quality of the press-type is nearly identical (very slightly better) in quality to the Green Star but requires many-times the effort for the same amount of juice. The GS also is very easy to clean, requiring only about 3 to 5 minutes for full cleanup, which can be much faster than trying to clean the stainless mesh centrifuge in a spinning juicer.

All things considered, I believe the Green Star is the best.

Below are pictures...

VIta-Mix

<img src="http://herballure.com/Images/Misc/VitaMix.jpg">


Green-Star
This is shown without the juicing attachment that fits on the front. It removes for easy cleaning.

<img src="http://herballure.com/Images/Misc/GreenStar.jpg">

I just love carrot juice, i mix it with squeezed lemon and olive oil, apparently its good for your liver.
Dawn.

Oh yes.

In the juicer, I make organic carrot juice with about 10 carrots and an apple and it's amazingly good.

If I'm feeling a little fatigued, I add in alfalfa sprouts for their rich vitamin content.

In the vita-mix I make an apple drink with 3 Golden Delicious apples, about 1/2 cup of ice, a splash of vanilla, a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon, and about 20 apricot pits. In fact, I'm sipping on this right now.

Make sure to include the apple seeds and liquify them because the trace amounts of cyanide they contain work with B-17 (amygdalin) from both apricot pits AND apple seeds to selectively kill cancer cells. Healthy cells have natural defenses against small amounts of cyanide.

Apricot pits are delicious, taste like almonds, and are one of the highest sources of amygdalin you can find. The commerical name for the pharmaceutical extract of amygdalin is called Laetrile.

Bitter almonds contain higher amounts of this powerful anti-cancer agent. Unfortunately but not suprisingly, it is illegal to sell bitter almonds in the U.S.

Is it ok to take wheatgrass juice. Heard it really good for chelating heavy metals.

Russ thats great info on the apple and apricot seeds. Do you use organic apricots? i can get organic apples, no problem but not apricots. Thanks.

I haven't found organic apricot pits, unfortunately.

Here's a pic from the bag I'm currently eating from:

<img src="http://herballure.com/Images/Misc/Foods/ApricotPits.jpg">

About wheat grass juice...

It's extremely good for you, but I don't know anything about it's relationship to heavy metals.