Juice fasting is very much like eating raw vegetables that you are making the juice with anyway. So why bother with juice fasting and why is it such an big part of the Hippocrates Health lifestyle?

The greatest difference between juice fasting and eating raw vegetables is not the nutrients. They are basically the same except that you are losing a little fiber when you make the juice. As long as you are juicing and  not blending ~ making it with a juicer and not a blender} and you drink it within 15 minutes, you are getting all the digestive enzymes, vitamins and minerals that you would have gotten if you were eating.

Why juice then? The most important reason it is such an important part of the Hippocrates Health lifestyle is that you are giving your digestion a much needed break.

The digestive process is by far the most energy intensive process performed by your body. By juice fasting weekly as I do, you let your body take a break from the digestion — and this is important — while taking in the nutrients your body needs .

If you have a disease, you don’t want to do a complete water fast and deprive yourself of nutrients when you need them . This way you are getting all but some fiber.

The fasting juice recipes I use all use the growing sprouts I have ready to go. I use sunflower or pea green sprouts (50%) and then use other green vegetables to improve the taste . The best tasting is organic cucumbers, but I also use organic celery and spring greens and dilute with filtered water.

The primary nourishment is in the sprouts so the other part is mainly to get the green drink to taste good. I don’t add fruit (as I’ve seen many do in smoothies) because this creates digestion problems as fruit and greens do not combine well.