Cleanse

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Complete Cleanse Guide

Cold-Pressed Juice Cleanses & Detox Programs

About GoOrganic Cleanses

Today's lifestyle is busy and on-the-go, leaving many people with hardly any time to plan their meals. Being too busy to stop and eat a healthy meal sometimes leaves us with no choice but foods that are fast and convenient, which usually isn't the healthiest choice. That's where our cleanses come in.

GoOrganic Cleanses give you the quick and convenient solution you need but are packed with nutrition. Following our cleanse is a great way to give your body the attention it needs — fresh, healthy and safe ingredients in a convenient cleanse program. By following our plans, you can give your body some much needed R&R from regular daily exposure to toxins and nutrient-deprived foods.

Cleansing is a safe, easy and healthy way to bring your mind, body and spirit back to life. It's simple to get started, and you'll find the benefits are endless the more you explore the world of cleanses and detoxes.

Each day, you will consume over 7 kg of plants. Benefits may include:

Benefits of Cleansing

Eating and drinking plant-based and cold-pressed isn't just convenient, and it isn't just nutritious. There are tons of other benefits that come from cleansing that improve your health and well-being:

1. Rest for Certain Organs

A cleanse gives your body a break from processing solid foods. During a cleanse, your digestive system, including your intestines and stomach, don't work as hard to break down and digest food. Additionally, your liver, which is your body's natural filter, gets a break from detoxifying substances. Because your organs don't have to work as hard to eliminate harmful toxins, they're able to heal and repair themselves for the duration of the cleanse. After the cleanse, they'll be healthier and more efficient.

2. Boost in Energy and Deeper Sleep

After a cleanse, you can expect to feel more vibrant and energetic, and you'll sleep better too. During a cleanse, your liver is given the break it needs to repair itself by eliminating the toxins it normally needs to filter from your blood. Your liver uses a ton of energy to function properly, and when it's overworked, it can make you feel lethargic and even affect your sleep quality. By giving your liver a break, you'll feel re-energized and refreshed.

3. Mental Clarity

There's no question that an unhealthy diet makes your body feel sluggish, but it can also cause brain fog. Cleansing not only boosts your physical energy, but it can improve your mental clarity too. When your digestive system goes from an overworked state to a lighter, healthier state, your brain fog will lift, leaving you with a greater sense of focus and mental sharpness. You might just feel more productive!

4. Glowing Skin

We've all experienced diet-related breakouts that occur from poor quality foods. That's because, just like our livers, our skin also works to filter and eliminate toxins. Regular cleansing can give your skin the periodic break it needs from eliminating toxins. During this time, it can heal and repair itself, leaving you with fresh skin, fewer breakouts and a brighter complexion.

5. Improved Mood

Cleanses are a good way to regulate your mood by balancing your hormones. When we're stressed, our bodies release cortisol, which produces a stress response. During a cleanse, our bodies don't produce the same level of stress hormones, giving our adrenals a break. This allows us to handle stress better, and we can experience a happier mood with less anxiety.

6. Weight Loss

Cleanses are a highly effective, short-term weight loss solution. During a cleanse, you're taking in far fewer calories than you would normally, and you eliminate significant fluid retention, helping you to feel slimmer and trimmer. Trying out a cleanse is a great way to kickstart your weight loss journey. Not only will it reduce your caloric intake, but it will also help interrupt your cravings for unhealthy foods (fried fats and sugars) and replace your body's natural cravings with healthier ones.

7. More Regulated Colon

One of the most noticeable benefits of cleansing is your bathroom habits. During a cleanse you'll make much more frequent bathroom trips. However, in the time following a cleanse, you'll notice more regular colon activity. Your digestive tract will work more efficiently, meaning you'll experience less constipation. With a more regulated colon, you'll improve your overall bowel health and even reduce your risk of colorectal cancer.

8. Reduced Bloating

Even a 1-day cleanse can help you feel lighter and slimmer. That's because, during a cleanse, you're restricting your calorie intake. Your body then turns to the water and glycogen stored in your muscles. As it uses up glycogen, it loses the water too, helping you to feel less bloated. Additionally, your digestive tract will begin to empty itself and potentially become less inflamed, causing you to lose the bloated feeling you didn't even know you had!

9. Intense Hydration

During a cleanse, you increase your hydration levels to an intense level. Many people are chronically dehydrated from not drinking enough water and eating hydration-sapping foods. A cleanse can help restore much-needed hydration to your entire body — especially your digestive tract and your skin. With improved hydration, you'll also experience fewer headaches, less muscle pain and increased circulation, which helps your entire body get the nutrients it needs.

Cold-Pressed Juicing: Why It Matters

Not all juices are created equal. At GoOrganic, our products are different because they're made differently. We use a cold-pressing technique to turn fresh ingredients into liquid delight while preserving the integrity of the food's nutrition.

Traditional juicing uses a classic juicer or blender with a centrifugal design — the one with sharp teeth that spin really fast. During centrifugal juicing, the machine turns its blades at high speeds to shred and tear up the ingredients, generating a certain amount of heat.

Some foods are particularly sensitive to heat, and their nutrient content will degrade whenever heat is applied. Vitamins like A, E, K, C and B are quite sensitive to heat and can easily lose their nutritional integrity. Raw vegetables contain the highest amounts of vitamin C content compared to cooked ones. While centrifugal juicing might not generate the same heat as full-on cooking, heat can erode food's nutritional value.

GoOrganic uses a cold-pressed juicing technique that crushes and gently presses the ingredients. While cold-pressing yields the highest amount of juice, it also generates no additional heat. The final result is a refreshing juice that was gently cold-pressed, keeping nutrients and enzymes from fruits and vegetables in-tact!

Cold-pressed juicing allows you to pack in the highest nutrition possible in one go. As an added benefit, GoOrganic cold-pressed juices have a shelf life of a few days, meaning that you can expect the nutrient content and taste to remain as fresh as possible.

How to Prepare for Your Cleanse

This is up to you, as many people do very little 'prep' leading up to a cleanse and others like to begin cutting things from their diet a few days beforehand. If you will be cutting out caffeine during your cleanse, you may want to cut back a few days ahead of time to avoid extreme headaches and withdrawal symptoms. If you would like to eliminate certain foods beforehand, dairy and any processed food products are a great place to start!

Typical Cleanse Schedule

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I Drink Caffeine While Cleansing?

While other advocates may disagree, we believe that if you are already a coffee (or tea) drinker, it is okay to continue to drink black coffee (or tea) during your cleanse. Your system will be challenged already by the detox happening from not consuming whole foods — adding another layer of detoxing from the caffeine on which your body relies may be too much and cause you to not make it through your entire cleanse. Keeping the coffee (or tea) in your diet during the cleanse also may help curb your appetite and headaches.

Can I Exercise While Cleansing?

As long as you have been exercising previously, it is totally ok to workout while cleansing, but just listen to your body! You know when it is telling you to slow down and what it can handle. It may be best to not exercise on the first day of the cleanse and wait and see how your body is going to handle it and what your energy levels will be like. If you can't make it through a workout, it's ok! Cleansing is a great time for rest and reflection for every aspect of your body, so enjoy the time letting your body have a break.

Will I Lose Weight?

While we don't like to advocate cleansing as a weight loss tool, many find that this is a side effect of cleansing. If weight loss is your goal, cleansing can be a great way to lose the first few pounds, but more importantly, it is a great way to reset your mindset and put a change to your eating habits while setting you on a path to better overall wellness!

Side Effects of Cleansing

Hunger and Cravings

The biggest side effect and most common challenge of cleansing is feeling hungry — especially for first-timers. Your body is probably used to consuming at least three full meals per day, and your stomach likely isn't used to feeling empty. It's important to drink lots of water in between. Staying hydrated helps you feel full and prevents hunger-related symptoms, like headaches and fatigue.

Frequent Bathroom Visits

Frequent bathroom visits are an expected consequence of cleansing. During a cleanse, you're moving your body from a typical food-based diet to a liquid diet, meaning your bowel habits will change too. This is a normal part of the cleanse process, and your bathroom habits will return to normal before or after the cleanse is finished. Because you're consuming an all-liquid diet, you'll also need frequent pee breaks. You may even notice that your urine has a red tinge — this is a normal effect of drinking the Red cold-pressed juice. If you're concerned about how increased bathroom trips might affect your daily life, you might try starting your cleanse right before the weekend or whenever you have your days off.

Health Risks & Contraindications

Please read the following before beginning a cleanse:

History of Cleansing

Cleansing and fasting is an ancient tradition practiced by many cultures for thousands of years. It's believed that Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician, first recommended fasting around the 5th century BCE. In the Greek medicine system, Hippocrates would advise his patients to abstain from food as a way of healing certain diseases. By refraining from eating, his patients could improve particular symptoms and get in touch with their physical and mental needs.

Think of cleansing like the passing seasons. Just like the year has changing seasons, so too does the body, and cleansing can offer you a time of rest and reflection. Cleansing and fasting can help give you the space to listen to your body's needs and reset your physical health. Cleansing or fasting are periods of paying conscious attention to our physical, mental and spiritual health — a limited time in which you commit to purify the body and reconnect with a higher power or your inner strength.

Throughout history, different groups of people have understood there is a natural accumulation of toxins in the body. Though the body is excellent at purifying itself, it also requires support through cleansing, which helps stimulate and encourage the body's natural detoxification systems.

The tradition of fasting is done for different reasons within different cultures, but all traditional fasts share three main purposes:

Removing Toxin Sources

During a fast, you stop your exposure to the source of toxins. Even in ancient times, before synthetic chemicals and harmful toxic products, people sought to eliminate their exposure to certain impurities for a specified length of time.

Adding Pure and Healthy Nutrition

During or after a fast, the practitioners would then introduce healthy and pure ingredients and nutrition back into their bodies. One particular ancient tradition, Ayurveda, recommended a specific protocol of plants and herbs to stimulate the body's natural repair and healing mechanisms, which work better after exposure to toxins has ceased.

Resting the Body and Mind

Due to the mind-body connection, fasting is both a physical and mental practice where you cleanse the body and rest and reflect for your spirit.