The lemon cleanse detox is designed to flush the body of toxins and restore it to a more natural healthier state. The Master Cleanse website recommends doing the lemon cleanse portion of the detox for a total of 10 to 14 days. You will be consuming 10 to 12 glasses of lemon cleanse each day of the detox, and should carry pure water to drink throughout the day.
Lemon Juice
One glass of the lemon cleanse will require 2 tbsp. of fresh lemon juice. The lemon juice should be squeezed fresh with each glass and not juiced ahead of time and left in the refrigerator, in order to keep the enzymes from going dormant. The lemons are supposed to be a natural liver detox agent, but there is no science to back this claim up according to the University of Southern California in "Debunking Detox Diets".
Rich Maple Syrup
In one lemon cleanse glass of detox solution, you need 2 tbsp. of rich maple syrup. This cannot be pancake syrup or table syrup; the recipe specifically calls for 100 percent pure maple syrup. If a substitute has to be made, the creator of Master Cleanse does approve a few other syrups including sorghum syrup or, if diabetic, blackstrap molasses, but stresses that 100 percent pure maple syrup works best.
Cayenne Pepper Powder
In a single glass of lemon cleanse you need to put one-tenth tsp. cayenne pepper powder. While the Master Cleanse creator Stanley Burroughs says on the website that you can alter this amount to individual taste, one-tenth tsp. is the amount listed in the actual detox ingredients list.
Water
The rest of the glass of lemon cleanse will include 8 oz. of water. In keeping with the 10 to 12 glasses of lemon cleanse needed per day, total water intake (not counting the supplemental water consumed throughout the day) will be around 80 to 96 ounces. This much water can flush toxins and bacteria from the body without any additional ingredients.
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