Has anyone ever done the Master Cleanse before? — Page 2

It's no more illogical than saying "The people against MC are drug-pushers who are making money by secretly poisoning you."

Just because something is "all natural" doesn't mean it's healthy and just because something is a chemical doesn't mean it's going to kill you if you take it.

It's made out to be a panacea, when in fact it's not. Ulcers cured! Wrinkles vanish! Skin rejuvenates! But it's controlled starvation, pure and simple. The human body was not designed to live off of syrup, pepper, and lemon juice for an extended period of time.

Want to look good and live healthily? Eat right and exercise. No one dares argue that, because it's irrefutable. But people want a shortcut- be it fad diets or these silly cleanses.

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That's addictive too.

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Misquoting doesn't become you, Kad.

Calvin, if you want to know more about it, google it like I did when I was interested and learn.

To the OP who sought anecdotal information, I've provided it to you and some knowledge, which is a thankless task here, so I will remove the info and let you all google the info then you can all learn and read for yourselves instead.

Updated On: 7/28/11 at 04:17 PM

Hear, hear.

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There is no solid data. And to ask for a rigorous scientific investigation of the outlandish claims of the health benefits of cayenne pepper and specific (and only specific!) grades of maple syrup, is to be dismissed as a tool of big pharma.

The only data there is says anorexia is not healthy. And it is not.

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^ You've been warned.

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Oh Danny, you did it wrong. While starving yourself because you couldn't swallow, you were supposed to make plans to change your eating habits from thereon out. The horse hooves and ligaments that go into the Jell-O have specific qualities that clean out your kidneys, scrub the white of your eyes as if with OxyClean, and help you create and stick to a new food plan.

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Nomdeplume, before packing up all their marbles and going home, posted links to the details of several lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for life-threatening side-effects. And now all that's left is "do your own research". Well, I did.

While it IS true there is a lot to complain about in terms of pharmaceutical companies, the whole "big pharma is trying to keep master cleanse down" thing is ridiculous.

But guess what? There were numerous CONVICTIONS against Stanley Burroughs, the guy who invented the damn thing in the 1940s. Convicted of second-degree felony murder for his treatments leading to a man's death (later reversed, but still held as a possible involuntary manslaughter), felony practicing medicine without a license, unlawful sale of cancer treatments...

Great pedigree for someone whose master cleanse "treatment" is widely used and praised by ill-informed people lacking basic understanding of human biology.

The elimination of these nonspecified "toxins", the promise of curing ulcers and restoring skin beauty, the removal of bacteria from the gut... all ridiculous (except perhaps the latter, in which case that is something you would actually want to AVOID. No, most diseases do not originate from the GI tract, as nomdeplume said one of the now-eliminated posts. The GI tract is in reality one of the most ineffective means of a pathogen to infect a person. The stomach acid is very effective in its power to destroy. You would have to ingest a great number of pathogens to worry- typically through contaminated food. And then, those pathogens have to compete with our own intestinal flora- not an easy feat, considering there's hundreds of millions. Unless the intestinal flora were compromised, it's extremely difficult for an infection to originate in the GI tract. This is why many people suffer diarrhea after taking antibiotics- it is often a bloom of harmful bacteria taking advantage of the now decreased flora population).


The master cleanse diet denies the human body of the majority of basic vitamins, minerals, proteins, fiber, and so forth.

The weight-loss effects will only ever be temporary, as your body will go into starvation recovery mode once you begin eating again.

The lack of adequate nutrition is detrimental to virtually all bodily systems, from the immune to the nervous.


Doing it once certainly won't KILL you. But I doubt it'll make you stronger.
Doing it repeatedly is just completely unwise unless you have an excellent health regimen otherwise.

Some spicy lemonade isn't a cure-all and isn't what our bodies were made to ingest. The human body doesn't need to be flushed like a toilet.

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Is that Obamas fault?

Here's Kad's link:

http://law.justia.com/cases/california/cal3d/35/824.html

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I love the part where it calls him a self-styled "healer." Because I have known many people in my life like nom de plume, who are self-styled "suckers" for guys like that.

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But Kad, I'm confused. Superstar Beyonce swears by the cleanse. Are you calling Beyonce a liar?

I'm sure Beyonce is under a great deal of pressure to be at a certain weight for certain events (which is a whole other issue right there). I'm also sure she's got a ton of people on her payroll that make sure she's able/forced to bounce back and recover from it- nutritionists and trainers and doctors and whatever.

She's got enough money and clout to assure that she's not doing too much damage to herself. Regular people who read about the master cleanse on the internet and decide "I can totally do it" don't.

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