Acne and juicing
Two of the biggest obstacles you will need to overcome when
trying to cure your acne is removing toxins from your blood and
decreasing your bodies water retention.
Both of these can be achieved with juicing.
You get acne when your pores get blocked. Bacterial, oil, dead
skin cells and toxins get trapped inside the blocked pores which
cause an inflammatory response which gives you red, raised acne.
Excess toxins in the body and water retention both can cause
your pores to be clogged up. One of the safest, natural and most
effective ways to deal with these problems are with fresh fruit
and vegetable juices.
Juicing is extracting the vital vitamins, minerals, amino acids
and enzymes of fruit and vegetables and discarding the fibre. By
removing fibre, the juice is able to be quickly absorbed into
the body and be put to maximum use in the body.
When you eat whole fruit and vegetables, it can take up to
several hours of digestion before beneficial nutrients enter the
bloodstream. Alot of the enzymes and other nutrients are also
used up or destroyed by digestion. Juicing maximises nutrient
uptake and maximises the health effect.
The first juices we will take a look at are juices that are good
for cleaning the body, blood and lymph of toxins. Large amounts
of toxins in the body is known as toxemia. Toxemia is poisoning
of the body by over retention of body waste or from the the
by-products of metabolism or digestion.
The main vegetable juice many consider the "master juice" that
can be used as a base for any combination of vegetable juices is
carrot juice. It should be noted at this point that vegetable
and fruit juices should not be mixed and should be taken a
minimum of an hour apart.
Carrot juice is an excellent blood cleanser and helps to clear
and beautify the skin. Being an alkalizer, it helps to clear
acidic conditions in the body. One of the toxic conditions that
cause acne is known as acidosis. Acidosis is simply, an excess
of acid in the body tissue and in the blood. One of the symptoms
of acidosis is when the body tries to eliminate impurities
through the skin which we saw earlier, was a cause of acne.
Cucumber juice is known as a natural diuretic. It also assists
carrot juice in expulsing of toxins, salt, and excess water.
When your water tension is released, the pressure on the skin
cells is also released which was causing pressure on your pores
and making them close up.
Together, carrot and cucumber juice mixed and drunk several
times a day are an excellent weapon against acne.