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The healing power of celery juice
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4. Detoxifies – Celery juice detoxes and pulls By Rosie Main out all of the junk in your system and is a natural Celery juice is hot right now! It’s trending, but diuretic due to the high amounts of potassium and juicing has been around for hundreds of years. This sodium. The potassium/sodium balance inside your juice is a powerhouse for 5 big conditions you may body is what may cause swelling and fluid retention be dealing with, and it’s cheap! within the body and cause joint stiffness. We are not 1. Repairs the gut – Celery juice is capable getting enough potassium in food, so getting a simple of detoxing and flushing the digestive system and vegetable (like celery) and juicing it will level it out liver. It’s also a form of laxative so it’ll help get your and balance it for you. Additionally, we all need some system going. How does it repair the gut? Hydroalkaline fluids going into our body to remove the chloric acid gets destroyed with the amount of sugar acidity that builds up (stiffness in the joints). Keeping we consume and protein we need to process. All that in mind, you shouldn’t ONLY drink alkaline fluids junk ends up sitting in your gut, causing issues like because you’ll mess up your stomach; celery juice is acid reflux, heartburn, constipation and diarrhea. very alkaline and can help with that acidity. Celery juice levels out the hydrochloric acid inside 5. Fights inflammation – Inflammation is the your stomach. cause of 98 percent of all diseases, as stated by an 2. Supports bones and joints – Celery juice is Rosie Main article in Time Magazine. It’s the cause of symptoms related to heart diseases, cancers, Alzheimer’s and full of mineral salts. These salts are really good for more. Celery juice has two major bioflavonoids that are very powerful the bones and the joints because they break down the salts and the at reducing inflammation: luteolin and polyacetylene. They shut down minerals that build up and make you stiff and tight (especially in the cytokines in your body that produce inflammation. These two bioflamorning). It’s very high in calcium, which is definitely going to help vonoids have been shown to reduce one of the cytokine productions, those bones, and also full of silicon, which is a necessity to sustain and the enzymes that make it, by up to 90 percent. That will put a fire strong bones. out! So celery juice is a powerful anti-inflammatory. 3. Cleans your blood – Celery juice contains high amounts of So there you have it…5 organ systems that are affected, just by juicmagnesium and iron and things your blood needs to function on a ing a $2 stalk of celery. n normal basis. It also clears the blood so it doesn’t clot up and get sticky. Celery juice also supports the nervous system. The amount of Rosie Main, D.C., owns Main Health Solutions at 2300 W. Everest Lane, stress you’re under and how much you sit (damage to the spine) in Suite 175, in Meridian. She is also the host of Maximized Living Radio on turn damages the nervous system. These minerals help the nervous 94.1 The Voice and KIDO 580 AM. For more information, system conduct at a higher level. MaximizedLivingDrMain.com.
26 July / August 2020 | Christian Living
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