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The first higher-level cleanse that is worth looking at would be a fruit-only cleanse. This is where you eat only fruit for as long as possible, for example four or five days in a row, or simply as long as you can go. The higher-level version of this would be that you would eat fruit only, except it would exclude fatty fruits, such as avocado, olives, and coconut.
In either case, whether you eat just fruits with or without the fatty fruits, all foods consumed should be raw and uncooked, ideally without any salt added. Vegetables would be encouraged to be avoided, due to their slightly lower electrical frequency, increased work needed from a digestive point of view, and so you can stimulate as much alkalinity from eating as many stringent, detoxifying fruits as possible.
This is a great thing to try for yourself. I remember when I was first getting into raw foods and start incorporating a lot of fruit into my diet and seeing amazing results. What was interesting was that, at the same time I was really benefiting from and eating a lot of fruits, I was still hooked on cooked foods like starches, high amounts of fats, salts, vinegar and fermented foods, and savory crunchy things. It took me a while, in fact almost three years, to really transition to eating almost a completely raw intake of foods in an attempt to accelerate my healing and take things up a notch.
Initially, I was just eating fruit for one meal a day and maybe some snacks, and then after a very long time when I got more serious I bumped it up to two raw meals a day, but I was still eating cooked foods for at least one meal a day. I don’t think that I went a full day of eating just fruit for probably two years after I first got into fruits. Even after I transitioned to eating almost all raw, I was still consuming a very high amount of fats. I didn’t do my first fruit-only cleanse cutting out the fats until more than three years after I first got into fruits, raw foods, herbal cleansing, and natural methods of trying to solve my health problems.
That shows you how daunting that this can be. So it may sound easy at first — no problem, just eat fruit. But actually, depending on how accustomed your body is to eating junk foods and/or high amounts of fat and protein, this can be very intimidating. Once you start eating just fruit, you may feel a bit overwhelmed and in a weird state mentally.
This is a good time to bring up the fact that this is 90% a mental challenge, and 10% a physical one. Your body in all likelihood will actually be relieved and thank you for what you are doing. It will be experiencing numerous benefits, from being extremely hydrated, overloaded with electrolytes, super-charged with high electrical energy, cleansed from the astringent and alkalizing nature of fruits, nourished from the amazing nutrition, vitamins and minerals, and assisted by the probiotic bacteria that are found in raw fruit.
Your mind, on the other hand, will be telling you to throw in the towel and give it up. Especially after years and decades, it is challenging to break any habit. Countless studies have been done on the brain documenting how the ‘pleasure centers’ located near the frontal lobes of the brain are stimulated and light up when we eat our favorite foods — the same way they light up when a drug addict prepares to take his next dose. When you abstain from something you’ve been habitually doing over and over, these well-grooved pathways of the brain are neglected and your mind will urge and pressure you to do what pleases it.
It’s up to you to overcome that, and press onwards with strength and conviction. However, do not feel bad if you can’t swing it at first. Just keep trying. First, try to go one meal with only fruit, then two meals, and then a full day. If you can pull that off, you would be way ahead of most everybody. As crazy as it sounds, going one day of eating just fruit is an extreme accomplishment for somebody unaccustomed to eating this way — but you can do it.
As covered in the segment entitled ‘The Role of Fats’, you can use fatty fruits as a buffer, as a way to help you last longer if you are trying to eat only fruits. Things like avocado, coconut, and olives could assist you in this manner. It is a relatively short list as there are not that many fruits which are high in fat. This can help you to cut the cravings you may experience, as the fat can be very filling.
This can also be accomplished by eating nuts, seeds and nut butters — however this would not truly achieve a fruit-only cleanse. Nuts and seeds would end your fruit-only cleanse, as they are not truly a cleansing, hydrating food and are more acid-forming than fruits.
If you can make it past one day, and let’s say if you can go two days, three, four or five days eating just fruit, my hat is off to you. A special bonus credit to you if you can do so while also avoiding the fatty fruits — doing this will be even more cleansing to your system, as digesting the fats is much more involved and taxing to your digestive system including the liver than just processing simple sugars from high-carb fruits.
After a few years of transitioning to more raw foods, I found that I was able to go one, two and even three or four weeks at a time of eating just fruits, so long as I was still eating things like avocado and coconut. I had made the jump to all-raw, and all-fruit, and it was very exciting. I felt incredible levels of energy unlike anything I had experienced before. I had already mostly healed up my body and health problems that had plagued me previous to that point. I was still trying to achieve complete 100% recovery which I felt was imminent, but was also interested in heightened energy, focus, performance, and getting into great shape physically. The mental and spiritual development aspect of eating this way also intrigued me. I would highly recommend going all-in on fruits, for a bit, if you’re interested to see how it will benefit you and if you can handle it.
Even so, during this time I was still very reliant on fats and would even experience a sort of withdrawal if ever I went too long without fats. During this time, I did a five-day fruit-only cleanse, where I didn’t eat any fats. It was a very challenging but I was able to get through it. I had this intuition that if I was able to muster up the gumption to go through with it that I would feel really good. I believe we all have a sort of instinct and sort of divine knowledge of really what is the best thing for us.
I did have a sort of top-of-the-mountain experience while doing this fruit-only cleanse. Physically, I could feel my body cleansing itself and mocking itself back up with a very strong sensation. It was also a profound experience from a mental, spiritual, and personal growth standpoint. I really grew from that and it strengthened my fortitude, self-confidence and inner power.
It took me a long time to get there, but I still benefited from ‘fruit-only cleansing’ in the years before I actually did this cleanse officially, even if I was just benefiting for one or two meals, or in combination with high-fat-content fruits. Use whatever path gets you to the top of the mountain. A rocky path, a muddy path, one full of brush, or a jagged ravine. Not everybody can shimmy up the mountain in a straight line in 60 seconds flat. Just know the power that is contained by fruit-only cleansing, and start to move yourself in that direction. Don’t be disappointed if you don’t make it as long as you would want to — just keep going.
If you’re short on funds, but desperate to get yourself healthy and well, this is a great time to point out the immense power in nature, which has provided you with the tools to transform the chemistry of your body is such a simple way. Get your hands on some fruit and press the pedal to the metal. Now that you have this information, the power is in your hands. You’ll know when you’re ready.