How to Do The Master Cleanse Diet

Video Transcript

"My name is Mark Brinson, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Physical Medicine and Human Performance Specialist. There's several different versions of the master cleanse. The one that I like in particular involves taking the juice of the lemon, about a cup of warm water, a teaspoon of cayenne and a little bit of brown sugar or honey to taste. What you're going to do with this is once it's prepared into that cup of essentially tea in the morning, you're going to drink it. You can drink it just in the morning, before breakfast on an empty stomach or you can drink it up to two or three times a day. And that's pretty much it. You're going to continue on that for at least ten days all the way up to thirty days. Now, what exactly is this trying to do inside your body? With the lemon, there's certain properties to it, they're also going to increase vitamin c and make your system work better overall specially the connective tissue system. But one of the main things that you're trying to get into your body with the lemon, with the honey or the brown sugar is the cayenne. Now cayenne is kind of an interesting one because to taste, it seems like cayenne is very hot and almost aggrevating to the system, but it does something completely opposite when it gets into the digestive tract. Cayenne, essentially from an Eastern perspective, cools inside. So believe it or not, it's good for things like ulcer, it's good for any type of gastro-intestinal problems where there's aggrevation or irritation or even in the lining of the stomach in the large intestines. Soothing, healing and also nourishing to the system as well, it can help to even regenerate some of the tissue that's been damaged by this ulcerations. The master cleanse diet is one that's relatively easy to follow and once you get passed your first or second dose, it becomes even easier as time goes on. My name is Mark Brinson, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Physical Medicine and Human Performance Specialist wishing you a happy, healthy and balanced day."