JUICING TO FIGHT CANCER
FOLLOW RIC COGGINS’ JOURNEY INTO HIS CANCER RECOVERY
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ancer has been referred to as a “disease of deficiency.” In other words, cancer occurs when the human immune system does not get enough nutrition and becomes ineffective at “taking out” the rogue cells we call cancer. Juicing is a way to quickly infuse high-power nutrition almost directly into the bloodstream. RIC COGGINS While science knows some of what juiced vegetables and fruits contain, the reality is that there is likely much more we do not yet fully understand. While science eventually unravels the inherent mysteries, we can put those mysteries immediately to work! One of the first regimens I turned to after being diagnosed with cancer was juicing. I knew I needed to supercharge my immune system and I learned that juicing was a way to do it. In fact, on my first visit to Mexico to visit the doctors at the Hoxsey Clinic, I packed an ice chest full of fruit jars containing freshly juiced vegetables and fruit! Initially, I flooded my system, drinking them eight times per day on my road trip. This is the same regimen that Chris Wark elaborates on in his Chris Beat Cancer health blog series. To fully comprehend the value of juicing, consider the normal process of what occurs when one eats solid food.
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greenliving | May 2019
The act of chewing food (mastication) is similar to juicing itself. It physically takes food solids and turns them into a more liquid form. Chewing breaks open cell walls, releasing vitamins, minerals, salts, antioxidants, enzymes and other phytonutrients. The more we chew food, the more of these wonders are released. Juicing is a great way to enhance this process. It separates out the fibrous parts of food and superconcentrates the nutrients into the liquid portion. In fact, it is believed that juicing releases up to 90 percent of a food’s nutritional content… fully three times the amount of what even prolonged chewing can accomplish. It also affords one the ability to consume, in a concentrated form, far more nutrition than one could otherwise practically accomplish. Even if we managed to chew 20 lbs. of vegetables and fruit in a day, it’s unlikely we could repeat it daily. Juicing allows you to concentrate that 20 lbs. of vegetables and fruit into eight, 8-ounce glasses of juice. Juicing also gets nutrients into your bloodstream quickly, especially when taken first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Because the nutrients are in a highly concentrated form, your body doesn’t need as much time to sort out the fiber and solids from the liquefied nutrition, so juice goes almost directly into your bloodstream, to be immediately carried to your immune system.
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