The Master Cleanse

I’m frequently asked about taking supplements or psyllium husk while on the Master Cleanse. My answer up till now has been not to do it because I know from literally hundreds of people that following Stanley Burroughs’ instructions exactly produces great results. So don’t change it.

However, recently I’ve discovered a more fundamental reason. The Master Cleanse is not just eliminating waste from the colon (which is why psyllium husk is used in other cleanses). The health benefits from the Master Cleanse go way beyond this. The power of the Master Cleanse comes from the fact that the Master Cleanse is a juice fast and fasting has been used for thousands of years to regain health and increase mental clarity and spirituality.

To understand why fasting is so powerful at restoring health, we have to go back 140 years to the time of Louis Pasteur, the French scientist who discovered germs and invented the process, Pasteurization, to kill them. Pasteur’s germ theory said that disease is caused by specific external hostile, living things (germs, bacteria, viruses, etc.).

However, at the same time there was another French scientist, Antoine Bechamp, unknown to most everyone now, but at that time a very famous Professor of Pharmacy in Strasbourg, France. Bechamp proved that it was the living environment in the body that provided the opportunity for disease. Specifically, he showed that the germs that fermented wine could change from one form to another depending on the chemical content of the wine.

What does this have to do with fasting and the Master Cleanse? Well, the vaccination/germs/disease theory of medicine says that there are specific things that cause specific diseases. Find the exact virus that causes colon cancer and you can make a vaccine that will protect people from that disease. (Not to mention the fact that whoever finds that exact single source will become rich by owning the patent.)

The concept of health for the two thousand years before that said that the body (living environment) causes disease when it is overwhelmed by overfeeding and poisoned by toxins.

What we call disease is merely the body’s way of dealing with those toxins. Thus anything that allows the elimination organs (liver, intestines, kidneys, gall bladder, skin, and lungs) a chance to concentrate on eliminating old toxins (without adding any new ones) will speed its healing. Thus, adding anything to the Master Cleanse, especially solid food, will reduce the fasting aspect and lessen the results.