Healing Celery Juice
"The Body is a Miraculous Machine that has been created to take Care of and Heal itself if we don't interfere" ~ Dolores Canon
We live in a fast pace era, we read things we hear things but we don't take time to correctly digest them. I am talking from a personal experience. Read the quote above again then close your eyes and let it sink in you. The Body can heal itself if we don't interfere ... you may be wondering how do we interfere ? For sure a healthy diet and exercise may come in the minds of most of us but what about mental and emotional health, the air we breathe the water we drink ?
Although this is a post about my personal experience and divine synchronicites that guided me to add Celery Juice in my diet I would like to start by introducing the very first people that inspired and motivated me to start juicing. The healing benefits of fresh pressed juices that helped Jay Kordich and Kris Carr reverse disease and Dr Gerson that has been helping terminally ill patients with fresh juices since the 1920s with 2 clinics, one in Mexico and one in Hungary.
First Attempts of Juicing
When I started juicing in 2012 I didn't know much about juicing, blending and investing in a good juicer. My first juicer costed 35€ it made a lot of noise, not much juice for a basket of greens and my green juices tasted terrible. But this didn't stopped me. I kept trying to learn more. It was during the time I owned my own yoga studio and was working from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. I didn't have quality time for myself I was eating fast 2 heavy meals a day so they can keep me going for hours.
It was the time that I start developing digestive disorders and migraines. It was at that point that I decided to take better care of my health. I had the knowledge but I didn't have the time. I started putting everything into practice again I tried a lot of holistic remedies and it was then that I developed the Detox and Slim Plan, a mind body cleanse that helped me gain mental, emotional and physical strength and of course healed migraines.
in the picture above, it's Summer 2015 I am holding a basket of greens most of it from our garden. My sister is taking the picture and my mom is screaming "Can't believe she killed my garden again I had them for "spanakopita" (spinach pie) people are going to think you are crazy that you are drinking raw greens". Couple weeks later she would prepare the basket of greens for me on her own, this is where I say "it's all Greek to me".
I wanted to learn more about the healing benefits of juicing and blending nutritious raw foods. I grew up with fresh fruits and vegetables always in our table from my grandfather's garden. I would just walk to our garden not the grocery store. Leaving home at the age of 18 and moving to big cities where there were more work opportunities led me away from a healthy balanced lifestyle and away from nature.
The Father of Juicing
"I know we are not immortal, I know we all are going to age, I know things are going to happen and we finally going to leave this earth but we are here to live it with vitality and energy and stamina and endurance and happiness and vigor" ~ Jay Kordich Father of Juicing
I wouldn't write my first blog about juicing with out mentioning the father of juicing. What you are going to read below, doesn't make headlines on the news, most doctors won't prescribe it and big pharmaceutical companies will silence the voices of those who try to heal with natural medicine and not expensive drugs made in a laboratory.
I was doing a lot of research until I could find something valuable and I found Jay Kordich. His personal healing story, his amazing personality, authenticity and all the free education he has available online it is what kept me going with juicing. For years I was watching his YouTube videos on a daily basis and I learned so much. It was through him that I learned that all these years the orange juice our moms make to prevent colds during the winter is basically sugar water. He was the first one to mention, that the white pulpy part of the orange "is what it's going to save your life one day". It has bioflavonoids that strengthen all blood vessels and the capillaries in the human body.
Jay Kordich was born in 1923 in California, from a young age he was an active athlete. In his early 20s he was diagnosed with an incurable illness and was told he may not have long to live. After reviewing all the treatments available, he left California and traveled to New York City to see Dr. Max Gerson who was treating terminally ill patients with fresh raw juices and healthy cleansing diets. Jay became his patient and immediately began a regimen of large doses of raw carrot/apple juice. Dr Gerson prescribed Jay Kordich 13 glasses of Carrot Apple Juice a day for several months. It wasn't long before Jay's health was restored and the direction of his life was changed forever.
Jay soon decided he wanted to spread the word of fresh juices and eating a healthy diet. In 1949 started educating and for the next 40 years Jay took his message to anyone who would listen, from county fairs to large department stores to seaside juicing shops. President John F. Kennedy was one of his biggest fans. It was his passion to teach everyone he could reach how to be healthy through the power of fresh juices. He lived up to 93 years, 60 years longer than Western Medicine Doctors had predicted.
Jay Kordich Words of Wisdom
Dr Gerson Therapy
Charlotte Gerson, was the daughter of Dr. Max Gerson, she founded the Gerson Institute in 1978, to spread awareness of the Gerson Therapy™ and make it available to people across the world. The Gerson Therapy™ is a safe, natural treatment developed by Dr Max Gerson in the 1920s. The Gerson Therapy™ activates the body’s extraordinary ability to heal itself through an organic, plant-based diet, raw juices, coffee enemas and natural supplements.
"In everybody there is a healing mechanism"
Below I share some of Charlotte Gerson's words about how a clean diet and juicing can be the medicine we need especially in our days where not only food but air and water are polluted and we make our bodies even more toxic by taking liver toxic drugs.
"Yes doctors are amazing to help us and save us from something that we broke, an emergency but we shouldn't go to the doctor's office for things such as diabetes, osteoporosis, high blood pressure etc".
Every drug is liver toxic, every drug causes a new problem and a new disease. Drug treatment is not for healing. Water is polluted it has chemicals, chlorine, fluoride. Skin is the biggest organ fluoridated water is absorbed by the skin when we brush our teeth (most toothpastes have fluoride=causing cancer) when we take a shower.
When you cleanse, detoxify the liver one of the first things that happen is that pain goes away. The blood stream is filtered through the liver. Once every 3 minutes the entire blood stream goes through the liver and one of the main functions of the liver is to filter out all the toxins. The pain disappears whether it's a headache or toe pain.
Her father Dr. Gerson suffered from migraines back in the 1920s when he was in his early 20s and doctors told him he will have to live with it until he's 50 years old. He did his research and found out that a woman in Italy healed herself from migraines with raw juices all that 100 years ago with no Internet and google.
Cris Karr Reversing Cancer with Green Juice
"There are still a lot of things that I am afraid about, cancer isn't really one of them. Even the thought of dying early and not being able to fulfill my dreams doesn't scare me, what scares me is NOT TRYING" ~ Kris Carr
Kris Carr is a New York Times best selling author, motivational speaker, wellness activist and cancer survivor. I got to know about Kris through one of Marie Forleo's YouTube videos in Marie TV. In her early thirties, Kris was diagnosed with a rare and incurable (yet thankfully slow - growing) stage IV cancer. That was a wake up call that changed her life forever and made it her mission to help others.
Her story and her unique voice has inspired many to adopt a healthier lifestyle. She changed her diet and left the big city to be closer to nature. Either at home or traveling the globe educating people about a healthier lifestyle she never misses her fresh green juice on a daily basis. Her tumors started to shrink and she's now stronger and more vibrant than ever before.
Marie and Kris
Tumors started to shrink
Oprah Super Soul Sunday
Anthony William is the originator of the Global Celery Juice Movement. He is New York Times best-selling author and was born with the unique ability to converse with Spirit of Compassion who provides him with extraordinarily accurate health information that’s often far ahead of its time.
Since age four, when he shocked his family by announcing that his symptom-free grandmother had lung cancer (which medical testing soon confirmed), Anthony has been using his gift to “read” people’s conditions and tell them how to recover their health. Through his website and his books you will find a lot of information about this healing herb, other healing foods and lots of healthy recipes. What I want to share with you here is something that we don't think off very often. And this is how our emotions and feelings affect our Internal Organs. Our "vital organs" have emotions and they absorb everything we go through. A balanced diet and exercise can for sure be very helpful but this isn't enough. The creation of toxins in our vital organs such heart, liver, kidneys are caused by various unpleasant situations we all go through in our lifetime. Juicing healing herbs and vegetables such as celery, cucumber, carrot etc and drinking these juices everyday can help heal us in deeper levels.
Below I share some information from Medical Mediums podcast "Emotional Liver" and then I will share with you my personal experience.
To this day my paternal grandfather is one of the wisest man I ever met. When somebody would stress him he used to say "Μου έπρηξες το συκώτι" the translation here may not be exact but we could translate it as "you bloated my liver, or you caused toxicity in my liver". Generations before us knew that stressful situations could affect our body's internal organs.
Body doesn't attack itself, our bodies have amazing healing mechanisms. Depression, anxiety, fear that people live with everyday, ups and downs of life our, livers have feelings.
Anthony William in his "Emotional Liver" podcast mentions of talking with doctors, surgeons and patients who after they had liver transplant they act differently.
"I have heard it and seen that people change with somebody else's liver especially old liver, they act and think different as they had a brain transplant they crave different foods. Different emotions, different feelings.
The liver's unhappiness is the foundation of our emotional stability
The liver's anxiety, depression fear can cause liver to start releasing neurotoxins. Adrenaline is released with good things but it's also released when we go through hard times. Adrenaline surges from outside sources, from being crushed emotionally the liver is the sponge. Liver starts to loose it's strength as it's fighting for its life on a daily basis.
Some of Celery Juice's Benefits
• it's saving you from a diet that isn't good for you
• has the power to reverse illness and disease
• adrenal fatigue because of the power of mineral salts
• cleanses the liver
• heals the spleen
• fuel for the neurotransmitters inside our brain
First thing celery Juice does when you drink it starts to restore and ignite your stomach glands, your gastric glands that produce hydrochloric acid (critical for digestion). Hydrochloric acid then goes down the small intestine helping to kill bacteria there and then it starts to repair the ilium. The undiscovered mineral salts found in celery repair the ilium which is before the colon. Constipation can be related to an inflamed ilium. Ilium produces B12, then from the ilium it gets absorbed by the colon and then it goes up to portal veins into the liver. Celery Juice deeply cleanses the liver. Inside our brains we have neurotransmitters, the natural high electrolytes (not made in a laboratory) found in celery are fuel for the neurotransmitters inside your brain.
Every day a little bit at a time, it kills pathogens, helps to digest food and break down protein.
Celery Juice saves you from an unbalanced diet and stressful life so you don't die 10 years earlier when you are older.
My Personal Story with Celery Juice
I had now invested in a good juicer. But remember how we all go through ups and downs in life. I had a good juicer but couldn't afford what it takes to make a green juice or any other juice. It was sad and funny at the same time, I was now looking at the juicer as a decorating part of the kitchen's countertop.
It was a time that I was experiencing a lot of emotional pain, fear and insecurity. An old small eczema spot that had disappeared for couple years came back. It started getting bigger, more painful and itchy. At the same time I start experiencing a severe pain in my right lower abdomen just above the right hip bone. I could feel it was something going on with the ascending colon and I knew it was becoming more intense when I was stressed. When I did some research I saw that this is where ilium and cecum are located in the digestive system.
Now here is where synchronicities started. A blogger that I follow on Instagram since 2012 and has introduced me to a lot of wellness trends she started posting about juicing celery and all the benefits. I start thinking about it and said that's better I just have to buy one thing "celery" and not 5 things like I do for a green juice. Of course I didn't do it right away I was still thinking about it. Couple weeks after that I was browsing on Instagram when Maria Menounos had as a guest in her show the Medical Medium. I listened to the whole thing I learnt so much. I took it as a sign and I said I have to start right away. Of course I didn't do it. The pain in lower abdomen was getting worse so did the eczema at the right side of my chest.
Less than a week after that I woke up around 3 o'clock in the morning from a strong smell of cooked celery. Where I was living at that time there was no way somebody will wake up at 3 and cook celery. The smell was very strong and it smelled like a recipe my mom makes which I hate and never eat. But it did its job it woke me up. I said now this is confirmed in 3 weeks 3 celery incidents. I started the next morning juicing celery, it was November 15th, 2018.
With the very first time and the first glass of celery juice I experienced two things simultaneously. Bathroom emergency and within seconds after that brain fog went away. Brain fog was a new phrase in my vocabulary I had never heard of it before until Medical Medium. What I felt that moment was like I had a curtain in front of my eyes for years and it was lifted in 5 minutes. My brain felt open and fresh and my vision was clear. Since then I didn't stop having celery juice.
Sometimes I go straight for a month 1 glass every morning on empty stomach. Sometimes I just do it for a week or two. Sometimes when I don't have time in the morning I just do it on the weekends.
Within 2 weeks of consuming celery juice all the symptoms I had: the pain in lower abdomen and the eczema, disappeared and never came back.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Why can't I just eat plain celery why I have to juice it ?
Our teeth and stomach can not break and extract all the healing ingredients found in the Celery. Plus Medical Medium recommends having 8-16 oz a day that's about 1 bunch of celery. Can you imagine chewing all this in a day ..
What if I don't like the taste of Celery?
I personally never liked Celery raw or cooked. But after I read the healing stories and experienced it myself I can't wait to wake up and make it. MM recommends to start with cucumber juice and gradually add the Celery and when ready replace cucumber with Celery.
How to make and consume fresh Celery Juice
Blend it Juice it Buy it
When you buy Celery Juice for a Juice store make sure it's fresh and they make it right in front of you. Don't buy bottled Celery juice that looks fresh. You have to be aware of the H.P.P. ( High Pressured Pasteurization) it could be sitting there for 2 weeks because it's H.P.P.