Juicing & electrolytes...and kidneys Re: Juice fasting: Who will join me? Calling all JFBs!

Anyone know if it's a good or bad idea to fast while electrolytes are really imbalanced? Oooh, pick me, pick me!  I do!!  I do!!   I found out I'm extremely low in potassium, sodium, and magnesium (part of the muscle cramping problem I've been having, no doubt). Incidentally also iron and Vit. D. I was originally planning to start a juice fast next week, but I've got a gazillion appointments scheduled, and I'm so messed up with the leg cramping that I can barely go out and get through a grocery store, I am kind of afraid to potentially make it worse. Yet I know the reason I'm so off is at least partly poor gut absorption, so in other words I probably need to fast. Chicken or the egg? 

EASY!  When we juice (especially with a quality juicer), the juicer separates virtually all the vital nutrients & enzymes ('electrolytes') from the pulp/fiber of the produce, leaving a nutrient/electrolyte rich solution that is more easily & readily assimilated than any other substance but water.  The complex and energy-usurping process of separating these nutrients from the fiber of what we eat (and creating enzymes for the same) is almost totally avoided when juice-fasting, hence giving us more nutrients than we can possibly get from 'typical eating' and digestion, with the nutrients are rapidly and more completely assimilated.

AND the energy that would have been used for the long & tedious process of digestion is freed up to utilize those nutrients. 

AND, when juicing we're able to easily ingest a fantastical volume of these nutrients (FAR more than we could EVER ingest by eating the produce itself, because we could never ingest that much produce). 

Hence, juice fasting when electrolytes are low, is a 100% winner!!!  No wonder it's JUICE-FASTING: The POWERFUL healing therapy!

Also Anja, check out the varying definitons of "electrolytes" below - particularly the one I've emphasized.  When was the last time you did a full & thorough kidney cleanse & healing?  It looks to me like I'd be doing a juice-fast and 10 day kidney cleanse asap if I were you!  Also, I just did a google search on "kidneys, electrolytes" and pasted the top results at the very end.

Healthiest of blessings,

Unyquity

Definitions of electrolytes on the Web:

• In chemistry, an electrolyte is any substance containing free ions that make the substance electrically conductive. ...
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolytes
• electrolyte - a solution that conducts electricity; "the proper amount and distribution of electrolytes in the body is essential for health"
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• electrolyte - a substance that, in solution or when molten, ionizes and conducts electricity; any of the various ions (such as sodium or chloride) that regulate the electric charge on cells and the flow of water across their membranes
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/electrolyte
• include sodium, potassium, chloride and bicarbonate and usually measured together in the blood.
  www.kidney.org.uk/kids/crf/page17.html
• chemicals such as salts and minerals needed for various functions in the body.
  www.methodisthealth.com/tmhs/basic.do
• Electrolytes are a large category of substances dissolved in plasma. The balance of water and salt is critical to good health. ...
  www.bloodindex.net/Glossary.php
• Chemicals in the body fluids that result from the breakdown of salts, including sodium, potassium, magnesium and chloride. The kidneys control the amount of electrolytes in the body. When the kidneys fail, electrolytes get out of balance, causing potentially serious health problems. ...
  www.radiochemistry.org/nuclearmedicine/dictionary/e.htm
• Salts in the blood, eg sodium, potassium and calcium.
  www.cuh.org.uk/addenbrookes/services/clinical/colorectal/glossary.html
• Ionized salts in blood, tissue fluids and cells, including sodium, potassium and chlorine.
  nbata.com/EducationResearch/GlossaryofTerms/AdditionalTermsAF/tabid/1624/Default.aspx
• Substances that break up into ions (electrically charged particles) when they are dissolved in body fluids or water. ...
  www.canceradvocacy.org/resources/glossary.html
• electrolyte - The medium which provides the ion transport mechanism between the positive and negative electrodes of a cell.
  www1.duracell.com/procell/design/glossary.asp
• electrolyte - Substance that dissociates into ions (charged particles) in solution, making it capable of conducting electricity.
  www.vitamindcouncil.org/reference/glossary-E.shtml
• electrolyte - An ion solution that is an electrical conductior.
  www.fisicx.com/quickreference/science/glossary.html
• Compounds (sodium, potassium, magnesium) which maintain the body's chemical balance. Ostomates must ensure they have adequate intake of these minerals through fluids and food.
  www.ostomycanada.ca/ostomy_information/terminology
• Horses' sweat contains sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium and magnesium which, as a group, are called electrolytes. ...
  www.octra.on.ca/articles/glossary.html

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