Are juice cleanses worth the hype? What about lemon water and apple cider vinegar?

This is the second episode in the ‘Debunked’ series, where I take a trend from diet culture and debunk it with the facts. This episode focuses on diet culture’s “magic elixir:” detoxes. These supplements and drinks come in many forms, but all promise to do the same thing: rid our bodies of the supposed “toxic sludge” that accumulates from our very existence--which is all just fraudulent marketing.

This episode goes into what detoxes and cleanses are, what they are touted to do, what they actually do, why they are dangerous, and why we do not need them. I explain why our body has biological mechanisms in place that detox our body for us, processes which can not--and do not need to be--“kick-started” by a juice cleanse.

To get the full transcript of this episode or ask me any questions, you can contact me through my website at thedietdump.com or through my pages on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter @thedietdump.

Thank you for listening, and stayed tuned for my upcoming episode explaining the science behind the different determinants of health--other than simple diet and exercise.