Hi, I;m a newbie.  I eat mostly raw, and trying to go all the way.  I have always loved fresh veggies and not much of a meat eater.  

I love beets, and the first time I had ever had fresh instead of canned, was when my neighbor gave me some from her garden.  I still cooked them but the reaction I had to even cooked fresh was that my urine turned the same beet red coloring .  That was the only time that happened.   But I liked them so much better.  I have bought fresh beets just recently and juiced them and enjoyed the juice combined with tomato and carrot juice.      I have not tried eating plain raw beets.  Do you have any recipes?  

 

Quickstep: I hate beets, always have.

Piers:

1) Is the "alarming color" the same discoloration referred to earlier, do you think?

2) Will you be initiating a Book Report forum any time soon? Book Reports & Book Reviews, of course, are two different things, or at least used to be.

Lol!

The alarming colour I'm familiar with is more beet coloured than coffee, but who knows?

Hope your cleanse goes well (and in the colour / shade of your choice!)

Piers

To being everyone up to date:

Since I am the person promoting the Juiceman beet/applejuice liver cleanse, I volunteered recently to try to pay closer attention while doing my second liver flush after more then a decade. Do not confuse this with the more popular gall stone flush you may have read about elsewhere. The idea of a beet/apple flush is to cleanse the liver of industrial pollutants accumulated over a lifetime, thus enabling the liver to better perform the various functions it was originally designed for.


Trust me, I was as careful as I knew how to be. I used disposable sanitary gloves, disposable see-through plastic containers of the sort delicatessens now use,* a disposable funnel, glass pop bottles for storage, and rubber corks. I ended up using only three pop bottles, after planing on six:

1) Prior to juicing.
3) A few days after the last two-week beet/apple 50/50 mix.
2) The first urination after the first two 50/50 quarts (1 day). In the delicatessen container & pop bottle, stored urine was a bright, brilliant, amazingly clear burnt orange color. Only when pouring it into the toilet did I realize it appeared pink, as other observant contributors have previously noted.


I carefully emptied the three bottles a few days ago, then filled them with water for a long soak before burying them deep in the garbage. As careful as I tried to be, I wish I'd been even more careful, since a surprise ensued. Bottles 2 & 3 remained clear throughout the entire experiment, thus indicating the liver had been well cleaned of pesticides & other poisons it accumulates over time.

Bottle 1 was not clear, nor was it expected to be. Looking through bottles 2 & 3 was like looking through a pane of clear glass. My hand on the other side of bottle # 1 was instead a blurr, also expected. The urine was more cloudy, more opaque. In other words, it was what we are all used to seeing if never having seen what really clear, bright, brilliant, healthy urine looks like. It was what we think of as being normal.


When I poured water out of the three bottles this morning, 2 & 3 were as expected. # 1 was not. The bottom of the bottle was coated with what looked for all the world like salt deposits & the inside of the bottle was speckled with the same. It is undergoing a second soaking at this time.

A two week 2 quart a day cleanse is not necessary. During my first flush years ago, my urine turned the color of strong coffee, representing 50 or so years of accumulated industrial waste. It didn't happen this time, presumably since I already had a relatively clean liver, so I extended to two weeks to make certain I released all pollutants that could be released from the liver. Clarity of the third bottle is evidence of a job well done. Clean urine, the way nature intended in my opinion, is spectacularly beautiful; gorgeous.


* Soup cans didn't work out.








 

Piers: :bounce:

I forgot all about this post. Urine stream turned the color of dark coffee the first time, not the second time.

The toilet bowl turned purple, as you said, the second time via colon evacuation.

The Juiceman Tapes, believe me, are not this thorough. Every time I post, I learn something new via feedback.

Indi: :bounce:

This is an earlier version then the one at Raw Plus.