The Master Cleanse is absolute garbage and not good for your health at all. Good idea to see your doctor before attempting this latest trend. If you ate a healthy balanced diet in the first place you wouldn't' need this cleanse.

You took the words right out of my mouth, thank you Quince.

For those interested -

I'm actually on the MC right now - 5 days in. I have done it once before. My husband has done it several times and I have many friends who have cleansed and enjoyed (YES ENJOYED!) and repeated the experience.

Our doctor (just a regular family physician, not a new age guru) applauded my husband's success with the MC. He lost weight and kept it off with all the hard work he put in afterwards - both working out and dietary choices. He got rid of gastro-intestinal problems he had been having, and kept them away.

Good results on the MC does not mean only weight loss, but a jump start into eating better, I have also attained better concentration and clarity while doing the cleanse and after. I originally did this because I wanted to WANT more veggies and healthier foods. The Master Cleanse helped me become more in tune with what my body really needs. You also have to realize the real work begins when the cleanse is over. You have to listen to your body.

I decided to do the MC again, a year after my first because i felt that I started developing bad habits during the winter. I was lackadaisical when it came to being active and working out, I was always thinking about food, etc, even though I WAS eating a healthy balanced diet with lots of veggies.

A side note - this is not a latest trend. The MC has been around for decades.

On this site, I want to see imaginative homes, not read about spinning machines and cleansing.

Hey Talula,

Sara Kate and I've done it too. I got totally energized and loved it and Sara Kate felt sick a lot. But by the end we both really appreciated how cleaned out it made us feel. We'd like to do it again, but work has been b u s y and I can't imagine trying to do both at once...

Touting cleanses on a site that has zero to do with medicine is highly irrresponsible. I expect more from AT.

All of the positive results I've seen attributed to the Master Cleanse could either be ascribed to the placebo affect or, as with Talula's husband, other life changes that coincided with the "cleanse" period. Unless you're having problems with your liver and kidneys or have actually been poisoned, your body is getting rid of the "toxins" just fine and doesn't need any lemon/maple/cayenne pepper-fueled "help".

Nevermind how creepy the whole "clean, accomplished, glowing, focused, lean" thing sounds. None of those equate true "health" and the idea that such a drastic measure as the Master Cleanse is being promoted indiscriminately on this site in a post on fitness and--supposedly in the greater context of "spring cleaning"--rebooting and improving one's life is disturbing. Apartment Therapy, stick to your area of expertise and leave the unsolicited "health advice" out of it.

To each his own... this article made perfect sense to me since I am in the depths of the cleanse and that's why I commented.

I read and enjoy many articles on Apartment Therapy on a daily basis. On the flip side- there are many articles I'm not interested in, but no worries, I just skip past them.

Why is quackery such as touting master cleanse even on this site??????? Idiocy.

BornSlippy, you took the words right out of my mouth.

I eat well to begin with, so I don't need a cleanse to 'jump start' my healthy eating habits. I don't need to eat sugar (lemon juice is sugar, maple syrup is...sugar) for 10 days to feel spiritual or healthy or closer to my body. In fact, my body, just as everyone else's body, needs protein, carbs AND fat to stay alive, so depriving of 2 macronutrients is a bad idea, could kill you, and is something NO doctor who knows anything about nutrition would commend. In fact, nutrition is the one thing they glaze over in med school, so the congrats from your GP doesn't really hold much weight.

If your body couldn't detoxify on it's own, you'd be dead.

This is totally irrelavant to AT.

Thermal, got it in one. This is like a commercial.

hate to be negative, but i've gotta agree with most of the comments above...this post is weird. it's just a bunch of links to another website - a workout website at that - with no original commentary. what the heck does this post have to do with AT?? (esp the master cleanse part, which just cannot be healthy...eating solid food and getting a variety of nutrients is good!)

When my wife sent me this post I thought it was from April 1.

I think if you don't like a post, you should just skip it. Not everything is for everybody. However, i feel like exceptions should be made for posts that are ill-informed and/or potentially dangerous (i'm reminded about the recent Unplggd post with the plastic charger holder that rested on the tongs while they were plugged in).

I say this because i feel like pointing out that the "clean, focused, energizing, etc." feeling is most likely, to me, side effects of starvation.

well the reason for the inclusion of the workout site on at is most likely because it's created by one of the blogger's brothers or something like that.

There's no "toxins" in your colon or anywhere else, unless you snack on plutonium. AT: Good design, lousy science.

Wow, such an attitude from most of the posters above! If you see a post you don't feel interested in, don't even click on it, skip past it!!!! It's that simple.
I come here to see more about design too, but when I stumble upon a fitness post something like this I happen to feel some interest towards it, and then reading all the negative comments about it just makes me sick.

Amalgamax got it right. It's Maxwell's brother's site, which was announced a while back. Which is fine, except for the idiocy of master cleansing.