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Vegetable juice is an enormously helpful tool for improving your health. Dr. Andrew Saul, who’s been a guest here many times before, is a lifelong juicer.

His book,
Vegetable Juicing for Everyone: How to Get Your Family Healthier and Happier, Faster!
, is a fantastic resource, offering lots of practical tips for integrating juicing into your life, and having fun doing it.

“My father juiced and my children were raised on juice. By the way, that’s what the book is about. The whole sordid story of what it’s like to raise your kids with juicing when the neighbors think you’re crazy and your relatives are sure,” Dr. Saul says.

“In the 39 years that I’ve been working with folks and teaching in the natural health arena, the one thing that’s helped more people more consistently is vegetable juicing.”

Dr. Max Gerson was one of the pioneers of juicing. He suffered terrible migraine headaches, which he eventually resolved by drinking vegetable juice.

Once word spread, patients started coming in to be relieved of their migraines and ended up improving their health in other ways as well. Eventually, Dr. Gerson realized that vegetable juice is a metabolic therapy, capable of combating virtually any disease.

“The advantage of the juicer is, first of all, it reduces [large amounts of] vegetables into a few manageable glasses. That means you get a nice, easy-to-take, and quick food concentrate,” Dr. Saul says.

“It has zero cholesterol, practically zero fat, lots of fiber, lots of minerals, and lots of vitamins…

The juicer also does a good job of making the nutrients available. [W]hen you juice, you break down the cell walls and you release these nutrients and liquid solution. When you drink that, you absorb it.”

Juicing really is for everyone. Even people with irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, and other kinds of gastrointestinal problems can usually handle vegetable juice, whereas they may not be able to eat a lot of raw food.