Isagenix Cleanse Days

An Isagenix CIeanse Day is a nutritionally supported fast to illimate toxins and burn fat.

You may have heard of intermittent fasting with all the hype around the associated health benefits. And while it’s recently gained alot of attention, Isagenix have been incorporating fasting into their systems for years.

But fasting can be tough and that’s where Isagenix comes in!

Isagenix is fasting made easy!

With an Isagenix fast (also called “cleanse”) Isagenix provides all the support you need to get through a single day or a two day back-to-back cleanse.

Cleansing has many benefits and when incorporated into your lifestlye long term can lead to improvements in health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancers and neurological disorders. In the short term, you may notice improved brain and cognitive function (our customers often refer to this as the brain fog lifting) and visceral fat loss.

One of the reasons the Isagenix programs are so successful is the cleansing component. Isagenix programs incorporate Shake Days and Cleanse days.  

In this guide we cover:

Benefits of Isagenix Cleanse Days

Standard Cleanse Day Schedule

Approved Snacks for Isagenix Cleanse Days

Download Your Cleanse Day Checklist

Top Tips for Great Isagenix Cleanse Days

Why We Can Only Fast For 2 Days Max

Isagenix Shake Days

Isagenix 30-Day System program (30-day calendar)

For health-related questions on Cleanse Days see our FAQ’s and browse the Isagenix Health Blog.

Top Tips for Great Isagenix Cleanse Days

Why can we only fast for 2 days max?

A comprehensive scientific study done in 2012 showed that 24 hour fasting boosted Human Growth Hormone (HGH) levels by 1300% in women and 2000% in men during the first day, and on the second day it increased SIGNIFICANTLY higher. However, on the third and subsequent days it plummets down.

So what is Human Growth Hormone?

HGH is the hormone that regulates growth and repair.

The natural production of this hormone decreases progressively with age, which makes it our anti-ageing hormone and one in which we want to naturally increase as much as possible.

HGH is the hormone responsible for building muscle, burning fat and strengthening the bones.

How Deos HGH Work?

HGH works in balance like a see-saw with Cortisol hormone. Cortisol hormone is our STRESS hormone which acts in opposition to HGH, and is responsible for burning muscle, storing fat (especially around the midsection), and thinning the bones.

Therefore it is CRUCIAL that we manage our cortisol hormone, by minimising the stress in our life and taking supportive herbs, botanicals and nutrients that help keep these levels balanced.

The Isagenix Nutritional Cleanse Program is scientifically designed to promote the natural release of HGH (as well as other important hormones such as DHEA etc) and reduce levels of cortisol.

So what’s happening in our bodies on a cleanse day?

After not eating for 4 hours the liver naturally goes into detox mode. At about 6 to 8 hours you’ve burnt off all your sugars for fuel and you go into fat burning mode, which is where the majority of our toxins are stored, the fatty tissue!!! Fat burning maximizes at about 24 to 48 hours, depending on the individual. So when we go into a second cleanse day the whole of day 2 is all fat burning (releasing toxic stores) and is where the real magic happens if you want to really maximise your results.

Just like in nature…

In nature our bodies are designed to hunt for food, so in the first two days of fasting our HGH goes up to protect our body and our muscle stores, and to give us the strength to go out into the wild and kill a beast.

However, if we haven’t brought home a meal within two days our body naturally goes into starvation mode, which sends cortisol levels skyrocketing up and HGH levels down. Cortisol is our “starvation” hormone.

We are now in survival mode, and the “fight or flight” stress response kicks in. Cortisol stores fat so that we have some reserves during starvation, burns muscle for a source of protein, and takes minerals from the bones as its nutritional supply.

Therefore, it is CRUCIAL that we only cleanse for no more than 2 days maximum, or we will start burning up our muscles for fuel and storing fat for preservation.

When we are fasting, at about 6 to 8 hours those 167 toxins that are stored in our fat get released into the blood stream. They go down to the liver to be processed, and normally the liver under burden wouldn’t be able to effectively process them, and just sends them back up to the fat to be reabsorbed.

A supported fast with Isagenix

However, on the Isagenix 30 Day Program when you are fasting and the toxins are sent to the liver, the Noursih For Life Drink provides powerful herbs, botanicals and nutrients that support the Phase 2 Liver Detoxification Pathway.

This allows the liver to send the toxins down to the colon and be supported effectively through elimination. The main reason we “Nutritionally” cleanse is to support the body through the process of fat burning and toxin-removing fasting.

When the body is supported nutritionally it is able to perform the functions necessary to effectively remove toxicity from the body.

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