 maybe you've come across the medical mediums celery juice cleanse you've seen the reviews on Amazon and they look incredible and amazing and you have one of your friends doing it and it looks incredible and amazing and they gave you a rave review and you think you should be doing it before you do that please for the love of God watch this video because there are a lot of people who get far worse on this and I want to explain why from a Chinese medicine perspective because in the bucket of medical fads and there are a lot of them and there are always new ones this is something very important to keep in mind. Hey guys Dr. Alex Hine author of the health book master of the day doctor of Chinese medicine and licensed acupuncturist so before we jump into this video two very important links right below the first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine you can reach my private practice below this video the second is a free download which is 40 of the rituals that can potentially help you add years to your life with Chinese medicine so those are right below this video here let's talk about constitution which is fundamentally why some people get better and some get worse from doing the same thing and that's what we're going to be talking about with this celery juice fad this cleanse you know some people have different tendencies those tendencies we call constitution or genetics and this is very important in terms of clinical medicine especially if you're someone dealing with chronic health problems because in Chinese medicine one of the main issues and one of the main reasons people have chronic health problems is that there is a constitutional weakness there is a genetic susceptibility that runs in families typically that then predisposes you to certain weaknesses it is the chink in your armor right that weakness may be gut problems that weakness may be migraines that weakness may be anxiety depression and maybe skin problems or asthma or allergies but your body has a tendency to display certain symptoms that we call constitution the origin of that may be different for each person and Chinese medicine is almost like surgical precision the patterns that we have for example just bloating or indigestion can have 10 20 50 a hundred different Chinese formulas I give for that the same symptom can have different ideologies but we're talking about the gut because when I hear from patients the ones that do the celery cleanse it is most often for digestion bloating fluid retention fullness that kind of thing let's talk about this a little bit more let's talk about the cold damp type in Chinese medicine this is the kind of person who will get worse from the celery juice diet I promise you stay far away from this you can have celery in small amounts but stay away from this massive 50 60 ounce celery juice I'm seeing people do it will destroy you so the cold damp type is a constitutional type very commonly seen in clinical practice these people are prone to soft stools or diarrhea small intestine bacterial overgrowth SIBO bloating food sensitive these and typically they're on the thinner side or have a paler facial complexion like myself now these people in Chinese medicine are considered prone to basically this kind of candida yeasty type they have this kind of predisposition so they're more sensitive to bloating more sensitive to having actual food sensitivities now in Chinese medicine this is considered a finding that is due to cold or hypo function and so we often use warming herbs like warming spices like ginger and cinnamon and that kind of thing in high doses for healing the gut and increasing metabolism but what is celery in Chinese medicine it is one of the coldest dampness generating things certainly one of the coldest that you could ingest and to be pouring 60 ounces of what's basically an energetic ice cube into your gut for people who already have that susceptibility is a terrible idea so if you find yourself getting more bloating or pretty much diarrhea every bowel movement that is a bad sign let's talk about the people who might get better from this and this is the problem this kind of person does it and they say i feel amazing i'm going to do this every day they tell their other friend that the more cold damp type in Chinese medicine they get blown out by it and they're like uh yeah i got a little gut was a little weird from it but let's talk about for example the other type so the first type is more of like a low stomach acid kind of type low pancreatic enzyme so they have problems with digestion food sits in their stomach slow motility sluggish bowels you throw in a bunch of cold stuff it's going to get worse i can promise you that you also see this in people who have this constitution and who do raw vegan diets for a long period of time or they just eat a lot of salads but your friend who may do the celery juice cleanse and feels amazing is more of the hot type in Chinese medicine so this type they often have drier bowel movements they tend to have good digestion genetically they never complain about their gi most of the time this person let's just say on the pathological side maybe is more prone to a standard american diet they have lots of coffee and lots of alcohol and maybe they tolerate them well because their gi is strong but in general these create more heat specifically issues with the gallbladder now if you are someone who's generally has good digestion historically and that's never been a problem since you were a kid or you are having issues of acid reflux indigestion sour bitterness in your mouth that is a gallbladder issue and or liver issue from chinese medicine perspective so what helps those organs is more cooling foods so if you're having gallbladder issues a lot of these people will do better on more of a vegetarian diet with more vegetables because it's more cooling gallbladder for chinese medicine is we use herbs that like Huangqin scotillaria herbs that clear what we call organ heat this heat from the gallbladder that this congestion that's building that produces a kind of stagnation most often gallstones or gallbladder sludge very commonly seen clinically i mean gallbladder removals are some of the most common surgeries done but for this kind of person they will feel better because there's too much heat in the system from a chinese medicine perspective and the gallbladder is having a big issue so they're going to feel better with more cooling vegetables but not the person who's already cooled down too much and needs to get warmed up give them a garlic and cinnamon and ginger cleanse and they'll feel amazing they're going to have much better appetite and better bowel movements so the second friend that is the constitution that will benefit from this or someone who's experiencing pathology in the gallbladder or the liver the stomach with reflux they might feel better because that was what they needed to heal from a chinese medicine perspective but your other friend that's more cold and more damn bloating sensitivities things like that is going to get worse i can guarantee it especially at this amounts it's not about this tiny amount this 50 or 60 ounces or whatever that recommendation was is the celery juice good or bad neither right the dose makes the poison and the poison makes the poison if it's good for you in a small amount doesn't mean it's going to mean it's going to be good for you in a large amount but these are very important because i see a lot of patients coming in getting worse from this kind of cleanse and i don't recommend it for a lot of people that's from my perspective it's what's going on in chinese medicine and can help differentiate if this is maybe good for you or maybe not good for you so that's my two cents i have more on this idea of detoxing cleanses in these other videos also right there