Trader Joe's Complete Body Cleanse

Has anyone tried Trader Joe's Total Body Cleanse? Did it work? What were your experiences, results, etc.?

To be clear, by 'work' and 'results' I do not mean losing weight. I know that cleanses are not an effective weight loss tool. However, I have been feeling run down lately, I have been drinking too much alcohol, too much coffee, and eating poorly (or more poorly than normal). I admit that just the idea of a 'cleanse' sounds wonderful. 

I have searched around on-line and there are mixed reviews.

What's appealing about TJ's Total Body cleanse is that it is not some restrictive diet, like that gross lemonade one. As far as I can tell, you eat normally, drink a lot of water, and take three different supplements--one for bowel cleansing, one for your liver and other toxins, and some fiber pills for overall digestive regularity. You take these a couple of times a day for two weeks. 

My running partner is doing it now, and she says she feels great. She claims she's motivated to eat better and is feeling better in general. She was constipated for awhile and assures me that THAT problem is totally taken care of. And--she rightly points out--even if all of this is a a placebo effect, it is still an effect.

So...any opinions? Can such regimens really cleanse you out and purify you? Or is your body already an effecient enough machine to do that on its own? Do we really have things that get 'stuck' in our plumbing like the pipes under my bathroom sink? Or is our internal plumbing better than manmade irrigation?

I haven't done that one, but a naturopath had me do a cleanse last fall. I had just found out i have a bunch of food intolerances. So, I cut out all thos efoods (and a bunch of others) and drank a lot of their magic goo for a month. I felt awesome!

Here's a link to the program I did. You can only get it form a doctor, but i'm guessing if you combined their diet with the Trader Joe's stuff, it would work: http://www.bio-genesis.com/pdf/bioCleanse.pdf

I'm getting ready to do another cleanse. I felt so good after the first time, but then I got lazy, and have been eating a lot of things I shouldn't. My stomach is a mess and I'm exhausted all the time. I'm not looking forward to the diet, but I'm sick of feeling like this.

Good luck!

 

Awesome, thanks! Anyone else?

Don't know about the Trader Joe's cleanse as I haven't seen it here in Canada. I have used the Wild Rose Cleanse Kit (available in Alberta) which it similar to what you describe. It also comes with a set of eating guidelines. I have never used it for weight loss and have used it for cleaning up my diet/heathier eating and determining food sensitivities.

The eating guidelines tend to promote local eating, a balanced diet and removing caffiene and processed foods.