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The Cleanse You Should Do Once a Week, According to the Godfather of Colonics

By Rachel Lapidos — 2017

In the world of wellness, Gil Jacobs has developed a reputation for being particularly extreme—after all, this is the guy who's been nicknamed "the godfather of colonics" because he's water-flushed his intestinal tract over a thousand times. (Nope, not a typo!) So I was admittedly a bit nervous to hear what his idea of a daily cleanse looked like. Turns out, his tips for eliminating toxins are surprisingly simple—raw food and green juice—and far less radical-sounding than some other system resets, like intermittent fasting or subsisting mostly on bananas (an idea that really, well, just sounds bananas).

Read on www.wellandgood.com

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