My Top 5 Secrets For Completing a Successful Raw Food Cleanse…
March 16, 2011 by admin
Filed under Updates on the Movement
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I’m currently on Day 8 of a 40 day 100% raw food cleanse I’m doing. I like to do them from time to time to allow my body to heal and rejuvenate.
So I thought I’d record a quick video (you can see it above) to share with you my top 5 secrets about doing a successful raw food cleanse. They’re quick, they’re simple, and they can have a profound difference on your health right now.
I also posted an old video that I recorded last year that shows you how to make raw sushi on this post. Since it’s still my wife’s favorite meal I thought I’d repost it again. I just made it for her yesterday and she loved it. 
To your health,
Alex Ortner
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P.S. - If you didn’t get a chance to see the video with James Malinchak from the other day where he talks about the 3 biggest lies that keep you from making and enjoying money you can watch that here:
www.rawfor30days.com/Secret_Millionaire
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What did you think of my Top 5 Tips and the video on how to make raw sushi?
Let me know by leaving your comments below.
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Raw sushi looks delicious but is the hummus raw or the beans cooked?
Hi Alex
thanks for great ideas. I have done raw food and juice fasts and cleanses over the years.
I Understand your wife is doing the cleanse with you; I counsel breastfeeding mothers - would it be ok for them to do that whilst breastfeeding?
Thanks
Christina
Great videos! Your video shows how easy it is to make sushi. Now I want to try!:)
Love this! My husband and I are doing the Raw for 30 because he’s a type 2. We are on day 10 and his BLS is steadily going down. Love this program.
About the Sushi… would raw fish be allowed? I see you didn’t add any so I’m curious. I have yet to find a written program even though I purchased all the bonuses I could find. ??? So we’re getting pretty burnt out on fruit smoothies and salads. We’ve been out for sushi but it gets pretty expensive quickly so I am very interested in making sushi. Thanks for this recipe. I will make sure to try this very soon.
Thank you Alex it looks yummy I’ll try it and I agree that the juice detox for a week every 3 to 4 months is essential I do it for more than 3 years now and find it amazing for the whole wellbeing .
ps I enjoyed the company of your baby in the background
Yea, liked the raw sushi video and wrote down the ingredients and such to try when I’m done with this juice cleanse. I recently bought my son a sushi-making kit so I’ll use that. Right now I’m on day 3 of my first juice cleanse and looking at your 5 easy tips has helped re: keeping it simple, cuz I hv found myself becoming a bit overwhelmed with the juicing recipes in the book I’m using and the amount of grocery shopping. My initial goal was 5 days then I thought I’d make today or tomorrow my last day (whichever day the vegs ran out) however, after watching ur video I’ll do 5 days. One thing I’ve found though is it gets expensive buying all the right organic vegs & fruits. But I guess better that than end up sick in the hospital! p.s. Loved watching the all the tapping.
Delanae, no raw fish. . Get some recipe books and you’ll find lots of Lovely recipes.. Home-made raw garden burgers (sun burgers), vegetable pates, soups, breads and crackers. .. all raw.. The list is endless..
Never a need to revert to fish.. or anything with a face, eyes, nose, mouth..
Alex, love your videos and information. I’m a long-time raw and living vegan. You don’t need to cut those ends off.. eat them. And use a bit of water to seal the last edge. . It works wonders. .
Raw sushi is great.. your videos are awesome. Keep on keeping on.
Thankyou for the tips and for the raw sushi recipe! It really looks good!! I want to try it out as soon as I can!
Absolutely great!
I am going to purchase these items tomorrow and definitely make this dish.
Thanks for all that you do.
Alex,
Awesome tips, I’ll keep these in mind for my next cleanse. I have two more tips to add that have helped me a lot in my previous cleanses.
1) Drink lots of water.
I discovered the “healing power of water” a while back (from Mike Adams) and then my wife got us going on drinking 1/2 our body weight in ounces every day. At 210 lbs, that’s 105 oz for me a day (non-floridated RO/DI from glass jugs) . I started out drinking about 60 oz a day for a week, then added another 10 oz a day for the next week, and so on until I got up to my desired amount. A week before my cleanse, I try to up my intake a bit, so I’m on a roll during the cleanse.
2) Try to do it with a partner.
When two of you are doing it; one pulls the other along and vise-versa. Having soneone else in the same boat also seems to ease the pain a little. Someone to suffer along with. Funny thing is that now I’ve been 80-90% raw for a couple of years now, the cleanses get easier and easier.
Thanks Alex! Great tips, especially sticking with it until you feel good.
Wonderful simple video- thank you!! This looks delicious and you made it visual which is so helpful!
Art, what is your diet like when you are not cleansing: breakfast, lunch & dinner? How do you supply protein to your body? While you’re cleansing do all your meals consist only of salads, juices and smoothies? I have no juicer; could I use store bought juices, like cranberry, grapefruit or apple?
In your sushi demonstration I didn’t quite catch what yoou used to roll up the ingredients and what type of material you used on the outside to tighten everything. A recipe for making humus would also have been helpful.
Will your video on raw vegans for fighting diabetes be shown again in the near future?
Love the recipe! Thank you!
I make an awesome raw hummus the exact way i make it cooked. Only difference is the beans are sprouted and not cooked.
Nice recipe Alex, I never thought of hummus in sushi, though I’ll probably grate the ginger very finely since I can’t imagine chunks of the stuff.
I too would like the hummus recipe if it is raw. I’ve only made it with cooked garbanzos. Do you just substitute sprouted garbanzo beans in whatever recipe you use?…then maybe add raw tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, water, hing/garlic, water and then food process till creamy?
Good luck on your raw cleanse for 40 that’s inspiring. Maybe I’ll do something like raw for 21–a little more tame. Have fun!
I’ll be making sushi this weekend. Fab and thanks for sharing
well, i’m basically a rawfoodie in every sense of the words, that is i restrict myself to making only very basic raw food dishes and seldom tackle making anything with even the tiniest hint of sophistication
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however, the raw (veggie) sushi looks so tempting that i’ve 4warded the link to my both my housemates (bernadette & em), suggesting that we hold sushi making & tasting contests … but secretly wishing they while they both do the making, which i admit does look easy & like fine, i’ll still restrict myself to just the tasting
I have watched your video and sushi looks pretty easy. What is the 4th item. Is it a type of spinach? or something else. It look very good to eat. I love humus (humus has one ‘m’ to it) and have done it in very different ways and always a favorite in the family but not raw? What are the ingredients?
Humus’ is a Jewish delicacy and is pronounced with a ‘g’ Gumus but spelt with an ‘H’
thank you so much. great videos, i loved them. the first one top 5 secrets - great. well done. a little tip i do is to add 4 shots of frozen live wheatgrass
into my fruit smoothies - it looks a little green! and its very tasty. another great way to add in the greens! on the raw sushi video, it looks so yummy i am planning on making this for my husbands birthday next week! on a technical note - it was not so easy to hear! huge love and thank you super star love gxoxoxoxo
Looks great. I will make it. Where do you get the paper to wrap the sushi? Is it seaweed?
Do you have (or can you recommend) online video/s for the newly pregnant who is just learning the raw foods lifestyle? Would also like to find a video where raw pregnant women, who have done it awhile, give advice. Interested in learning about vaccinations vs no vaccinations. Also, after the baby is born is it true not to use lotions because the baby has it’s own natural oils and the lotions just plug the pores?
Thanks so much for your help.
You and your brother and sister put out the best videos on subjects for which you have passion and share the work of others who are also passionate about what they are doing. This new marketing style is so refreshing because you really GIVE something rather than just sell something. It shows your commitment to the work, and as a result many of us have bought all the videos you have. Thanks so much for this great service to all of us, and for making your products FUN as well as informative!
I like the 5 tips. I have never tried all raw but have your simply raw dvd and am interested in doing at least a raw cleanse every now and then, so need all the tips I can get. Also liked the video on raw “sushi”. I didn’t know what that was going to be. I love all the ingredients you used so will try that soon too.
Also want to tell you how much I love your whole family. I am impressed with the sincerety in all of you and really enjoyed the tapping summit.
I watched the video, walked to the kitchen and made this sushi! I used sprouted almond hummus, which is easier for me to digest than garbanzo beans. I saw you going really heavy on the ginger, and I was thinking, “I’ll have to start slow and work up to that,” but it’s not overpowering at all! I want more! I made the first one just like yours, and I declare it delicious! I made another one with a little less of the same ingredients and added red peppers and sauerkraut! I thoroughly enjoyed my dinner. Thank you!
Alex,
I hope you will do the raw hummus recipe soon, at least add it to your website in written form. I have not found a good raw hummus recipe that doesn’t make my stomache feel like something isn’t quite right, so I have gone back to cooked hummus.
I’m trying to figure out how you make money, you give everything away!!
I enjoyed your top five secrets for the raw food cleanse although I have never done one. I almost never watched your raw sushi video as I thought all sushis had raw fish in them. I will certainly try making this dish.
For someone who has never done a cleanse what kind of cleanse would you recommend me to do?
Also I am interested in finding out the answers to some of the above questions other people asked. Is there a place to view your responses?
Thanks for sharing these two videos.
Great video-thank you! Have only ever made Sushi with rice before and would NOT have thought of this. Remind me of the other name for Cilantro?? Is it what we call Watercress here? As others have said, the Raw Hummus Recipe would be good. Blessings.
Looks really Yummy I am a recent vegan convert even though I have never really been a big meat eater … It has been 6 months now since I last ate any meat … I was not a great cook before and have alot of trouble making up meals since I have become a vegan .. this and sites like this really do help alot so thank you
I love putting fresh lemon juice on the avacado for extra flavor. My husband and I like things spicy so we might use some wasabi also.
I’ve had some delicious raw sushi made with sprouted almond flesh that’s left over after making almond milk. It replaces the humus and provides a texture closer to that of cooked rice in the regular sushi. Red peppers and carrots are also great for providing colour and taste.
The nori sheet is made of seaweed. The tricky bit is finding nori made with dried, not roasted, seaweed for those that want to be 100% raw. A bit of moisture helps to seal the roll. A wedge of lemon wiped across the closing lip of the nori sheet works very well.
in stead of the humus, you can use tahin.
it’s sesameseed-butter, you can buy it either from roasted or raw sesame seed. should be on the label.
make it softer by adding lemon juice, bit of salt and water, mix well.
tastes more nutty than the humus.
with spices or herbs it makes a good spread as well.
I am new to raw food and learning more, but this recipe it looks very good… but i’ve heard fish is also an important food why not add the fish but this is alternative recipe you have shared and I will try it