My low grade anxiety and depression was gone and I looked forward to everything ordinary all day. I do have fibromyalgia and sjogrens syndrome along with hashimotos. My pain was gone. After the fifth day I awoke with my bottom lip swelled so much it was cracked open and bleeding.
William does not recommend high amounts of celery juice to start, on the contrary, the recommendation is to start slow, because most people's livers are full of toxins and/or viruses, and the celery juice is a liver cleanse. The liver's job is to protect the body from toxin release, so if Sara's liver is weak, then her lips are an obvious "detox" reaction to the poisons that were released by her liver - but not expelled properly out of the body. The Liver book also covers people with food sensitivities and food allergies.
And if you aren't willing to listen to those making money, then you must ignore your M.D. (specialists make around $300,000 per year) and your favorite Big Pharma company. Last I checked, the profits of the 10 Pharmaceutical companies in the Fortune 500 EXCEEDED the combined profits of the other 490 companies.
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Celery Juice
Larger Quantities
It's okay to do more than 16 ounces of celery juice...
What you don't want to do is wake up one day and say, "I've never had celery juice before. Let me start with sixty-four ounces." Celery juice is going to cause some cleansing and purging in your system... Especially if you're sensitive or dealing with a lot of toxins in your system, or if you live with a virus such as Epstein-Barr (causing, for example, fibromyalgia...Hashimotos...)...
I recommend that first-timers start with 16 ounces or less and graduate to higher quantities over time if it feels right. You could start with 4 ounces, and then every single day, a little at a time, keep graduating until you reach 16 ounces.