There’s no doubt that when some people start taking mangosteen juice, a small percentage of people do experience some minor side effects.
Why is that?
Well, while we’re unsure of the Science, mangosteen juice users frequently talk of the juice quickly cleaning out toxins. They say that, unfortunately, those toxins – the result of years of living the wrong way – subsequently (temporarily) poison your bloodstream, resulting in a number of reasonably common symptoms, such as:
- mild headaches
- irritability
- can’t sleep / too sleepy
- mild body aches etc.
We have found that if you drink about a liter of water a day for the first few days, sometimes weeks, when you start taking mangosteen juice, that you can minimize these effects.
If you can combine that with a bit of mild exercise (e.g. walking half a mile a day – not briskly but certainly more than a saunter, if possible!), then our experience has been that you should have virtually no problems.
In our small group, while most had no debilitating side effects, one of us:
- suffered two separate days of Depression, several weeks apart (particularly noticeable because the person wasn’t prone to Depression) &
- strong lethargy, again on two separate days several weeks apart
In both cases they had not maintained drinking the recommended amounts of water. Becoming aware that they were probably poisoned with toxins, they resumed their water regimen but, interestingly, that only seemed to reduce their discomfort by about 50%.
N.B.: Doing so may well have reduced the toxin O.D. to just the single day – which is how long it lasted on all four occasions, over the space of their first month on mangosteen juice.
Our empirical evidence suggests that these toxin O.D. episodes don’t usually occur if you monitor the amount of water that you’re drinking and keep to your schedule.
However, there are some people with chronic conditions who find that their conditions worsen temporarily for a week or so and then quickly start to improve.
Others with chronic diseases of many years may have a detox that lasts considerably longer, sometimes even a few months – though we have never come across either of those scenarios, ourselves.
In either case, drinking the recommended amount of water and performing some mild exercise should minimize these problems.
When compared to the documented adverse reactions that many people have to prescribed drugs, we believe that these symptoms are very minor and have found them to be temporary and usually easily stopped.
In our eyes:
- mangosteen juice +
- water +
- mild exercise
is very safe. However, if you’re on any prescribed medication, please – as we’ve stated elsewhere on this blog - only take mangosteen juice under the care of a sympathetic, qualified medical practitioner.
With mangosteen juice, your may find that your body may quickly discover that it doesn’t need the same strength prescription drugs – you may even find it does not need them at all – and to continue taking these drugs may SUDDENLY become dangerous for you. Please monitor this situation very closely, especially with drugs for Blood Pressure, Depression, Asthma, Kidneys, Heart etc.
Gastro-intestinal Problems
Although we aren’t aware of any folks with gastro-intestinal problems who had problems taking mangosteen juice and none of the testimonials seem to mention any problems (other than diarrhea) either – we still recommend caution.
We suggest that if you have ANY stomach or GI tract problems, – and we don’t mean to patronize – to slowly build up to the maintenance order of mangosteen juice over SEVERAL days and carefully monitor what’s happening within your body.
On one hand, it’s excellent advice to drink the liter of water a day for the reasons stated above but on the other, the direct and undiluted contact of the juice on the stomach lining MAY be extremely beneficial for you.
Consequently we would advise that when you’re entirely sure that your GI tract is coping with diluted mangosteen juice, then splitting your mangosteen day and try to have the juice at the times when you don’t have the water. If that works, everything should be Hunky Dory!
James Mangosteen Dean
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I have been drinking the #1 mangosteen juice on and off for two years now. When I fall off my intake, I know it. I have had many sports injuries over the years (I’m a 48-yr old woman) and suffer from back, neck, knee and joint pain. Mangosteen alleviates the pain due to the reduction of inflammation. I am convinced – I don’t have to make my weekly trips to the chiropractor and the money and time savings there is well worth the nominal amount I spend on the juice.
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I have no desire to accept any drug therapy after watching my parents and siblings demise from “subscribing” to the medications that our so-called health care industry recommends. For decades and years they took religiously their blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes meds, etc. but they still had “the disease”. Eventually cancer and stroke took its toll and they were laid to rest much too early in my humble opinion. A money-making beast, it can more accurately be called a “Sick Care” Industry. When looking at the many side effects and contradictions of drug therapy the cure is obviously worse than the kill. I ascertain illness and disease mainly stem from nutritional deficiencies in one’s biochemistry.
Everyone young and old should have mangosteen at the top of their grocery list. The world would be a much better place if we only took a proactive means to our wellness.
I encourage everyone to drink it, share it and be sure to give it a fair trial… your body didn’t get into the shape it did overnight and regaining one’s health takes time and diligence.
Hi Terry,
That’s a fantastic mangosteen juice testimonial, thanks for sharing.
James Mangosteen Dean
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