Healing didn't happen overnight. Calbom kept juicing, moved to a plant-based diet, and three months later woke up feeling, she says, like she'd been given a new body. She eventually returned to school for a Master of Science in whole- food nutrition, determined to become a credible source of information for other people looking for the same way out she'd found.
A Mission, Not a Sacrifice
Calbom calls nutrition her life's mission, one she and her husband, a psychotherapist and behavioral medicine specialist, have built into fifteen years of health and wellness retreats centered on a deceptively simple question: Who am I, and what is my purpose? “If you don't know your purpose, it doesn't compel you forward to make the sacrifices you need to make to be healthy,” she says. “Which, in the end, I don't consider sacrifices at all.” She hasn't had dessert in decades. “In the beginning, it was a sacrifice. Now it's a choice and a way of life.”
Why Juicing Matters More After 40
For readers in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, Calbom says juicing earns its keep by working around a lifetime of compromised digestion. “Juice is broken down so well that it can help bypass digestive problems and get right into your system,” she explains, “delivering vitamins, minerals, and biophotons, the light-derived compounds plants absorb from the sun that help feed the mitochondria in our cells.” The payoff, she says, is a livable kind of momentum: more energy leads to a real dinner instead of a microwaved one, which leads to better sleep, which leads to more energy the next day. “It's a good circle,” she says, “a spiral up instead of a vicious spiral down.”
“Juice is broken down so well that it can help bypass digestive problems and get right into your system...”
— Cherie Calbom
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