Juice Cleanse So Extreme Participant Briefly Becomes Transparent

Wellness devotee Jasper Fernleaf completed a 21-day juice cleanse so restrictive that his body reportedly achieved partial transparency on day 19, allowing coworkers to briefly see the office wall through his torso. 'I was in the break room and Jasper walked past and I could see the motivational poster through his chest,' said colleague Sandra Milligan. 'The one that says Teamwork Makes The Dream Work. I could read every word. Through Jasper.' The cleanse, designed by raw food guru Clarity Dewdrop and marketed as 'The Total Purification Protocol,' involves consuming nothing but cold-pressed celery juice, filtered water, and what the program describes as 'concentrated intention' for 21 consecutive days. 'By day 14, you have eliminated all accumulated toxins,' Dewdrop explains in the program materials. 'By day 18, you begin eliminating things that are not toxins but are still, in a spiritual sense, unnecessary. By day 21, you achieve what I call Absolute Purity, which is the state of containing nothing that interferes with the flow of universal light.' Fernleaf's physician, Dr. Michael Haruta, offered an alternative interpretation. 'He has lost 28 pounds on a diet of celery water,' Dr. Haruta said. 'He was already thin. At this point he is approaching a body mass index that is incompatible with casting a shadow. He is not transparent. He is just very, very lean and probably hallucinating from caloric deprivation.' Fernleaf disputes the medical interpretation. 'I could see through my own hand,' he said, holding up a hand that appeared, to reporters, to be a normal human hand of notably reduced plumpness. 'The transparency is temporary. It's a sign that the cleanse is working. Clarity said it would happen.' Dewdrop has announced an advanced program: a 40-day protocol that she claims will achieve 'full luminosity.' Her lawyer has advised against it.