Beware of the Beet

So I learned this the hard way a few months back, This is when I was juicing, but still eating my regular diet. Beets are the highest in iron, and I am extremely anemic, so I thought I'd drink a lot of beet juice. I had about two 20 oz glasses of beet juice the first day, and felt ok. (Not pleasant bathroom breaks) Day two I had another 20 oz glass in the morning and in the afternoon I started feeling very foggy and weak. Two hours later, I started feeling ok, but then with lunch I had another beet juice and almost right away I started feeling weak and foggy. So I thought, I'll google it, just to see if it could possibly be the beet juice and sure enough it was!! So long story short: Beets are extremely cleansing so we have to work up to having more beets in our juice. So start out with just one beet juice, mixed with greens and carrots the first week and slowly add as the weeks go on.