Slater began incorporating cold-pressed juice into his morning routines. He would never forget his teacher's most loyal sidekick: an ever-present thermos of green juice. Slater's initial reluctance to take the class faded quickly and was replaced with inspiration.
He was struck by her beauty, her energy and the way she brought words he'd always heard in passing - yoga, chanting, macrobiotics - to life. That all changed when Slater's yoga teacher walked into the room. He was the furthest thing from a yogi, so as a theater student at New York University, discovering that an introductory yoga class was a sophomore year requirement left him less than thrilled.
Slater was a self-proclaimed "fast food junkie" for most of his childhood. At day 30, a part of him wanted to continue the journey. He remembers looking in the mirror and being surprised to see how bright the whites of his eyes appeared. But by the last week, he felt at peace, content. The cleanse meant drinking juice made from fruits and vegetables every few hours, and by day 14, he was counting the hours until the 30 days were up. Since he was new to juice fasting, Slater's original plan had been a five-day cleanse, but on the final day, stunned by his levels of energy and clarity, he decided to keep going. It was August 2008, and he was staying in a tiny hut at an alternative health spa, surrounded by coconut groves, dense rainforest and white sand beaches. On an island called Koh Samui in the Gulf of Thailand, Hayden Slater was attempting a 30-day juice cleanse. In this series, The Gambit, Entrepreneur associate editor Hayden Field explores extraordinary risk, speaking with successful people about how they overcame unusual obstacles to found a company or switched industries entirely in a "career 180."
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