Your Daily Greens

Get your daily greens in this one smoothie recipe! Greens are the life-blood and the best detoxifiers and intestine cleaners.

This recipe might LOOK really long but once you get used to make it, you won't think it's as complicated as you used to. 

You can start just eye-balling it and throwing stuff in. You might even get creative - use things leftover in your refrigerator or leave out something that you might not have. 

It's sounds pretty "green", but it's actually really good.

 DARK GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES

Greens are so powerful. Eat them everyday! Don't forget this rule of thumb. No matter what type of diet you're on, everybody can agree on this. 

Eating plants decreases cancer risk.

Most of this is because of the fiber in whole plant foods. Processed foods such as flour are considered plant based, but not whole food plant based. Flour is processed and lacks the fiber and is stripped of many nutrients. 

SPINACH & SMOOTHIES

Spinach is an excellent source of dietary fiber, flavonoids, carotenoids, chlorophyll, vitamin K, and vitamin A. you can add spinach to a green smoothie.

Spinach provides minerals such as potassium, iron, magnesium, manganese, calcium, and folate that provide the body with amazing alkaline effects. 

You can boost muscle strength, fight anemia, improve heart health, prevent premature aging, reduce your risk of cancer and enjoy healthy skin by eating spinach.

Smoothies are chalked full of fiber. You get the water, the fiber, and the minerals and vitamins in smoothie form. This means more calories as well. Add avocados or ground flax and you get some great healthy fat. This will keep you fuller longer than juice. 

MINERALS & VITAMINS

• Folate
• Vitamin K
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin A
• Phytonutrients: plant-based compounds that may help to lower inflammation and reduce risk of developing cancer
• One of the most abundant sources of plant-based Omega-3 fatty acids

When leafy greens are steamed, sautéed, fried, roasted or cooked in any other way, it alters the naturally occurring oxalic acid (which is not at all harmful when leafy greens are raw) and makes it into a form that becomes less usable by the body. This is one reason leafy greens are best consumed raw. 

 Grounding + Alkalizing

ALKALIZING

Animal protein is acidic. Dark leafy greens are alkalizing in the body. 

Plant-based diets tend to be alkaline-forming. This may help protect muscle mass, and reduce the risk of gout and kidney stones.

GROUNDING

Specifically, greens contain plenty of magnesium and B vitamins, both of which can help to relieve anxiety and stress, helping you feel more grounded. 

ELECTROYTES

Without leafy greens, the rest of your diet just won’t be enough to keep you healthy, especially considering the types of viruses and bacteria we face today, which cause symptoms such as headaches, tingles and numbness, body aches and pains, fatigue, brain fog, and many more. 

Sodium enables the transmission of nerve impulses around the body. It is an electrolyte, like Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium; it regulates the electrical charges moving in and out of the cells in the body.

BIOAVAILABLE PROTEIN

Leafy greens have the most bioavailable and assimilable proteins you can find, readily available for your body to take up.

Leafy greens help reverse protein-related diseases, such as gout, kidney disease, kidney stones, gallstones, gallbladder disease, osteopenia, osteoporosis, and heart disease. 

Protein not breaking down can contribute to these diseases and cause deterioration of the body.

Green Drink Recipe
serves 2 

½ Cucumber (I peeled the skin off)
½ Lemon, peeled
1c Grapefruit juice
½ Orange, skin peeled off
1 handful of Parsley
2 handfuls of Cilantro
6 pieces frozen or fresh Pineapple 
1 chunk ginger {about 1 inch thick, peeled}
handful hemp seeds
1 squirt liquid Stevia
1 Tbls xylitol {optional}

Put everything in the blender and blend on high until totally smooth.

I don't care if you just downed 3 eggs and 2 slices of bacon or a bowl of oatmeal or if this is your breakfast, but you should try and squeeze this in a few days a week, if not everyday. 

Simple enough.