Hi, I'm Dr. Josh Axe and welcome to my kitchen.
Today I'm going to be making almond berry cereal, which is a great recipe.
I know for me this recipe started when I was sitting around one day and I had been eating
a really healthy diet for a while and it had been a really long time since I had cereal.
I was this cereal fanatic.
I used to eat cereal literally every night, almost every meal of the day.
I loved cereal, but then I went through a no-cereal cake because of a lot of the grains
and processed sugars and all the things in most cereals today.
So anyway, I was sitting at home and I'm like, "Man, I really need to have some cereal."
So I got creative and made up my own cereal and this is where almond berry cereal came
from.
We're using all-natural healthy ingredients.
What we're going to start off with is coconut milk.
Now we use coconut milk rather than pasteurized milk because pasteurized dairy is very toxic
and really just bad for your health.
The reason is if you have raw dairy, something like raw goat's milk or raw cow's milk, all
the good bacteria is still left in there.
It's still very nutritious.
When you pasteurize something, they heat it up to 145 degrees for around 45 minutes.
It kills off all the enzymes, all the good bacteria known as probiotics, and also damages
the protein and sugar molecules.
Even if you look at it from a sugar standpoint, something called the glycemic index, regular
pasteurized dairy has a glycemic index of 145 which means it's pure sugar when it gets
in your bloodstream.
Now, what we're going to use instead is coconut milk because it's full of what's called medium
chain fatty acids, also known as lauric acid, and it's actually the same type of healthy
fat that's found in women's breast milk and so it's really great for your health.
It's actually eight calories, not nine calories like most fats, and it's actually going to
help you burn fat and lose the weight.
Saturated fat got a bad rap for a lot of years but what happens is a lot of times we don't
realize that there are several good types of fat and there's even good types of saturated
fat.
So we're going to start off here with this can of coconut milk.
You can find this in the Asian or ethnic food section of basically any store or at a natural
health food store.
What you're going to do is you're going to put about a fourth to a sixth of a cup of
coconut milk, and we're actually going to just go ahead and pour that in first here.
Okay, about a fourth of a can or a fourth of a cup.
The next thing we're going to do is add in almonds.
Almonds are great because they're full of Omega 9 fats similar to olive oil and they're
known as a monounsaturated fat.
It's going to help your body burn fat and lose weight.
Another great thing about almonds is they're full of l-arginine, which actually helps increase
human growth hormone.
Very important in men for anti-aging.
So we're going to add in these almonds next here into the almond berry cereal.
After that we're going to add in the blueberries.
Blueberries are great.
They actually have an ORAC score of 13,000.
What ORAC means, it's a way of measuring antioxidants in food.
Specifically, ORAC score means oxygen radical absorption capacity.
So it absorbs free radicals in your body that causes aging.
Wild blueberries actually score 13,000, which is over five times the average fruit.
So you're going to get more antioxidants in blueberries than almost any other fruit out
there in the market.
So we're going to add in these blueberries.
Again, great for anti-aging, a great source of fiber, a great source of antioxidants.
The next thing we're going to add in is flaxseeds or flax meal.
We've just taken the flaxseeds up, we've ground them up, we're going to add about two to three
tablespoons here of flax meal.
We'll just sprinkle that on the cereal here like so.
And the last thing we're going to add in is cinnamon.
Cinnamon is great, also loaded with antioxidants.
Where blueberries are one of the number one berry for antioxidants, cinnamon is the number
one herb for antioxidants.
It also helps balance out your blood sugar and boost up those energy levels.
So we're going to add cinnamon in, probably about one to two teaspoons.
We're just going to go ahead and sprinkle that on here pretty generously, and bam, we
have got almond blueberry cereal.
You've going to love it.
I'm going to try it here in just a minute.
Now it's time to try the almond berry cereal, and again, this is the moment I know I've
been waiting for and I'm excited about.
And remember, this recipe is loaded with antioxidants, loaded with vitamins and minerals and good
healthy fat from the coconut.
So let me go ahead and try this here.
Mmm, delicious.
I usually don't talk with my mouth open but I'm going to right now.
You're going to love this cereal.
Tell your friends about it, tell your family, try it out for yourself.
You're going to love almond berry cereal.