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Hey! Lenny Gale, Life is NOYOKE.
So people ask me all the time, "What do you think of juicing?"
And, no matter how I answer their question, they're always dissatisfied.
I can't answer it right.
So, today, I have a very special guest, it's The Blender Babe, Tarashaun,
to help answer that question, "What do you think of juicing?"
And, to show us this delicious, whole-food juice called,
-"The I am Spicy Hot"
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So, expert, Blender Babe, Tarashaun, tell me, how do I answer this question.
What is the answer, "What do you think of juicing?"
Well, I understand why you get that question a lot because I get it
all the time, too. -Okay.
So, I have answered it a few times. A few times.
And it's actually kind of a complex question, but I'm going to break it down for you guys
really simply. -Okay.
Juicing is really good for you. -Okay, great!
There's a couple different kinds of juicing, though. So the ones that everybody knows
about is from a traditional juice extractor.
And what that does is you put in tons and tons of produce and it extracts the juice
and all the pulp, all the fiber, goes out the other side, and you throw it away.
Most people to.
They come with recipes on how to make bread with it but nobody does it.
-Okay. -Right? So it's very wasteful.
You're wasting your money and you're wasting the produce.
And you're getting a little bit of juice from a lot of produce.
Now, with whole-food juicing, which you do with a blender.
So you're going to take, you know, regular amounts of produce, less expensive,
and you're going to add liquid, water, not milk substitutes or yogurt or things that
make a smoothie. We're making a whole-food juice.
So I do at least one and a half to two cups of liquid.
That's going to make it more of a juice texture. And a power blender, like a Vitamix
is going to be able to liquify the fiber to be able to have more of a juice consistency.
But if you're a purist, you can also use a nut milk bag, and that's going to take out
more of the fiber and you're going to get even more of a true juice consistency from
the whole food juice.
So juice extraction from a traditional juicer. Whole-food juicing with a blender.
But if you only have a blender and you want juice extraction, you can use a
filtration bag.
Yes. And some of the reasons why you might want a juice extractor is if you
have very serious, chronic illnesses, you know, cancer and things like that,
because you want to give your body tons of nutrition. I mean, they're both
giving you tons of nutrition.
But with a juicer, you're going to get like ten times as many vitamins and
minerals and nutrients. And it's going to go directly into your blood stream.
-Ahh! -There's zero fiber.
So it goes right into your bloodstream. Your body doesn't have to digest anything.
So it doesn't have to work at all.
You know, you can go into things like Gerson therapy, or in addition to juicing you have
other things like colonics and coffee enemas. It's very, very serious.
But, you know, people have been cured from stage 4 terminal cancer with this,
so. -Right.
Chronic illnesses, I definitely think there's a place for juicing with a juice extractor.
But with a blender, it's so much more versatile. So you're making soups and
ice cream and grinding. You know, they're not cheap machines, so I really think
for an average juicer that wants to get a lot of nutrients into their body, you can
definitely do that with a whole-food juice.
-With less waste. And less waist! -Yeah!
-Well, talk about that. -Absolutely.
Well, they're both great for weight loss. Weight loss and detoxification you get
from a whole-food juice and from an extracted juice.
But with an extracted juice, because there's no fiber, you're gonna have a lot of
more extreme weight loss quickly. Because you're not really eating anything.
You're doing a fast. You know, like, Joe Cross, "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead"
that's what he did.
But you can definitely and detoxification with a whole-food juice, but it's not as
restrictive because of all that fiber, and, the fiber is cleaning out your intestines.
That's what it's meant to do. We're not really, I don't think that humans
necessarily were meant to have juice, like fruits and vegetables like the way a juice
extractor gives you.
So, again, it's a complex question, but you definitely can have weight loss
and detoxification with a whole-food juice.
Which one's gonna make you feel more full throughout the day?
Definitely a whole-food juice just because of the fiber.
-Okay. -So you can drink your juice, and that's
like a meal replacement and you wouldn't be hungry until lunch, but when I've done
restrictive juice fasts with an extracted juice, I mean, I drink that and I'm hungry,
kind of, right away. -Okay.
-Sounds like fun! -Not. They're not usually super fun.
Have you seen the shirts where people are like, "Don't talk to me, I'm on a juice cleanse."
No, but I get it. It's like, "Oh, I'm actually starving myself."
-"I'm kinda cranky right now because I'm hungry."
-Right. -Haha.
-"I'd like an apple." -Yes.
Okay, so really good information about juicing, the two different types of juicing.
I can maybe answer that question better now. Or, I'll just direct them to you, Tarashaun.
And so you, Tarashaun, you have a juicing detox, right? On your website?
-I do. -Tell me about it.
So it's a free program that we offer our community. And it's a whole-food juice
detox. So what it is it's six juices that you
drink throughout the day. It's for a day, up to five days, but the recipes make for
two, so a lot of people do about two to three days.
We do provide guidelines for what do eat before and after because you don't want to
eat a big cheese burger or pizza and the next day do a juice detox because your body
is not really ready for it.
You're going to experience detox effects like headaches and, you know, just not feeling
very good. So we give you the guidelines for free, we give you the recipes for the
juice detox and shopping lists, so you have everything you need to get started.
We really just want you guys to experience what it's like to have a whole food juice
detox that's not restrictive. It's giving you
a ton of calories, and everyone in our community has experienced more energy,
clearer skin, weight loss, and it's been really great.
I'd love to try it. And so we have a recipe that you're going to show us from that detox.
-Yup. I am spicy hot. -I am spicy hot!
It's one of the favorites of our community. So we're going to make this for you and
see what you think.
Yeah, I've never tried it, I'm really excited.
I'm excited for you to try it.
We're going to get genuine reactions here because..
-I feel like you're kind of spicy. -Thank you. I like spicy food.
And remember, like, one and a half to two cups of liquid. So this one's about
12 ounces.
-This is coconut water? -Coconut water, yeah.
And you can use filtered water, too, if you don't like coconut water.
I just like to add it because it adds a little bit of sweetness.
It also adds some electrolytes, so...
-Yum! I like electrolytes. -Yeah!
So that was kale and this is spinach.
We're gonna do orange. Apple.
Thank you. -Yeah, pre-plucked 'em for ya.
-I love these, apple things. -Come back!
-So, banana. -Okay.
-And, some ginger. -Okay, a little ginge.
-I love ginger. -Okay.
Great for detoxing. A little bit of jalapeno. And that's where the spicy comes from.
And I can never say this word, but capsaicin, I think that's how you say it.
It's really great for boosting the metabolism. So that's gonna totally gonna,
like, rev you up.
Yeah, that's my secret for, in the winter time,
when I'm sick, I make hot soup with jalapeno.
-Oh, awesome. -Like, just burn out all the junk.
You'll have to make me that. We'll have you on the show.
-So a frozen pineapple. -This is a full blend.
Or, fresh pineapple. It doesn't have to be frozen.
And, you know, the ice really depends on how much frozen ingredients you have.
So if you use frozen banana or frozen pineapple, you don't need a lot of ice.
But if you don't, and it's all fresh, then you
probably want two cups of ice.
Because when you're doing a whole-food juice, you know, a smoothie usually,
it's like, especially this one which has the smoothie settings, it's like
under a minute.
But when you're doing a whole-food juice, you want to blend for at least a minute
and a half. -Oh, okay. Good to know.
So that's going to really pulverize those fibers to you're getting more of a juice
consistency.
-Great. So we're ready to go? -Yeah.
-Okay. Let's do it. -Aright. I'm excited.
-Yeah. Me, too.
Oh, I think it might need the tamper just in case.
Okay, here we go.
[blending]
Give it a chance.
No, I'm just kidding.
-It usually needs it. -Really? Okay.
-Right? -Yeah!
-Just to kinda get it started. -Yeah.
[blending]
-So a minute and a half. -Minute and a half. Okay.
[singing]
-The Blender Babe. -Hi!
-This is mine. -Those are good guns!
-Yeah, pretty good.
Okay. Aright, so a minute and a half. And that's why you definitely need some ice
cause you know these things can heat up starting around a minute and a half.
-Can I get you a cup? -Yes, please.
This is for two servings. So in the juice detox,
you're drinking a lot of juice.
-This is two servings? -Yeah.
I drink 32 ounces a day of green juices. -Wow!
So, I drink more than the average person.
And that's one of the common questions we get, so you don't have to drink that much,
especially if you're new to it. You can save it
for, like, a snack in-between the juices.
Here we go. Cheers.
-I am spicy hot. Here we go. -Spicy hot.
It's good. It's really good.
And you notice how there's not, how there's, like, zero fiber.
-Zero fiber. -It really tastes like a juice.
Yeah, and it's got, like, um a liquid consistency, unlike a smoothie, which is more, like, thick.
If you can get a thick, luscious smoothie, that's the beauty of having a good machine.
This is, like, not like that at all. And it's completely consistent and homogeneous,
and, sort of, all the same color.
It's really good. It's really, really good.
I'm surprised. I thought it was going to be disgusting.
What, you don't like the idea of a jalapeno in your smoothie? Or juice?
No, it's very good.
It's the type of thing that I would drink the
entire thing in ten seconds. It's that good.
And I think that this one, I don't remember off
the top of my head, it's either the, um, like, the
snack juice, or the lunch juice, I think it might be lunch.
Yeah.
So if you guys definitely want to check out our free juice detox,
go to blenderbabes.com/detox.
Definitely do that. And remember, that no matter what kind of juice you do, whole-food
juicing, juice extracting, it's all good. It's all healthy.
Because Life is NOYOKE.
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-Are you ready? -Yeah.
[deep breath] Hey, Lenny Gale, Life is...
-Okay, we should breathe? -Yeah.
[deep breath]
I usually do this. [pounding]
-This is good. This is really, really good. -Good, I'm glad you like it.
I'm not bullsh*tting. I'm gonna drink the whole thing.
Good. I think I am, too. I don't think I had breakfast.
Oh, yeah. We had the smoothie, right.
Eh, we just drink our foods around here. Yeah, exactly.
Try this, Shalvie, you might like it.