Rebekah: Hey guys, it’s Bex here. I’m now going to another video in my series with
Mike Perrine from EverdayDetox.org and YouTube.com/EverydayDetox. But don’t go to those links yet because
we have a whole video to present to you right now.
You are a good friend of BexLife. You come here and you teach us about all things healthy
and detox and juicing and all that green stuff that people try to avoid but now are just
getting into. Yeah.
Mike: It’s great that way, right?
Rebekah: It’s really cool.
Mike: It’s funny thing.
Rebekah: We’re answering all your questions that you’ve been sending to us over the
years. And today, we are going to tackle probably the number one question that we get, juicing
versus smoothies, what’s better, what’s the difference? I still haven’t figured
it out.
Mike: They’re very different for very different purposes but they’re also very similar.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: OK? Smoothie is basically blended food. You can either eat some apples and lettuce
or you can blend some apples and lettuce. When you blend food, it’s easy to digest
because you’ve done the job that your teeth normally do. Most people don’t chew really
well. Most people don’t chew as well as the blender will break up the food. So when
you break up the cellulous of the vegetables or of the fruits and release all of the juices
inside then your body can pick them up.
Rebekah: You know what’s really interesting? I’m sorry to interrupt. My girlfriend, Robyn
Youkilis, just did a 21 Day Chewing Challenge which sounded ridiculous but it’s something
that you should really think about. Are you actually chewing your food before you just
swallow it?
Mike: It solves so many problems. They call it Fletcherizing, chewing your food 52 times,
50 something times by somebody whose last name was Fletcher and they call it Fletcherizing.
Rebekah: Well, I have kids who steal my foods so I don’t have that much time. But I have
been chewing better since this challenge. But OK, go ahead.
Mike: We get so much more from our food when we do it that way. So blending is a sort of
a fast track way to get way. So that’s the benefit of a smoothie. That’s it.
Now when you juice, you remove all of the fibers so you get the uptake much more quickly.
So you can basically just flood your body with nutrients and alkalinity with almost
zero effort into having to digest it.
Rebekah: But people have an issue with that. They say when you’re removing all of this
fiber that’s important for digestion and all of that and then you’re getting the
juice which also comes with all the sugars.
Mike: If you’re juicing sugars.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: So that’s the thing. If someone is really athletic or something and you want
to drink and orange juice a pure apple juice every now and again, it’s no big deal. It’s
not going to kill anybody.
But the daily practice should be cutting those with green juices, so cutting the fruit, enough
fruit to make it palatable, make it fun.
Rebekah: So, when you’re making – let’s say you’re making the perfect juice, what
proportion of it should be greens?
Mike: It depends on the person and what time of day it is and things like that.
Rebekah: It’s the morning, it’s me.
Mike: It’s the morning, it’s you?
Rebekah: It’s me. And I don’t juice actually. I just use smoothies. But go ahead.
Mike: I would do anywhere from 20 to 50% sugar.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: The rest green.
Rebekah: OK. So I’m in good shape.
Mike: Yeah.
Rebekah: Because that’s what I do with my smoothies. It’s always at least half greens,
at least.
Mike: Yeah.
Rebekah: And then I’m adding in the fruit because it tastes better and I like it for
energy because I don’t drink coffee. I don’t do the caffeine thing.
Mike: And always do that on an empty stomach. If you drink sweet juice even if you drink
a sugarless juice and put it on top of food, it’s probably going to ferment in your belly.
That’s where whole food combining all of the [0:03:10] [Indiscernible].
Rebekah: I know. Once you just said that, I know that there are already going to be
like 50 questions like why can’t I eat fruit? Not on an empty stomach. We have all the videos
as well.
Mike: Here’s one little tip that a lot of people who drink sugary juices or eat fruits
first thing in the morning for breakfast, they’re eating dinner at 10:00 o’clock
at night. They’re early risers. And at 5:30, 6:00, 7:00 o’clock in the morning, their
stomach is not even empty and they’re putting stuff on top and then they’re belching all
day and they feel acidic and they don’t feel right. And they say, “Oh, the juice
makes me feel sick.” But it’s not that. You need to be empty to take in the fruits
and fruit juices.
Rebekah: And how much time would you want to allow for that emptiness?
Mike: Overnight. It depends on what time you eat because everything – if you eat dinner
at 10:00 o’clock, even if 12 hours passed and it’s 10:00 o’clock in the morning
but you’ve eaten so late at night, your metabolism is really slow and then you slept
on that food which is not a good practice to have, your stomach is probably not going
to empty or at least your upper intestines are not going to empty at the way it would
if you had a meal at noon and then you try to juice again at 6:00. That would be much
more rapid even though it’s a shorter window.
So overnight, I think that 16 hours is a good way to do it between your last meal and your
first juice or meal.
Rebekah: I have so many questions that are popping up in my head right now. I’m going
to let you guys post them in the comments below because this video is about juices versus
smoothies. But I want the final verdict. So it’s not that one is better?
Mike: I think juicing is better. I do. I think juicing is better. I know people are going
to say, “Oh, you don’t have your fiber. You don’t have the fiber.” But juice is
supplemental even though it’s all food. Juice is supplemental. Juice is magical. What
it does to the blood, it activates the bowels. People think you need the fiber to go to the
bathroom but it doesn’t. You drink 32 ounces of juice, you start to go like that.
Rebekah: That is good.
Mike: It’s very cleansing and very therapeutic depending on what you’re juicing of course.
And smoothies are just blended food. And you should either – you can blend your food,
you can eat your food, however you’re going to do it but you’re not going to do that
anyway. You’re not losing fiber when you juice because you’re going to eat it when
you eat.
Rebekah: Do you want to give me the number one mistake that people are making with their
smoothies?
Mike: The number one mistake people are making with their smoothies is complicate ingredients.
It defeats the purpose of the smoothie. And that has to do with the protein powders and
adding the fats and the nuts. I saw a smoothie video. I couldn’t believe the video that
I saw, the smoothie video. The guy started out with dried blueberries and ended up with
a nut milk, colostrum, all like six different powders. By the end of it, it was just sludge.
I was just like why – what is that? Why do you even drink that? I don’t want to
visit the bathroom after you my friend.
Rebekah: Yeah. I’m pretty much like a five-ingredient girl.
Mike: Yeah, fruits and greens. Fruits and greens. All fruit if you’ve just been exercising
or something but fruits, greens, maybe green powder. Keep the protein stuff out. Mix that
into a nut milk later at a different time.
Rebekah: Another one down, another one to go. Stay tuned. Find Mike at EverdayDetox.org
and YouTube.com/EverydayDetox where he has amazing podcast, a couple featuring me. And
I hope that you will please leave your comments below because we have to keep these videos
coming. I know there’s tons of information that we just can’t get to in a few minutes.
So, see you soon.