Juicing versus Blending. What is it? What's it good for and when would you do
one or the other? Coming right up.
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Both blending and juicing are getting more and more popular but there is some
confusion so I thought I'd clear up a few things first of all if you blend
something it doesn't make it juice just because it's liquid in juicing we remove
the fiber and we keep the sugar and the nutrients in blending we put the whole
thing in there and you keep all the fiber so it's a whole food still in that
sense obviously and with blending use a blender in a juicing you use a juicer so
a juicer is something that can separate the fiber from the liquid it shreds it
puts pressure on it and you get the liquid out there so why would we want to
do one or the other because it's about vegetables it's about fruits and
vegetables and this is a convenient way of consuming them however in blending
it's difficult to consume more than maybe one pound or so a day and inducing
however we can consume as much as 10 15 maybe even 20 pounds of fruits and
vegetables in a single day and we're getting all of those nutrients into our
bodies everything except the fiber because vegetables are cleansing that
means that this is a cleansing method it's super charging your body with
nutrients you're assisting of your liver and getting rid of toxins so this is
most suitable for people with a chronic disease someone who might be too weak to
digest food at all day they don't have much of an appetite
they eat something but it doesn't know good because they don't have the energy
to break it down digestion is very expensive it takes a lot of energy for
the body to process the food and it when we juice then it's
predigested it's extremely simple for the body the nutrients basically just
flow across the intestinal membrane and they're in the bloodstream and we're
done very very toxic people people with cancer and autoimmunity and degenerative
disease they're prime candidates for this because if you're toxic you need
cleansing primarily so juice provides concentrated nutrients you can't get
that much nutrients in you from real food unless you remove the fiber so here
it tastes it juices taste very good even things that you don't think of a sweet
per se like lettuce and cucumber and things like that
they turn out sweet when you juice them because you're concentrating nutrients
and you're concentrating the sugar so you're getting the vitamins minerals and
enzymes everything that you need to process these foods you're getting all
its nutrients in their natural form but it is also important to not heat the
juice and don't let it sit too long if possible you want to use a low speed
juicer that doesn't heat or fling the juice around too much so it gets exposed
to a lot of oxygen so low speed juicer and drink it as fresh as possible within
minutes or a couple of hours don't drink it the next day because a lot of the
nutrients will be gone by then the concentrated sugar can be a good
thing and a bad thing if you're really weak people who don't have a lot of
energy they don't have the energy to digest things that sugar is a great
energy source they can get get some energy they can get some blood sugar
that's an easy energy for them but if you are more just trying to do this
because you're overweight and you're extremely insulin resistant then juicing
may not be the way to go because if you're working with ketosis and
intermittent fasting this will definitely throw you out of ketosis
there is however a place there's a Gerson Institute founded by
Maxie Gerson and he started treating chronic disease and cancer and severe
cases of different things back in 20s and 30s and he found that he had great
success with cancer and and several degenerative diseases but he also had
success with diabetes so I don't know all of the factors that are involved
there but it seems like just loading supercharging the body with nutrients
could have such a beneficial effect that you could even overcome and heal the
body and help it heal from diabetes as well but I would primarily suggest this
for people who have the chronic disease the cancer the who are too weak to
digest etc for most people I would suggest for the most part stick with
blending because here you keep the fiber it's an everyday habit something that
you can do every day for a long long time it's a great meal replacement you
can put some nuts you can put some protein into the blending and you have a
whole meal it is a raw food that provides enzymes so you're getting a lot
of the natural things from whole food you're getting raw plant fiber that is
the raw materials it's the food for the healthy portion of your gut flora the
sugar and the starch the processed food feeds the opportunistic bad flora but
the raw plant fiber the whole food feeds the good flora so that's a way of
helping your body rebalance that gut flora and because you want to emphasize
mostly vegetables and not so much fruits maybe a few berries in here you can get
this very low in sugar so that even if there's a few grams of sugar it's not
gonna throw you out of ketosis you can maintain this with a very low
carbohydrate lifestyle as well this is more of a temporary thing or more of an
extreme measure to supercharge your body this is more of an ongoing
lifestyle habits hope that was helpful and if you're new to this channel and
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