Hey guys, Dr. Axe here.
One of the most common questions I get on a regular basis is, is breakfast the most
important meal of the day?
My answer to you is, yes.
I think breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
In this video I'm going to share with you how sometimes skipping breakfast can actually
be good for you and if you are eating breakfast, as being the most important meal of the day,
what exactly does that meal consist of to make it the healthiest overall meal of the
day?
I'll cover some of the super foods.
So to start here, breakfast being the most important meal of the day, here's why breakfast
is so critical.
Let's say you ate last time with 6:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. in the evening, you're waking
up 12 hours later, an entire half day, and your body needs fuel.
It needs fuel to start to repair and to heal and for energy throughout the day.
So your body needs to feed off of something.
So again, for that reason breakfast is really the most important meal of the day because
it really gets your entire day started and your body needs those nutrients.
Now, when you're creating this super healthy meal for breakfast, what I would recommend
you do, is do a super food smoothie.
Now listen, there are other options.
You can do a healthy omelet with goat cheese and veggies.
You can do sprouted oatmeal or some other things but what I believe to be one of the
healthiest options is going to be a super food smoothie.
Here's what you'll need to make to make a super food smoothie.
Number one, you are going to need some coconut milk or some sort of liquid base.
Coconut milk, almond milk, kefir or coconut water, those are the three I use most often.
So you need those healthy fats in something like coconut milk.
The next thing you need is a good quality source of protein.
I typically recommend eggs, whey protein powder, like a grass fed whey, beef protein, or collagen
powder.
I typically use a grass-fed whey or a collagen powder and that's what I put as my protein
in my smoothie.
So, we've got healthy fat in typically your coconut milk.
We've got the healthy protein in your protein powder and then you want to add in fiber,
and you want to do that by doing something like a chia seed and a black seed.
So I've actually got a bag here of chia and so chia seeds, especially sprouted chia, or
sprouted fiber, is a great thing to get in your super food smoothie for breakfast.
Then the next thing you'll do are antioxidants, are critical for recovery and to slow the
aging process.
So, I'll add in one cup of berries as well.
So again, you want healthy fat, healthy protein, fiber, as well as antioxidants in that smoothie
for breakfast.
And then obviously, vitamins and minerals.
You're getting lots of vitamins and minerals from what I've just described.
And if you want to take your super food smoothie to a whole other level and make breakfast
the healthiest meal of the day, you can sneak in a hand full of spinach or kale.
I promise you won't even taste it.
Or add in a scoop of green super food powder, but that will make it the healthiest meal
of the day.
Now, there's actually a trend out there today called intermittent fasting where you skip
breakfast.
I've gotten questions recently, is that healthy?
The answer is yes, it can be healthy.
I don't think it's healthy to do every day all of the time for some people, but I do
think for a period of time, skipping breakfast can actually be good for you.
Ig allows your body to rest and recover.
This is the same reason why fasting is healthy and people have done fasting, whether it be
water fast, or Daniel fast, or vegetable juice fast over the years, as it really lets the
body heal and recover.
So, again, even though breakfast is the healthiest meal of the day, fasting, like intermittent
fasting, especially for periods of time, can be greatly beneficial.
Hey, I hope this has helped answer the question "Is breakfast the healthiest meal of the day?"
I believe it is.
But again, that doesn't mean that fasting, there's not a place for fasting and health
benefits there as well.