I recently learned about the health benefits of eating foods that produce alkalinity in the body. The idea is to keep your blood alkaline. There are several interesting studies showing that blood cells actually start to mutate when their environment becomes too acidic. They adapt to the environment and litterally start performing different functions. After alkalizing the blood stream, they return to their proper form and function.
Vegetables are a great way to help neutralize acidity in the body but it’s often difficult to get the amount of vegetables that you need in a day. The green drink is the easiest way that I know of to accomplish this. It’s made up of freeze-dried and finely chopped greens. I tried 3 or 4 green drinks before I settled on the Anthony Robbins drink. His drink is very expensive though. I decided to see if I could make the same drink without breaking the bank. I use all the same ingredients except MSM. You can buy all of these ingredients in freeze-dried powder form online which makes them easy to mix for drinking. I made it for about 1/5th the cost.
Ingredients:
- 1 part alfalfa (watch out, many people have allergies)
- 3 parts spinach juice
- 3 parts barley grass
- 3 parts wheat grass
- 3 parts broccoli
Serving size:
- 2 grams or 1 teaspoon (3 times per day)
If you want to mimic the Tony Robbins green drink more closely, just add 2 to 3 parts MSM. This is supposed to provide support for joints and cartilage.
I purchased these ingredients from Z Natural Foods. As you can see, we aren’t using a bunch of whacky ingredients that you can’t even pronounce. The grasses are great because they are ultra-high in chlorophyll. I learned that chlorophyll has almost exactly the same chemical makeup as our blood cells so it takes very little energy to convert it to blood cells. If you are interested in concept of efficient food, this is particularly interesting.
