Ditch the Green Smoothies

Many people might not have the time or the inclination to cook their vegetables, so they throw kale and spinach, two “health foods” into a blender with some other ingredients to make what is known as a “green smoothie,” which is quite popular nowadays. In addition, many people think that cooking the food “kills” many of the nutrients in the food, so it is best to take your vegetables raw.

According to the ancient rishis of India who cognized India — this is definitely not the case! In fact, even without microscopes they were able to cognize at a deep level of consciousness that many vegetables have problems associated with them and these problems would go away if you cook them.

How prescient they were! We now know that kale contains two compounds which can depress the thyroid gland function and both spinach and kale contain oxalates which pull the calcium out of the body depriving the bones of their much needed source of nourishment and can also increase the likelihood of developing kidney stones as well. But these troublesome compounds in spinach and kale are reduced up to 80% by the cooking process, making them safe to consume.

The video discusses other reasons why the cold smoothies may disrupt your health — some of the ingredients which go into these smoothies can clog the body’s delicate system of physical channels, channels which carry bodily fluids such as digestive juices, lymphatic fluids, toxins, urine and sweat, for example. The pea and whey proteins sometimes used are too clogging to this delicate network of physical channels, as are bananas, cold coconut milk and avocados. Plus the frozen fruits added to the mixture can put out your digestive fire, making it very difficult to burn up the food.

A recipe is given, known as “Green Protein” which was developed by my teacher and mentor, Vaidya Rama Kant Mishra, which involves cooking the spinach, kale or other greens and adding fats such as olive oil and ghee, as well as spices and blending them together to make a much more nourishing alternative to the cold clogging smoothies which will be easily absorbed into the cells and not disrupt one’s channels or digestive fire.

And the opposite is true: cooking the vegetables actually softens the vegetable fibers so that even if some nutrients are destroyed in the cooking process, the net result is that even more nutrients will be taken up into the cells, especially if the recipe contains fats which carry the nutrients across the cell wall and spices which stoke the digestive fire, increasing the absorption of the nutrients.

So please think twice about making these cold channel-clogging smoothies which increase your risk of kidney stones and can weaken your bones. There is a better alternative out there which is much more nourishing and easier on your digestive processes. And it takes only about 5 minutes to make! About the same amount of time as the cold smoothie.

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[billybhunter]

another good clearing up of a misconceived trend. Thanks Dr. Teitelbaum

[kiwe]

Yup...i spent YEARS drinking green smoothies got really sick — stroke like...they did loads of tests and found my thyroid function was dangerously low...also i was anaemic even though i was drinking a blender full of greens a day... now i ONLY eat greens cooked

[margaretwheatley]

Brilliant video, many thanks. I recently watched some videos on oxalates and was quite shocked. Ayruveda is brilliant!!! Also, i love your video on magnesium. Many thanks again for taking the time to make these video. Im a nurse, its all so interesting 😊

[leekosub]

Thank You, Dr. Teitelbaum! Can't wait to try the recipe. Just ordered some cheese cloth to make paneer. :-)

[borisborowetz]

Two of my best friends had smoothies very often, especially for breakfast. Both were extremely fit athletes, but she got urinary bladder cancer very quickly, and died. He got the same cancer, and then total bone and cartridge degeneration. He's still surviving, but taking chemotherapy, and stem cell injections. I am a witness to the destruction caused by unnatural diets.

[jenniferconway]

Yum, I'm making goat paneer based on your fab recipe book! Shokrun. Thank you Dr. T!!!!

[joeohalloran]

Oh my goodness, I'll be eating nothing soon. Every food is dangerous.
So many
Do, don't, do, dont, I don't know who to believe anymore.

[lelamelviney]

I have been boiling, draining, and then freezing my kale for a few years.
Then I just take the cooked frozen kale and throw it into my smoothie.

[Sarara-mvsx]

I went through a green smoothie phase about five years ago. One day I realized that I just didn't enjoy them, and that was that. Interesting to find out my intuition about the was right.

[sageysage]

Great! Instinctively I always thought smoothies were a bad idea. Thank so much!

[OceanFrontVilla]

I've been adding a cup of arugula and broccoli sprouts, sometimes beet greens or Swiss chard or kale to my berry smoothies (1 cup raspberries, frozen and some wild blackrries) plus a date or two, for years and my bone denaity is above average for my age. My doctor said its like a person half my age. I hike daily and try to avoid sugar. I take D3 and K2, omega 3 (and more), eat red meat once or twice a month, chicken 1x a week fish 2x/week. Plenty if beans and lentils soaked from dry in water with a Tbsp of apple cider vinegar.. I take minerals also. Im not on drugs, never take shots, age 68. Did not catch C19

[vanessauevr]

We're not ditching the green drinks, unless we can no longer access organic greens.

[ajunthaanwari]

Use fresh herbs with berries, banana, cocoa, coconut water in smoothies, top with seeds and nuts.

[narayaniji]

Hi Dr Teitelbaum, I have an allergy to oxalic acid (oxalates), where my mast cells over react, I can get hives, and shooting "acid pains" in my body. Why is my body not digesting and excreting this properly? Do you know how to repair this problem? Have you ever had a client with this condition?

[AssyrianGirl-cdvj]

Cooking does not reduce the oxalate hit in spinache, beet greens, etc enough to make them less dangerous. It's a very small fix on a huge dietary problem.

[Newmexicobirds]

Hmmmm, try telling that to Markus rothkrans and Cara brotman, both of whom look pretty freaking fantastic. Also, fully raw Christina

[MsEva]

O my goodness I was drinking green smoothies every day thank you Dr 😮

[aussiegirl-jxnj]

This makes total sense, thanks. I hate green smoothies, now I'll never feel guilty about it.

[simonaszabo]

In my country România we cooking one recipe ciorba. We using sunflower oil 1cup onion 2 boilling with poultry flesh 2potate 1cup Rice 1cup tomato pasta parsley.&fine 1cup raw Milk & 1egg.yamy.

[EssentialHealthwithAmanda]

Many of us in the west ate obsessed with extreme methids to "health" and constant detoxification. We have lost our intuition and made health overcomplicated. Ayurveda is very wise and can be adapted to different cultures and countries, as someone in the northern hemisphere needs different nutrition than someone on the southern.