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Take the green smoothie challenge. Welcome to the Unchained TV podcast with me, your host, Jane Velez Mitchell. Yes, we do have some breaking news for you.

 

There is a new challenge out there and it’s growing like wildfire. It’s the green smoothie challenge. And I pose a question to you.

 

What if there was a simple green drink that could turn your life around right away? Well, there is, and you can learn how to make a delicious, hyper nourishing green smoothie. This life-changing drink is easy and fast to make.

 

And we’re going to tell you all about it so that you can supersize your life. A life-changing green smoothie recipe. Triple wash your kale, stick it in the blender, just like this.

 

Add some chia seeds and fruit on the top. I throw in a little bit of soy milk and a whole lot of water. The blender dance.

 

Now the moment of truth. Magnifique, the miracle green smoothie. Do try this at home.

 

And yes, you’re going to learn all about the green smoothie challenge and how you can be a part of it. First up, we are going to go to Anita Krines, who was the one who turned me onto this and told me, Hey, this is life-changing. Anita, tell me why you are such an advocate of this green smoothie.

 

So yes, I had COVID in December and I had no energy. I didn’t even want to drink water. And then my friend Ingrid in South Africa told me about Dr. Goldner’s green smoothie. And it just, it gave me so much energy. It also makes me happier and I feel much healthier. And I think one of the reasons I’m so keen about it is that people don’t eat enough raw green vegetables every day, particularly cruciferous vegetables, but kale and other cruciferous vegetables are the most nutrient dense food on the planet.

 

And it’s absolutely essential. And Dr. Goldner reversed her lupus with this green smoothie and also eating, you know, dark leafy greens and salads and cruciferous vegetables and adding omega-3 from flax seed and chia seeds. And since then, a lot of people have reversed other autoimmune diseases and also helped reverse, you know, diabetes and things like that.

 

So I think, you know, worldwide, more and more people are getting sicker because they’re eating more and more processed food, meat, dairy and eggs. And so what we need to do is to reintroduce people to just eating whole foods. So like vegetables in particular and fruits, and also, you know, the tofu and beans and nuts and things like that.

 

So I think the green smoothie is really important on an individual level, like just, just for, you know, challenging people, like your family and friends, but then we also have to ask institutions like city governments and hospitals, schools, universities, and other institutions to have healthy food on their menus. So that’s why I’m such a keen supporter of it. It’s absolutely incredible.

 

You told me to do it. I did it. And I can tell you that it has changed my life because I have a sweet tooth and I always struggle with it.

 

And it has really helped me with my sweet tooth. I want to go straight out to Tiffany Brunelli who is in Pasadena and Tiffany, you are a volunteer for Unchained TV. And you just said, Hey, I’m going to do this.

 

Tell us about your experience. Yes. I’ve been doing it for about two months now, Jane, and I’m addicted.

 

I was traveling and I didn’t bring my bullet with me for about a week. And guess what? The first thing I did last night when I got home, I had to make one.

 

I missed it. I’ve been building, building muscle, working out with weights. I just had a really sweaty workout and I’m just looking forward to diving into this.

 

It’s so simple. You don’t need anything special. You can pick up all the ingredients, what you have in your fridge, just buy a couple of bags of, well, I’m not into chopping it.

 

So I buy a couple of bags of organic spinach, organic kale, already washed, just throw it in the, I had a bullet, just throw it in the bullet, some water. Throw in a handful of chia seeds and I usually use a banana and whatever frozen fruits I have. Game changer.

 

It is a game changer. And this is growing globally. We want to go to Mexico right now.

 

Extraordinary. Valeska, you are doing this in Mexico. Tell us about it.

 

Yeah, I’ve been doing this also for around two months. Since Anita sent me some information because I actually were last year when I was discovered from the doctor that I haven’t done a truce. That is an inflammatory disease and cause a lot of pain to women.

 

So this green smoothie has helped me a lot to pain control and anti-inflammatory. Yeah, it has been changing my life since I started drinking this year. So I’m so excited to share with you.

 

Well, great. We will come back to you making it. And I’m also going to make it.

 

But first I want to tell you that this has gotten so, it’s taken off in such an incredible way that one woman decided she had to write a song and turn it into a music video.

 

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I want to introduce you to my friend, Susie. She has a YouTube video of how to make a smoothie. It’s a special greens recipe only for ingredients, as you can see.

 

Put the greens in first, then it wants some fruit to quench your thirst. She said this green smoothie is totally pure. I was sick with lupus and needed a cure.

 

Try this smoothie, pretty please, the flavor will bring you to your knees. She says it’s different from the rest. Her lupus put it to the test.

 

Drink this green smoothie every day. Keep all immune diseases away.

 

[Speaker 1]

Healing your body from within. And this green smoothie for the win. One thing I thought was really cute.

 

She says in the video, you can’t overfruit. Your skin and hair will start to glow.

 

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Drink it at home or on the go. I want to be healthy. So make this green smoothie.

 

[Speaker 1]

I want to be disease free. Watch this video with me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

 

I was sick with lupus and needed a cure. Absolutely fantastic song. And guess who we have here?

 

The one and only Sara Siegel. Get in there and tell us why you were inspired to make this song. Hi, everybody.

 

The Green Smoothie Challenge has been amazing. And thank you to Anita, who actually sent me the video of Dr. Goldner, Brooke Goldner, she did the video on YouTube and I watched it several times and I came up with some lyrics so when people want to have a quick version of it they can listen to my song, has all the ingredients. I love the fact that it’s very limited and since I’ve been drinking the green smoothies I’ve been really feeling amazing.

 

My skin is better, my hair is better and I just feel better overall. Wow okay well this is very very exciting and it’s not just us saying it, medical doctors are talking about how this is a way to supersize your health. Why is this hyper nourishing smoothie so beneficial for our health?

 

When we look at the nutrients that are found, I mean when we’re looking at dark leafy greens like kale, spinach, it’s so rich in chlorophyll, it’s rich in vitamins like A, C, K, there’s lots of minerals inside like magnesium and folic acid. All of these help us to combat inflammation and reduce oxidative stress because remember antioxidants will clean up these free radicals and prevents them from damaging our cells so a green smoothie like this will help with tissue healing and also will help to fight inflammation and then you’re adding in lots of wonderful seeds so flax and chia seeds are one of the richest or two of the richest sources of plant-based omega-3s and as we know omega-3s are anti-inflammatory so they can help with a lot of inflammatory conditions.

 

Now inflammation underlies and causes a lot of these health issues as I mentioned but someone who has very obvious inflammation, let’s say someone with arthritic pain, they will notice that by drinking smoothies on a regular basis can very likely help to reduce chronic pains and autoimmune discomforts which often include muscle pains and joint pains. So you’re hearing how it’s so incredible now up until this point we talked to women only but we’re gonna go straight out to a guy who is well he’s very buff he works out a lot. Najeeb, tell us your green smoothie experience why did you do it how has it transformed your life?

 

So yeah just being into lifting and everything drinking enough liquids is important but I have an issue with just drinking a lot of water so I started kind of using juice especially green smoothies to kind of help with that. I always like to have them once a day just helps me out with recovery if I’m like sore and stuff it just kind of feels good without having all the excess sugar from store-bought smoothies. Excellent so now we are going to make one on camera and bear with us I’m no chef I’m known to set my cutting board on fire from time to time but the first thing I want to tell you is triple wash your kale okay because the kale can be dirty all right so I have triple washed this that’s my thing and what I’m gonna do now is I’m also going to and I like to hear from other people I take the the biggest stems off because I find the stems to be a little bit on the bitter side.

 

I do too. Yeah okay so I’m gonna okay I’m gonna stick this in here now one of the reasons why it’s so important to put the kale in first okay is that again I have a sugar addiction I love anything sweet any pastry I’ve never seen a well as long as it’s plant-based I’ve never seen a pastry I didn’t like and this for some reason has helped me I’ll really get a handle on it because there’s a sweetness here but it’s not too sweet now you see how I’ve really packed it to the gills with the with the greens and what that means is you can’t put too much fruit in if you start with the fruit you can just pile up the fruit and put a little greens no you absolutely want to start with the greens and then you take a little fruit now I’m using this it’s a combination of mango strawberry and blueberry and I put this right on top okay so you see there boom boom boom and of course I always try to put as much as I possibly can because I love the sweets but it stops me now I take a banana correct me if I’m wrong I don’t think there’s any really wrong way to do this different people will do it slightly differently but now look there you go now what we’re gonna do is put the berries in sorry the the seeds chia seeds these and we’re gonna hear from the doctor again in a second these are truly superfoods that will help you in so many ways and it gives you a little crunch it’s really kind of fun now also flaxseed flaxseed is an incredible superfood okay now sometimes I’ll put a little soy milk I know a lot of purists don’t want to do that so I’m not gonna do it today I am literally just gonna put the water in and you’re gonna have to take my word for it because the sink is over here for one second but if you’re clocking this you can see how fast it is I did all that in well under five minutes so if you can do something for five minutes every day that is going to radically improve your life and reduce your chance of disease preventable lifestyle diseases why wouldn’t you do it here you go now I might you know what one note I want to say is sometimes I feel like I’m putting too much water sometimes I feel like I’m not putting enough you just want it to be pretty heavy but not to the point where it’s so heavy that it’s gonna explode in your kitchen like I said I have been known to explode things in the kitchen so if that happens you were forewarned here it is okay and come on around Sarah we’re gonna do the dance part of the fun is you’re gonna hear from the doctors talking about how important it is to move in conjunction with the smoothie movement is another component in super health so three two are you ready to dance get in the camera babe all right here we go three two one okay I need more water I need more water and that is a good thing to realize when you’re doing it it was not there wasn’t quite as much water as I needed so it just shows you it holds a lot of water and you’re getting that water so many people don’t drink enough water every day so are we ready to dance again okay there you go look at that look how beautiful here you go give it a try talk again to the camera talk about the taste okay so from the video she put in she

 

[Speaker 2]

put in the ingredients so let’s see how simple this is it’s really good

 

[Speaker 1]

actually yeah delicious amazing and the thing is that there is a sweetness to it so it kind of gives that milkshake you know so much of food is psychological so I love the idea of a milkshake and this has that feeling like I’m having a shake so now I want to go back to I want to go back to the doctor one of the doctors there’s a lot of doctors who are advocating for this and remember we don’t make any claims about cures and always warn you this is informational only educational only we’re not diagnosing or prescribing here but let’s face it we’ve got a lot of chronic illness in this country and if something like this can help prevent it why not what are chronic diseases we’re talking about heart disease cancer respiratory diseases diabetes chronic kidney disease alzheimer’s dementia and liver disease and the WHO predicts that 80 percent of these diseases are actually preventable through diet and lifestyle so we need to understand that chronic disease doesn’t just happen in old age it accumulates silently from from when you’re young to adulthood so the peak preventive window is between 20 and 40 years old now if you’re past that age it’s never too late but if we don’t do anything about it we see in the stats that 50 percent of people between 45 to 55 50 percent of people have at least one chronic disease already did you hear that chronic disease is all over the place so i want to go back to anita crimes who is the global campaign coordinator for the plant-based treaty and uh you know we’re dealing with a crisis a health care crisis anita and there is this uh incredible solution why do you think this works what is your insight into that um i think with the green smoothie uh it’s uh it’s such an easy way to get your nutrients uh in a very fast delicious and effective way so you know it takes less than five minutes as you can see you did it in such a fast way and you’re actually eating the most nutrient-dense food on the planet and so uh dr goldner she recommends that you you have kale at least three four times a week so you could put kale and you could put chard spinach um so it’s good to have like a high-powered blender if you don’t have a blender you can make a salad like a big bowl of salad uh with dark leafy greens um cabbage is also very healthy so i think why we are using this particular green smoothie the hyper-inertia green smoothie and uh promoting cruciferous vegetables is because the vast majority of the population does not eat enough fruits and vegetables and whole foods and um cruciferous vegetables have a reputation for being the most nutrient-dense so so we feel that you know we can help individuals on a one-to-one basis but we can also go to institutions like schools universities hospitals uh cities governments and just uh asking them to introduce these green smoothies we can go to restaurants cafes uh you know community centers sports clubs i just think everyone could be doing this green smoothie so this we’re we have a 30 day challenge for earth month but then we’re going to continue it after earth month the reason we do it for 30 days is because that’s that’s about how long it takes for you to develop a new habit and this is the best habit you can you can develop is you know having hyper-nourishing green smoothies or you know big salads every day and so dr golder recommends if you have a salad make that the main part of your dish and then you add other things on top like tofu quinoa beans but try try to have that as a meal have a big green green salad so she she has a green smoothie and salad every day and then in for dinner might have some cooked vegetables in a stew so uh you know it’s good on so many levels uh in terms of it will lengthen your life because this green smoothie works at the cellular level so when you have those omega-3s and this hyper-nourishment it makes your cells more flexible more able to communicate and function and so you have 100 trillion cells in your body and then they are doing the job that they should be doing so you get more mental clarity um if you’re trying to get fit and lose fat and gain muscle it helps you do that so it just um it just it’s it’s life-changing and it’s the way we we were born to eat it’s the way we you know thousands of years ago so we’re just returning to the way we should be eating so what i think is really interesting is nilo far made a very good point so we don’t necessarily have to chew greens we can just stick them in a blender because part of the problem is a lot of people myself included sometimes i mean you know kale yes you should eat it and when it’s done right like by a really great restaurant where they massage the kale they de-stem it because the stems are so bitter and they chop it up into little pieces and they include all these great dressings it can be delicious but sometimes it’s just like it’s a chore to chew the kale so you can have this and you can get your uh dose of kale that you need to be super healthy now tiffany i want to go back to you for a second uh you have actually um done it not in a giant like cuisinart but you have like just a little a little gizmo yes tell us about that yeah this i didn’t have to buy anything special i just um i already had a bullet and it’s just and you can make um you can make um if you want to make a this is from the bullet right here this will fill this up but sometimes i’ll make like two of these and i’ll just pour half of it out and then just fill it up again so you could make just with this right here you could make this two of these but this is just this right here and it’s so i didn’t have to buy anything special and i’m not into washing the kale and cutting it up so i just buy it in the big bags already washed and it probably takes me two minutes okay just throw it in the reason i wash the kale i’ll just tell you i use this is not an advertisement just a fact i use farm fresh to you they deliver fruits and vegetables to my door every monday night the reason is that a lot of times when it’s up to me to go to the grocery store and buy this stuff oh look at the time and then i end up eating something junky so during the pandemic actually um i started ordering and i kept it going because frankly it saves me money because what what happens is if i don’t have the food on hand i’ll oh let me just order a grub hub and have something well you know for forty dollars a week i get all these fruits and vegetables you know five kales uh oranges bananas apples carrots and then because they’re in the house i find myself eating them and uh also my dogs are vegan and i feed them uh the potatoes and the carrots and uh that sort of thing so i’ve actually uh been getting this delivered and it’s really worked for me i want to go back to mexico city very excited to have somebody from mexico here um will you you are you are making this give it a shot i know that it’s it’s not easy to cook on camera but we’re not really cooking just do your thing okay thank you disclaimer i’m not a chef but i’ve been doing this green smoothie for a while so i just want to show you how easy it is like uh even this blender is not as good as i have in in my other house where i’m not where i live uh but you can do it this like just putting the greens and some water and mix it like sometimes it make it easier if you put like more water down so it blends in here and also we have the black tea and i put it on like just as dr julie said like they’re so anti-inflammatory for the omega it has helped me so much um and yeah you put just the greens and on the top you put like the mangoes and some banana also the mangoes are frozen just to keep it fresh and it will help in the taste but yeah as you see like the major thing is like the greens and then just put it some sweet to flavor and yeah a little bit just mix it okay so i will start to mix there it is it’s a quiet blender you can’t even hear it that’s so interesting mine is noisy as all get out but we can’t even hear yours and there it is blending you can see if you look to the right of the screen there it is the mango mixing in and uh wow this everybody’s like hey blender party that’s adam leo we’ve got people saying tina walker says i’m going to start doing this go jane go sarah all right let’s see what you got that was really fast whoa whoa okay take take a glass and try it because i think the point is people want to make sure that you actually drink it all right there you go take a sip it tastes so good because the mangoes and the banana are so um tasty and it seems like sweet um i really love the taste of the greens but i think anyone can join these like my mom joined these last um a couple of weeks ago and my mom is like a super picky with the food and she even loves it so yeah you can try it it’s for everyone great all right this is absolutely fantastic and again doctors are talking about you know how this is important and you know i’ve got a lot to learn about the gut microbiome what i do know is that your gut microbiome determines your serotonin levels and your serotonin levels determine your meat your mood so when you’re doing a green smoothie and eating super healthy you’re you’re gonna be happier too you’re gonna have like a you know a pep to your step look at the large amount of fiber i mean i think some people probably get more fiber in that one smoothie than their entire day because some people don’t eat their vegetables and when you’re looking at the fiber it’s going to help to detoxify the body it’s going to really help to again bring the toxins out of the system which will improve your energy your gut health and the bananas that are in there so so there’s going to be lots of prebiotics that are found in smoothies as well and for those of you who don’t really know what prebiotics are it’s it’s basically a fiber but it’s used as food for our microbiome and when our microbiome eats the prebiotics it can generate short chain fatty acids and the short chain fatty acids improves that gut barrier so it’s a very important process that you know we get lots and lots of fiber in our body and all of this will translate to better skin health better liver health better cardiovascular health you know i’ve seen people lower their blood sugars just by simply introducing a smoothie a day reducing their cholesterol inflammation so in general you’ll see that just by doing a green smoothie a day you are pretty much moving yourself into that preventive strategy of reducing chronic diseases all right now one person said thank you to dr brooke goldner tadlock and her husband tom tadlock for inspiring anita crimes to bring their green smoothie to us at plant-based treaty can you tell me the backstory of this anita apparently dr goldner dr brooke goldner had an illness and again we’re not saying the word cure this is educational only consult your doctor we’re not prescribing we’re doing something educational but can you tell us the story of all this goldner uh was a vegetarian as a child loved animals but she got lupus at 16 and had it till 20 20 28 so about 12 years and then she met tadlock and then they got married and he was into fitness and he was already doing this uh this smoothie um and then she started drinking it and because she was vegetarian he because he was at that point he was omnivore so he would eat meat but eat the green smoothie so he had to make it vegan for her so she was eating tofu in the green smoothie and then she became symptom free and they didn’t even understand why for years she just thought oh she’s happy she’s in love then she figured then they figured it out it was actually the green smoothie and eating lots of cruciferous vegetables and omega-3s and she’s been symptom free uh for for like 30 years now and um she uh is a doctor and also psychiatrist and uh she treats people one-on-one as a clinical doctor and so a lot of people that uh to take on her protocol uh have reversed their autoimmune diseases including um you know lupus rheumatoid arthritis and various thyroid autoimmune diseases and so um and she’s published in journals and had like 50 000 downloads for some of her journal articles uh you know documenting uh her experiences as in her clinic so um a lot of other doctors support this like dr greger um i’m just reading dr firman’s book joel firman’s book from uh you know a couple decades ago he was also he says like eating uh cruciferous vegetables particularly dark leafy greens are are is the best because they’re the most nutrient dense he puts them at 100 then he puts uh like cabbages 95 and then other vegetables at 50 like uh peppers and things like that then at 40 he says um like nuts and seeds and then at 30 tofu and things like that but then when you go to dairy and other things like they’re very low in terms of nutrients and uh some processed foods like cookies are at zero so um one of the problems that we have is uh the rise in autoimmune diseases even among children and it’s because people are eating so much meat dairy and eggs and processed food so um that’s why it’s so important to you know to have to eat your greens uh have your flax seed or chia seeds and one thing i would recommend jane is that you use the whole flax seed and not the ground because it oxidizes the omega-3 so you should and it’s cheaper to get the the seeds um so yeah so i’d recommend you do that so you can’t hear you um that’s very interesting i was thinking the other way around that if you grind it it makes it more easily absorbable are you saying for the chia seeds and the flax seeds just put them in straight yes interesting so let me ask you tell us about the green smoothie challenge because we have people first of all somebody wants to know can you use frozen kale that is a question um and uh can you answer that one yeah she she recommends that you do not because you lose some of the nutrients so preferably use fresh please all right and what about your uh campaign like how do people get involved is there a support website or facebook page where people can you know be part of a green smoothie community because it’s actually been real really fun to find some of my friends like tiffany brunelli who’s one of our top unchained tv volunteers and sarah siegel who’s a top unchained tv volunteer and i know they also do work with the plant-based treaty but then i was telling about this and they’re like oh i’m doing the green smoothie too i’m like really oh wow so there’s a lot of people doing it tell us about the community people are looking at this going yeah i need to start doing this where’s the support okay so we we have a leaflet that you can download on plantbasedtreaty.org under the take action section we have a green smoothie sign-up sheet and so we have almost 600 people that have signed up worldwide and um so it’s a 30-day challenge for earth month but then we’re going to continue it after earth month and we’re we’re we have uh zooms every week to just see how people are doing we have content posted uh daily on the plant-based treaty instagram um and uh we’re gonna have a dance competition so thank you sarah for doing that incredible song and um um so each week we have a different theme so the first week is just like how to make a smoothie and why it’s why it’s great and the second week is mental health so uh as i mentioned dr uh goldner is also psychiatrist and a lot of her books so her books cover mental health in particular this book called um this one called goodbye autoimmune uh a lot of it is just on mental health and uh it definitely makes you happier and then the third week we’re talking about earth earth month sorry earth week and uh how the green smoothie also is good for the environment and the final week we’re talking about advocacy so like how can we all be advocates how can we share the green smoothie with our friends how can we introduce it to the workplace so for example we today we went to brampton city it’s a city just outside toronto that endorsed the treaty and we made a gallon of smoothie for the mayor and all the councillors and they all had it during the session and uh they’re taking on they’re taking on the on the challenge and doing it and for the last week we’re also going to look at how you can affect institutions like hospitals schools universities how can we introduce the green smoothie and and make it uh a part of menus for for you know all the different institutions you know from from your you know your from your dinner table to you know the schools so that that’s our goal is how can we spread this everywhere uh throughout the world one of the things i really like about it najeeb is that i can walk around with this all day in other words i made it this morning but i’m not going to drink the whole thing so i’m drinking it over the course of the entire day into the night and i’ll tell you when it comes to me i’m i’m a pretty good eater until about 9 30 at night and then that child mind of mine says i deserve a reward and i could do a hundred years of therapy it’s not going to change i know that this is in the hard drive that’s when the candies and the chocolates and uh you know the sweets enter the picture and i usually go off the rails if i could just cut it at seven o’clock so what i do is i have this now you know left over from the course of the day and it really reduces i’m not saying i never have a sweets or treats at night but it really reduces the number of treats that i’ll have because it has psychologically the impact of a treat it’s also filling and najeeb can you can

 

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you address that or what’s your process um so i actually do um like once a month a cleanse day where i just drink juice the entire time um with that it’s just it’s crazy how like i’m full the entire day i mean i’m actually having trouble finishing this second one i already only had like an eight ounce one and i’m already getting full this is i need to have lunch or today so it’s awesome how it’s gonna keeps you energized as well i when i do my cleanses i still go to the gym i still have energy to go walk my dogs and go out i’ve done actually a couple of videos about that too it’s uh i feel like yeah it keeps you just up and going especially with snacking i

 

[Speaker 1]

i actually have the same issue around like around that same time 8 30 9 p.m you know i feel like yeah i had a good day i deserve a snack um but with that juice usually i’m more into like the

 

[Speaker 2]

salty stuff because nothing about like sugar or anything because it’s just gonna fills up your

 

[Speaker 1]

body with that uh you’re on mute still for those just joining us i feel like we got to play the green smoothie song again because it’s so good and uh it’s really danceable so i want to remind you when you’re doing the blender you can dance get that exercise in and it’s super fun i mean i don’t care what kind of day you’re having you could be super depressed by the time you do the blender dance with this green smoothie you’re gonna be laughing i want to introduce you to my

 

[Speaker 2]

friend suzy she has a youtube video of how to make a smoothie it’s a special greens recipe

 

[Speaker 1]

only four ingredients as you can see

 

[Speaker 2]

put the greens in first then it wants some fruit to quench your thirst she said this green smoothie is totally pure i was sick with lupus and needed a cure try this smoothie pretty please the flavor will bring you to your knees oh she says it’s different from the rest her lupus put it to the test drink this green smoothie every day keep all immune diseases away

 

[Speaker 1]

healing your body from within this green smoothie for the win one thing i thought was really cute she says in the video you can’t over fruit your skin and hair will start to glow drink it at home or on the go i want to be all right okay oh my dogs go crazy when they when we blend our dance or when we play that song. So Sarah tell everybody why you felt like inspired to actually write that song.

 

So what happened was I write vegan songs that’s what I do and then Anita sent me the link to the video on YouTube and she was like hey I want you to take the green smoothie challenge and watch this video. So since Anita said it I was like okay I’ll do it. So I watched it because I juice anyway mostly all day.

 

So I watched the video it’s quite long but it’s really good and informative and I love the part where she says put the greens in first. So that’s what’s so important is you don’t want to put too much fruit. So anyway I decided I told Anita I love the I did it or whatever and she said well can you write a song about it.

 

I was like okay I’ll try to. So I just got the lyrics from the actual video on YouTube which is in my video also. So the best thing to do is watch that video it’s so informative and amazing.

 

You can listen to my song to put the ingredients in to make it simple and like I said it’s so delicious and I just feel amazing. Honestly I want to say thank you Sarah and what a really good song. I mean I like it it’s very catchy.

 

All right girls but I want to say that it does have a psychological effect. So many people are suffering from depression and you know we say when you eat death when you eat suffering it is going to translate into your mood. This actually has a way it’s almost like a natural high.

 

I want to do a round table starting with Tiffany Brunelli. What are your thoughts on that Tiffany? Oh 100 percent.

 

Like I said I didn’t have it for about six days after having it for a couple months every day and I just I could I was dragging I was eating more sugar. I could tell first thing I did yesterday when I got home was make another one of these. You can tell a difference once you yeah love it.

 

What was the change? What is the difference? I was dragging I felt you feel really hungry in the morning and throughout the day when I drink this I feel full I feel energized it feels clean.

 

So let’s go and do a round Robin Valeska. What is your reaction when you have this? What does it do to you psychologically?

 

We’ve talked about the physical benefits but what about your mood? Yeah it makes me feel more energized more fresh to start the day to do some exercise and I’m actually craving it like if I’m not having the drink smoothie for any reason like I’m craving it I just wanted to go and do it. So for me has been like life-changing like have more energized feel more clean more I wanted to do more exercise and do more stuff and eat more salads and just dump the ultra processed foods because yeah sometimes I just wanted to grab like anything that it was easier for me to do or whatever but yeah this is like super easy to do and is like fresh and super powerful green smoothie yeah for me I mean. Anita tell us about your process like what time of day do you do this and how has it affected you psychologically? So I make the green smoothie every morning because I want to start off the day getting hyper nourished so I recommend people do that so that you just you’re sure that you’re having your nourishment.

 

If I’m having if I’m feeling stressed and having a difficult day I may make two or three jugs of it just to like because it helps me so much and I would also recommend watching Dr. Goldner’s Wellness Wednesday show on YouTube and she does a Q&A and she’s so positive she’s one of the most positive people I know and it’s about she recommends that you live in the present that you forgive that you move on that you it just she just has a strong message she’s very grateful every day because she thought she was going to die at 16 when she had lupus like she had kidney failure stage four and she had to take chemotherapy for two years just to like put her immune system at bay so they wouldn’t destroy her organs and she thought she was gonna die and so the fact that she lived and then even reversed it and you know became symptom-free she’s so grateful and so happy to be alive and so I just and she’s a psychiatrist so I think that’s also helped with my mood is just having this green smoothie but also listening to somebody who is vegan and promoting this green smoothie to the rest of the world because she wants to give pay it forward and so I think all of us can just pay it forward and that’s that’s where my my happiness also comes from paying it forward and seeing more and more people using this so I told all my friends about it and just telling you every day I talk to people about the green smoothie and Najeeb let’s ask you in terms of you you’re you’re a bodybuilder you work out like crazy you’re in good shape so you didn’t need to really lose weight but what does it do for you psychologically?

 

Well actually I’ve lost 100 pounds and I’ve gained 30 pounds of muscle being vegan

 

[Speaker 2]

and like incorporating juices helped a lot like having the cleanses and stuff so it did help me lose weight quicker than if I was not including that in my diet

 

[Speaker 1]

Breaking news this is breaking news I haven’t known you that long I thought that you were just this super healthy fit bodybuilder for your whole life and now you’re telling me you lost 100 pounds tell us about this yeah so what three years and some ago I was yeah 295 pounds it was I gained all the weight from COVID I’m more of a gym goer I’m not really into like doing like walks and stuff outside now I am but back then I wasn’t so I gained a lot of weight in like eight months nine months pretty quick so after I started looking into the health benefits of like how should I lose weight this time because I’ve done it like three separate times I was able to see that the vegan diet so at first it was more like for the diet and health purposes so it took me three to four months to start seeing the whole difference with my body I lost like 20 pounds in the first three four months and then with time and of course

 

[Speaker 2]

going to the gym like an hour to two hours a day kind of helps a lot with the weight loss but not now I’m at 183 183 pounds and I’m not sure I don’t remember the muscle part of it but

 

[Speaker 1]

yeah I ended up like losing weight first and then building the muscle after so and I give it a lot of it goes to being plant-based and vegan because it kind of eliminated a lot of things around me like stopping at McDonald’s and like Dairy Queen and all that stuff.

 

So you’ve never looked back you’re like you don’t want that stuff now for those who are still eating that way what would you tell them? I tell them that there is a wall that you just need to figure out how to break I was the reason I started looking into the vegan plant-based diet and going vegan was because my wife started kind of looking into that first and asking me to kind of try it with her and I had

 

[Speaker 2]

that wall where like I need protein I need you know to eat animal products to help me gain the

 

[Speaker 1]

muscle and all that stuff so when I broke that wall and I’m still thinking back at it like trying to figure out how I broke it but it was just like hey let’s try it and we’ll see how it goes and then I’ll never look back it’s just there’s that wall where you think is so hard so difficult because how

 

[Speaker 2]

we were raised and all the stuff we heard from our parents and like my parents thought I’m gonna die like going vegan they literally started asking me every like month like did you do blood work are you checking yourself like it’s just all the stuff that you were taught it’s kind of a blocker and then you just have to kind of break through that and like try it first and see how it does really help

 

[Speaker 1]

well let me ask you were they asking you any of those questions when you were 100 pounds overweight like no actually it’s funny yeah uh I don’t know yeah that’s actually a good point yeah it is they always told me hey you gotta start watching what you’re eating but that’s what all they said they never were like oh you should check because at first they’re like oh you’re young so you’re not gonna have issues you’ll figure it out later but um no yeah but now my parents are really open

 

[Speaker 2]

to it they’re very very vegan friendly I’m trying to make him go vegan so hopefully one day

 

[Speaker 1]

but for now yeah they’re very very opened up a lot that is a super inspiring story wow um okay well we’re almost at the end of our hour uh this has been really fascinating and I’m not even anywhere near and remember we’ve got Sarah here who’s had uh one I’m not anywhere near I’ll be drinking this all day into the night and when it’s toward the end that’s when I’ll have definitely keep one for late at night when I get that sweet two-thirds not saying I won’t have any chocolate but it goes it gets smaller it’s much more manageable and I’m not exactly sure why but um the other thing is when you start doing this get involved visit the plant-based treaty you know be part of the community that is around this it’s a very fun community we have a lot of fun consider dancing when you do the green smoothie and I think we can play a very brief clip that we played at the start uh showing the green smoothie blender dance um a life-changing green smoothie recipe triple wash your kale stick it in the blender just like this add some chia seeds and fruit on the top I throw in a little bit of soymilk and a whole lot of water the blender dance now the moment of truth magnifique the miracle green smoothie do try this at home all right well join us we’re a fun group last 30 seconds uh let’s start with Tiffany what is your thought final thought also if when you go out now to really cool vegan restaurants I used to always think oh I need to get a salad now I can get whatever I want because I’ve already had this all day thank you well done all right and in Mexico Valeska your final thought

 

[Speaker 2]

yeah join us be healthier help the planet join us okay and uh Anita your final thought

 

[Speaker 1]

uh yeah please go to plantbasedtreaty.org and go to the act now section and join the challenge just fill it out and we’ll give you tips every day fantastic all right um I just want to say that this has been a very fun show um and I know you have final thoughts all the time so we’ll let that go um but this has been a very fun show a lot of times we cover pretty depressing stuff animal cruelty it’s nice to be on the happy fun side of it and we are a happy bunch of people go plant-based you’ll have a great community frankly there’s a party every night I can’t even keep up um and you know my dogs are like another party mom yeah uh so the other thing you can do is download the unchained tv app we are a 501c3 non-profit we are the world’s only vegan streaming television network and you can get us on any cell phone for free just go to your app store you can watch it on unchained tv or on your television as well so it’s a vegan netflix okay that’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard I love unchained tv

 

[Speaker 2]

your life will change it’s just that easy unchained tv has all sorts of content for everybody

 

[Speaker 1]

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