Gareth’s Top Reasons for Using Green Drinks!

This week Gareth Edwards, our Alkaline Diet Expert and highly qualified nutritionist, will reveal to you his top reasons for using green drinks and water pH drops.

If you would like to find a drink which provides your body with all the nutrients, minerals and vitamins it needs, because of convenience reasons or because you find it difficult to eat enough vegetables, then you do not have to look any further: the green drink is what you want!

Gareth’s Top Reasons for Using Green Drinks!

When Dr. Young first combined a green powder with drops to raise the pH, he called it the cornerstone pack. Powdered green vegetables, grasses and herbs combined with pure water and negatively charged mineral salts was and still is the foundation supplement. This is what he felt every body should be taking and I recommend it to all my clients.

If You Can’t Eat Your Greens …….

Drink them! Even if you are eating, juicing or blending plenty of green vegetables and grasses ….. drink green powder too. The un-controversial truth, is that green plant foods are really good for us and that we really can’t have too much of them. They are low in sugar, high in nutrients and very importantly, loaded with chlorophyll. This plant made molecule, used to harvest the sun’s energy, is fantastic for the health of our digestive tracts and essential for building healthy red blood cells.

You can consume huge quantities by juicing, blending and eating fresh greens. This is always going to be preferable to having dried versions. If someone is really unwell I would definitely want them to do this, but they can additionally supplement with dried powders mixed with water.

Life in the Fast Lane

The reality of 21st Century life is however that the time and planning required to buy wash and prepare greens may put it lower on your priority list than you would like. Drinking green powder and pH drops mixed with water will be better for you than eating just about any other processed food option that exists.

It can be easy to convince yourself that a muesli bar or vitamin drink is good for you, when you are hungry or thirsty and in a rush. The reality is that neither of them really get off the blocks when compared with powdered greens. The grains and the sweeteners used in the muesli bar will make it acidifying, while the synthetic vitamins added to a “health” drink, in no way recreate the effects of eating or drinking foods containing the natural molecules in a whole food.

It’s Natural

The main difference between green powders and many nutritional supplements is that they are chopped and dried plants. The best quality ones are dried at very low heats and actually have a micro-electronic charge re-attached to them in order to permanently maintain the electron rich qualities of fresh raw plant foods. You’ll see the little chards standing up on the spoon in the brands where this has been done.

Absorbability

On top of the time that it takes to buy and prepare greens there’s the time that it takes to chew them. If these foods are going to do anything other than pass straight through you, you need to either juice them or spend a lot of time at the table leisurely chewing them, while chatting about which way you might vote at the upcoming elections (for UK readers!).

By making the greens into a powder you can nourish yourself in the same way that you would with food, but quicker. This means that drinking your greens and pH drops can be great for helping to overcome cravings for sweet foods or just plain hunger. While that makes the mixture great for helping with losing unwanted pounds, it’s also great for giving you super healthy and absorbable nutrition build healthy blood and healthy body mass (i.e. put on weight, if you feel that you are too skinny.)

The Roots of Health

The acronym C.O.W.S. can be used to describe the nutrients that are essential to our existence. We have to have Chlorophyll, healthy oils, alkaline water and alkaline minerals to make us “work”. This will help us build healthy red blood cells, which transport vital oxygen around our bodies and remove potentially toxic carbon dioxide. Red blood cells also become every cell of our body. Our digestive tract, eyes, skin and even teeth and bones are constantly breaking down and being replaced. Red blood cells are the building blocks for all cells in our body.

Drinking powdered greens and alkaline water, provides us with three of these essential pillars of healthy body tissue and fluids.

A Bag of Salty Water

60% of us is water, but the chemistry of that water is changing all the time. As the metabolic reactions that keep us alive take place in our bodies the acidic by-products will start to accumulate in our body fluids. Rather like changing the oil in a racing car, we need to change our body fluids regularly, in order to maintain health. Doing that with salt free acidic liquids like tea, coffee, alcohol or fruit juice is likely to be counter-productive.

Some water filtration methods can also produce slightly acidic water and some mineral waters have a pH below 7. Adding negatively charged minerals in the form of pH drops to fluids will make them more alkaline.

The best way to promote and maintain health is to drink relatively large amounts of water with a pH of 7 or higher. It is however important to remember that in doing this you can “wash out” minerals along with acids. Ensuring that you have an adequate intake of (unrefined, mineralised) salt Himalayan Crystal Salt is also important.

Which Products?

Personally I take and recommend the most pure products I can. The only ingredients I really want for myself and my patients are grasses, vegetables, low sugar fruits and herbs along with alkalising minerals (such as pHion Alkaline Minerals). If there’s anything else in the product, do some research to make sure that you feel confident that it is of benefit to you.